Well after a slighty stressfull bus journey, I'm in Wellington for a flying visit.The bus to Wellington left Auckland at 7.50pm on Friday night. At first I was sat on my own which was fine but then a man got on and sat next to me. He didn't talk for the first 40 mins then as soon as I closed my eyes he started a conversation, just the normal questions ie Where are you from? Why are you in New Zealand? etc. After 10 mins he moved onto - Can I have your pho...

Well, its been a long and slightly boring week. I'm still in Auckland but leaving the city tonight!! Yeah!!! Sunday was a beautiful day!! The sun was shining and it was really warm. I even had on shorts and a t-shirt. For all of you thinking big deal, its boiling in England, let me just remind you that its WINTER here!!!! I had a few jobs to do in the morning (book accomodation and stuff for when Mum and Andrew come out) but once that was done I had al...

Well, I'm still in Auckland! Not really done very much for the last few days. I now have a NZ bank account (still trying to figure out how to get money from my English account into it though), in a few days my tax number will be issued and I have a postal address. I have moved to a different hostel as the one I was in was a bit too quiet and I was hoping to meet a few people around my age. The only problem with the new place is that I'm sharing a room with bo...

Just a quick one to let everyone know that I have arrived safely in New Zealand. I am actually on dry land, not floating about in the sea like the red dot on my map would suggest but I can't get the stupid thing to go onto the North Island!!! I landed at 3pm local time and am now in my hostel. I will be in the hostel for 5 nights so that should give me enough time to plan out my next few weeks. I had an early start this morning, I was up at 5.30am so I'm going ...