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hey i am back in auckland again where the smell of gas is in teh air and cheap internet roams freely...
i unfortunately cant get free internet from my hostel anymore which is crap but ah well... life goes on.
so i am going to do a city tour tomorrow for free. i have come to love free things... at my last backpackers place i got made fun of for 3 main things. one was for always wanting/taking free things. (food ppl left behind etc.) two was for doing very little with my days (getting up around 10 or 11 then having some breakfast... sometimes free breakfast :) then laying in the hammock, probably reading, eating, and then just chatting with people. i did go swimming and surfing at times but mostly i just couldnt be bothered. third is how much i eat and how i seem to always be hungry. (there was always room in my tummy for someone elses nutella!) mmm good times. there was a japanese guy there who was really funny and would aways bug me. for example, any time someone was eating something around me (especailly any form of chocolate) he would say oh no... no good, keep away from her. and then "tsk" at me. oh my.
mmm, so i am pretty much running low on cash. i will probably be eating less expensive chocolate and maybe beans on toast for my meals. we will see.... i think i might jsut expand my freelopader skills to begging for leftovers or snacks. haha. nah i should be alright.
well i suppose thats all the updating for now... jsut a reminder, if you look at the blog, leave evidence. this can be done by leaving a comment. so simple and it reminds me that people actually love me. haha. nah its just good to hear from you! (i know i am loved)
la la
My Peaceful Paradise
I have found it! a place to call home for a little bit... I have been staying at this awesome house in a palce called Ahipara. it is at the start of the beautiful 90 mile beach and I love it here!
across the road is the beach and i have taken a try at surfing. humph, it's hard! boogie boarding is fun too... but mostly i jsut eat and lie in the hammocks out front. yah, it's a hard life. haha.
i will have stayed here a whole week (only 3 nights left) and then i will continue on my north island tour.
Things have been going much better for me since my last post... i have relaxed and had time to jsut think. I have also met lots of nice people here and have made some good friendsships. everyone is welcoming and it is refreshing to have people to tlak to and jsut hang out with. genuine people.
so some adventures that i have taken part in lately have been surfing... oh so fun but tiring and a lot of sea water up the nose. i also tried sand boarding. it was really cool but also a lot of work to climb up taht crazy steep hill!!! haha. good times.,
well i think that i best be off. the price for internet here is steap so i have been hiding away from technology and basking int he sun instead. sorry if i dont reply to your emails, you are still loved and i will when i can get internet for cheaper and faster. love oyu all!
the laura.
crap oops crap.
well here you will get a little insight on the lows of travelling....
you may have read about htis in a comment i left on my previous post but here it goes again. well i am in auckland right now and it has pretty much been crap. i arrived here yesterday and it is jsut another big city with busy people and their own agendas. hte reason why i am bitter right now is for two main reasons. first is that i know people here and yet i cant get a hold of them... so basically it is just me, alone, trying to survive in this crap of a city. second is that i had 80 dollars stolen from em last night while i was dozing in the lounge. i feel like an idiot for not having my stuff more secure... as i normally am quite aware and paranoid of getting things stolen. well i guess what's done is done but it still sucks. well enough bitter babblings, i am heading to the bay of islands tomorrow morn and i am hoping that i will have some time to just sit and sort some stuff out. hmm. travelling does take it out of you and i am jsut pretty exhausted right now. mentally more than physically i think.... but both are drained right now. well i should go figure out wha ti am going ot do today but i hope hat everyone is doing well back home and i have jsut over a month left. woah weird.
laura.
a hop skip and a big jump to the north island!
well here i am. norht island has been pretty cool so far. i have just gotten off a 10 hour bus ride to get from wellington to auckland. ugh. my neck and back will never forgive me.
hmm so to give a wee update on what i did with my remaining time on the south island... i went to some awesome hot springs with the coolest travel buddy ever. sonya you rock the partay! haha. i basically ate really good food and i tanned, sonya aslo ate good food but didnt exactly tan... hmm. my nickname for this trip was pretty much julia because i look like julia stiles apparently. haha we had some good times messing with people telling them i was a movie star and all. well i hung around Christchurch and just had some good times there before i head up to nelson. NElson is the dead centre of NZ and is really cool. i got to stay with a really cool family and they were amazing. i also did a 3 day hike in the bush called the abel tasman. i came out with 4 humungo blisters on one foot alone... ooo i went fishing and caught 3 fish! woot woot.
i made it up to wellington via the ferry and pretty much slept my way through that. i stayed one night there... well hardly, i slept for an hour b/c i was in a pool competion and then i jsut stayed upt o watch the rugby game between NZ and ireland. yah the all blacks are freakin awesome.
well i best be off though but i swear that i will fill ya in when some more cool stuff happens. i will be heading upt o the bay of island within the next couple days and i am lookign forward to lounging ont he beach.. mmm oh so good.
later alligator!
la la
