Kia Ora! Not much to report this past week. It was a pretty typical week of school. We did a precedent study for studio on Victoria Park specifically Green Square near Sydney, Australia. However, there wasn't much to study since it hasn't been built yet. So now we're starting to design since the project is due in about three weeks. Time sure flies by here. It's like there is no Tuesday or Wednesday. I have studio on Mondays and Thursdays, and it feels like Thursday immediately comes after Monday. And of course the weekends always disappear. I'm also doing this group project in Intro to Practice and Management. It is an interdisciplinary project consisting of landscape architects, architects, interior architects, and a building science major who works as our project manager. It is a really crappy project, but I'll probably learn a lot from it. It is super hard finding time for all of us to meet, and one of the girls has a baby, which creates a totally different schedule for all of us. Super annoying.
Thursday was a blast. We headed downtown for St. Patty's day. There was almost no green seen at all during the day, but the second we hit downtown, green flooded the streets. The lines outside the Irish pubs were ridiculous, so we headed to Alice, which is a small bar hidden inside Boogie Wonderland. The drinks are based around Alice in Wonderland. We got a large bottle full of fruit and all sorts of alcohol for ten dollars. The big jugs were half off that night. It wasn't the best thing in the world, but it was cheap, and way better than beer. After two jugs, we all decided to get our own drinks. I got an Off With Her Head consisting of raspberries and tequila. Jess had the best drink of the night. Curiouser and Curiouser, consisting of kiwi fruit, possibly kiwi fruit vodka, ginger beer, amaretto, and te taki or somethin another, which is an old magical Maori alcohol. It was sooooo good. Definitely getting one of those when I go back. Anyways, we had a blast there. A lot of laughing going on. Of course on the way home, it started pouring, so Nicole and I figured we should stop at a bar until it let up. Sometime before this, a random guy came up and asked if we knew where some bar was. He continued to walk with us and ended up buying us drinks. Needless to say, it was a great St. Patty's.
The weekend was pretty unexciting. We went down to Te Papa, New Zealand's national museum. It was cool for a while, but after floor three or four, it just got boring, but now I can say I've been there. Sunday brought me a lovely break up, which called for crepes and alcohol. We grabbed some Cruiser wine spritzers and headed to the park to drink at the fountain. This brought on a lot more laughing and an amazing night with good friends.
Tonight was very exciting. It started with date night at the famous pizza place, where we tried a new pizza with buffalo mozzarella. Apparently it is cheese from buffalo milk. Sounds disgusting, tastes delicious. It's all of ours new favorite. Nicole and I then booked our fall break trip to Sydney, Australia!!!! We're going with Jess, who is staying with some family friends, which means a free place to stay! I also found a super cheap flight to Tonga, which is one of the South Pacific islands, for the time in June that I have off. We've been talking about it in Peopling of Polynesia, and I am super duper excited for that. We're hoping to book that one in the next few days. So many things to look forward to. I just wish time wasn't disappearing before my eyes. Until next time...
Kia Ora,
Laura
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