4 Aug

Damn, it's been a long time since I've done one of these. Maybe I'm feeling less dependent on it. Like I less and less require connection with the world of the northern hemisphere. So that's probably good.

Jeez, I guess that also means that a LOT of stuff has happened since my last post. There's definitely not enough time for me to tell you about it all. I posted quite a few pictures on facebook of some of the adventures I've been on, but for those of you who haven't sold your souls and identities to the great social network, I'll be sure to put up a few here. There's definitely some gems that you have to see.

Maybe I'll just run through the highlights of the last week.

Turned in my math hw late, but pretended to be confused and sad about it and it was accepted. Score.
That dubstep concert was really dumb. The dude didn't go on until 1:30 and by then most people had left. I'm pretty sure the entire audience (which was literally like 50 people) was international students that weren't clue yet to the fact that this guy was nobody. It was still a really fun night, though.
Last weekend we went to the Otago Museum and hiked Mt Cargill. Both were awesome. What attracted us to the museum was the butterfly exhibit where you can actually walk around in a butterfly room with butterflies flying around and landing on you and stuff. But when we got there, easily the coolest thing there was the one made for kids. They had this mind game where the objective was to relax your mind and whoever was most relaxed won. It kept track of your brain waves or something and moved a metal ball towards the person who was more tense.

I never lost a game. I've got meditation skills these hakujin can't begin to compete with.

Here's some pictures of me in the butterfly exhibit. They were actually kind of scary, these butterflies. Like flying praying mantises coming right at your eyes. It's okay when they land on your shoulder, but face is a no-no.

We heard they like the color red. So I had to rep the Asian Student Association tee.

The next day we hiked Mt. Cargill. It isn't really a real mountain, but it has some really nice views from the top. On the way, we stopped at a place called the Organ Pipes, which is a columnar basalt formation. These kinds of formations are crazy cool. Here's a few pictures there.

From there we made another stop at a place called Butter's Peak, just because it was on the way. One of my friends was like, "It looks kind of dumb." And we were like, "Uh, no it looks kinda tight." So we told her to shut up and we went. And it was awesome.

That's what it looked like from the bottom. Looks awesome, right?

Then someone peed up there and it was the most epic pee I have ever seen caught on photograph.

Eventually, we got to the top of Mt. Cargill, but honestly I think the previous two stops were way cooler. Here's some pictures from the top of the "mountain" though.

That's Dunedin in the distance there in the bottom picture. Pretty sweet stuff.

I'm hungry now, so I'm gonna be done with writing. This weekend, I don't have any huge plans. I was going to go to the Catlins, but the car ran out of room, so I'll have to hit that place at a later time. It's supposed to sleet out there anyway and I have a philosophy paper to write, so I'm not super upset about it. Yeah, that's right, I have a paper to write.

I'll keep warm if you guys keep cool.
Peace out.