A week of catch ups

A slightly less busy week than last week... for once I didn't actually take any photos; thought I'd just pop this iconic Wellington photo on here which I took when I first arrived.
For the past week my facebook wall has been filled with photos of people exploring this corner of the world; from bungy jumping in the north Island to skydiving in the south or from swimming with turtles in Fiji to walking the Sydney harbour bridge, it looks like everyone had a fantastic time. As the title of this post suggests I've spent much of my time catching up with both people and work this week.
Whilst all us international students were off making the most of our time in this amazing country it turns out many of the Kiwis actually used the holiday to catch up on some work.
You may be wondering by now, if you've been reading my blog, whether I actually do any study on this 'study abroad'; do not fear, much of this week was spent catching up with the work I had neglected over the holidays. I'm finding my course out here very interesting; the geology side is great, much more hard core than back in the UK. The statistics on the other hand is not so tough, a welcome break I guess.
In between working I spent Friday evening at Kim's having a pizza and film night, then on Saturday I was invited to Strawberry Fare, a dessert restaurant, for a guy from my geology classes birthday; it was a good job I had been warned not to eat before going as the banoffee pie I had was enormous and very pretty and tasty.
So yet again the highlights of my week appear to be food related; now to go get ready for my meal with the south island crew tonight...