i want a pet koala

ICC recovery

this past weekend, the 10 colleges at Uni put on one last party before summer break begins. students were bussed to a random field filled with jello pools, bouncy castles, and an open bar. the theme was "childhood cartoon characters." it was a beautiful, sunshiney day until i decided it would be a good plan to wrestle with toni, a 6'6'' dutch/croatian friend. after a visit with the paramedics, a trip to the ER (while covered in beer, food dye, body paint, barefoot and dressed as a carebear), and some excruciatingly sore triceps thanks to my newly-acquired crutches, i have decided that wrestling was a bad idea. at least i'm tan again.

my carebear crew

i was daydream bear

toni and me before the destruction began

starting to get covered in food dye. (for some reason, it's tradition to spit food dye on each other at these events). how awesome are my sunnies?

joost and me. yup, that's a huge streak of green paint across my face.

while waiting with the paramedics, kim decided she needed to listen to my heart. so, she grabbed a stethoscope (and my boob) and went to work. shortly after, she tried to grab a scalpel.

better late than never

some belated new zealand pictures

we got stuck in 3+ hours of standstill traffic. meg threw a solo dance party. it was a highlight:

queenstown was rainy and foggy. but i'd still live here:

this is maybe christchurch. but it's from a hot air balloon:

the moeraki boulders were weird circle-y blobs:

it didn't matter where in south island we were. life was gorgeous:

this is what we look like inside fox glacier:

this is our staged snowball fight after a day of snowboarding:

this is what my hot air balloon looked like from above:

this is christchurch at sunrise. that's the moon:

milford sound was just as good as people told us it would be:

snow in june at lake tekapo. and my awesome tiger hat:

new zealand has an ungodly number of sheep:

i decided to jump out of a plane from 12,000 feet:

WHALES!

we went whale watching for a day over spring break. it was amazing. it took all my will power not to jump in and go swimming with them.

more snapshots

the semester so far in snapshots