Update

Yo!

Lauren told me I don't update enough so here you go :

Last night I went out for my friend Julia's birthday. A group of us went to an Italian cafe down Franklin St (main st of Chapel Hill). Although I only had gelato because Simone and I had been at the Agora (the dining room at Granville) at the seafood night. It happens once a year and the entire dining room was full of seafood .. I felt like such a man with my crab legs.. you literally have a crab that you break apart and suck the meat out of like crayfish. It was so good.

Tonight I am going to my friend Ashley's house with Tal, Amanda and Camille to cook a homecooked meal! We are so excited haha.

Today I booked tickets with Knic to go to NYC in November and spent the afternoon doing homework.... boo.

I am also looking into going to Jersey to go to Six Flags theme park with Talia and Knicole... look up kingdaka on youtube.... it looks insaaaaaane. Mum you probably shouldn't look at it haha.

I am still having lots of fun :) update me on what's going on at home!

Love Pip xx

Where I Live

I thought you may be interested to know where I am living at the moment.

First off, I am in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.. which is probably most famous for the movies Dirty Dancing, the Notebook and the series One Tree Hill. Mostly, it is famous for NASCAR. I have a sweet NASCAR lanyard for my keys... lanyards are cool here.


This is my room

My side of the room

Amanda's side

Of course, Amanda and I are the tidiest people you know so the room is always spotless. I actually couldn't ask for a better room mate - we get on so well and have the same habits!

I went through Uni the other day and took some photos for you - unfortunately it was the first cloudy day in a long time so it doesn't look as nice as it usually does - it was 16deg celsius and everyone was shivering! I laughed when I logged onto facebook and saw updates from Invercargill from people saying how excited they were that it was going to get to 14deg!

Walking through Frat Court - the frats were "pre-gaming" as there was a football game on

Looking back into Frat Court - the big building at the very back behind the trees is my tower at Granville towers

Carolina Inn

Some of Campus - I walk down here to get to class usually.

The military building - it's not uncommon to see the army training around here. At every football game we have to stand up and honour the army as well.

The mascot at UNC is a ram - this is outside the football museum

Waiting for the football game to start against Virginia - we won! Tar...Heels!!!

Your standard dress code at UNC

Nicole alone in "the pit". This is usually packed full of students during the school week, libraries, stores and dining halls surround it.

This is one of the buildings I have lectures in - Hanes Hall. The buildings are all named after slaves that built them - their graves are behind my friend Claire's dorm... slightly creepy.

Flagpole in the middle of campus

SQUIRREL!

A fancy building.. I think it's a library

The Old Well

A cool looking church on Franklin St (the main st)

Looking down the main street

Rameses the Ram pops up everywhere on Game Day - You also have to wear a game day tshirt or else you're shunned haha

Our friend Eryk got into the media pit with his camera at the game and shot some really cool photos like this one

Our tower at Granville - we are on the bottom floor

And so that's my life here in NC summed up in a few photos - I'm off to Miami for fall break and looking into a trip to Cancun in Mexico with the girls from my floor sometime in November. Time is going so fast!!!!

Hope you are well

x

I'm Alive!

Hey Everyone!

I survived Hurricane Irene (as you may have seen in the Southland Times hahah) and have been having so much fun here in Chapel Hill.

So what has been going on?

A lot of drinking to say the least... it's just like being back at Arana in first year all over again haha there is a continual flow of alcohol all the time because everything is so cheap here.

 

 

 

 

All for $80

 Our nights have been hilarious I've met some of the coolest people from all over the world.

I had to go to the local farmers market for an assignment the other day - it was really nice to be able to see some fresh veggies and eat some bread that wasn't full of sugar! Here is proof that I actually got up early enough to attend....

We had our first football game the other day, it was so much fun! We played some cornhaul and stuff at Granville then made our merry way down to the stadium! The stadium is huge!!! Bigger than the Roaring Pen or whatever it is called now. Everyone's families and friends come to watch the game - they are so patriotic about their home teams here. There are shops everywhere and you can buy tar heel anything! - salt and pepper shakers, undies, socks, toothbrushes - you name it and it's probably in carolina blue.

I'm not too sure if these photos are going to work or not but let's hope you can see what I have put up.

Bit of some scary news... Brad from my floor got beaten up at the ATM the other night - which is scary because it is 100m from Granville and in a well lit place. They took his wallet and he had to go to hospital and get stitches but the lovely Amanda and Talia went and picked him up and looked after him. He's a tough cookie and will be fine though. I'm definitely in America now....... sometimes I miss how chilled out NZ is but I'm not homesick at all :) .

I'll leave you with an epic picture of American Frat styles.....

No words. Just pure brilliance.