Happy Christmas From New Zealand

It's Christmas Eve

Santa should be leaving the North Pole soon! : )
Going to track him on NORAD! :D

Almost Christmas

Me Christmas shopping in Wellington getting the last of the vegetables and food in the supermarket -

Earthquake!

Well I got an early awakening this morning with a 5.8 earthquake! I was sleeping in bed and I got wakened  with the bed jolting backwards and forwards. I was a bit confused at first because I was asleep when it happened but it was a bit creepy- the building was creaking and making weird noises! Luckily no damage! : )

Got My Final Results For Term 1 In New Zealand

Got my last result for my first term in New Zealand - A+ for Environment And Resources: New Zealand Perspectives. I'm so so so happy because I found that module really difficult because of the intense New Zealand and Maori content that people already here obviously already knew and most of the time I felt as if I was doing environmental law. 

So overall for this term that makes - A+, A-, A-, B-  Really happy! : )

More Results!

Got another result for overall module mark - got A- for Physical Environmental Processes Field Methods!!!!!! And a B- in Statistics for Natural Science.  I'm really happy! : )

Planning My North Island Trip

I'm planning my trip around the North Island trip. So many places to see - where to start? :)

The Hobbit World Premiere

Wellington has been going really crazy for the Hobbit over the past few weeks - today it went really crazy! It was the World Premiere of The Hobbit film and I was lucky enough to get a great place on the red carpet to see the stars, get some great photos and even some autographs! Five and a half hours standing in the sun was well worth it!

 It was such a hot day! The sun was really beating it down. I went down at 1:30pm and was lucky to get a great spot near the start of the 500m long red carpet! It was really good and got to see the stars arriving also there were nice people beside be, especially a New Zealand lady and her son - who got all the stres to come over! :D (Only not nice person was a man who pushed me out of the way and stood infront of me with his kid! SO RUDE!)

Air New Zealand air stewards were dressed up with capes and ears giving out cards with Air New Zealand's special Hobbit decorated 777 plane on it. Hats were also given out but I didn't get one  :(

Hobbits dressed up walked along the red carpet. They were really great and even had the hairy feet!!!! They were really small too!

People in the building opposite made a banner saying "Marry me Gandalf once its legal."

Director Peter Jackson

Director Peter Jackson was the first to arrive on the red carpet. He seemed really friendly and spent a long time signing autographs. He was wearing dirty hiking boots on the red carpet with his suit!

Martin Freeman

Martin Freeman didn't seem so friendly at all....

James Nesbitt

James Nesbitt turned up and strolled right past everyone! He was the one person I really wanted to get an autograph from since he is from where I'm from! Really disappointed Jimmy!

Andy Serkis - Gollum

Dean O'Gorman

Stephen Hunter

William Kircher and Graham McTavish

Elijah Wood!!!

Adam Brown

John Callen

Jed Brophy

Peter Hambleton

Sylvester McCoy

Cate Blanchete

Barry Humphries

James Cameron

John Key - NZ Prime Minister (signing my poster with my pen!)

Me at the red carpet really sunburnt

Red Carpet

My Autographs

Hobbit Fever In Wellington

Wellington is getting really excited about The Hobbit World Premiere! There's so many things going on and the city has re-named itself "Middle of Middle Earth". The Embassy where the world premiere will be has a huge hobbit house and Gandalf statue outside along with a countdown to the day.  

There was also a Hobbit Market, which had stalls from people who worked on the film, it was really cool but really expensive! So I didn't buy anything there!

Showing how the costume and make up was done

People making a huge dragon from clay

The Hobbit Market

Outside the Embassy 

Wellington - "The Middle of Middle Earth"

Countdown to the day!

Outside the Embassy

Me at the Hobbit Market with friends Anik and Fenty.

Moved To A New Place

Finally moved out of my old room to a new one - not in a long corridor with 30 people! Moved to a lovely apartment (in the same hall of residence) with my Indonesian friend Fenty. It's really huge, has its own kitchen, living room, bathroom and most importantly - a TV! My bedroom is really great, has a big bed too, love it. I can cook all I want, when I want and its pretty quiet, and luckily I'm with a friendly people - unlike before. 

View from my room window

Living room with lovely sofa!

TV! It's sooo big!

The kitchen

Solar Eclipse!

This was by far the best thing today! There was an almost total eclipse of the sun! I walked up to the Carter Observatory and bought a pair of solar viewing glasses to watch. It was so great! The moon moved across the sun and the sun just became a slim crescent in the sky. There were so many people watching it was brilliant. 

You could really feel how cold it got when the moon

 covered the sun. A lady had a colander and when the sun went through the holes in it, it cast lots of crescent shapes - you really could see the moon blocking the sun! (I didn't get good pictures of the eclipse. :( ) Australia got to see a full eclipse which was so cool looking. 

I can't believe I got to see one - I'm so happy!