Sport and Party Challenges

Hey guys,

Sorry for the long break... The last weeks were quite busy and I couldn't find time to write about my trip to Tonga. There will be a post in the next days - promise! So this post is mainly about my hiking trip to Wanaka. It was challenging, but awesome. We were 5 people, two from Sweden, one French girl and Daniela from my home university. So again, the European group is exploring NZ.

Wanaka is a small, but very cute city in the western part of New Zealand. So it took us around 3,5 hours to drive there. The city is very known for its hiking trails and for skiing. So the perfect destination for us as we wanted to do a hiking weekend. For Saturday we decided to do the Roys Peak Track. It is a 6-8 hours return walk with an altitude difference of 1500 meters... So I can tell you: It is suuuuper steep!!! In the end we needed 6,5 hours, what wasn't bad for my sportive condition... I just realised that I really have to do more sport... "This condition is not acceptable with 21..." was the only  thing I was repeating over and over again during the 6 hours... But hey, we made it! And it was such a satisfying feeling to reach the top - sweaty and completely exhausted - but I can tell you the view on top was all that worth it.

Wow, I was completely overwhelmed. This is typical New Zealand: Mountains, a huge lake and the weather was perfect as well (almost a little bit too hot). So all in all it was a great experience and I went to bed at 20:30 this day... I assume I am getting older.

On Sunday we were planning to do a longer hike as well, but the weather wasn't good - so we just hiked (or as the Kiwis would say tramped) for 1,5 hours to a great Wanaka outlook and spend the rest of the day in Puzzling World.

Puzzling World had a huge maze and visual illusion rooms, which was heaps of fun. So I would say it was a great alternative... Especially for my legs, which were quite sore after the huge hike on Saturday. After that we drove back to Dunedin.

This weekend was then more the Party challenge. My flat mates and I were giving a house party with the theme 90er in Friday!!! I loved it. We decided that we will dress up as the Spice Girls.... What do you think? Did we do a good job ;-) ?

Totally hangover on Saturday (defenitly to many keg stands!!!), but hey next party on Saturday evening as we were going to a concert of NZ bands... It was awesome. But again - I am getting older and on Sunday we were all just relaxing at the beach and sobering from the weekend.

So the last two weeks where a good mix of sport activities and partying... But now exam are coming nearer and I have to start to prepare for them. As said before there will be a longer post for the Tonga trip - as you really have to see some pictures and stories of this amazing country.

Bye guys!! Xoxo