Happenings

Time for a brief update!

Unfortunately the weather and the uni workload haven't been playing the game this weekend, so the tramp didn't go ahead :( We've re-scheduled for a few weeks time- during uni holidays- so that's something to look forward to! Shenanigans still shall ensue.

Friday was the second UC ForSoc bbq which was, by all accounts, an extremely messy event. I arrived at 14:00 and had a few beers. It was a calm scene; venison mutton and tahr on the spit, yarns being spun and beer was flowing. I took a walk back across the road to grab a swannie and returned to find an all-out food fight in action. Spuds, bottles of tomato sauce, miscellaneous meat; all flying through the air, over the flat, into the wary crowd on the other side. At some stage a bloke took offence to getting a spud to the face and a brawl erupted, but was quickly quenched. After all of that silly behaviour had calmed down, it was time for round two.

I had noticed earlier a suspicious looking blow up pool in the far side of the back yard (far too cold in chch to be required), which was about to come into its own. Two girls lost a bet to a couple of guys and jelly wrestling ensued- the pool had a whole lot of KY jelly in the bottom. The girls were shortly joined by a whole lot of randoms getting tackled into it, with well-dressed people being the prime targets. I was safe in my swannie!

Then some bloke climbed to the top of a 15m tall silver birch to chuck a road cone up there. That was pretty cool.

So despite missing out on tramping shenanigans, I feel like I've still filled my quota for the weekend! Time to get back into the grind ^_^

>> Photos! :D https://www.facebook.com/forsoc.canterbury/media_set?set=a.668247949907196.1073741830.100001659902057&type=1 

Shenanigans shall ensue.

Through the last couple of weeks at uni we've been flat out with assignments, which of course means I've been doing A LOT of procrastinating. It's not all bad news though! During one particularly productive procrastination session I planned out an excursion in Arthur's Pass. About an hour west of Christchurch along SH73 there's a sweet little loop heading from the highway side up the Cass River valley. The walk is largely through beech forest following typical South Island freshwater streams. Hopefully we don't have a lot of this rain this week, or the stream crossings will get a bit hairy! (shout out to Heather, Becky, Emily and Scott - RIP dry clothes).

We're planning it to be a good effort, with at least a full car of us heading up. A good stash of bevvies is on the packing list too, so that should keep things interesting. It'll only be a matter of time before someone ventures out for a late night nudie dip in the stream, I reckon. We'll be staying in Hamilton Hut - a 20 bunk mansion of a hut! I've included a link to photos and topo maps of the area, if you're interested.

I'll try and get a few photos of my own to chuck up here when we get back.

That's all for now! :)

Topo map of the loop: http://www.topomap.co.nz/NZTopoMap?v=2&ll=-43.085815,171.680604&z=12

Photos:
http://www.deanmyerson.org/files/photo%20archive/foreign/nz2009/nz09%20061.jpg
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In Brief

Why not start a blog with a question? [dry?]

Why start a blog at all? Because I think that my experiences and thoughts will be common with someone elses, and hopefully they will find it entertaining or otherwise interesting! I hope to make this a blog full of photos and updates which reflect what's going on in my life, a highlights reel so to speak. Having said that, I wouldn't promise it to be the most spectacular, most mind-blowing or most influential blog ever. But I digress- it could be cool.

More coming soon!