Saturday, September 09, 2006
weee!
Ok!
So, I've had some complaints about the comments and I've been able to fix them up a bit.
Now, you do not have to be a member to leave a comment, and it should be easier.
Also, I have added a link to the photo website on the right sidebar for easy access.
So ... not too much else has happened since the last time I updated. We seem to have started to slow down some.
On Thursday, Kevin [the coordinator guy] took us to this international pub night dealy. If we met two new people from AUT and they were international students, we could get a free beer or wine. I met lots of Chinese, Germans, a Phillipino, and a Scot. Everyone was just kind of scrambling at first to just find two people from either BU or AUT for the free beer, but after that everyone started to calm down and actually talk to everyone else.
We were supposed to go camping this weekend but it's been raining hardcore today, so maybe another time.
We did, however, go to rugby game last night. It was the QBEHarbours against Manawatu. QBE won [they were the home team] and we got a rugby lesson from some locals sitting in front of us. We actually had really good seats, and we only paid $5 for the them. It was pretty empty and the tickets were student priced, so I'm sure if it were more crowded, we would have had to sit somewhere else. There were people dressed up with their faces painted and a few of us got pictures with them after the game [and we almost got a signed rugby ball - with an old member from the All Blacks who got injured and is now on a smaller team - but some kids were battling over the ball and it just didn't seem right to step in and take it from them, so we may go back to another game] and we all got, ah, slightly violated as we were walking away.
Today we went to the New Zealand Documentary Film Festival [www.docnz.org.nz] and we saw Totally Personal and Flock of Dodos. They were both really good. The first one was funny and the second was tactfully done - and we got to talk to the executive producer afterwards. It was really neat.
I also got this nifty tea pot for $3 NZD that serves a single cup of tea. It's actually pretty good quality, too.
Anyway, I'm currently in the process of trying to upload scenery pictures and steal cool pictures from other people.
The picture album Scenery has been updated a little bit; there are now 150 pictures in the album. The other albums haven't been updated [except the 2nd week one which now has tags and stuff].
Oh, for those of you who don't know, tags allow you to click on a name or place that is associated with the picture. It will then amass all other pictures tagged with that name or place and show them to you. So, for example, if you wanted to see all of the pictures that are of Muriwai beach, you would click on the word Muriwai on the bottom of the webpage [under the photo], and all pictures with Muriwai tags from my photo albums will come up. It's handy.
I hope you all are doing well. I miss home and would die for an In'n'Out hamburger about now [I feel like a vegetarian because meat really is expensive, but we're getting creative], but I'm still having fun.
Classes are going well; I have two essays due this week and my interview for my internship is on Tuesday.
Ok - pictures!
So, I've had some complaints about the comments and I've been able to fix them up a bit.
Now, you do not have to be a member to leave a comment, and it should be easier.
Also, I have added a link to the photo website on the right sidebar for easy access.
So ... not too much else has happened since the last time I updated. We seem to have started to slow down some.
On Thursday, Kevin [the coordinator guy] took us to this international pub night dealy. If we met two new people from AUT and they were international students, we could get a free beer or wine. I met lots of Chinese, Germans, a Phillipino, and a Scot. Everyone was just kind of scrambling at first to just find two people from either BU or AUT for the free beer, but after that everyone started to calm down and actually talk to everyone else.
We were supposed to go camping this weekend but it's been raining hardcore today, so maybe another time.
We did, however, go to rugby game last night. It was the QBEHarbours against Manawatu. QBE won [they were the home team] and we got a rugby lesson from some locals sitting in front of us. We actually had really good seats, and we only paid $5 for the them. It was pretty empty and the tickets were student priced, so I'm sure if it were more crowded, we would have had to sit somewhere else. There were people dressed up with their faces painted and a few of us got pictures with them after the game [and we almost got a signed rugby ball - with an old member from the All Blacks who got injured and is now on a smaller team - but some kids were battling over the ball and it just didn't seem right to step in and take it from them, so we may go back to another game] and we all got, ah, slightly violated as we were walking away.
Today we went to the New Zealand Documentary Film Festival [www.docnz.org.nz] and we saw Totally Personal and Flock of Dodos. They were both really good. The first one was funny and the second was tactfully done - and we got to talk to the executive producer afterwards. It was really neat.
I also got this nifty tea pot for $3 NZD that serves a single cup of tea. It's actually pretty good quality, too.
Anyway, I'm currently in the process of trying to upload scenery pictures and steal cool pictures from other people.
The picture album Scenery has been updated a little bit; there are now 150 pictures in the album. The other albums haven't been updated [except the 2nd week one which now has tags and stuff].
Oh, for those of you who don't know, tags allow you to click on a name or place that is associated with the picture. It will then amass all other pictures tagged with that name or place and show them to you. So, for example, if you wanted to see all of the pictures that are of Muriwai beach, you would click on the word Muriwai on the bottom of the webpage [under the photo], and all pictures with Muriwai tags from my photo albums will come up. It's handy.
I hope you all are doing well. I miss home and would die for an In'n'Out hamburger about now [I feel like a vegetarian because meat really is expensive, but we're getting creative], but I'm still having fun.
Classes are going well; I have two essays due this week and my interview for my internship is on Tuesday.
Ok - pictures!
// posted by Chelcie @ 6:47 AM 
