So Friday night was slightly random.. My friend Susan who was here a couple of months ago – when she was up in Wellington gave my phone number to an American – Benjamin, to look up when he got to ChCh (she said he hadn’t met too many people over here). So at 4:30pm I got a call from Benjamin (who I’d quite forgotten might call – it has been 2 months..) and anyway, was wondering about hanging out.. There was a table quiz on in work – and so brought him along to it. Nice enough guy, though agrees with Bush’s decision to get out of Kyoto ‘cos it’s not fair that the Chinese aren’t bound in the same way. I said a few things along the lines of ‘well %age wise there are quite a few more of them..’ and ‘at least it’s a start’ and other things.. but it did all seem to come back to ‘Them and Us’ a lot. I did try to say something about ‘actually we all have to live on this planet…’ hmmm, anyway, what can you do.
The weekend itself was fun, the otehake hot pools. A trip I heard about when I first got to ChCh, and have wanted to do for a long time. A pretty cruisey 4 1/2 hour (leisurely – twas a biggish group) walk in. Quite a few river crossings etc.. and then soaking in hot pools..
having wine + cheese etc. Excellent place though, could smell them from a mile away (though Jonathan said it was just Daves’ caving wellies he’d walked in with!) There’s a lovely campsite on an island in the middle of the river. There’s cold river water running down one side, and thermal water on the other, so it’s easy to regulate the temperature of the pools.
My new flatmate (Till – German – climbs 8a+) came along, good fun guy.. and then when I got back to ChCh – two college friends (Anna McHugh + Jackie Foster) arrived.. hardly seen them since I left college.. they’re staying for a couple of days :)
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