FINALLY to wellington :)

I can't believe I'm finally here!

We arrived in Wellington today, my new home. The city is incredible and it has a really fun atmostphere but the hills...there are sooo many! My walk to school everyday is going to be very strenuous.

But backpedaling to yesterday, I went caving in Waitomo. It was probably the greatest experience of my life. We had to put on thick wet suits, harnesses and wear helmets with the little lights on top of them and then we were hooked up to a rope and had to lower ourselves down 20m into a black hole. I don't even know how to describe what I did because it was so amazing. We were climbing up waterfalls and crawling on our hands and knees and it was just so much fun. I will put the pictures up soon, I'm at an internet cafe so I don't have my pictures with me.

Today, we had to check out of KiwiPaka, the backpacking accomodations we had been staying in for the past 5 days and take a small plane from Rotorua to Wellington, the flight was less than an hour but it was kind of rough because the plane was so small. After we got here we were shuffled to our designated housing locations and I am a little disappointed in mine but it's a place to sleep. Our housing is overflow so it's not exactly the classiest but at least I get my own room, a desk, a dresser and a closet. Our flatmates aren't moving in until Sunday so we have a few days to get settled in but until then I am only living with the American students that I have been hanging out with the past week. That's alright but I'm ready to pick up the sweet Kiwi accent.

The walk to the grocery store from my housing is about 20 minutes and school is ten minutes but it basically straight up a mountain of stairs. I will definitely have buns of steel when I get home.

I start orientation tomorrow so hopefully all goes well. I'll keep everyone updated :)

If anyone wants to get ahold of me and doesn't have facebook, my email is postx072@umn.edu