Week 7 at Uni

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Monday - Friday, April 19 - 23, 2010

On Monday evening I got my Nexus Cluedo Assassins packet under my door. Everyone in the building got a player card with their name on it, and a target card with the name of their victim. To kill someone, you need to find them alone and tag them, then you inherit their target card and try to kill that next person. The goal is to kill as many people as you can before you get killed. The game started Tuesday morning and ended Friday evening. The whole week, people were getting killed like crazy left and right. Everyone has been extremely paranoid, trying to stick together in groups and running as quickly as possible through the stairwell so as not to be caught alone.

Rules of Nexus Cluedo

On Thursday, the city lost power from 3:20 until 4:30 pm. The news said it was cut from Lambton Quay to Miramar, including Island Bay, Hataitai, Newtown, Mt Victoria, and parts of Lower Hutt. In other words, a huge area! Something I found online said it was caused by an object falling onto live equipment at an electricity substation.

Google map of power outage

Power outage in city

And for the last of the Nexus news, the fire alarm went off just after noon (from someone cooking) on Friday, and apparently there was one around the same time on Thursday. At least they stopped it and told the fire department not to come. I guess this makes up for the two weeks everyone was gone over break and missing out on the alarms?


Saturday, April 24, 2010

Heather and Raizel came over, and we headed to Te Papa. We ran into a lot of AustraLearn people there, everyone went because the Pompii exhibit was ending Sunday but we heard so many mixed reviews we decided not to spend the money on it. Walked around the museum for awhile then headed our separate ways. A bunch of people later said they saw Jermaine and Brett from Flight of the Conchords by the waterfront near Te Papa.

A Cannon from James Cook's ship, found in the Great Barrier Reef 200 years later

Kiwi Birds of NZ

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Woke up at 4:45 am and left at 5 with a small group going to the Wellington cenotaph (war memorial) for the Anzac day dawn service. Anzac stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, and is similar to our memorial day. There were masses of people headed in that direction. The service started at 5:30 with a band marching to the cenotaph, a gunshot, and a bunch of important people marching down the street. The rest of the event was a lot like a church service: a lot of speeches, hymns and prayers, and singing the national anthem at the end. It ended at 6:30, when it was just barely starting to get light outside. The cenotaph was open to walk into after the service, and it was also finally light enough out to take photos.

Line into the cenotaph after the service

After the Anzac day dawn service

A taste of home: Celestial Seasonings tea in the grocery store!