notes from the road

As in what’s been going on the past 2 weeks.

some things have come to fruition though…

- I crocheted a scarf and gloves : )

- I’ve made travel plans that will see me through to the end of May. I’ll meet up with the crazy German boys while I’m in Aukland mid-April and then travel around the South Island seeing all the sites o’ interest with an awesome German girl named Carolina for the month of May. So there’s that.

- Then there’s always a bit of the same old, same old ya know – meeting people from around the world and sharing our ideas, philosophies, and thoughts about the purpose of life. Ha. Yeah, something like that : )

SIDESTORY

To preface…

Picton

2 hostels

The Sequoia Lodge, where the German boys are and where I stayed the first stint here

The Villa, where all the girls are and where I stayed the second stint

The Villa girls are quite taken with the Sequoia boys and some friendly mingling and then some has gone on.

As all girls, the Villa girls tend to be DRAMA.

So conflict ensues. He slept with her, she said that, she kissed him, he said this, and so on.

On occasion, I have found myself awkwardly caught in the middle between the 2 groups, since I’m the one person who kind of hangs out with each.

(Welcome back to junior high folks. Although to be honest, I have found that this kind of crap really never does end, regardless of age.)

The story…

It’s dinner time and the girls are talking about the boys and I make a very casual, innocent (or so I thought) comment about one girl always flirting with one boy (who just happens to be kind of seeing another girl who was at the Villa, but is now traveling elsewhere in NZ.) Sooooooo, this girl adamantly denies that she has ever flirted with this guy (yeah freaking right), gets quite angry, the table becomes silent, this girl throws her glass of water in another girls face, and the table remains silent. Drama.

I suppose this is what happens when you have so many travelers staying in a small town for such a long time.

Good old Picton.

Tomorrow morning I head to Nelson.