My Mundane Week So Far.

   This week has been pretty low key. Are you guys bored yet? I haven’t been having many adventures! That will all change next week, as I’m heading to Auckland for a week. Our mid-trimester break begins 22 April, and I’ll have another week off. It should be heaps of fun exploring a new city!

   Although I haven’t been out exploring much, I have done a few cool things in the past week. Monday was the day of my “pinstrosity.” Pinterest told me that eggs and bananas would give you pancakes, but this is not the case!! I have never failed so terribly at cooking before.

What the pancakes were supposed to look like.

What they really looked like...

   After that fiasco, I walked over to Archives New Zealand, which is only a couple minutes from my flat. There, I saw the Treaty of Waitangi, the founding document of New Zealand. It was amazing to see such a vital part of history! The treaty was stored in a dimly lit room that had a huge vault door. It was a little disconcerting to walk in there alone!

   Monday night, I made up for my banana pancake catastrophe by making the most delicious pasta salad. I had to prove to myself that I am capable of making good food!

   Tuesday and Wednesday were rather routine – class as normal – except that I had exams both days. I had my first exam at Victoria was in my Topics in Environmental Science paper, and it was multiple choice! I couldn’t believe a 300-level paper would have such an easy exam! Overall the schooling here seems much easier though. My other exam was in Spanish, and since I’ve studied Spanish for so long, it was a piece of cake. I’m getting to like university here!

   Since I've had a lot of free time on my hands, I've been noticing my surroundings, and my belief that this country is stuck in the past has been confirmed multiple times. So, here's a short list of some things I see every day that make me think I'm still in the '90s.

• razr scooters. small children, uni students, businessmen and women all ride razr scooters. everywhere.
• high top converse. it's an epidemic.
• old cars. since Wellington doesn't really have a winter, the cars here last longer.
•  mullets and rat tails. why is this okay? when did this become cool again? or in the first place?
•  music. some of it is new stuff, but for the most part we're a little behind when it comes to new releases..
• clothing. Wellington is such a hipster city, people are wearing ridiculous vintage clothing.