Pitza♥Summer

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Town mouse and city mouse

Maybe I held really high hopes before visiting wellington. To a city dweller like me, I guess only Auckland can be define as a true blue city. However, wellington has quite a few museums as well as a dance school that does modern dance.(yay!) Black Grace--a renowned contemporary dance group--- had a performance during my visit but I missed it.The backpacker's hotel for the first 2 nights was excellent and it totally dismissed the notion that backpacker's hotels are dirty and dingy. It has a real fireplace at the lobby and an old-fashioned lift that requires you to operate the gate manually which i didn't dare to try. But the second backpacker's hotel was absolutely disappointing and it had no heating system the night we were staying there. I froze into a ball of ice during the night and in addition to that, drunken people were making a din at the pub downstairs. Hence, I took a long hot water shower in the disgusting tiled- bathroom at 330am and went down to the kitchen to warm my muffin for early breakfast. The best thing was that BBC News was on and i had the opportunity to catch snippets of world news. Now I know Nigeria is chaotic due to election and Singapore is going to be rainy these few days. Hooray! I shall digress and tell you about the fridge as well. It was a walk-in one and i was so afraid that i would be locked in. Then I headed out for a short walk in the city at 640am and eventually bought groceries from the only shop that was opened---New world supermarket. Guess visiting supermarkets is one of the main activities of NewZealanders. There are FOUR supermarkets in tiny palmerston north!
Now I'm glad to be back in my hall. I was looking forward to it with such intense fervour when I was freezing in the night. Warm clean cosy hall.

And not forgetting the highlight of the trip: I stepped into a hole leading to the drain on my first night. Luckily my left ankle bones are strong enough to withstand the stress from the fall. Must be the milk.

more photos another day.too tired...

Love, Pitza 22.4.07

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