After two weeks in Wellington, I'm starting to get used to daily life here and to the city itself. Wellington is basically 25% cafes, 25% bars, 25% steep hills, and 25% bad weather (up to 30mph winds, no exaggeration). So basically, it's 50% good, 50% bad. Just kidding, I actually really, really like it here. Oh, and there's that whole school thing too... I don't think I'll ever get used to having 8am class three days a week, or the fact that I'm in school during July to begin with, but we'll see. That being said, here are some photos of food, drinks, and clouds, which is basically what daily life in Wellington is anyways!
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| After an 11 hour overnight bus ride from Auckland to Wellington, I arrived to my flat at around 7am and was greeted with this sunrise view out of the front window of my bedroom. |
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| The view from the other window in my bedroom, also a great one! |
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| A cool looking building during the city tour we took during orientation. |
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| Wellington Harbour (yes, it's spelled Harbour rather than Harbor here). |
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| Another shot of Wellington Harbour. |
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| Celebrating our first Friday night out in Wellington! |
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| The view from Victoria University's library. And I thought Geisel had a nice view... |
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| A panorama of Wellington taken from the top floor of the library. |
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| Coffee is so expensive in Wellington! For one, almost no cafes even serve regular drip coffee, so usually the cheapest things on the menu are espresso shots or Americanos, which are still $3.50 for an 8oz cup. So, coming upon this place which was up some random stairs somewhere was really exciting. |
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| Basically, the only way to get by here unless you want to eat PB&J and ramen for every meal (been there, done that) is to memorize when all of the cheap deals are for food and drink. For instance, one place on campus has buy one get one free pizzas on Friday afternoons, making this pizza only $3.50! |
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| And on Wednesday nights, a lot of bars do buy one get one free drinks! |
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| Also, on Sunday mornings there's a farmer's market out by the harbour. I bought all of this for only about $15! |
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| Okay, so this latte wasn't a good deal, it was $4. The happiness I got from drinking it, priceless :) Coming from my job back in California where I could pretty much get free espresso drinks whenever I wanted, it's going to be hard to not spend all my money at cafes. |
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| The view from Hunter Lounge, the place I bought the latte in the above photo, and also the pizza which is a few photos up. I think it's gonna be my favorite place to spend time on campus. Good coffee, good music, good beer, and good views. What more could you ask for? |
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| Finally, the few things I have on my walls. Anyone who has seen my room in Rohnert Park or in San Diego should know that I hate having bare walls, so having just these things hanging up feels really weird to me. Perhaps I'll accumulate more things over the next few months that I'm here (also, if anyone else who's travelling this summer wants to send me a postcard to add to my bulletin board, flick me an email or facebook message for my address!) |
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| BONUS: Here's the route we took on our road trip around the North Island. Hopefully soon I can start adding places to the South Island side as well! |