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Yet again, this week was not very exciting and yet again, I am going to start out by talking about the weather.  Most of the week we had nice weather but yet again today it is windy.  I was not as glad about the wind today as I was last week.  I did do some more cooking this week but it went a lot better.  Today I made chocolate chip cookies.  The cookies turned out really good and yummy.  On Friday night I went to another Operation Friendship dinner.  The food was good and it was nice to hang out the families and other students.  After the meal, we did a quiz in 6 teams of about 5 people.  There were four categories, NZ, history, sports, and food.  Doing the quizzes I learned a lot of new and interesting information, James Cook was the first explorer in NZ, the NZ women’s soccer team is known as the football ferns, and in curling the target for the stone is thrown/slid to is called a house.

My papers have been going well.  In my psychology paper we are now learning about Freud.  For the last lab we had a friend, I had one of my flat mates, write two stories about two pictures we showed them.  We then analyzed the photos.  It was fun to be doing real psychology things but the analyses were not very accurate.   In my maths paper learned about Markov Algorithms.  I am enjoying this paper more and more as the weeks go by.  This past week in my CHCH paper we had a group discussion about the helping readings we did.  One of the main question we talked about different types of helping are and if we are able to judge different types of helping. In my geology paper we are now talking about volcanoes and the hazards along with those.  For this class we had a workshop all day this past Saturday.  It was long but interesting.  In the workshop went over the key points about earthquakes and the alpine fault.  We then split into three groups, one for each of the key industries on the west coast (tourism, mining, and dairy).  In the groups we discussed what would the priorities for our industries if there was a large earthquake along the alpine fault.  The second part of the workshop we were in groups with representatives from each of the industries and we discussed the priorities for everyone.  We now have to write a report, which will be hard but fun.

Since I do not have any pictures from the things I did this week here is one of a bird that I saw.  If you know the type please let me know.

This next week will probably be more of the same stuff, studying and going to lectures.  There have predicted snow again here for tonight and the next couple of days so we will see if that happens.  I am not fully sure when I will be posting next on here, hopefully before Sunday, because I will be flying up to Wellington on Friday and heading around NZ for the mid semester break.  Until next time have fun and smile.