Break!!!

The semester break is finally here!  Unfortunately for me it started off a bit slow because I had a take home-essay to do that was due this past Tuesday. However it worked out okay because the weather wasn’t that nice and I am still waiting for my student loan to come in. its times like these that you really appreciate the generosity of your parents, for which I am very grateful.

Last semester I went down to the South Island to Abel Tasman, which was very epic, but this semester I a planning on hanging around Hamilton, catching up on some work and getting ready for the end of the year push.  There are still lots of people travelling of course, many of this semester’s exchange students in Orchard Park went to Samoa for a week, which I am sure will be epic. So far the highlights of my break include playing various pranks on some mates around residence, playing my guitar in the sun, and not having to get up for class.

Yesterday was another highlight of the break, strangely enough… I spent a solid 14 or so hours in student village turning a friends hair in to dreadlocks. I’ve never done that before, neither had he, so the experience was definitely a new one. He had bought a kit on the Internet for ‘do-it-yourself’ dreadlocks and with it came instructions. We tried finding more visual instruction (you-tube) but were not very successful… I was also under the impression that it would take no more than 6-8 hours, but really that turned out to be wishful thinking… But! I am happy to say that despite my best combing efforts, when we finished it looked like he has dreadlocks. I don’t know if they will last, but it’s awesome that we made it that far. I would have to say that pizza, some Tui, and a whole lot of scrubs an American Dad were the secret to our success…

I still have a week left of break to go, so here’s hoping the rest of it pans out as well as the first week so far!