...Free Spirit...

22nd Birthday...

This year I had a really nice quiet birthday celebration. First I went with uni friends to Featherston for a bush walk around lake Papanui, and then afterwards went to a really nice restaurant in Greytown for dinner. It was a hot rock restaurant where you got to cook your meat yourself on a hot rock slab! I have never done that before, and it was really nice!!

The bush around Lake Papamui...

At the restaurant...

This year my birthday fell on a Tuesday so everyone in my family was busy with work, study etc. My family and I therefore celebrated my birthday in the following weekend when we drove to Havelock North for the weekend...

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Away at Mt Raupehu for 3 days...

The fancy tour bus!!!

On the ski lifts!!! Ahhhh!!!

Heavenly!!!

Freedom!!

On the ski lifts...

Beautiful mountains!

The lodge

Spooky weather on the last day

The best days of my life.

Enjoying the holiday...

Holidays have been good. Out of the blue I decided to get a job so I looked up in the Hutt News and rang up several places. I n the end I landed with a callcentre job working at Kiwifirst, fundraising for charities over the phone- telemarketing.

Very interesting holiday indeed. Started working at the call centre- Kiwifirst, but retired after the first two weeks. Mmmm. Was the most dullest thing you can possibly imagine!! I decided that I would much rather live under a palm tree and eat dry bread and drink rain water- rather than work at a student job!!! Seriously.

Enrolled for my honours year and was accepted-yippee! Was really worried about it but it all worked out well. I’m taking 3 papers and a project. In the first trimester I’m doing genetics, biodiversity and a project and then in the second trimester the same thing but instead of biodiversity it’s evolution. So 3 papers per term.

Got my project sorted out- it all worked out so I will be doing my project at Wellington hospital working with cytogenetics data! Just what I wanted! …I don’t really know how I feel about starting my honours year, kind of nervous. I don’t know what it will be like.

But anyhow, at the moment I’m just enjoying my holiday, relaxing and having fun.