Felt my first earthquake...

 It has been noted that much of my time is spent talking about food; I feel that this is necessary when living in Wellington where there are more cafes per capita than in New York city.

I've just returned from Wellington's buzzing water front market where cheap(er) fruit and veg and all sorts of tasty food is sold amid a fantastic atmosphere.  This week Matilde and I bought some proper NZ yams and Tamarillos; both very tasty, especially the yams when roasted. Another great market in Wellington is the night market on a friday evening where there is an array of different cuisines, we went here for pudding after our sushi and got the most amazing cake coils; shown in the picture above.

To the right is the view from Mount Victoria which Matilde and I climbed on Friday afternoon, the weather's been much better over the past week so the walk was fantastic with amazing views across Wellington.
As mentioned in the title of this blog we've been experiencing some earthquakes, the most recent reached magnitude 6.5; bottles fell over and I actually dropped under my desk for that one! It feels like I'm constantly on moving train with all the aftershocks.
At least all these earthquakes are useful for my course, I get to really feel them in action.
I've now started my courses here at Victoria; my first class was 'Petrology with Microscopy', it was strange to feel like the new girl again when everyone got into friendship groups for the lab, luckily everyone here is really friendly so I was ok. 

To the left is a photo of most of the VIX (Victoria exchange) group at the bush walk and BBQ on Saturday. Here we are grouped around an 800 year old tree, we also visited a waterfall and played some man hunt which brought back childhood memories.

Preparing to go to Rotorua with Ricarda and Matilde next week, should be fun.

I'm still loving my time here in Wellington and I aim to have visited all the coffee shops here by the end of my year!