I Am Still Alive
6 March 2006I am in Wellington, and have been since the 21st of February. We have been pretty hard-out busy since we arrived and have bought a car, (finally) found a flat (which we sign the lease for on Tuesday) and will soon be sorting out the rest (utilities, credit, tax stuff, credit cards, jobs).
We are still on dial-up. This makes me not like the internet. I know this means I could still write stuff (which I haven’t) but I see dial-up as a good excuse to actually go outside and do stuff. I so far have 5 marks on my Plum of Cuba coffee card and have peeling sunburn. I have been to the summer carnival, driven to almost every suburb in Wellington which so far equates to roughly 450km on the car we got only last Thursday.
Everything is expensive here. I am noticing many things that piss me off that I didn’t notice before I left in 2001. I keep having whinges to my parents who keep agreeing with the things I say, and keep telling me I should write letters to the newspaper. They are very insistent in this. They actually want me to write to the Dominion Post in the hope that my whinges will be published underneath the bullshit editorial section. Of course, I will write my complaints, although perhaps just to the vast expanse that is the Internets.
So far, I desperately miss the world that is not New Zealand. God dammit.
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The world is at your fingertips, don’t forget about that. Nevertheless, it is pretty much our generation that in its attitude does not value print content higher than web content, but returns to value content for content’s sake. Yet most people do just that. It’s been in the paper. Physically there, black on white. Paper creates truth. So if you want to kick some bahookey out there, see you get your stuff out on a piece of dead tree.
“Dial-up shaped this biceps” Ah well. I mean, yesterday I went to the movies (The Weather Man, nice btw.) and on the way managed to win an auction on eBay using my freakin’ GPRS, with a G for glacial, cellphone. Oh the challenges of the modern age.
Yes, Wellington is very expensive. However people don’t want to hear it. Believe it or not we moved here (Wellington) from Sydney and found it cheaper there. We didn’t have a car however. So glad we are moving back there in a month.
I think that it might be weird switching hemispheres (and seasons) suddenly like that. Winter to summer in a matter of hours.
You think Wellington is expensive? Try Queenstown!!
The food, the accomidation, everything – never mind how much I had to pay for a round of golf!
awe, ani, i feel for ya! sounds like being on a teenytiny island in the pacific is alot like living in the boonies, 50 miles from the nearest hint of civilization. so isolated. so secluded. so, when are ya moving again? and where? somethin’ tells me texas is not on your list of possibilities.
My name is Ani as well. Born in Hawaii now residing in San Franciso, USA. I travel to NZ very often and have never been to Wellington but I love Auckland. Perhaps you may want to consider Auckland?