I know that I shouldn't care, and I took this trip to stop reading so much celebrity gossip - but Jessica and Nick?!? Really? That is so sad people...haha...I'm lucky that I'm staying in a hostel with a healthy supply of gossip magazines and internet access. I hope that everyone had a good Thanksgiving...I have to admit...I was quite sad to not be ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving!!! I will be sitting on the beach drinking beer! I just got back from Cape Reinga - the top of New Zealand. It was like being at the end of the earth!


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louise and alice in auckland.....

Louise took me to a crazy basement Japanese arcade in Auckland that I probably couldn't find again if I had to...it had about 15 different photo booths, the instructions were all in Japanese....


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So, my long awaited entry about Taupaki, and the gorgeous house I have had the privilege to stay in for the past week with Liz and Louise, and the cat which comes to visit every day around 5:30pm, that Louise calls Bubbie, and we've discovered is actually the next-door neighbor's, and her name is Cookie (?!?) What an awful name ( Read more... )

oh my .... I am sitting here watching Coronation Street..haha a cheesey British soap.. it's quite funny how almost all the TV in New Zealand is British or American. This computer is being very slow, so I will only put up a couple pics tonight..more for tomorrow hopefully. I am staying in Taupaki, northwest of Auckland with Liz (mom) and Louise ( ( Read more... )

So it's been a couple of fun days in Auckland where I've had to swallow my pride on numerous situations...by asking people where I am, where do I get places..and yesterday, I sort of fell down a mountain :X but let's not talk about that...haha. On Tuesday I took myself into Auckland city on a train that took forever but was humorously filled with ( Read more... )

Well...after a long flight..which really didn't seem that long, I've arrived in Auckland, in the hospitality of Bevan's aunt and uncle. They have picked me up from the airport at an ungodly hour of the morning and made me feel quite at home, for which I'm very grateful. I've been around Auckland a bit today...and the biggest impression it's had on ( Read more... )

I went to a peace vigil on Fountain Square tonight with Will and about 150 or so various others. It was a crazy time...when I first got there I was almost overwhelmed with emotion - so happy that so many people had showed up, so moved by people's care, and yet so sad that we had to be there in the first place because Cindy Sheehan and so many other ( Read more... )

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So things have been going pretty well for me lately, and there's not too much to complain about. I got to play soccer outdoors this weekend which was glorious and then had a yummy dinner with Sarah and her parents. I bummed around on Sunday before going to the Pride Fest in Cincinnati to volunteer. I had so much fun there as well - because it was ( Read more... )