This year is proving to be incredibly busy and hectic at Uni, what with nearing the deadline of having the first draft of my thesis completed in 3 weeks (not even close to completion!), as well as juggling other assignments 2 part time jobs, and having a small fraction of a life inbetween! Needless to say that my own social life and sleep are the ( Read more... )

So winter is finally upon New Zealand! Well, the South Island at least! At the moment Christchurch is struggling to reach double digits during the day, falling a couple of degrees below freezing at night, and it is raining and hailing constantly! We went 9 days straight with rain the other week. It was in that week that I discovered most of my ( Read more... )

During the week of my graduation, I decided to take mum and Benjamin to the lovely little settlement of Hanmer, located about an hour and a half north of Christchurch, at the base of the mountains. Hanmer is a popular tourist destination, with mountain biking, bungy jumping and bush walking among the most popular activities. However, the most ( Read more... )

The day after graduation, Mum Benjamin and I made the most of the fabulous weather and went to the Christchurch Botanical Gardens, again (it was where a lot of the Graduation pics were taken). We noticed the night before whilst looking through the pics from graduation, that we didn't have many good ones of Benjamin in his suit - mainly due to his ( Read more... )

On Wednesday 21 April 2010 I graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Classical Studies and History. The weather was absolutely beautiful, and seems I was part of the afternoon ceremony, we went into town early to take all of the official pictures - thanks to the handiwork of Benjamin and Ashlee, we managed to ( Read more... )

Just a quicl post to say Happy Birthday to Dad - seems you do a post for everyone else, thought it would be nice for someone to do one for you.
Have a fantastic day!!! xxxxx


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Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

This is yet another day of the year which I denerally look forward to in regards to giving the hard working uni student a night off studying! This year St Patrick's Day was even more special as it is also the birthday of my nre flatmate, Bridget. So after wearing green atire all day (in which green clothes plagued the ( Read more... )

Whilst some inventions and gadgets in the world are fantastic and designed to make life so much easier, I definitely will not be in any rush to buy these Japanese inventions! Well worth the laugh though!!!


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Being an honours student this year in Ancient History is proving to be incredibly tiring and full on, resulting in a limited amount of down time. Fortunately, there was the perfect opportunity the other weekend to get away for a couple of hours, with myself, James and my flatmate Nicole deciding to go to the Chinese Lantern Festival. In celebration ( Read more... )

Ball Season at Uni is always great fun! Although myself and James missed out on getting tickets to the Law Ball, with the theme 'A Night in Gotham city,' I did however manage to get tickets to the ENSOC Ball which was held on Saturday night. ENSOC is the largest student organisation in the southern hemisphere, comprising of nearly every engineering ( Read more... )