Some updates so far!!

I can not believe it has only been seven days since I arrived in the Auckland airport. This past week has been one of the longest of my entire life. It may have to do with fact that I have fit more into a week than most people fit into a year, or perhaps it's the fact that since I've been here I haven't been able to sleep past eight. What ever the case, I've been productive and I like it. Quick update on where I am now? Right at this very moment I am sitting in the child's section of the local library. Local meaning a small surfer town on the western side of the north island of new Zealand. Raglan is the name, beauty is the frickin game. It's the most beautiful spot here. Simply incredible. While all of new Zealand has been stunning at ever turn and breathtaking at every new sight, as soon as I stepped on the black sand beaches here, and checked into the CUTEST backpacker joint, I knew I would be spending more than a few hours here. So four days it is. But, let me rewind a bit... I flew into new Zealand on the 1st of may, took the 45 minute shuttle into downtown Auckland and stumbled out of the bus with no inkling of a place to stay or what I would be doing for the next 27 days. As walked down the crowded streets of Auckland I stumbled into Nomads, a well known hostel that I ended up staying at for two nights. There, I met two girls from Canada, and a boy from Holland, all of us with one goal in common, to see the most of new Zealand for as cheap as possible. So, in the course of two days, the boy bought a van named Oscar, the girls bought a cooking stove and some utensils and I learned to read a map. We headed out on twisty highways to the hot water beaches of cathedral cove. cooking dinner, drinking beer and learning details about each others lives that I don't even know about my closest friends, slowly, we zigzaged down the east coast, stopping at hobbiton, where lord of the rings was filmed, more and more beaches, one crazy night in Hamilton and finally here, where I realized that as much as loved traveling with a group, I wanted to experience the thrill of striking out on my own. So, here I am. Learning to surf and playing soccer with some new German friends, planning my next big move and in complete shock that it's only been 7 days.