Like that Rebecca Black song! (No, I'm kidding, I promise. FUN FUN FUN FUN)
First off, this has absolutely nothing to do with study abroad/New Zealand. However, this video was just put up on YouTube and I felt the need to share it as I'm a proud ally. It's for the "It Gets Better" project - if you want to read what the website says about the project, click here. Anyway, Gustavus made one and it reminded me of how much I love my school so I decided that it needed to be shared so my [mostly] family can see it too.
Anyway, back to study abroad. Tuesday was a pretty boring day. I finally talked to my dance professor about my body issues (knees and post-surgery) and learned where she trained (she got her Master's at SUNY Purchase, which to be honest, surprised me). It bothers me though because she still can't always remember my name. I am the one new student in the class of 25, usually know what I'm doing (I was the only one who was counting the combination right in class. I wish I were exaggerating), I'm from the States, and I go talk to her practically after every class so far. Oh well. Whatever. She was understanding about my body issues though, which was good, and despite being slightly annoyed at her giving me advice about how painful bunions and bunion surgery are (I think I would know better than she) I felt the conversation went mostly well.
The play we had to read for my Italian class was actually hilarious. It's called "The Advertisement" ("l'Inserzione" I think is it's name in Italian) and it was just SO overdramatic and ridiculous. I seriously feel like I'm reading soap operas when I read Italian literature. In each thing we've read, there is at least one (if not more) of the following: an unhappy marriage, adultery, and murder/death. It's like a constant soap opera. Seriously.
Yesterday I went to see Bassnectar, which was pretty fun. We got there on the early side (like 10:30/10:45pm? the concert started at 10pm) so it was a while before Bassnectar was actually on. By the time that rolled around we were tired from dancing so we left around 1am only to go to another dance club for a short period of time. I got back late so I was exhausted for dance class this morning but I obviously managed. Strangely, my bunions were hurting so I marked through some of the movements after talking to PJ about it. I think I'm going to ice my feet after I eat lunch. And our dance assessment is next week.. joy.
AND NOW for my weekend plans! I'm going to Rotorua and Matamata with one of my flatmates (and possibly meeting up with some other people while I'm there). We're leaving Friday evening and getting back Sunday night, so hopefully it'll be an awesome trip. In Rotorua there's geysers with other geothermal activity (Wai-O-Tapu), Tarawera Falls/trails, a Buried Village not far from Rotorua, some awesome walks, ZORBING, and a really cheap hostel for us to stay at :) In Matamata there is Hobbiton! Hobbiton is where The Shire is in LOTR and they left the set up so it's a big tourist attraction. We decided to take the bus instead of rent a car, mostly because it was cheaper and easier for just the two of us. I'm super pumped though!! Gonna be an awesome weekend!
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