Rest for the Weary

All moved in and unpacked... again. This, to the best of my knowledge (which the past has shown isn't all that extensive) is the last move I'll have to make in New Zealand. It's not all that warm (not many NZ houses are) but there are areas of heat in the house that one could retreat to if their joints were freezing stiff. You can usually find their cat Tailor in these areas. He's pretty skittish and runs away from pretty much anything that moves until he gets to know you. Luckily I'm really good with cats, and he relaxed around me within the first few hours.
Other great things about this house.
have a piano. Finally I can practice more than once a week. It takes a little while to warm up, if you play it too early you get this crazy echo like you're playing it in a giant cave. Neville (enter new host dad, sound applause) said it's because its so old and the capacitors have run dry. I take electronics at school, so I actually knew what he was talking about.
-The food. Siân(enter new host mom, applause) seems to me one of very few New Zealanders who get the whole concept of -ingredients should work together, not independently.
- The internet. Not only have they got it, but Neville and Sian (I tried to do the little thing above the "a" again, but the window just blew up in a shit ton of code, so I'm just leaving it as a normal "a" for now) both work in computers, so they have a real nice, real fast wireless network.
- The parents. Neville and Sian are pretty awesome. First day here and they took me up to Wellington, talking through all the stuff that I had done so far and hadn't (mostly hadn't) and planning on doing this and that. Now it looks like I'm going to be able to see a lot more of New Zealand than Lower Hutt (We were given a survey to do today, you list stuff to do in Rotorua [big tourist town on the North Island] then list stuff to do in Lower Hutt. People listed for Lower Hutt stuff to do... breathe, go to the "dairy" [what New Zealanders call a corner store], get rained on, drown in the Hutt River... in a way, Lower Hutt is a lot like Delaware)
I'm also starting up rock climbing after school on whateverday's. I managed to get a climbing gym membership, climbing shoes, and a harness for just under (or over?) $100 US. Pretty good deal in my book. Unfortunately they were setting up for wednesday's competition when I went so I couldn't climb. While I was waiting for my ride, one of the guys came out and told me that they had finnished setting up and I could get some climbing in if I wanted. My watch said my ride would be arriving in two minutes, so I had to pass up today.