Long Couple of Days

I'm now in Christchurch in the South Island and tommorow will be going down to Dunedin, the city, I hope to make my home and finally meet my contact at the University of Otago. Today has been a very long day, because I thought I had lost my class ring, and I had about an hour before I caught my ferry, but the other girls in my room in the hostel were asleep. So I was searching in the dark and worrying, but I had a sense that it wasn't totally losted. In the end, I left contact information and the hostel and started travelling. Today, I took a ferry across the Cook Strait and a train about halfway down the South Island. A really beautiful journey, but I didn't enjoy completely, because I kept feeling where my ring should be. Finally I arrived in Christchurch and totally unpacked my little bag and my toilet kit and found it. The first time I felt relaxed all day. I let the hostel in Wellington know I'd found it and had a nice Indian dinner. Now its a matter of figuring out where I'm going to stay in Dunedin while I look for a job and a more permanent place to live. But I can breathe again.

Wellington was wonderful, its a great city with some awesome museums and I even tried unsuccessfully to flirt with the guy behind the counter at the hostel, very cute but I was so tired from travelling and walking, I didn't know what to do. One downside was I had to sleep on the top bunk the first night and the hostel and it was an icky metal bunk bed and I banged my knee. I really liked Wellington and its a city that I can't wait to go back to, but next time with friends to enjoy it more and go on the Lord of the Rings tour. I think I covered just about everything I can think of, today was a long and stressful day, because the whole time, I was worried about where my ring was. Its one of the few pieces of jewelry I wear all the time and it represents Randy-Mac and I just didn't feel complete without it. But I have it and now I'm ready to face what comes next.