Wellington's wild weather

 I would firstly like to apologise for the photos, I didn't take many  this week so these are off my ipod.
Wellington has been serving up a whole range of crazy weather this week. Beautiful sunshine on Wednesday led me to believe Spring was finally here (as can be seen in the photo to the left - view from where I clean), but all hopes were dashed by Friday when a huge thunderstorm hit and reminded me of the joys of living in a metal box. For the past two days we've had pretty much constant torrential rain which has frequently soaked me to the skin.

Despite the crazy weather I've had a great week. Tuesday evening some friends and I made use of the two for one deal on desserts at 'The Library' (not quite as studious as it sounds) I had the date and ginger pudding with roasted rhubarb, very tasty! Wednesday was the study abroad quiz night, we didn't do so well (17/20). I was in a team with Matilde, Rica and mine and Rica's kiwi buddies. Despite our failure at popular culture we had a great time.
Thursday I met up with the south island crew and we looked through our photos which led to us deciding to plan a short trip round the North island before we go our separate ways.
Friday night was the big storm so Matilde and I stayed in and I taught her how to make apple crumble; not as good as Mum's but still good comfort food during the torrential rain!
As the rain continued into Saturday plans of visiting the Botanical gardens were abandoned and a group of us instead took refuge in a coffee shop and learnt about our various countries. (Spain, Germany, the US and the UK).
Spent Sunday catching up with work and then watching Harry Potter at Bob and Alice's; was nice to hear British accents again :)
It seems strange that people in the UK are now going back to uni, makes my time here seem more permanent. Was nice to be able to have a group skype with my house mates back home; I think they should hang the ipad on the wall so I can still participate in flat meals :)
I feel like I've really settled in to a routine here now but there's still so much excitement and many adventures to come!