Keeping Busy

Beautiful ferry ride

For your viewing pleasure, this is a picture from the ferry ride taken on my way into the south island. It was much nicer in real life - undoubtedly the best ferry ride of my life.

Anyway there are a ton of things that I have to think about, do, plan, and prepare for. Here's a list of what I can come up with off the top of my head of things I'm planning to do:

Get in touch with University of Otago
Organize transport to the university
Find accommodation for staying there
Send my computer battery to USA to be replaced
Decide on a track for the first hike for the next 3 days
Finish packing for the hike
Get a hold of a proper map and compass
Buy batteries, food, and trash bags for tomorrow
Call car rental agencies to ask about prices
Figure out transport to my second and longer hike
Determine transport back to Christchurch
Book a spot for black water rafting
Ship a bunch of things home

This is as much as I can remember. There are many more things I have to do but I can't think of them right now. All of these things to do are quite important but the most urgent plan (that I didn't even mention) is sleeping and I'm going to get working on that one pronto.