My Kiwi experience has been postponed, due to a sore throat that made me unable to speak without sounding like a chain-smoker. (Yeah, I know…I can’t seem to stay healthy.) But at least this break gives me the chance to post some pictures and write about my experiences over the past week. I am currently in Nelson on the South Island. I didn’t intend to travel this fast, but I met some really fun people and decided to keep on keepin’ on with them.
I was the only American on a bus full of Irish and English people. The first two days were full of me being chided for not only being American, but being from Texas, right in the center if Dubya country. Finally I worked my way up from being “You F—ing American” to “Texas” and then “Miss America”. (I don’t think they really got the beauty pageant connotation that went with that one, but it was by far my favorite nickname.)
It was an eye-opening experience, being the only one not from the UK out of a group of seventeen people. I think I managed to change a few opinions and negate a few stereotypes about Americans. At least, I hope I did. They all tried to do their best Texas accents, which was hilarious. “Yee-haw, Texas!” It was even better when they tried to sing rap songs. A woman from Yorkshire yelled to me one night “Hey America! Want to hear me sing ‘Gangsta’s Paradise?!”. It was everything I’d dreamed of and more. But it really doesn’t get any better than the Welsh guy trying to rap to “Ridin’ Dirty”.
I’ve seen some beautiful things over the past week. The tour was so fast paced, it’s hard to keep everything in the right order and not forget.
Auckland to Rotorua (hot springs, Maori dinner)
Rotorua to Waitomo (glow worm caves)
Waitomo to Taupo (Lake Taupo, Waterfall, mini golf!)
Taupo to River Valley (beautiful river, swing, awesome dinner, volleyball and bruises)
River Valley to Wellington (staying up all night in Wellington and walking the streets at 4am)
Wellington to Nelson (sleeping on the ferry, finding out what Yorkshire Pudding is)
3 comments:
so this one time i had a really witty comment for your myspace page, but then i went to post it & i got this message:
"ashleigh has blocked you from communicating with them"
so i was going to send you a message & yell at you, but i got this message:
"you must be friends with ashleigh in order to send her a message"
new zealand has really fucked things up.
i'm sorry.
i'll try and fix it.
you and your welcome to hobbiton sigh.
fuck.
im jealous.
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