Category: New Zealand
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An Adventure to the Container Mall
May 18, 2013 Today was our free day in Christchurch. We went back to the container mall. This is a mall made out of shipping containers. Each individual shop is within a container. It’s quite interesting and a little hard to imagine without seeing it. There was a great little Greek food place there where […]
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Rebuilding Christchurch
May 17, 2013 Today, our group really got to experience and witness some of the devastation that Christchurch has been dealing with for the past two years after the earthquakes. First, we met up with the leader of the Student Volunteer Army that banded together after the first earthquake in 2010 to help clean up […]
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Rakaia Gorge: Jet Boating
May 16, 2013 Kia ora! (Hello!) Jet lag + international date line = my body very confused all night. This was my strange experience overnight. We went to bed around 8:30pm (4:30am in FL time) last night, and I woke up multiple times in the night trying to figure out where I was, what time […]
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How You Survive 36 Hours of Traveling
May 15, 2013 Greetings from New Zealand! (On the way to the airport!) I just can’t get over the fact that I am halfway across the world in the future (hello international dateline!) in a foreign country. I started my day around 8am on Monday morning in St. Pete. I finished packing and got […]
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Pre-Departure: New Zealand
May 9, 2013 I am going to New Zealand in less than a week to study abroad for a little under a month. I figure the best way to remember this journey is to blog offline and then send the posts whenever I have wifi (which apparently won’t be all the time). The program I […]