A tour

Hi all, so I’ve been here for a couple days and its pretty awesome. My apartment is nice, it’s a 3 bedroom on the ground floor of the building. None of my roommates are here yet, as far as I know. I got this cool little “kitchen kit” today. Its basically everything you’d need to go camping, but im in an apartment, they gave me pots and pans, a cutting board, cooking utensils, sharp knives and two of each; plates, bowls, cups, mugs, small plates, forks, spoons and not sharp knives. It all came in a crate. Its pretty cool. I finally ran into my friend Nuray who is here from BU. I knew her in High school and only found out she was coming 2 days before I left. She is going to the south island tomorrow for the next week and a half before school starts so that still leaves me alone (but in an ok way, not a depressing way). Tonight I’m going out with some BU kids. I went to the super market today. There is one around the corner from my apartment, its called Foodtown and it is my new best friend. And the café in it has free wireless internet, I LOVE IT! I also walked down to Queen street, which is the main shopping street in Auckland and its fantastic. Full of shops, café, bars (or pubs) and big stores and independent stores. Its like Newbury st, Melrose, times square and central London all mushed into one super-awesome, day-wasting fun street. I will be spending most of my time and money there. I also sorted out my classes finally, there was a mix up in the original schedule I had before. The classes im taking are; Novels since 1900, Writing the short story, Art history: ways of seeing, and Art history: renaissance, impressionism and post-impressionism. So 2 English classes and 2 art history classes. I have class Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Each class has a lecture part then a regular part where you discuss what happened in the lecture. They are all lower level classes because as in international student im not allowed to take upper level ones. Hopefully the 2 English classes will transfer over so I wont have done all the work for nothing. I think it should be a pretty easy semester. Tomorrow I’m going to go to the Sky Tower, which is the big attraction in Auckland. People go bungee jumping off of it and there is a restraunt at the top that spins around giving a “stunning 360 degree view of the city”. And an observation deck. I also have to find a post office. Now im just talking to myself, sorry. Im going to go upstairs and read next to the life size chess board so im not cooped up in my room. Its still a little sterile. Thanks for reading!

Auckland
my apartment
Railway campus