On Monday I woke up early and called my friend Katherine. I am learning that talking to people in the morning before my noon class means the likelihood of me making it to that lecture goes down exponentially. Fortunately, there are three people who live in PSV who are in that class with me and they offered to let me look at their notes. Sweet as!
I don't think Monday was very exciting though. Had class (where we talked about the hegemonic masculinity and its effect on gay men in NZ! which I of course found fascinating and got super into talking about), had a super boring lecture, came home, made dinner, watched some Grey's, went to bed. Maddi was supposed to come over and we were going to watch Hangover (since I haven't actually seen it yet) but she had to write an essay and by the time she was done I was too tired so that didn't happen.
Tuesday was tiring too. I had dance class but it was a different type of class than we've had in the past. PJ gave us a combination and then we numbered out in groups and adapted it in different ways - like size, retrograde (backwards) - my group was to make the combination into a low level. I discovered that I think I like doing that myself better. One girl in my group basically decided to do most of it - some of which is tacky and I didn't like - and any suggestions I had weren't well-received. It's not always about straight legs and lines.. at least not when I choreographed. I think I might play around with it a but more tonight so I have some ideas.
I splurged and let myself buy a cappuccino in between classes but I spilled some of it on my lap when having a particularly interesting conversation about gender and sexuality with another classmate before my tutorial. I just got a little too into what I was talking about, I guess.
Last night I had my alumni dinner! It was really cool. I think the purpose of the alumni dinner is to give Auckland uni students a chance to talk with some Kiwi adults. After a long delay in my bus, I finally made it to their home in Mission Bay. It was me and a Canadian girl [who I hadn't met before] at the home of a retired couple, Diane and Bob. Diane and Bob were really friendly, and after talking with them, are extremely well-traveled as well. They made us a traditional Kiwi dinner of lamb, kumara, and salad with some New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc. I am starting to enjoy the taste of wine when it's not cheap wine. Wine is clearly something where quality matters. A lot. We also had dessert and coffee. I was there for just over three hours but it was really good. Surprisingly, I was the one that talked the least, I think. It was a really cool experience, and once I got over the initial awkwardness of it all, I became more confortable and Bob and Diane were really friendly. And Diane drove me home.
Today I woke up at the glorious hour of 10:30am, went to class, came home. Went to the grocery store. Realized my headband had fallen off so I walked back towards the grocery store to look for it - however today was rather windy so it was nowhere to be found. Oh well. :( I browsed through some clothing shops in Newmarket though which cheered me up - though I didn't buy anything. I also stopped at the Movenpick on the way back for some Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream. Being an ice cream snob, I don't think Movenpick was as good as Cold Stone, but I will keep getting different flavors just to be sure. ;) It was still good though.
And now I'm at my flat. I have a lot of vegetables at my flat right now so I made this massive celery/cucumber/spinach/carrot/craisin salad for dinner and now I'm thinking about baking some chocolate chip cookies. I just want to bake! We'll see.
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