Home again..?

We made it.
The flight was uneventful, actually. I slept for almost the whole thing, and didn't even have time to watch a movie or read more than a chapter of my book...Which sounds boring and all, but was actually quite an accomplishment for me. I'm not usually a very stress-free flyer ;)
And Dunedin...? Beautiful.

 We're an hours walk from town into Andersons Bay (I know because we walked it twice in the last two days before figuring out the bus schedule...), a lovely suburb of rows of brick houses with leaded and stained glass windows, white picket fences and cute little garages..Each house unique and vibrantly painted, set against huge rolling green hills and the beautiful blue pacific ocean.

 The centre of town itself is small and full of character. Feels like a combination of Nanaimo and Victoria, actually. Besides Dunedin having Noodle Hut instead of Noodle Box, chemist's instead of pharmacies, and everyone driving on the wrong side of the road, I could pretty much convince myself I was still in Canada. The similarities far outnumber the differences, so far.

We spent the entirety of Thursday afternoon and all day yesterday sorting out all kinds of boring things like insurance, bank accounts, student IDs, visas, and cell phone plans. Not very exciting stuff, but we got the see the city at least and learn our way around.
 Today was spent running around the farmers market in the pouring rain (yes, its summer here, and yes, so far it rains just as much as Ucluelet), and wandering around our neighbourhood appreciating how small the world seems with free across-the-world-calling and the same pacific ocean we left at home right outside our door.

ALSO!!! :
 TWO MORE SLEEPS. TWO MORE SLEEPS. TWO MORRRE SLEEEEPS!
 Haha. Is it ok to be this immature when I'm going to be in a bachelor of midwifery program starting in just TWO MORE SLEEPS? Maybe I just need another glass of wine...Don't worry. I'm only a LITTLE excited ;)

 Hopefully the pictures work, I'll be adding more soon.
xo
Kait

PS...Our landlords who live upstairs have a 9 yr old nephew who is over visiting often...His name is Caleb and he has ADHD and is completely off the wall bonkers, and an extremely cute little kid. He's decided that he adores Steven, who refers to him as "little dude", which, due to his lovely Canadian accent, makes Caleb fall over into a fit of giggles. I figured this was cute enough to mention..Caleb thinks Steven sounds like spiderman and that he thinks Canada is the coolest place to live "EVER!".