Sept 29th
Holy crap I'm in New Zealand! It's been quite an overwhelming week, I went through all the normal travel emotions of "what the hell am I doing here?!" to "this is awesome!" back to wondering what I'm doing here. Anyways, despite the ups and downs, all is well at the moment. I arrived at Auckland and got a bank account and cellphone and met some cool people at the hostel that I hung out with for two days. I met a scottish dude with the thickest accent ever for whom I basically had to act like an interpreter for. The funny thing was he was thinking of teaching english here.
Anyways, I'm currently in the Bay of Islands which is the most northern part of New Zealand. I took a bus for travelers up, which is a hop-on-hop-off-anytime bus that I can take all around the north island, so hopefully that'll be cool.
The Bay of Islands is semi-tropical and has cool beaches and cliffes, so I got to take advantage of a free boat ride out to go around to the islands and to look for dolphins and they let you swim with the dolphins! Yeah, I SWAM WITH DOLPHINS! How crazy is that? I got near around 4 of them which was quite surreal, like a few were literally right next to me. Crazy!!
I spent all of yesterday getting in and out of a bus on a day trip to the northern tip Cape Reinga, which was nifty since we got to ride a bus on the beach and dig up some crazy sea mussels. Not too bad!
I'll sum it up here since I don't want write an encyclopedia, but here's some last fun facts about NZ:
--No ozone layer (thanks China), so you burn in about 10 minutes
--It's completely acceptable to walk around barefoot anywhere if you choose (even in a business suit)
--It's HILLY
--Kiwis like to eat everything with ketchup
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