dayoffrida - in NEW ZEALAND

It is Tuesday, the 5th February 2013 today. Me and Louise have been in New Zealand for more than one month now and Vidde came about a week ago. It, of course, feels like a lot longer ago since we first arrived in Auckland, but still, four weeks is quite a while and we have experienced a lot.

 

At the moment we are all in Gisborne, me, Louise and Vidde, hanging out in a four bed dorm at Flying Nun Backpackers (that's ringt; it is the name of our BBH hostel). We have had a great time those two past week. Last Saturday we left Mount Maunganui/Taurnaga, rented a white Toyota a drove down the east cost. We past small cute towns like Whakatane, Opotiki - were we picked up Louise, East Cape and the lighthouse, Tokomaru Bay and Tolaga Bay. Spent two nights at different places, one at a way too expensive motel; Hicks Bay Motel and another in a crazy unit on a camp site in Tolaga Bay where it was freezing cold at night. They do not isolate there houses at all here. Anyway, we will always remember those days as such a good time and especially all the incredible views over beautiful landscape, nature and of course the stunning ocean.

 

East Cape is the worlds most eastern point. It is where the sun comes up first every day. For sure a pretty cool place to come to, but our goal was to go further south and to be able to go S U R F I N G in Gisborne....

 

...and we have bought our first wet suits, me and Vidde. I got one from Roxy and I like it very much. All of us took our first surfing lesson in NZ the other day and we LOVE IT. It is just so much fun and I hope to improve my surfing skills during our stay here. It is a feeling of being free. We started on a 9 feet board and now we're down on a sevenseven and I think we stay with those for a while :)

 

The plan in to stay here in Gisborne until this upcoming weekend, celebrate my birthday here on Friday together with both Louise and Vidde, and then probably travel to the west coast. Me and Vidde would like to go to Raglan, outside Hamilton, which is another surf spot in NZ. We have found a lovely BBH hostel there to start with, where they offer kayaks, bikes, hot tub, sauna and much more, all for free. If we're still amazed when we get there we maybe settle down for a bit longer.

I look forward to get more of a "home feeling", be able to unpack our suitcases and to get to know a place even better.

 

Today is the first day with heavy raining here. The only positive thing with that is that I have time to update my blog, time to study and it is a good reason to just relax and maybe watch a movie. Right now I am doing exercises online to be able to complete assignment 2 in Business English before the 14th February. I still enjoy my course a lot and it works alright to study abroad :)

 

To be continued...say hello to the winter at home in Sweden!