As I write this entry my 22nd birthday will ensue, go ahead, wish me Happy Birthday!
As I said before I want to tell you what there is to do around here and how I've been keeping myself busy. My first afternoon Christine and I went to Taylor's Mistake, a very small beach, and walked up the hill and to the cliffs turned around, sat on the beach for a bit and watched the waves roll in. That evening I had the apt to myself because Tim and Christine were spending a night at the George, where Tim works. Its the best hotel in Christchurch, with the only five star restaurant in the city. As an employee, the hotel wanted him to experience the service first hand. So I had to find something to do. Of course I walked to the Art Centre, spotted posters for all the movies showing and picked one by the
name of "Priceless." Its a French film starring the actress Audrey Tautou, one of my favorite actresses. It was in a small art theater with about 35-40 seats. Very nice. Outside this theater was the beginning of the Buskers Festival, a one week event of entertainment. Busker is a British English term for street performer. The following week I went to afternoon shows in Victoria Square and Cathedral Square, and two nights I went to evening performances at the Art Centre. Once with Laura George and the other with Christine, Tim and Tim's friend, George. The Buskers include jugglers, contortionists, comedians, musicians, acrobats, plate spinners, etc. All in all they were very fun. I saw fire, laughed hard, got a terrible tan line, marveled
at the strength of the human body. Christine and I caught a kite festival randomly when we went to New Brighton, a large beach on the other side of town. There were small kites flying by children, massive kites being held 4x4 trucks, and kite flyers. It was so random and so cool. The next weekend we went to Hamner Springs, natural hot springs. We were in a natural hot tub, and they had varying degrees to them, so we just walked about and popped in a new temperature every half hour. I people watched europeans on holiday, I noticed the Italians and the Polish. And there were so many old people, men in speedos, and the women were just big. Hilarious though. This past weekend we went to Dunedin to visit Tim friends, Andrew and Alice.
We took an afternoon hike and the scenery was beautiful. Later that night we toured the Speight's Brewery. I tried 4 of their blends. The Harvest was delicious, apricot flavor; the Gold Label is the most popular; the Pale Ale was good, I think it was suppose to remind me of Corona; and the the Porter, which was supposed to be a dark dark beer, like Guinuess, was disgusting,
it tasted burnt, blaaauck. I enjoyed the experience with friends. Dunedin is a really fun college town so the shops in town are for young people, a little better than Christchurch.
On Sunday we took a walk through town, ate ice cream, and looked around in the shops. A note about ice cream, the Kiwis have a flavor
called Hokey Pokey, its vanilla with butterscotch bits in it, its the most popular flavor here. And that brings me back to the present, I going to bake on my Birthday, go to the beach, have dinner with Tim and Christine and have dessert with Laura George. Next post I'll tell you what I'm doing for work, and what I'm learning. Thanks for reading. Love and miss you.
As I said before I want to tell you what there is to do around here and how I've been keeping myself busy. My first afternoon Christine and I went to Taylor's Mistake, a very small beach, and walked up the hill and to the cliffs turned around, sat on the beach for a bit and watched the waves roll in. That evening I had the apt to myself because Tim and Christine were spending a night at the George, where Tim works. Its the best hotel in Christchurch, with the only five star restaurant in the city. As an employee, the hotel wanted him to experience the service first hand. So I had to find something to do. Of course I walked to the Art Centre, spotted posters for all the movies showing and picked one by the
name of "Priceless." Its a French film starring the actress Audrey Tautou, one of my favorite actresses. It was in a small art theater with about 35-40 seats. Very nice. Outside this theater was the beginning of the Buskers Festival, a one week event of entertainment. Busker is a British English term for street performer. The following week I went to afternoon shows in Victoria Square and Cathedral Square, and two nights I went to evening performances at the Art Centre. Once with Laura George and the other with Christine, Tim and Tim's friend, George. The Buskers include jugglers, contortionists, comedians, musicians, acrobats, plate spinners, etc. All in all they were very fun. I saw fire, laughed hard, got a terrible tan line, marveled 
at the strength of the human body. Christine and I caught a kite festival randomly when we went to New Brighton, a large beach on the other side of town. There were small kites flying by children, massive kites being held 4x4 trucks, and kite flyers. It was so random and so cool. The next weekend we went to Hamner Springs, natural hot springs. We were in a natural hot tub, and they had varying degrees to them, so we just walked about and popped in a new temperature every half hour. I people watched europeans on holiday, I noticed the Italians and the Polish. And there were so many old people, men in speedos, and the women were just big. Hilarious though. This past weekend we went to Dunedin to visit Tim friends, Andrew and Alice. 
We took an afternoon hike and the scenery was beautiful. Later that night we toured the Speight's Brewery. I tried 4 of their blends. The Harvest was delicious, apricot flavor; the Gold Label is the most popular; the Pale Ale was good, I think it was suppose to remind me of Corona; and the the Porter, which was supposed to be a dark dark beer, like Guinuess, was disgusting, 
it tasted burnt, blaaauck. I enjoyed the experience with friends. Dunedin is a really fun college town so the shops in town are for young people, a little better than Christchurch. 
On Sunday we took a walk through town, ate ice cream, and looked around in the shops. A note about ice cream, the Kiwis have a flavor
called Hokey Pokey, its vanilla with butterscotch bits in it, its the most popular flavor here. And that brings me back to the present, I going to bake on my Birthday, go to the beach, have dinner with Tim and Christine and have dessert with Laura George. Next post I'll tell you what I'm doing for work, and what I'm learning. Thanks for reading. Love and miss you.
