New Zealand day ???

Sorry future me for not updating my blog. A lot of shit has hit the fan - but on the bright side, it's splattered on the wall in front of me and is starting to form a faint outline of the mona lisa. Let me explain.

I quit my job. Yep, it happened. The reasons behind my departure are actually quite simple, but I figure a lot of people reading a summary of my reasoning will probably perceive me as a stoned hippie with absurd idealistic values versing a big bad evil corporation. So what the heck, I'll save you the time:

Me: WTF duuude? You're like totally squashing my freedom maaan. I'll leaving broh.

Society: I can't let you do that, Matt. You will work 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday, and society will love you for it.

Me: C'mon maaan. I wanna do what my heart tells me I should do. I'm not, like, benefiting from being here. Ya know?

Society: College. Job. Family. There is no other way... submit, Matt. You have no choice.

Me: *smokes a doobie* That's all opinion man! I don't fit in here, dude. The skills I have, you don't want, and the skills you want, I don't have. I'm done, broh.

Society: What about your future? What about money? You need it to survive.

Me: Yes and no, broh. Yes... and no.

Ok, I hope that made just a little bit of sense. The reason I'm not in a 100% pure state of panic right now is because things are still looking up for me. PhD entrances occur every month at UoA, I've found a job as a Math tutor and I'm optimistic that I'll be able to get some more work as an Acoustic Lab technician at the University soon!

Now that I've done the book keeping, let me go into some detail about what I've done recently.

I just came back from a 7 day camping trip to Rotorua. There were 5 of us; two Germans, 1 Italian, an American, and whatever I am. We did an amazing hike around lake Waikaremoana. It's mean't to be a 4 day hike, but we did it in two. It was extremely rewarding. The views were phenomenal and the company was great. I loved it. In the other days we did small hikes, saw waterfalls, and toured caves n' shit. Sebastian (my ex roommate) is currently in Australia so we used his car to drive everywhere. The car was in bad shape to begin with - now it's just a metal sheet balancing on 4 wheels. The engine is super inefficient, the window wipers both broke, there were missing seat-belts and the side mirror fell off. If the car was a transformer it would transform into a wheel chair. This trip was a good opportunity for me to tour some more of the New Zealand country side. I'm still blown away at the mountains here - they're all so green and oddly shaped; it's as if gravity works differently here than any other country. I'll post photos on Facebook soon.