Home sweet home

My life, narrated by David Attenborough

Last night, we were watching Planet Earth while we were working on our papers, and all of a sudden, they were showing amazing scenes from Rico Rico Cave, that we had snorkeled in in the Poor Knights!

Our boat in the mouth of the cave--much smaller than the inside was! And full of fish and jellies

Our papers are due in 2 days, thank goodness, and then the semester is over soon after and then I get to go to the South Island on vacation! It will be so great to get off campus and get to see amazing things again, life has been pretty ho-hum.

Movie time

So we've had a lot of time on our hands, what with the whole "we're in school, but don't have any classes or responsibilities except to turn in a completed, flawless research paper on the 7th that determines your entire grade for the whole course" thing going on. Plus the whole "I'm going to rain relentlessly on you, every day without stop until you can't wait to leave New Zealand just to dry off, love Mother Nature" thing. This has led to some desperate time-killers.

Terrible Movies I have seen while in New Zealand (mostly on VHS)

• Ghettoblaster (lone white man in a flannel single handedly takes down Latino gang who have taken over his old hometown. This is done largely through the use of Tom & Jerry-esque pranks)
• Kissing Jessica Stein (a lesbian romantic comedy we did not expect to be a lesbian romantic comedy. The lead is a heterosexual woman--Jessica--who is so boring, I really don't see how anyone could fall for her, man or woman.)
• Surf Ninjas (yep)
• The 6th Day (Arnold Schwarzenegger and laser technology of the future)
• Stigmata (based on a true story, minus the stigmata part)

Expect this list to grow, the paper's not due for 4 more days...