Day 18

Today was a pretty great day! I spent the morning trying to figure out if I should travel to Thailand or Fiji, and the afternoon figuring out that I might not have the money to spend on either. I did, however, pay for two weekends of diving with the Underwater Club for just under $400. I’ll be going to The Poor Knights Islands in April and the Bay of Islands during the last weekend in March. I’m SO excited about seeing these phenomenal places! Our spring break runs from April 8 to April 26, so I’ve got a lot of time to explore the south island as well as do some more local diving. I also met a girl tonight, Jordan, from South Carolina, who is going to get certified next week and then she really wants to dive with me. I’m super excited to get to know more scuba divers!

Some strange foods for the day: at breakfast they served creamed corn- which is not my idea of a good breakfast! For dinner they had sausages in gravy with onions, which is also something I could live with never eating again! They sound good, but they just aren’t! They also often serve cauliflower in like mustard sauce with eggs, kind of like potato salad. It’s not bad! I must say we eat either cauliflower like I just described, or pasta salad, or potato salad, or coleslaw every single day! They also serve salad (sometimes just lettuce).

I only had two classes today, one of which got out early because the fire drill went off even though there was no fire. In my second class, my teacher’s watch was wrong so she ended up letting us out five minutes late, which plenty of students complained about. One thing predictable about all college students around the world- they know exactly what time they get to get out of class!

Njeri had her computer fixed by a boy in International House, so as a way to repay him she made him a Chocolate Coma cake, and then she made cupcakes for the rest of us! They were: chocolate brownie with white chocolate chips on the bottom layer, nutella (which is hazelnut spread you can get at the supermarket) in the middle, chocolate cake on the top, and chocolate ganache (which is a mix of milk chocolate, dark chocolate, cream and butter) as the frosting. They were amazing! Then we all shared the bowl that held the ganache by dipping various items into it, such as apples, popcorn, pretzels… Overall a great evening!

Now as I’m posting this there’s strange opera music coming in my window… not sure if someone is listening to it or singing it!