Free Day, woohoo!

So I'm thinking i'm gonna try to post something every night. mainly for me, cuz i know most of you guys don't want to read every detail that's going on over here lol. just to give you guys a heads up.

We had a free day today, which was really nice. So far we’ve only had a couple hours here, a couple there, each day, but no real block of time to just do anything. Anela and I decided to take advantage of the free time to bike into town and go exploring a little bit. I finally got the money my mom wired down to me. So I have something to live on until I get my cards. So although, I never got the wallet back, I think everything’s finally settled with that. We also went to a bakery in town and went to the dump to get some cheap warm clothes. For only $3 a bag, why not? Lol. But it really is a dump. Kinda weird that you can buy clothes from there – I think it’s like our salvation army, but it’s all at one location instead. We ended up spending 4 hours biking around town, and I was so sore when I got back! Haha I’m definitely not in shape. All the “tramping” (hiking) and excursions we have should fix that pretty quick.

We met in our small groups for the first time tonight. Rich, Nissi, and Emma are in mine and Jess, our cook, is our leader. I think that’s pretty cool. It should be a good group. We’re gonna bake for some of the times we meet – sweet!

It’s so nice just to relax at “home” (i guess I’ll be calling the convent that for the next couple months) and not have to worry about classes right now. We will on Monday. That’ll be rough. But we have student trips before that. Still in the process of figuring all that out, but it should be pretty fun. I think a couple of us are going to go over to Christchurch. We’ll see.

Leah