Hi, it's Sean!
Hey mates, I'm starting to get sorted here in Dunedin. My flat is shared with two girls (oy vey!), a Norwegian and a German on 19 Montgomery Avenue, Dunedin, New Zealand. Feel free to give me a ring at my landline: 0064 3 477 9798. The first four digits are the country code, the 3 is the area code, and the rest is my number. I would call you guys but I only have folks' cell numbers, which are quite expensive to ring, even with a calling card. If you don't feel like calling me e-mail your landline number to rule21@gmail.com and I'll give you a call, it's only 7 cents a minute for my calls to the US or Australia. Megan, where are you? Call me, please.
O-Week (orientation week) is kicking off in Dunedin. That means drinking a lot of piss. You'll find pissed rowdy students every night, every street. I've seen quite a bit of bottle breaking and a furniture burn. I've even witnessed quite a few stumblers on the streets before 2pm. Every night as I drift off to sleep absolutely knackered (what I really mean is pass out with my clothes half off) I can hear a nearby party still raging. And yes, they have Jagermeister here.
Friday night went to the Carisbrook Stadium, a.k.a. "The House of Pain" for my first Otago Highlanders rugby game. You can only imagine, let me tell you. So classic. Blue and yellow face paint, roaring, Highlander capes, BEEEEER! Energy. We crushed the Blues from Auckland. Smashed em. Guess who else got smashed...
All my classes are sorted so it looks like I'll be taking 3 anthros, a Maori studies course (you know the people who were here before the Europeans), and a film 101 class. Choice!
Meeting heaps of cool people from Godzone (NZ) and the rest of the world.
Like I said, give me a ring. If you're in New Zealand, put a 0 before the 3 and drop the international code. Peace.
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P.S. - I forgot to mention that the time here is GMT+18:00. That means that you all on the East Coast of the US are six hours ahead of us, yesterday. Get it? Ha.. So just call me in your evening, actually, let's be more specific, any time between the hours of 3:30 p.m. and 1 a.m. EST and you'll be safe from waking me up in the middle of a piss-induced stupor. But like I said I'd be happy to call you, just give me a landline.
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O-Week (orientation week) is kicking off in Dunedin. That means drinking a lot of piss. You'll find pissed rowdy students every night, every street. I've seen quite a bit of bottle breaking and a furniture burn. I've even witnessed quite a few stumblers on the streets before 2pm. Every night as I drift off to sleep absolutely knackered (what I really mean is pass out with my clothes half off) I can hear a nearby party still raging. And yes, they have Jagermeister here.
Friday night went to the Carisbrook Stadium, a.k.a. "The House of Pain" for my first Otago Highlanders rugby game. You can only imagine, let me tell you. So classic. Blue and yellow face paint, roaring, Highlander capes, BEEEEER! Energy. We crushed the Blues from Auckland. Smashed em. Guess who else got smashed...
All my classes are sorted so it looks like I'll be taking 3 anthros, a Maori studies course (you know the people who were here before the Europeans), and a film 101 class. Choice!
Meeting heaps of cool people from Godzone (NZ) and the rest of the world.
Like I said, give me a ring. If you're in New Zealand, put a 0 before the 3 and drop the international code. Peace.
::Edit::
P.S. - I forgot to mention that the time here is GMT+18:00. That means that you all on the East Coast of the US are six hours ahead of us, yesterday. Get it? Ha.. So just call me in your evening, actually, let's be more specific, any time between the hours of 3:30 p.m. and 1 a.m. EST and you'll be safe from waking me up in the middle of a piss-induced stupor. But like I said I'd be happy to call you, just give me a landline.
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posted by Sean at 18:22
2 Comments:
Sounds fun. Calls are way too expensive from here though. Keep it up.
I have been to 2 soccer games here which is the CRican equivalent to your rugby smahsing. Futbol or soccer is a fairly clean game with out much smashing. In less your in the stands. Alcohol is prohibited within the stadium for good reason. Police search upon entry, line the field in riot gear and have about ten men on horseback outside the stadium. After a goal at one game, a few ligistas came over to the herediano section where I was routing. The heredianos did not take the mockery too well and decided to smash the ligistas. All out brawl. The cops in riot gear turn on my section of heredia fans and charge upwards into the stands. I make a quick escape. lots of smashing, even kids, and people being trampled by horses. I heard that the main official at the World Cup wants to permit marijuana smoke to make the environment more safe. I understand.
oh my god rob. my experience of otago rugby was that all the smashing occurred on the field, not off. but yes there was a bit of a presence as 99 percent of the people in the standing section were drunk off their asses. i'll get around to e-mailing you soon buddy. peace
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