Hello Wellington

Wellington from the Botanical Gardens (the red roofs to the left are Everton)

Arrived in wellington, without our second peice of luggage which was supposed to arrive early, apparently they couldn’t find any of them (of course). So we were driven to our respective halls sans half of our luggage...they did find them later that night in a random storage room  in the airport. I arrive, after climbing up a few hills, to my flat in Everton. I live in a 5 bedroom flat, but only one person, mike, was home. Most local students were visiting home because the semester hasn’t started yet.

My bedroom...little messy (sorry)

I live with a kiwi Liam, who is studying Japanese and Spanish. Sarah a 3^rd year law student from New Zealand. And Mike, a international student from Ireland. The last room has gone through a few people. It started with a girl, Amy. She moved out after a week. Next was Cam, a 3^rd year kiwi who only stayed a week. He apparently is taking a trimester off university and moved back to Christchurch. Basically, my 4^th roommate is up in the air, but I’ve come to the conclusion that the rooms just curse.

Little bit about everton... as far as I can tell its kind of a semi-studious hall. I seem to be one of the few people in my program actually living with kiwis too. Most live with all international student, mostly americans.  I am about a 10 minute walk (up hill of course) from campus. And a five minute walk to town. Basically town is at the bottom of the hill by the waterfront, while campus sits on top of a hill. Everton is essentially right in the middle of the hill. Pretty good access to most things.  

Looking up at Everton....My building is the top red one.

The food is pretty amazing as well (that also just might be because I LOVE food). Most of the little local restaurants are asian. A lot of Thai, Japanese, Sushi, Indian, and Middle eastern food. We also cook as a flat. Each week night a different flat mate cooks dinner for the rest of us, and then we have the weekends to fend for ourselves. The system works out pretty well. Need less to say, all of the hill walking is definitely negated by the copious amount of food.