Auckland

Thursday 7th February

Well I finally arrived in New Zealand, exhausted from the 12 hour flight time and transfer in Brisbane. Plus when I landed it took over an hour and a half to get through immigration. There was quite a hoo hah going on actually as they kept opening new lines but instead of directing those who had been waiting ages they stupidly decided to choose those who had just arrived. However everybodies complaining and shouting didn't seem to help matters (I however restrained myself from joining in) and by the time I arrived at baggage reclaim the carousel had stopped and there were only a few bags left on it.

I swiftly headed to the tourist office to arrange some accomodation for the evening. I was so tired by this point that I did consider staying in a cheap hotel just to get a room to myself but thought if I did I would never meet anyone. Instead I set off for my hostel.

I was put in a room with 8 beds (4 sets of bunks) however only two were occupied and I had no idea when the others would be back but by the time I had a shower and checked my emails Helen one of my roomies had arrived. She was lovely and despite being seven years younger than me we got on great and headed down to the harbour for drinks.

We came back about midnight by which point my other roomie (an Irish guy) had returned but as he was already asleep and left early the next morning I didn't chat to him. Another Indian guy arrived about 4am and left at 9am so we are currently waiting for our next load of roomies to arrive...