My first adventure!  Granted, it was only about a 10 minute drive away from the center of the city...but it was gorgeous!  It's a big sight-seeing spot.  You can see most of Dunedin from up there.  

It was our first adventure as a flat.  We still are missing one flatmate, but the car only seats 5, so it worked out perfectly.  This was a great first place to go.  It helped us get oriented and see an overhead landscape view of our new city.  

I am a time traveler!  No, it was not because I hitched a ride in the TARDIS.  It was because I left for my first flight in America around 5:30 pm, and arrived in New Zealand two days later at 5:30 pm.  The total hours I spent traveling though, was 29—not 48.  

The best time travel moment was when I took the 12 hour flight to New Zealand.  I left just as it was getting dark…and when I arrived, it was still dark for about another 2 hours.  That’s 14 hours of darkness.  According to the map, we literally were flying with the night.

Anyways, let me give you a few tips and tricks about travelling with some of my stories in between.  

*Warning* This is a long post.  

I really love this quote, and I try to live by it.  Basically, it means to eat a big breakfast, a decent-sized lunch, and a small dinner.  I highly encourage snacking in between, especially between lunch and dinner.  If you are anything like me or if you are some of the lucky people that I have lived, you know what it's like to have a fast metabolism.  Eat dinner at 6...come 11:00, you're starving.  Many of my friends have heard my rather angry rants at midnight when I am in desperate need of food.  

Hey!  I'm Enjolie, as you probably know.  Well, this semester, I'm going to be going abroad and studying in New Zealand.  For those of you who have never heard of New Zealand or aren't sure where that is, here:

That purple circle on the bottom right is New Zealand.  I'll be going to university at the bottom of the South Island.  To get an idea of what New Zealand looks like, just watch the Lord of the Rings movies, The Hobbit, or the old tv shows Hercules: the Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess.  The entire country is gorgeous, so you can expect plenty of unbelievable landscape shots.

I'm planning on travelling as much as I can, and with each adventure, you can expect a wonderful blog post about each one - maybe I'll even throw in a few posts about my time in France a few years ago (that's what the wonderful cover photos are from).  And you can probably expect an excursion or two to Australia!  

This blog isn't just about my travels, though.  It's also about food.  Wonderful vegetarian food: that I cook, that someone cooked for me, or that I order.  Plus, if I cooked it, I'll be sure to put up the recipe!

My summer usually consists of one thing: camp.  My study plans, unfortunately, made that impossible, so instead I have spent my time cooking, organizing, packing, and yoga-ing.  I set out with the goal this summer to be able to do a headstand before I left for New Zealand.  My wonderful friend taught me the pose the day before I left school.  I have worked on it everyday since, and got it about 3 weeks ago.  So, every time I accomplish one difficult pose, I will attempt another.  Right now, I am working on - through a series of other poses - a split.  Its not technically a yoga pose, but I am using poses like pigeon and forward folds to increase my flexibility.  

Finally, this is a place for me to be me.  I might nerd out, talk yoga, obsess over food, or completely brag about my travels (let's be honest, New Zealand is pretty brag worthy)...but this is just a way to share, besides on Facebook, what I'm up to down there!