T17

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.

Chinese New Year

Celebrating Chinese New Year at the Wellington Botanical Gardens with family...

The tree that changed colour...

Fireworks!! (haha not really but still pretty!)

We had a picnic on the grass...

Pretty lights!Happy Chinese New Year!! The Year of The Bull :)

Orongaronga

Tramping down to Orongaronga river one fine weekend day with Mum's friend Livia...

The half way bridge... It was a 2 hour track down to the river but it felt like it was only about half an hour!!Kiwi alert!...over the bridge...Snacks...cheese, water and chocolate... cheese and chocolate; a nice combination :)Creepy crawlies down by the river...
...Scenery down at the river... only when we got there the river was actually a stream! Hasn't rained in Wellington region for weeks......just another bridge...

Giant pigeon! (I think its called a Kereru, but am not sure...)