Baby Carrots!

Woolworths has baby carrots! And the celery made it safely back to the flat.

Buses are still confusing though, and so is getting across the street. I always look the wrong way when when I try to cross roads here, and I keep trying to be polite and walk on the right instead of walking on the left. Only I end up almost running into people - which is not so polite I suppose. Then there's the sun - for some reason, there's a hole in the ozone layer (or some other scientific reason) that causes the sun here to be extremely powerful. It's strange putting on sunscreen every morning. I'm trying my best not to get burned - but the other day I wore SPF 55 and still got a little pink!

Today I endured enrolment. Basically, enrolment for international students consists of waiting in lines, getting everything checked and rechecked (passport, address, visas, insurance, payment, etc.). Thankfully, IFSA-Butler handled all of that, so it didn't take me as long as it took some other people - only about three hours. At the end, I recieved a precious reward: my Canterbury card (ID). However, it takes 24 hours to process, and I'm losing patience. I'd hoped the University would be more helpful - it's difficult enough not knowing where anything is, and not having a card (which allows entry to things and access to internet, buildings, etc.) only makes it harder.

Enrolment also involved registering for classes. Unfortunately, Wake requires that I take four classes even though the classes here are weighted according to level and most students only take two or three papers (courses). At the moment, I'm way overloaded here - but I'll just barely be a full time student according to Wake. When I checked my email (internet cafe, again) I discovered that the political science department already decided not to approve one of the classes I just picked! So I've got to go back and look up some more classes. Other than that, I'm signed up for 18th Century Novels, Pakeha (white europeans) Prophets & New Zealand Christianity and beginning Latin.

That's it for today. I can't take any more of this internet cafe - today there was a screaming baby (instead of cursing schoolboys playing computer games). At the moment, I'm thinking that I might be able to put up pictures on Friday. So, cheers, or see ya (that's what all the people say here - even if there's no chance at all that you'll see them again - though I hope that is not the case here!).