In Picton we visited our old haunts. We had supper at Subway - the same subway where I had my first bite of chicken in many years. Then we went to the old ship for a beer - a ginger beer to be precise. I think that I am wishing to be a child again so that I wouldn't have to decide what to do with myself. Maybe if I continue to have ginger beer when I could have real beer I will revert back to a 10 year old. I think it could work. Then all I would have to worry about is remembering all of my beanie babies names and who to invite to my birthday party. I wouldn't have to decide what to do with my life.
We camped at the same campsite as we did a few weeks ago when we first got to the South island. There were some old hippie guys that live there and they recognized us. Hmmm. Creepy? Maybe. Good thing Schnegg sleeps outside of our tent doors like a guard dog.
On Friday we dropped off good Ol' Sunny the Nissan and took the Ferry across to Wellington. It was pretty uneventful. There were some dolphins playing around in the water by the Ferry. So I guess that was exciting. They had gluten free pies, so I decided to have my first ground beef since 2008. It wasn't all it is cracked up to be. I still don't like meat. Fancy that.
Hannah's sweetheart mom picked us up at the Ferry terminal and brought us home! We got to see Henk and Noemi and Kat! And Hannah's poor family took us all in - all 8 of us crazy YWAMers. We cooked the family some dinner that evening. It was lovely and the next day we explored Wellington. Hannah took us to her favorite street - Cuba street. It is a trendy little street with amazing coffee and good Opshops. I was amazed at the prices in the Opshops. Thrifting in Calgary is so popular/trendy that it is actually expensive to by second hand stuff at the trendy little thrift shops, but in Wellington the expensiveness has not caught on quite yet. I bought a few things that I am quite excited about. I hope they will fit in my luggage...
There were lots of random buskers out and about on Cuba street. There was this one guy who could beatbox like dubstep. It was so cool. He was so good that I gave him a dollar. Lucky guy. We also sat down for a bit to watch a performance. There were two girls performing in the street. They were like those circus performers that twirl around while hanging on ropes. We thought it would be sweet. And the beginning was, they just did some acrobatics and such, but then it got weird. One of the girls started to strip down. And there were children watching. It was so strange. She was already only wearing a skin tight body suit, then she took it off and was only wearing a bra and panties. And the other girl stripped down to a nude suit and stuffed the crotch to make it look like she was a man. It was so weird. We left. So I don't know how the performance ended. I am glad that I don't know.
Then we said our farewells to Noemi, Henk and Rebekah who caught the bus up to Aukland, and they are leaving today - the 4th. Schnegg, Marit, Elisa, Kat and I are still at Hannah's. Yesterday we went to church and then had lunch with her family. It was really fun. Then we ordered pizza and watched a movie.
Today is Hannah's birthday! She is 19 today. I actually can't believe that she is only 19. We are going to have some breakfast together soon - pancakes and scrambled eggs for everyone except for me! Haha, I get the usual oat meal. Mmmmmmm. And then this afternoon we are getting a FREE rental car to transport us up to Aukland. Sweet As, Bro. Hannah's family knows a guy who works at a car rental place and he hooked us up with a free relocation car to take from Wellington to Aukland! And it is BIG! So we can fit all our stuff. Sweet deal. So tonight we are gonna head to Taupo, stay overnight and hopefully catch a glimps of Mount doom before departing to Matamata and then to Aukland for our last days in New Zealand.
I can't help but be SUPER excited to go home. I just really really want to go home. But I think it is mostly just because I know that I am going home soon. It is like when you have to go to the bathroom. When you are not near a toilet you don't have to go AS bad, but when you get closer and closer to a toilet, you have to go worse and worse because you know that you can. It is like that for me and going home.
But the thought of going home is bringing up thoughts of the future. What will I do? Who knows really. I know that I need a job, but where? And I could take my MCAT so that I could apply for Medical school at some point in the near future... I don't know. I wish that God would tell me. But I think it is one of those things where he would be happy no matter what I do, so I should do what I want. Ughh. I guess I will be able to figure it out though...
We camped at the same campsite as we did a few weeks ago when we first got to the South island. There were some old hippie guys that live there and they recognized us. Hmmm. Creepy? Maybe. Good thing Schnegg sleeps outside of our tent doors like a guard dog.
On Friday we dropped off good Ol' Sunny the Nissan and took the Ferry across to Wellington. It was pretty uneventful. There were some dolphins playing around in the water by the Ferry. So I guess that was exciting. They had gluten free pies, so I decided to have my first ground beef since 2008. It wasn't all it is cracked up to be. I still don't like meat. Fancy that.
Hannah's sweetheart mom picked us up at the Ferry terminal and brought us home! We got to see Henk and Noemi and Kat! And Hannah's poor family took us all in - all 8 of us crazy YWAMers. We cooked the family some dinner that evening. It was lovely and the next day we explored Wellington. Hannah took us to her favorite street - Cuba street. It is a trendy little street with amazing coffee and good Opshops. I was amazed at the prices in the Opshops. Thrifting in Calgary is so popular/trendy that it is actually expensive to by second hand stuff at the trendy little thrift shops, but in Wellington the expensiveness has not caught on quite yet. I bought a few things that I am quite excited about. I hope they will fit in my luggage...
There were lots of random buskers out and about on Cuba street. There was this one guy who could beatbox like dubstep. It was so cool. He was so good that I gave him a dollar. Lucky guy. We also sat down for a bit to watch a performance. There were two girls performing in the street. They were like those circus performers that twirl around while hanging on ropes. We thought it would be sweet. And the beginning was, they just did some acrobatics and such, but then it got weird. One of the girls started to strip down. And there were children watching. It was so strange. She was already only wearing a skin tight body suit, then she took it off and was only wearing a bra and panties. And the other girl stripped down to a nude suit and stuffed the crotch to make it look like she was a man. It was so weird. We left. So I don't know how the performance ended. I am glad that I don't know.
Then we said our farewells to Noemi, Henk and Rebekah who caught the bus up to Aukland, and they are leaving today - the 4th. Schnegg, Marit, Elisa, Kat and I are still at Hannah's. Yesterday we went to church and then had lunch with her family. It was really fun. Then we ordered pizza and watched a movie.
Today is Hannah's birthday! She is 19 today. I actually can't believe that she is only 19. We are going to have some breakfast together soon - pancakes and scrambled eggs for everyone except for me! Haha, I get the usual oat meal. Mmmmmmm. And then this afternoon we are getting a FREE rental car to transport us up to Aukland. Sweet As, Bro. Hannah's family knows a guy who works at a car rental place and he hooked us up with a free relocation car to take from Wellington to Aukland! And it is BIG! So we can fit all our stuff. Sweet deal. So tonight we are gonna head to Taupo, stay overnight and hopefully catch a glimps of Mount doom before departing to Matamata and then to Aukland for our last days in New Zealand.
I can't help but be SUPER excited to go home. I just really really want to go home. But I think it is mostly just because I know that I am going home soon. It is like when you have to go to the bathroom. When you are not near a toilet you don't have to go AS bad, but when you get closer and closer to a toilet, you have to go worse and worse because you know that you can. It is like that for me and going home.
But the thought of going home is bringing up thoughts of the future. What will I do? Who knows really. I know that I need a job, but where? And I could take my MCAT so that I could apply for Medical school at some point in the near future... I don't know. I wish that God would tell me. But I think it is one of those things where he would be happy no matter what I do, so I should do what I want. Ughh. I guess I will be able to figure it out though...
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