hi guys. i'll do a better recap later. i'm so bad at keeping a journal when i'm not in a crazy developing country. new zealand, eh. that's where i've been for the past two weeks. it rains every day. summer my ass. i've done some cool shit that i'll describe later, like skydiving, bungy jumping, sailing, trekking, swimming in mud pools and hot springs, seeing tons of waterfalls, etc. i am quite anxious to get back to australia though. i go back on friday morning, it's tuesday night now and i'm in queenstown. it's too touristy and expensive here, but the last few cities i've been in have had all white people food and i lived on cheese slices and sliced bread and muesli bars. even an apple was too expensive. my poor body hates me, and with good reason. i hiked the franz josef glacier yesterday and today my quads are so freaking sore. i can't control the direction in which i walk and i get that horrible wobbly feeling in my knees and legs.

also they have raspberry diet coke here. it's bloody unREAL! with 2.8 calories per serving it's better than vanilla coke, which i thought was god's gift to the earth. and why is raspberry coke available in new zealand and not australia or the US?

paying for internet is such an idea. now i'm dying for a raspberry diet coke and i went to check the fridge here and they don't sell any of it, not even diet coke boooo. ok time to limp my ass out of here because my bedtime as a backpacker is 10.