Friday to Wednesday

Friday I don't think was particularly interesting or exciting during the day. I think that I spent the majority of the day doing homework at Stafford. Chris and I ate at a cheap Malaysian restaurant in Left Bank together and then went to Stephens. Chris and I showed up and then with Stephen and Colin we went to Liquor King and decided it was scrumpy hands night. Scrumpy is a really cheap cider drink that contains roughly 8 drinks in a fairly small sized bottle yet tastes pretty much like really bad apple juice or something. Thus it's a cheap and quick way to get drunk. People in NZ treat scrumpy the same way that people in the States treat 40's. In the States people play this game called "Edward 40 Hands," which is where you duct tape two 40's to your hands and have to finish them before you can take them off. Hahaha. In NZ they called it "Edward Scrumpy Hands" or simple "Scrumpy Hands." It's the same concept, except with scrumpy. However scrumpy packs a bigger punch of alcohol and I think is a way worse drinking game than with a 40. So we didn't technically play scrumpy hands. We started out with one scrumpy each and then Stephen thought it would be a good idea to buy 3 more (for him, Chris and Colin, not me because I didn't like that idea). To say the least, we got fairly drunk and ended up not even going out because we all got too tired. Haha.
Saturday Chris and I watched some Lost and then ate some indian take away food for lunch. It was really cheap and delicious. We ended up watching more Lost at Stephens and because it was really windy and rainy outside we ended up watching Lost until it got dark. We had plans to get dinner with our friend Derek and a large group of people for Dereks birthday at this place called "The Flying Burrito Brothers" but that wasn't until 9:30. So we ended up taking cat naps and listening to music until we had to leave.
Dinner was okay. It was over priced and the meals, although good, were very small in proportion to the amount we were paying. We had a good time talking and hanging out with the large group of people. After dinner we went to J.J Murphys, a bar that we had all pretty much banned from our list of bars to go to because of bad service, but our friends were there so we went (we didn't buy anything of course and joked about spitting on the floor). After hanging out for a bit half of us went to dance at "Boogie Wonderland" and the other half; me, Chris, Stephen, Colin, Lars, Brian, and Shannon went to the Matterhorn for a quieter night. We managed to grab a table even though the place was completely packed. We enjoyed a couple beers, Lars got a scotch and a cuban cigar, which was hilarious, and had an over all good night.
Sunday I think Chris and I watched more Lost (this has become a sad theme of my life recently...) and got Burger Fuel for lunch. After that I went home for a little to do some homework on the computer and Chris went to Borders to do some reading. We met up and got some dinner and hung out at Stephens to say goodbye to Colin and then called it a night early.
Monday I went to class and hung around campus all day. After school I went to Stafford and then Stephen and I went grocery shopping together. Chris and Brian joined us at Stafford later and we made burritos and tacos and made plans for our south island trip. We ended up buying airplane tickets (including one for Elizabeth) and planning out a bit of what we wanted to see.
Tuesday I went to class and hung around campus again. After that I went and met up with Chris at his place and we got coffee and pastries at a little coffee shop called "Aro Bake." We tried to do some homework outside but got distracted by Lola the kitty and then it was also too cold. We walked to the library and did work there until about 6:30 and then went to the grocery store and bought supplies for dinner. We met up with Stephen and went to Stafford and cooked burgers. Brian and Shannon came over and we planned our Abel Tasman trip (this is from June 6th - June 13th) and booked a ferry ride and a car rental for our trip.
Today I didn't have class so I slept in, ate left overs at Stafford and now I'm at the library trying to write a paper and feeling sickly. I realized that since I've been in Wellington I've really only had one cold, and that was at the very beginning of it all... so I guess I was kind of due to get ill in some way or another.

I'll try and post a blog entry about Samoa today or tomorrow.