Weekend Update!

Greetings Mates!

It's about six on Tuesday evening and I thought, "Hey, why not update my blog?!" Last week was super busy but lots of fun!

As you may have read in my last post the roommates and I had quite a few dinner dates last week which was awesome. Our supervisor from Iowa State, Ann, was here. It was really nice having her. We spent a lot of time with her eating and at school. It was fun to have her come watch us and to just chat about how things are going. Friday night Krystal and I went walking with her along the river before she took us all out to dinner.

After din din we headed to Queenstown for the weekend. We didn't have many plans when we left, just knew we wanted to shop and go out for some drinks! We had a lot of fun the first night and met some fun people. Then on Saturday we spent our day shopping which was super fun and then decided to take the gondola ride that everyone was telling us about. The gondola ride was gorgeous!! On the way up we saw the most amazing rainbow! It had been spitting earlier, so it was perfect timing! At the top of the gondola there is a really cool luge course. We spent a couple of hours there and had a blast! It was so funny looking back at pictures and videos (mostly from Ellen).  After the luge course and gondola ride back down we went to Fergburger to eat. It's a really popular burger place with HUGE burgers. However, I was a little let down until my second trip there later in the evening.

After a nice nap we started getting ready to go out for the night. The hostel we stayed at had no mirrors in the room, so the girls were getting ready in the bathroom when we met another guy staying at our hostel. He invited us to hang out with his friends so of course we did. Three of them were from Christchurch and two of them were from San Diego. We had a really good time with them, they were fun guys to just find in the bathroom! We went to a few bars in Queenstown and went back to Fergburger (which was much better the second time around).

Over all it was a really great weekend. I was happy to come back to Alexandra and get to skype with my good friend Michelle. It's always good seeing my friends, especially since I haven't seen most of them in person or on skype in over a month! When Monday rolled around I had an easy school day luckily. I spent most of Sunday watching movies, so no lesson planning got done! After school we had Ann over for tea. It was her last night in town and it was really fun. We played dominoes and drank wine and chatted. She also brought us some groceries which was both funny and nice.. she said she was impressed with how well we were feeding ourselves!

This week is a crazy one! We are doing lots of arts in our rooms so my lesson planning has gone down quite a bit. I call Tuesday my 'P.E.' day. I start with teaching swimming in the morning, then dance after lunch, and ending the day with coaching year 3/4 t-ball. So Tuesday's also involve a little less planning, but take a lot more energy! This Tuesday ended up being terrific because I got to skype with Taylor and plan a skype date with Emily, these two things made me more than elated! If I weren't so lazy I would add in some pictures, but you can always see them on facebook!

Take care and be safe!

Michelle