Photo competition!

Not too much going on, just going to class and trying to study. It's SO difficult to find the motivation to study, but starting tomorrow I'm really going to give school the attention it deserves. Honestly, that's the reason I'm even in this country- to learn.

I've gotten heaps (Kiwi saying!) more out of traveling than I ever got out of a class so forcing myself to study rather than go on wonderful adventures has been really difficult. This weekend I have the option to go diving or to visit the Nikau Caves, which is about an hour and a half from Auckland where there's a 1 kilometer long cave with glow worms and incredible stalactites hanging from the ceiling but I might pass up both in order to focus on school! Next week I have a test that's 20% of my geography grade and a test that's 50% of my logic grade.

I'm also thinking about entering a photo contest that the university is putting on, with the top prize a brand new beautiful SLR camera, I just have to take pictures on any of these themes: 1) campus moments, 2) learning landscape, and 3) holidays. I'm SUPER excited to enter!! I can only enter two photos.

I'm thinking this first picture that I took at the Poor Knights for the "learning landscape" photo, as the girl in the photo is about 12 years old and her first dive after she took the certification course, so for her the dive really was a learning experience. For the "holidays" photo, I'm thinking about using the picture of our campervan at the Gisborne beach.