Classes and Better Things. Like Trains.

My classes:

Geology 112: Dynamic Earth: a NZ perspective

Maori 102: Maori Society

Psychology 204: Race, Justice, and Class

History 212: USA to 1900

Even though there are only four classes, there are lectures AND tutorials, which means more class time. Basically I'm going to be really busy.

On to better things...

Last Friday the University of Otago hired out an entire Taieri Gorge Train for all the international students. We took the train out into central, rural Otago and had a "BBQ" by a ravine. I put BBQ in quotes because the Kiwi idea of BBQ doesn't quite match the American idea of a BBQ. And Kiwi BBQ sauce is really sweet, for those of you wondering. Which is kind of ironic because for the first time in my life I want spicy food because I'm always cold. (Hey, Dad, is that why you never get cold? Because you put red pepper flakes on everything?) Regardless, the BBQ was very fun and absolutely beautiful.

Dunedin train station. Second most photographed building in the southern hemisphere.

Liz, Sara, and me outside of a train car in the station.

I wish there was some way for me to truly explain what it was like to be on the train. All the scenery, no matter how much of it I saw, it still always looked like a backdrop, like something that was painted. Honestly, it was so unreal. 

And even in Dunedin, if you look down a road, you can see a hill and its always beautiful and still totally unreal.