Week 10- How not to use a fire extinguisher

Having not spent more than a weekend away from the city before the break I didn’t really feel like I was missing out too much but now that I have been away for an extended period I very much wish I wasn’t back in Auckland! Once I returned from rafting on Sunday evening it was head down straight away trying to finish a coding assignment in a language that I hadn’t used before that was set the day I flew to Christchurch and was due at 1pm on Monday. I managed to scrape something together and submit it but as I had spent all my time doing the assignment I hadn’t had time to cook or shop so I only had a box of raisins for lunch. To make up for this, once I submitted my assignment, I went grocery shopping and cooked myself a roast pork dinner with roast potatoes, fried veg and gravy for dinner.

On Tuesday, it was back to normal with classes with no major excitements until I went to the pool session for kayaking for the first time in a few weeks. Thankfully I could still remember how to roll and I even progressed to rolling the kayak with just my hands. I’m excited to finally get out on white water now. I spent most of Wednesday studying for a test that evening. When I checked my phone after the exam I had a missed WhatsApp call from an Irish number. When I got home and rang back I was delighted to hear the sound of my granny’s voice at the end of the line. We spoke for about half an hour and it was the highlight of my week.

On Thursday I was lucky enough to be invited to dinner with Jack and Clare. Clare cooked a wonderful feast for us and it was great to share some of my photos and hear all they had been up to. Jack has now finished with classes at school with just exams to go. As I was talking to Clare about some of my plans for the summer the sound of Jack playing the piano came from the living room and we couldn’t help but stop and listen. On Friday morning, I had a safety briefing for the use of one of the labs and this was also the source of the lesson of the week this week. One MUST know the locations of the first aid kit, fire extinguisher and defibrillator in the lab but we don’t have to worry about knowing how to use them. This stuck me as an odd concept but I suppose trying to beat a fire into submission with the fire extinguisher is better than trying to beat it into submission without the fire extinguisher.

This weekend was a Frisbee weekend again (and also an election weekend but, apparently, nobody won and they don’t currently have a government). I had trials on Saturday morning and then, once I was clean, in the evening I went to a playground with Julian and played on the slides and zip line for a while before heading to the bars down at the docks where we looked at some of the boats worth several million before heading into an Irish bar and listened to some live music. On Sunday I woke up at 9am and was amazed that I managed to sleep in so long. Then when it got to lunchtime and I wasn’t really hungry I knew something was up. I looked at my phone and saw that it was different to my watch. Embarrassingly, it took me far too long to realise that the clocks had gone forward an hour for daylight saving! I had two Frisbee games as part of the winter league that afternoon. The first, a quarter final, we won by 1 point and we then unfortunately lost the semi-final by 2 points. A tough way to end the week but the sun was splitting the stones and I was with good friends.

I didn't take any more photos this week so the photo is from UniNats at the start of the break.