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Well kitty cats, sorry it has been long ago since I last blogged, but other things just keep popping up to come between us.  School is well on it's way, a solid 2 weeks of class in though I'm still not sure which papers (Kiwi-tastic-speak for courses) I will actually end up with for the semester because Wake is a silly rabbit and can't make up it's mind about my hours.  Of course the professor I need for course approval is out of the country for the exact same 2 weeks as add/drop time for classes. Still hoping I only end up with 3 classes instead of 4 because according to my study abroad program I am currently overloaded.  Not that it wouldn't be plenty doable, it's just that I didn't come to New Zealand to be stressed out by school.

More importantly I cannot get up to leave my house because it feels like my bones would all crumble into dust or I would have a huge hacking fit and be caused to roll down the hill, whichever came first.  This means I couldn't go to work in the booth by the water like I had planned to today (there goes $75 from my pocket) and it also means that I can't go fetch delicious things I wish to eat, seeing as I am always hungry when sick I'm starting to have food dreams.  The hot caramel and milk chocolate crepe from crepes-a-go-go just down the street.  Unfortunately here "just down the street" means that I would have to clamber back up the street hacking and wheezing and trembling like the old man in up's great grandfather and probably dropping my crepe all over the ground rendering the entire trip useless. Instead I must just day dream and watch criminal minds while curled up on the couch.

Experience and Skill

In brighter news, before this wretched bug found me and wrecked my ability to transport myself anywhere we had our program reunion dinner and learned to cook Vietnamese!  Hope and I made excellent lemon grass chicken and expertly rolled spring rolls (I was a little ahead of the learning curve having done these before) so mine were of course perfection and didn't look like unborn mice or used kleenex (recently I have become quite the expert in the second and would be able to spot a good likeness quite quickly).

Last night, before I was quite so incapacitated by this plague we went to our first rugby game! The Wellington Hurricanes beat the Chiefs 29 to 26 and I must say I quite enjoy the game.  Much more play time than football and much more scoring than soccer, plus all the physicality of Hockey, I kind of wonder how I didn't stumble upon the sport earlier.  Being sickly and tired that's all I have for you now, but stay tuned since next week things heat up with an MGMT concert and volunteering! Not to mention hopefully the conclusion to Kerry's long fought battle with this cold. See you next week! (hopefully).

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