Orientation Week

A week of fun and exploring Orientation Week

 Monday, February 24th

The morning began with a quest to find cellphones because communication was starting to become an issue. I still haven't fully adjusted to the no-3G/lack of WiFi yet but I think it could be good for me to take a break from social media (time to chill on the snapchats and tweets). Even though I technically traveled to the future because I'm 18 hours ahead of East Coast time, when I recieved my new phone I 100% traveled back in time to the stone age. Learning to type has been somewhat of a struggle and I keep losing my little burner phone. After exchanging phone numbers with my new 19 friends we all headed off to the bus station to try and figure out public transportation to Mission Bay Beach. At Mission Bay there was a view of a volcano (Davenport) across the bay and restaurants all around. An overwhelming group of Asian tourists all took pictures together and some of the boys jumped in (New Zealand is exploding with Asians, you could tell me I'm in China and I would believe you). After brushing up on some soccer skills I ventured off to Burgerfuel, which is currently my new favorite place to eat. 

Tuesday, February 25th

At Orientation we received our University of Auckland student ID cards. My ID photo is far from beautiful and so is the 18+ ID photo I took hours later. Ate Burgerfuel once again and then headed back to Carlaw where I ran into Pat doing the Pub Quiz event with his international roommates and new friends. I joined and it easily became the funniest thing. There were 9 rounds with different categories and 10 questions for each round. Some of the categories were general knowledge, sports, music in movies, RA fun facts and sex. I really let the ball drop with the Michael Phelps question (sorry Michael, let's go swimming in the Loyola pool sometime?) Things got real weird with the sex category and that was our cue to leave. Suprisingly our team came in second place and we won the smallest pizza I have ever seen. All the Loyola crew headed over to Jenna's before we went out and there were no  glasses available so some people drank wine out of bowls (cough cough Marco). As a group we went out to Cassette where I saw the largest man in the world. This Maori guy had to have been at least 7 feet tall and buckets of sweat were dripping off him...

Like I said, things got weird..

Wednesday, February 26th

Once again we headed back to Mission Bay for a day in the sun and of course, Burgerfuel (3 days in a row: new low? new high?). After enjoying our day at the beach we discovered this Mexican restaurant that could fit all of us, which is never the case. We all got delicious Margaritas. Maggie and I splurged for some wings, quesadillas and guacamole..and I would do it all over again because they were the bomb.com. A few of us proceeded to play a fun round of soccer which ended up being way too many body collisions. That night everyone met up in my room along with my roommate Jess' kiwi friends. With quiet hours being at 10:00pm we relocated to UniLodge (the other dorm) and my roommate stayed with her friends. Long story short, 831-108 Carlaw is now on the watch list for noise viloations. 

Thursday, February 27th

On Thursday Caroline, Maggie and I walked around campus in search of the Clock Tower building. Our Loyola advisor failed to make Caroline an ID haha (shoutout to Kenny). The three of us decided to bail on the orientation and went to Takapuna. We navigated the bus system wonderfully minus the process of actually getting off the bus. No worries though, we made it to the beach and I'm pretty sure I got sun poisoning on my chin (no sunburn though..)