I ate a pumpkin and I liked it

Okay, quick quick update, only have a few minutes.

I LOVE NEW ZEALAND. My roommates at the hostel were amazing: 3 German boys, a Scottish girl, a Chilean man, a Canadian girl, and a Welsh guy... they took me in immediately when I got back from random mini golfing with Jack, and we all went out to buy food for dinner. We all cooked together, I made a salad and we had pesto pasta. It was freakin adorable! Then we all went out to this awesome place called Cassette bar where there was house music playing from Manchester, and there were a lot of guys from there so they were all very happy. I had a freaking amazing mojito, and i got rather tipsy rather quickly. This crazy girl started to dance with me and I got really uncomfortable, and I was going to get one of the guys to step in, but she took the hint...

On Sunday I did the Coast to Coast trail, starting north and working our way south. I was with one of the Germans, Freddy, and we had an absolute blast. We didn't have a map so we were makin it up as we went, and ended up going along with 5 German girls that were also doing the walkway. We made it to Mt. Eden, a collapsed volcano (!!!) and then decided we were too hungry to continue. Marie-Sophie stayed with us, a German girl, and we went to Subway where I got a lamb sandwich with mint sauce. I was a little skeptical but WOW it was good. Later we got this amazing gourmet pizza which was a little pricy but sooo worth it. We played stupid drinking games... no, wait, that was saturday... but I did get this wonderful ice cream called "hokey pokey", which is vanilla with heath bar bits and honey, and shared it with our group of friends. Yum.

Monday I met up with Jackie and Lisa, put all my stuff in our car (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and they did some errands in the city while I went with our friends to Victoria Park. We played spud, and we realized that none of us knew what happens at the end when 2 people are left, because we always stopped playing before that point. It was GREAT fun. We went to the market across the street because it was raining and found a great cafe to eat lunch at while it rained. It didn't let up so we started walking back and came across a sporting good store, sort of like REI. Sam, from Michigan, and I are thinking about buying a tent so we can go camping together. Julia, a girl from Germany (every other person is German...) is moving to Wellington in a month and needs a flatmate, and I told her I was interested, which is true! She's the sweetest girl, it would be very fun to live with her.

Lots more to say, esp about our first WWOOFing home, but my time is up, so I will update later. Basically I love it and the work is very easy and the food is good and the bed is comfy so life is grand. Oh, and driving on the left is the fucking scariest thing I've ever had to do.

Ciao!