I'm not very good at this!

So I broke my promise, I'm sorry! It's the middle of the week after the weekend in which I said I would get up-to-date. On the bright side, it's been less thrilling to read about for a little while (GUYS I DID LAUNDRY TODAY IT WAS PRETTY INTENSE. ALSO I WATCHED A BIT OF C4 2, NEW ZEALAND'S VERSION OF MTV THAT ACTUALLY PLAYS MUSIC MOST OF THE TIME. CRAAAZY!), but there have been some happenings that I feel like I should write about!

Unfortunately, it is getting late, so I'll just finally get through the arrival into Napier and then I swear I will work on it this weekend if not tomorrow.

So, where were we? By reading my last post before the string of filler, apparently I was at the bus stop in Rotorua, waiting for a bus to Napier. Well, there was a bus ride involved! It was probably the most gorgeous bus ride I've ever been on that wasn't meant to be a scenic tour - it was like the countryside couldn't decide what it wanted to be. It would be flat for a little bit, then suddenly there would be a gorge, then there would be a weird tiered hill (kind of like the Incan pyramid, but just a hill and not as distinctly tiered because the hills weren't man-made, I'm assuming), then just rolling hills for a bit, then another gorge, so on so forth. I took some pictures, but I left my camera at the villa (figures), so I'll put them in the next post!

So I arrived in Napier, and the bus driver was very nice and called me a taxi because it was Sunday and they don't really have buses going on on Sundays. It was a 15-or-so minute drive, during which the taxi driver was very nice and told me about what was where, and I arrived at the villas. I got all my stuff to my room and got to meet most of my new villa-mates (two hadn't moved in yet), Effie, Alysha, and Stephanie (yes, all girls - the two to come were guys, though, so it's much more balanced than it was in Australia, where I was the only guy with five other girls). I slowly got settled in and met a few more people, and after a ridiculous number of trips to the supermarket in one week (five or so), I had most of the basics.

At this point, because it seems like so long ago/there has been a lot of stuff going on since, I'm going to consult my handy-dandy little diary-type-book to make sure I don't miss anything!

I left it in my room as well, because updating this was kind of a spur-of-the-moment thing.

Hey, it's better than nothing though, right? At least in the blog I'm now where I am currently, blog me is no longer stuck in Rotorua after having been there for weeks!

More soon, with pictures!