A Continuation...

I thought I'd finally elaborate a little about my last week of school and the All Blacks game in Wellington...

I had my last exam last thursday, and it went alright- did well enough to pass I'm sure... Not that I was ever bombarded with work, but it feels nice to be done and not have a nagging sense that I should be studying or reading something for school.

Most of the day on Friday was spent packing up my stuff and cleaning out my dorm room, a bittersweet experience, and then I moved into my new place with a friend on the volleyball team. It's still pretty close to campus though, so it's just a short walk to see my remaining friends. The only killer is that there's literally a hundred stairs to get to it.

Saturday morning I left for Wellington, both for another volleyball tournament and for the All Blacks game. Volleyball was business as usual, but once I left the gym, it was party time! Haha wow... I met up with Ray at the hostel she was staying at, and we walked to the game from there. It was pretty incredible: it seemed like the whole city was walking to the game, thus the streets were packed. The atmosphere was electric both inside and outside of the stadium, what an experience!

The stadium actually wasn't very big compared with what I'm used to- you could probably get a sense of the size from the video if you watched that. Also, we were in the second row, and those were the cheap seats. Obviously we didn't have the best view of the entire field, but we didn't really know what was going on anyways so it was pretty cool to be that close. And there were some French fans sitting behind us yelling in French, so I enjoyed that. It was fairly cold out, so we went all bundled up, but that didn't help much when the wind was blowing and the rain started to seep through the layers. However, sitting at the game was nothing compared to the walk back: it started pouring on us and there was like 90 mile an hour wind threatening to blow us over. BRR!

Oh goodness, here I am talking about the weather like anyone cares... so about the game... Well, the All Blacks won, but I can't remember the score. Haha, that's about all I have. I still don't understand all of the rules, but it's easy to follow and fun to watch so I guess that's all that matters. Apparently some girl ran onto the field and was hard out tackled by a security guard, but I missed that...

After the game a few of us went out on the town, which was, not surprisingly, hoppin'. It was Ray's last night in New Zealand, so needless to say, it was a late night. I had a game at 10 on Sunday morning, and let's just say I was tired to the point that I could barely keep my eyes open between points. My team enjoyed making fun of me, but I have to say that I played surprisingly well taking my state into consideration. I took a nap in between games and woke up feeling much better. Unfortunately we ended up losing to NZIS in 5, but there'll be more opportunities to play them in the future. We got back to Palmy around 5pm, and I was in asleep by 830pm and slept until 930am the next morning. 13 hours of sleep. It was greaaaat.

I decided to go on a three day raw fruit/veggie detox just for kicks, and I was actually able to do it, although I probably didn't eat as many veggies as I should have... I surprise myself sometimes. So that's pretty much the highlight of Monday-Wednesday. Oh, and immediately after a detox, it's a bad idea to have a red bull and a giant burger with fries. Just saying...

Well, I'm 22. Crazy. I'll tell of my birthday extravaganza next time :)