WARNING: LONG POST.
Cleaning my room out takes some epic effort, guysers. I got home today at 4pmish and I was like okay I'd better do this thing because I don't want to leave it for too long. So I shoved a whole bunch of clothes into a bag (upsetting clouds of dust as I did so, because some of it was buried at the back of my closet) and dumped them in my mum's room for sorting. And then I cleared the top of my desk, which meant another rubbish bin bag (one of those huge green eco ones). So my room is slightly emptier.
I still have to clear out my desk drawers and pack for England, though. I have to make a list of all the things I want to take. Granted that wont be much. I'm only allowed 20kg of stuff on the bus to Auckland & the plane to London.
So yesterday was pretty cool. And so was this morning.
Arrived at James' house at around 11.30AM. Played cards. Drank a lot of fizzy. Listened to music. Jess taught some people how to play 500. It's an epicly fun game. We played for hours yesterday.
The best part, though, has to be Thursday night. We took a little walk down a trail at the back of James' house, which involved some ditch jumping (Keryn got a gumboot stuck in a mushy part. Good times :D). And then when that trail ended we climbed a fence and walked through a field of what I'm guessing is someone's crop. By the end of it the legs of my jeans were covered in yellow plant matter, which thankfully came off later when we walked through some long grass.
So, some more fence jumping led to a huge field, scattered with big old trees. James- of course- climbed right on up. We took some photos of us like that, gathered beneath this huge branch.
We soon realised the presence of a patch of stinging nettles. Luckily for me I had closed shoes and jeans, but Jess M wasn't so lucky :/
We moved on, down along some trees, through a gate and over a barbed wire fence, and finally into a little paddock, presided over by a very, very tall tree. Three horses- all quite tame- watched us as we explored, and ran when some tried to pull a large fallen branch from the tree.
We walked back a different way.
As soon as we arrived James' dad offered to take us to the glow worm cave, so I put my (now green and brown) shoes back on and hopped in the back of the ute.
I think that standing in the back of a ute with friends, with the air and the countryside streaming past, hanging on for dear life and shouting with joy is something that every Kiwi kid should do. It really was so great. Keryn, Ben, James, Cecile and I stood at the back of the cab and hung onto a bar as James' dad drove us down farm trails (and into the occasional pothole) to the glow worm caves. We swung from side to side as we drove through the night, finally arriving windswept and smiling.
We hopped out and climbed over yet another fence using two logs for support, and dove right into the trees. It was quite dark by then, so we had torches (bike lights, really), which we most certainly would have died without. The ground was covered in large rocks, therefore quite treacherous, and there were lots of branches that we had to climb over and under. I got a good scratch under the eye at one point, and more than once I slipped. Flaag slipped pretty bad at one point, too. She was walking behind me and I heard this cracking noise and a sliding and I turn and there's Jessica, sitting half on and half off of a fallen tree, feet through the undergrowth.
And then someone said "look at the lights!" and I realised that we were walking among the glowworms. Little dots of light- blue light- littered the walls, the rocks surrounding us. As we walked they became denser, as did the forest. More and more trees had fallen, and more rocks were there to be clambered over. By now my shoes- grey "sneakers"- were covered in green and brown, and there was an entire forest in my hair.
When we finally stopped walking (really we'd only be going for ten minutes) we'd reached a point where glowworms littered the walls like stars on a clear night. Keryn and James climbed upwards while the rest of us stayed on more solid ground, looking at the little things up close with our bike lights.
Eventually we walked back, and James' dad drove us to the house.
It really was amazing.
Monday-Friday of this week has been the best. I'm so glad I got to see at least most of my friends before I leave for Auckland on the 8th. I'm lucky to have such incredible people as friends. :)
This has been quite long. I hope it didn't put anyone off reading it :/ I don't think I'm back to writing as much I used to, back in February and stuff, when I wrote a blog post a day- or more!
Haha. I'd better go to bed. I have a drama production tomorrow... :)
<3 xx
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