Hello Friends!!
It's been a few weeks since my last blog so I'm ready to update again! A couple weeks ago the New Zealand National Rugby Team was in town playing South Africa. Unfortunately, the All Blacks lost the game in the final minutes but it was a great game to watch! People go NUTS here for Rugby and especially for the All Blacks. People traveled from all over the South Island to see the All Blacks play here in Dunedin. Central City was actually blocked off for the game, concerts were being played in the street, and big screen TV's out in the middle of town. A group of us went to a local pub to watch the game and it was great!
Between weekends just catching up on some work. I'm currently reviewing about 3000 article abstracts to include in a systematic review I will be writing up and hopefully submitting for publication this December/January. Between reading the abstracts and fighting the New Zealand internet which is a dinosaur at downloading things, you would be amazed at how long this actually takes me to do! I'm also working with the Dean of the School of Physiotherapy on another project as his Assistant Research Fellow so that it taking up some of my time as well.
Doesn't take up too much time though because this past weekend a bunch of my mates and I traveled over to Wanaka for some snow skiing!! First time skiing in New Zealand and it was beautiful. They are due for some more snow and the mountains aren't as high as the Rockies so it's more equivalent to East Coast skiing where it can get a bit icy!! However, the views are spectacular and you are looking down on the glacier filled lake from the top of the mountain. Did 2 days of skiing and will be going back a few more weekends in the next few months.
Cheers!
It's been a few weeks since my last blog so I'm ready to update again! A couple weeks ago the New Zealand National Rugby Team was in town playing South Africa. Unfortunately, the All Blacks lost the game in the final minutes but it was a great game to watch! People go NUTS here for Rugby and especially for the All Blacks. People traveled from all over the South Island to see the All Blacks play here in Dunedin. Central City was actually blocked off for the game, concerts were being played in the street, and big screen TV's out in the middle of town. A group of us went to a local pub to watch the game and it was great!
Between weekends just catching up on some work. I'm currently reviewing about 3000 article abstracts to include in a systematic review I will be writing up and hopefully submitting for publication this December/January. Between reading the abstracts and fighting the New Zealand internet which is a dinosaur at downloading things, you would be amazed at how long this actually takes me to do! I'm also working with the Dean of the School of Physiotherapy on another project as his Assistant Research Fellow so that it taking up some of my time as well.
Doesn't take up too much time though because this past weekend a bunch of my mates and I traveled over to Wanaka for some snow skiing!! First time skiing in New Zealand and it was beautiful. They are due for some more snow and the mountains aren't as high as the Rockies so it's more equivalent to East Coast skiing where it can get a bit icy!! However, the views are spectacular and you are looking down on the glacier filled lake from the top of the mountain. Did 2 days of skiing and will be going back a few more weekends in the next few months.
Cheers!
Go All Blacks!
The view of Lake Wanaka!!
Treble Cone Ski Field
Treble Cone Ski Field 2
1 comment:
lex, sounds great! hope you had a great time with your family a few weeks ago!
we're praying for you,
susan (and adam)
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