April 14 - 10:30 pm

Excellent day. I hopped on a bus, walked about a half an hour to Tunnel Beach, got there right at low tide. This beach was sooo cooool! The waves were intense and constant. The rock formations and cliffs were awesome. There were two tunnels- one natural tunnel in the cliff that went into the water, and one manmade tunnel which took you down through the hillside to the beach. Not sure which tunnel gave the beach its name. The sun was out, so it felt good to just sit on the beach and listen to the waves, feel the sunshine and the breeze. Explore the area. Very neat. I had to time it so I got back to the bus stop at 3:05 since they didn't have as many buses running on Sunday, so I got back to the city centre right around 3:30. I didn't feel like doing anything else in town, so I went back to Hogwartz. I met a girl in the tv room. Rebecca from Amsterdam. We watched a movie and then ate dinner and played UNO and then watched another movie. She was cool - if I can be sarcastic and joke with someone then I can get along with you pretty well most likely. She was sarcastic and a competitive UNO player, so it was fun. We got another girl - Fabienne from Switzerland to play too. I won most of the games. Even with the weird Dutch rules. Then we watched another movie.
Back in our room, our other roommates were playing "guess each others names and nationalities and ages". It was hilarious. These 33 and 35 year old kiwi sisters, guessing the rest of us. They thought I was either South American or Israeli or Canadian. And when I said I was an American and my name started with a B, they guessed my name was Brittany or Breanne, but ended up calling me Britt Britt even after i told them my name was Bridget. Close enough. Then we played who's youngest to oldest. Rebecca and I got voted youngest. They thought I was 19-20. Then we all guessed the kiwi girls' names and to do that they acted out their names using charades rules. Nancy and Caroline. They were using German accents and making fun of all the German travelers here, and that was hilarious. I would not have thought they were in their 30s. Mid twenties maybe. Anyway, that was another highlight of my day. Unfortunately, Rebecca leaves Dunedin tomorrow, and I've decided to stay here until Thursday, so that's that.