first day... mixed bag
i passed through customs and immigration without any issues but my tent was quarantined. they released it after about 5 minutes, though, so i guess the particular variety of american soil it held wasn't deemed deadly.
just as i was leaving the airport, i discovered the free internet. ready to leave again... found the free showers. sparkling clean, unlimited hot water, totally private, free showers. who doesn't need a hot shower after a 13 hour plane ride? hell, yeah!
so i finally made it into the city about 3 hours after i landed, a little after 9a. i stopped to drop my bag at the hostel, and the woman just checked me in. "brilliant! thanks a million!" what the hell is that? yeah, that's what i would like to know. because that's what came out of my mouth, in some awful version of an irish-kiwi-american accent. i noticed it later today too... it's hideous. MUST STOP.
figured out by mid-morning that it's a public holiday here so loads of things are closed, even retail and food service. checked out the da vinci's machines exhibit at the auckland museum with everyone else in the city who wasn't working today. cool exhibit, though.
lots of errands tomorrow and then i plan to leave the following morning, to explore the far north by foot. really looking forward to being a dirty, smelly, hobbling-about hiker again.
just as i was leaving the airport, i discovered the free internet. ready to leave again... found the free showers. sparkling clean, unlimited hot water, totally private, free showers. who doesn't need a hot shower after a 13 hour plane ride? hell, yeah!
so i finally made it into the city about 3 hours after i landed, a little after 9a. i stopped to drop my bag at the hostel, and the woman just checked me in. "brilliant! thanks a million!" what the hell is that? yeah, that's what i would like to know. because that's what came out of my mouth, in some awful version of an irish-kiwi-american accent. i noticed it later today too... it's hideous. MUST STOP.
figured out by mid-morning that it's a public holiday here so loads of things are closed, even retail and food service. checked out the da vinci's machines exhibit at the auckland museum with everyone else in the city who wasn't working today. cool exhibit, though.
lots of errands tomorrow and then i plan to leave the following morning, to explore the far north by foot. really looking forward to being a dirty, smelly, hobbling-about hiker again.
posted by bethany @ 6:45 PM
2 Comments:
At 09:11,
Anonymous said…
happy new year, you dirty, smelly, hobbling-about hiker (hey...it's only what you called yourself, after all). hope you are thoroughly enjoying the land of the long white cloud while the rest of us contemplate the finer points of cubicle paradise.
At 08:03,
Anonymous said…
Sounds like you made it there in one piece. I didn't realize you'd be working while there - that sounds like a great time!
- Abby
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