Booty booty booty booty rockin everywhere

***First of all, the program director asked us today to please inform our friends and family that we are not in an area affected by the scary earthquake in New Zealand, just so that no one worries if you read it in the paper back home. Christchurch is a large city on a fault in the South Island. We're safely tucked away by Auckland on the North Island until March, and will no longer be studying in Christchurch***

Next week we're snorkeling in Poor Knights, and today we got measured for our wetsuits. Amusingly, the only measurements they asked for were height and butt.
     Yours truly is holding down the title of Tiniest Booty on Campus (although we can't find Lucy for her measurements, and hopefully her flat, soccer team butt will beat mine out). A funny thing is that, even though no one here is overweight at all, (and I say that not just in the don't-want-to-hurt-feelings kind of way, because honestly, everyone's in pretty good shape) but BUTT sizes were all over the map! We ranged from 90cm - 113cm! (they want us to think in metric units, when we turn in data and assignments, they won't accept it if there's any mention of inches, ft, or miles). So there you have my deep, New Zealand thought for today: butts!