Monday, 18 July 2011

My first winter birthday!

It has been a wonderful weekend. I turned 21! crazy i know. My parents called me an adult in an email today- that is a first. Since life is a little backwards here, I experienced a winter birthday for the first time. Also I had school the next day, which is another first: I have never had a school night birthday! Lucky for me it was on a Sunday so I had the weekend to celebrate. My amazing new friends here threw me a party! Soooo sweet of them. They even made me a cake!

Isn't it pretty?? and so yummy! Thanks Sophie!!
So the nursing girls threw me a potluck style party- with lots of yummy food and wine! We chilled for a while and then after a while some of us decided to go out dancing!
Melanie, Sophie, Silvia, me, Marianne, Julie, Zazie
They also decided to go in together and get me a present... I had contemplated doing this before but just the night before had heard some horror stories so was like nahhh... but now I have to.... not sure what I am talking about? ... read my card for yourself:
I'M GOING BUNGY JUMPING!!!! haven't gone yet... but that'll definitely be a post once I do :)
The next day (my actual birthday) was a chill one but great in my book. I slept in (well I woke up for breakfast pancakes which are only served from 8-9 on Sundays), fell back asleep til lunch time. Then Melanie and I tried the bus system to get closer to the water front (like Harbours) where there is a bike/run path. We went for a longer run than planned (7 miles!) but it was a really beautiful day- perfect for running! Then Amy picked us up for church. Amy is in my nursing class here and she is super sweet. Church was great- a big, contemporary service. It was so good to worship God with so many people and thank the one who created me!  After dinner, we went out for burgers... really big burgers:
Yes this burger is nearly the size of my head! It was delicious. :) Do you notice the DOOFER?? It is the cardboard thing I am using to hold my burger- it is a great invention that keeps all the contents of the burger from falling out and my hands clean!
After dinner, Amy (love her!) treated me to cake at this really cool Circus themed cafe called Circus Circus. I got a delicious banana cake (i was sooooo full afterwards). I loooveee banana bread, but had never had banana cake- it was yummy.
Circus Circus

Amy, me and banana cake
So it was a good birthday. And I got lots of amazing emails and facebook messages/ wall posts that I realllllly appreciate! Thank you everyone for your amazing friendship!! Oh! and before I go to bed now- I need to show you pics from the sheep farm! Auckland Uni took a bunch of the international students to Ambury Farm which is a farm with lots of sheep... and other animals. We had a BBQ and hung out Saturday at the farm.
cow really ready to be milked.. pump on and everything!

Zazie in front of the Ambury Farm sign- this is an educational farm which is why they showed us how to milk a cow and...

SHEER A SHEEP!

It was a gruesome process but here is the sheep after his hair cut! I learned to twist the wool into a string of wool too!

Melanie, Zazie and I (see the sheep grazing in the background??) After all, there are more sheep than people in NZ!

I'm pretty tired from a full day of Safety and Quality in Health Care conference which I have another full day tomorrow. It is actually a really interesting conference as I compare NZ and US health care- I've enjoyed it. After the conference, I went to Zumba at the gym! haha and then we had a dorm trivia night. Carlton House won!! (so there is a tower with 8 floors and each floor was a team plus there are 2 houses that are a part of the dorm and I like in Carlton house). We won Kit kats! I ate them dipped in hot chocolate. yum. I also just found out my Medical-Surgical clinical placement for 6 weeks starting August 8th (after theory is finished):  bum bum bum... cardiology! on ward 31 at Auckland city hospital. Good night!

1 comment:

  1. oh my goodness the picture of your eyes behind your birthday card is the BEST. I miss you girl it looks like you're having an incredible time. I leave for Peru in 3 days! Wow. Love you :)

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