Tekapo!

Is awesome so far, and I've hardly seen any of it yet! The hotel's OK, but enough of work, the main thing is I have my own room with a TV that works and is in colour and has more than 2 channels!

The bus to Queenstown was OK. 6 hours on a minibus, not much more to say than that. Shiny awesome scenery but I'm like 'ah, whatever' now when it's all huge mountains and bright blue lakes out of the window. Gets booooring. But I felt so provincial or summut when I got to Queenstwon. So many people! And shops! And metal boxes on wheels that move! I were quite giddy.
The hostel I stayed with was really, really bad, even though I had a room on my own. If you like to not sleep, slam doors and have fleas on you then do stay at the Bungi Backpackers. If, however, you are a normal person who likes sleep and no bugs in the bed, then don't. Ever.
Mooched about the town for a bit on Monday night then wandered into a cinema and saw Australia.

OH

MY

GOD

it was awesome! Really really really really really good and exciting and awesome and even Nicole Kidman wasn't annoying as usual. And also, Hugh Jackman. That's all that needs to be said really.

Got up quite late next morning as I was knackered and got the bus to a shopping centre so I could go the the Warehouse for cheap toiletries. It's like Matalan's and Wilkinson's cheap bastard love child. Was going to go on the gondolas but I didn't really have time so I mooched some more and moseyed around the gardens by the lake. Saw Australasian grebes and got mugged by ducks for my Subway.
Got the bus at 3, took 2.5hours to get here. Very different on this side of the alps to t'other. Very flat and hardly any proper trees. Like Arizona or summut and just as hot.

So far I really like Tekapo. Spent last night outside with some of the other staff, quaffing beverages and whatnot. Work was OK this morning, had fish nuggets and chips for lunch (I don't have to cook!) and now I'm off to mooch about and explore the shiny lake.