Made it to Auckland!

Hello World!
I'll start off this little blog by saying I'm rather fond of the Southern Hemisphere. I have yet to observe water vortexing clockwise rather than counter-clockwise (or "anti-clockwise"); my experiences in Auckland have made other differences in orbit more relevant.
For example, when crossing a traffic circle, cars are moving clockwise, so they are therefore coming from the right. As for normal roads, I tell myself drivers are going to be on the left side, so I look to the right first, but I cannot for the life of me shake my intrensic desire to look left as well. Whenever I cross the street I look like I'm watching a freakishly fast tennis match.
Getting here was fairly uneventful. I crossed the international date line, which was exciting because I hadn't done it before, but at the end of the day it just brought about the end of the day faster than usual. I'm pleased that I was able to shorten my February by about 21 hours this year, which is already an appropriately abridged month, given its deppresing weather and semi-silent 'r'.
Nothing much to say about the photos for this post... I was just getting back my "shutter legs" and trying out some panning shots. I snapped a few while we were losing our minds of boredom at the airport, a few on the bus, and then a few in Tirau (where they apparently have a fascination of making large animals out of corrugated steel). We (Autralearn students) went straight to Rotorua for orientation the day we arrived, but I'm going to post those seperately since I'm working out the logistics of blogging and don't want to deal with lots of files at once.

That's it for now,
Cheers!


--David