Chocolate, Tickets, Floods and My Own Room

Hello, once again, people of the northern hemisphere.

Once again, I bring you news of my activities and happenings down here in New Zealand. A fair few things have happened since we last spoke, so I'll give you the usual run-down and abbreviation of them. Enjoy!

First and foremost, I decided to take the tour of the Cadbury Factory here in Dunedin, partially because it came highly recommended on Dunedin's list of tourism spots, but mostly because I wanted to see if it was the same as the factory tour I took oh-so-many years ago. I'm pleased to say that I was not disappointed. Instead of being trapped inside a pod and wheeled through the factory, we were, in fact, taken through the factory on foot. I tell you, though, it wasn't the factory itself that I found to be the most impressive feature of the tour; what I found to be the most astounding feature was the variations in chocolate that they have here down south. Trust me; you would not believe the variants and flavours that we never even see in the north. But I digress. The factory tour was very impressive, lasting just over an hour, and picking up a reasonable amount of chocolate, from both the gift shop and the tour itself. I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Anyway, let me think...what else has happened? Ah, yes. I know what to tell you about! I have now booked my tickets to Australia. I am now set to leave on the 14th of July. Regrettably, the tickets have set me back a bit more than I would have liked, but it was worth it. I'll reveal more details closer to departure. There were a few issues regarding my contract with PS in connection to this, but I was able to resolve it, extending my contract to the day before I depart. All in all a good thing considering that I will now need all the extra money which I can scrounge up. Hence why I am now pulling extra shifts down in the Student Union; not so many new faces now, but still the occasional stranger.

Right, now I shall move onto the next issue in the title; the weather. In two words; bloody awful. You would not believe the amount of rain we have had...well okay, maybe you would. For the last week it has rained, non-stop, pausing ever-so briefly on Thursday, only to return with a vengeance on Friday and Saturday, resulting in without a doubt one of the dullest weeks I have experienced to date. The countryside is still recovering from the flooding, land slips and goodness knows what else. However, it is meant to be much better this week. The sun was actually shining today.

And on to the final topic. I now have my own room over at Emma's, which now lets me spend more time over there. Very useful, since Emma lives closer to town, allowing me to get to work at the union more easily. The fact that this gives me more access to Simon's XBOX is neither here nor there...honest!

Anyway, that brings you up to speed with recent events. I'm afraid that I'll have to sign off now, seeing as John wants to use the computer. Oh! Before I forget, check out my Facebook album for all the photos from this month, including those from the Anime convention.

Laters,

Alex