Not in the sense that my flight was late a couple of hours (which it was), but more that my passport was never sent back to me before the embassy closed for the holidays. Neither I nor the people who had my passport know why it wasn’t sent back to me, when I finally got […]
Treaty of Waitangi
On one of our first days in New Zealand we packed up for the day and headed over to the Waitangi treaty grounds to learn about the treaty between the Maori and the British and to see this historic area. For me, this was a good place to start because from what I have seen […]
Maungatautari
Welcome to Jurassic Park. Our bus screeched to a halt at the base of a looming mountain entrenched in green trees, and encircled by a foreboding fence. We hadn’t been given much information during our long saga towards the center of the North Island, but as we hastily applied sunscreen the guides filled us in. […]
Post #1: 4 Days until air time!
Kia ora (Hello) family, friends, and anybody else reading this. In about 4 days, I will be embarking on a wonderful adventure to New Zealand (NZ), with the purpose of studying biology. The time difference between NZ and California is 21 hours, so even though I depart on January 3rd, I’ll be arriving to NZ on […]
