Welp, I have to return home due to the virus. This week has been an emotional rollercoaster from being determined I would not go home under any circumstances, to finding out I have no choice and booking a flight home all within four hours. We spent the week trying to take it all in and went into town and Raglan to go shopping. We had a last dinner all together and spent St. Patrick's Day and last night living up the last time we can all drink legally for awhile. ...

So this week there wasn't much going on other than classes and the gym. We've been getting updates about the coronavirus and the possibility of us being sent home. As of now we may just have to enroll in this school's online classes incase of our return home, but for now we are staying put. NZ only has 8 cases so we're much safer here than traveling through airports and returning to a country with more cases. The back and forth with determining if we can stay or ...

So our first week of classes is complete! Classes all went very well, excpet for physics lab, that was really stupid. All my professors are super nice and everyone is so laid back, that's just the enivronment here! My one professor walked in barefoot and based the whole lecture around how much he loves beer! It was awewsome! After classes everyday I went to the gym. This week I was there Sunday-Friday and Friday I even got up at 5:30am to hit the gym! The gym her...

Hey guys! So yesterday we went to Rotorua to the Redwood Forest and to Kuirau Park! We left 20 mins late because they took forever to put our lunches under the bus so we had to book it through the trail in Redwood Forest. That was a hitchhike! The mountains and hills are soo steep here, they even made stairs out of dirt and wood in the pathways so we could get up the trail. It felt amazing to get to the top and be surrounded with beautiful trees! The size of Redw...

*Not sure if this is happening to you all, but if you are accessing this page through a cell phone open the link in safari and you can scroll down to the bottom of the webpage and click "full version." Then you should be able to see my photo descriptions that I put on the photos, as I was having a hard time seeing them on the moblie version! The photos are not quite in order of event but it'll do. Also, don't forget to check out my videos tab from time to time! ...