From there, it was a three\/four hour bus ride to Dunedin. Dunedin is actually pretty big. The city center (a.k.a The Octagon) is only about a 15\/20 minute walk from my flat**, but the residential areas sprawl a bit. I am on a slight slope, but there is a huge hill right past my flat so I\u2019m thankful I didn\u2019t end up on the other side of it. It\u2019s about a 10 minute walk to uni*** depending on which class I\u2019m going to and it\u2019s been really fun exploring all the building at the central campus (they have buildings, property, and classes out and about the city). The University of Otago<\/strong> has a wide variety of buildings that don\u2019t necessarily match each other like Rollins does. They also have a few 10-story buildings, which had me confused at first when finding my classes. Here, they call the first floor the ground floor and the second floor, as it is the first floor above the ground floor, the first floor. So my 3rd floor classroom is technically 3 flights of stairs, not two. I ended up just taking the elevator the first few weeks.<\/p>\n The first weekend we were in Dunedin, TEAN took us on a hiking trip through Unipol, which is the university\u2019s gym\/recreation center. They have trips students and non-students can sign up for like hikes, bike rides, rock climbing, etc. and even rent out gear for those trips or for your very own tramp****. So, they took us out to the Otago Peninsula<\/strong>, which was so cool. We got to see Lover\u2019s Leap (sad but stunning landscape) and Sandfly Bay<\/strong> (there were seals!) and had a \u201cSausage Sizzle\u201d where they had a small portable grill, cooked the sausages, and put them on bread. As I do not eat pork, I had a vegetarian sausage on a slice of buttered bread. It actually wasn\u2019t bad, but I was still glad we had plenty of apples.<\/p>\n I also got the chance to look at some glow worms, go to Tunnel Beach<\/strong>, view Dunedin from Signal Hill<\/strong>, try a fancy doughnut at No. 7 Balmac, visit the Steampunk Museum<\/strong> in Oamaru, and see the Moeraki Boulders<\/strong>. Not to mention I live across the street from an entrance to the Botanical Gardens.<\/p>\n Well, I\u2019m off to Wellington in less than two days in order to head up to Levin to visit some family friends in the north island, so I\u2019ll cut my blog here so I can pack. Only two and a half months left of this incredible country. Hope you enjoy the [unfiltered!] pictures below!<\/p>\n *Means \u2018have life\u2019 or \u2018be healthy\u2019; a common M\u0101ori and Kiwi greeting Kia ora!* I have spent an incredible two months in New Zealand so far. It honestly doesn\u2019t feel like it\u2019s been two months and I do miss home, but not as much as I thought I would. It\u2019s mid-semester break right now, and still cold for a FL girl. So let\u2019s catch up shall we?…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[69,136,249,313],"class_list":["post-11427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-otago","tag-studyabroadrollinscollege","tag-dunedin","tag-new-zealand","tag-study-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13811,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions\/13811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n***short for university; most people say it down here
\n****going on a long-distance walk through wilderness; moderate to severe hiking and\/or camping; or just a trip somewhere that probably involves part of the above two definitions (i.e. backpacking, etc.)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/3-Snow-e1535347016726-279x300.jpg\")
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