Weekend gone...working begin

The weekend kind of started on a slacker Friday...feeling like I should have accomplished more last week than I actually did. But, I achieved some of the goals I had set for myself in the settling in process...phone, plans for regular exercise, accessibility of the necessities. The weather has been nice and Friday seemed like an anomalously warm weather day. The wind was blowing from the north. Apparently when a strong southerly is in the works the warm wind blows from the north first... So, I shot a couple of photos on that nice autumn day.

Clocktower building at the University of Otago.

Walkway between the Clocktower building(left) and Geology building (right).

Friday was yummy Indian dinner. Man, the food here is great and the opportunities for delicious meals whether out or in seem to abound.

The rumor Saturday was that it was supposed to snow. We woke up to blue skies but that sharp southerly wind was certainly blowing...imagine the chill of a wind blowing off the coast of Antarctica. Dunedin is nearly the first bit of land that wind hits...serious, but crisp and dry. The front moved in and it did, in fact, snow! That afternoon huge white flakes started tumbling out of the sky...mixed with a healthy amount of rain and sleet. But overnight more fell and we woke up to white hills surrounding the city and frosty white hats covering the bushy plants outside the front door.

Sunday, the wind was even stronger...this poor moped just couldn't take it.


For a final wintery thought...here's a photo of the sky at 8AM this morning. It's the northeastern sky looking across the rugby field that I pass on the way to school.