Tuesday 15th May Journal entry brought to you by Tami Today was officially mine and Sophie's three month anniversary of leaving England! To celebrate, we hugged. It was magical. Then we left the hostel of separation to travel to Westport, and on the way went to the Nelson Lakes National Park for lunch. Sophie and I went for a long walk with Steve, Brian, Dan, Ricky, James and Mike, which was really pretty, and we had a stone-skimming competition on Lake Rotoit...

Monday 14th May Journal entry brought to you by Tami (shattered) We were all suitably exhausted this morning, as would be expected from the fact that we got up less than 2 hours after going to sleep. It wasn't helped by the fact that we had all seriously got a case of the giggles while lying in bed, and this went on for a prolonged length of time, just because as soon as there was silence, Steve would find this hilarious, and then the infectious peals of laught...

Sunday 13th May Journal entry brought to you by (an emotionally uprooted) Tami After getting up today, Sophie went horseriding round the valley. I, as many of you are aware, have a phobia of horses, so I did NOT participate in this activity. Instead I played cards with Brian, Steve and James. It was a very good morning, nice and relaxing, and gave me some time to get to know a few more people from our new bus, who all seem awesome to be honest (-: Then on th...

Saturday 12th May Journal entry brought to you by Tami Sophie and I were due to catch our new Kiwi Experience bus today, but first we had to tend to a few matters from the night before when Sophie had left her watch in the internet cafe, and I had taken written, addressed and stamped postcards out to post and returned with them still in my bag. We parted ways, Sophie to reclaim her property, and I went off in search of a post box, which I tell you is not an ...

Friday 11th May Got up fairly early today, considering I was planning on staying in bed all day! Did some laundry (managing to scab some free washing powder in the process!) and then lazed around pretty much all morning. Sophie and I watched The Fast and the Furious, which was pretty cool. We are both now hardcore Vin Diesel fans. We then messed around at the hostel, not doing very much, having food and so on. We then headed out into town at about ...