It’s Friday, it’s 1.30pm and I’m finally lying in a bed! I can’t stand up because I feel like I’m going to fall down, I don’t want to sleep as I need to get adjusted to my new time zone. This is a weird feeling, I feel completely wasted!! I am so confused, my belly wants dinner when it’s breakfast time. I still can’t get my head around the fact the leaves are turning brown and falling off the trees. Two winters in a row, am I mad?!I had 3 dinners in a row because of the time zones. I really need to sleep, I’ve never felt this tired before. I’m tired but I don’t think I could sleep!! I must stay awake.
My flights were great, four separate flights altogether, first one was just over an hour, second one was 11 hours, third was 13 then one more flight of an hour!! I had 5 foot of space in front of me from Heathrow to Auckland with no one at either side of me. Was pleased to get in and out of LA quickly though. Met some cool people on the flight from all walks of life going to all manner of places. I couldn’t get my head round crossing the International Date line westwards, I lost a whole day somewhere!! I left Aberdeen at lunch time 2 days ago, that’s mad. I started to finally brick it two hours before landing in NZ, all that planning and looking forward to leaving my old life!! I got off the flight at Christchurch and thought to myself ‘What now?!!’
I couldn’t get into my bed until 1pm so I’ve been for a wee wander about, put my money into my new bank and got myself a NZ sim card. There’s such an excellent atmosphere about the place and it feels so laid back and chilled out, everyone smiles and says hi. I can’t believe how helpful everyone is, I feel pretty much settled into the NZ way of life and already decided I don’t ever want to leave!!
That’s all I can tell you so far really, I’ll book some wifi and get a new blog organised to post this up on. I am going to shut my eyes for an hour first though!
Just wanted to tell you all I made it alive. I feel so chilled and I’m already pretty sure I’ve done the right thing!!
Update: My new roomie Karla came in and saved me from falling into a deep sleep which was great as that was the last thing I wanted to do!! She seems great and is also on her own, we went for something to eat and wandered about to get our bearings. We came across a fantastic bar called Cartel’s, highly recommended. The NZ wine was going down a treat, we were sat outside a in a lovely lane with blue fairly lights over the top, sofa’s and a log fire outside and big rugs. There was a band playing Country / Folk music and the lassie sounded like Norah Jones. It was just so nice and chilled for our first night in NZ. Headed back a bit tipsy and met our other new roomie Anita. By this time I was shattered as I hadn’t been to bed since Tuesday night in the UK and this was now Friday night!! We all yapped for a bit and I took a couple of sleeping tablets as my mind was alive but my body not!!
A huuuuja! Let me be the first! Hurra for Lynners! My god lassie, div they ken fit they've let themelves in for by letting you in! And no, you;ve not been lucky so far, they are all that friendly! Gotta go get some ZEDS, glad its going well for you! Hey if the sale goes thru, we'll be there in no time too! Lucky bastard!
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