Tag: christchurch
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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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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 […]