The other day I found out that the french guy that we almost beat the shit out of for saying some really bad things about America (like I had decided to leave out the shit he said about 9/11, which he probably should've been punched for) is actually neighbors with my cousin (that other asian guy from my school) and a bunch of my friends. In fact, my cousin's girlfriend lives WITH him. And he agrees; the guy is a huge asshole. I discovered that he lives there when I was walking by and saw a guy a recognized, politely said "'sup man" and kept walking, ONLY TO REALIZE THAT HE WAS THE FRENCHIE FROM QUEENSTOWN!!!!. I silently, tucked that little fact away within my brain, unsure of whether or not he recognized me, but he should ever feel like following the, "I will find you, and kill you" remark he had shouted in parting to my friend, I think he's in the wrong neighborhood for it. There are a lot of Americans on that block, and I think one other french person: a girl (who is also our friend and knows about the incident and sided with us. lol.).
This past week was pretty uneventful. With the cancellation of school on monday (due to snow hahaha) I got out of two of my four weekly lectures (only 4 last week, this week I have 5 because of the alternating schedule my math class has). Throughout the course of the week I then decided that I didn't feel like going to my other math lecture or my other philosophy lecture. I went to the tutorials (which are kind of like labs, or tutor sessions), but I realized on friday that I had gone to NO LECTURES that week. I had been to every tutorial and also my physics lab, but I had totally skipped all lectures. At the end of the week, I also found out I had managed to noticeably increase my grades in all classes. I'm not sure I've figured out how school here is supposed to work...I guess if I get good enough grades, I don't really care. In any case, I now have a B-something in physics (up from a C-something), a B(minus probably) in math (up from a C) and finally actually have a grade in philosophy (but I haven't gotten my essay grade yet, but it's probably better than a C). Yay for my adequacy!
I'm super duper excited for this weekend. On saturday I'm going to be waking up at 6:30 am to walk downtown and get on a bus. That bus will take me to Christchurch (a 6 hour drive) and then fron there I'll take some good old public transportation to the Christchurch International Airport (CHC). Since I have a few hours in between my flight and my bus arrival I'm hoping to check out some of Christchurch and see if any of the earthquake damage is still real apparent. Could be real interesting actually. Anyway, from CHC I'll be headed to Auckland, where we'll be hopping a plane to Apia, Samoa for the week. See what I didn't tell you is that this weekend is the start of Spring break (or midsemester break for those of you who get confused by Spring in August). My friends and I are going to spend a week on the warm beaches of Samoa, living in Fales. Here's a wikipedia picture of a Fale for your visualization convenience.
The place we're staying has everything I could ever want. Free coffee, tea, bananas and mopeds are available to rent. I don't think I'll want to leave. There's even tennis courts nearby, but I don't think I'm going to feel too much like hitting when I can explore this tropical island instead (perhaps on a moped).
Samoa is on the other side of the international dateline too, so I'll be back in the same day as the US, actually behind you guys in time, rather than 19 hours in the future.
But before all my dreams of riding a scooter named Sasha around an island in the sun, cruzin with my crew can be realized, I have to get through this week. But even this week won't be so bad; I'm in New Zealand LOL. So here's to you mom and dad, and here's to this.
Catch ya'll on the flippity flop, in some flippity flops later.
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