Its been such a long time

Oh man, it’s been a while since the last update, I’ve just been pretty busy with a lack of motivation to spend some hours blogging. But alas, the fateful day has come and gone where my fellow international students boarded the homeward bound plane. Things are quieter.
Regardless, its time to play catch up, so I’ll start from where I left off and progress through the weeks Tarantino style…so here we go.

First weekend after break…This is where work started to pick up. I had a rapid series of papers and work to accomplish. I guess I was going to school and that was the first time I was actually forced to spend some time in the library to write papers. That was lame as. I’m actually forgetting exactly what happened in the past few weeks chronologically, so I’ll just post stuff that I remember doing.

I had an excellent overnight trip to Christchurch with Gwen, Naomi, and Erica. We arrived in CC pretty late at night, tired and ready for bed so we just crashed. The next morning we went to a nice café and outdoor arts and crafts market. Saw a sweet statue of “The Fool” with neat quotes engraved around it. One of my favorites was “As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness around it." ~Einstein. What a poignant thought. Anyways, we spent the rest of the morning driving out on the Peninsula taking in the sights. Was a nice couple hour drive with pretty mountains and such.
Then we made the decision to check out Castle Hill, a cool geological formation. Now that may not sound very exciting but it was quite the contrary. Although I’m getting ahead of myself. Castle Hill is about an hour into Arthur’s Pass, the one I took to get to Wild Foods. What a drastic change snow makes on the scenery. All the mountains were white capped and gorgeous. The drive in was better than I
remembered. We got very luck and saw an amazing rainbow at the edge of cliff crossing a valley. Wow. Then once we arrived at Castle Hill, it was about a 5 minute walk up to the rocks. They were huge. Some of them were about 100 feet tall and probably 50 feet diameter. The place made you feel like you were in a fantasy book. And indeed, this was where they shot the last seen from the first Narnia movie. What a magical place, well worth the trip.