Day 5 – Friday, 20th November 2009 I woke up at 5 in the morning, and noticed that Jeremy wasn’t in his bed. But after I showered and ate my breakfast and I re-entered our dorm room at about 6am, he was already in bed. He noticed me despite my best at trying to keep [...]

So, after four whole months of abandoning my New Zealand posts mid-way, I’m taking steps to rectify this. Opening that little black journal made me dive into my memories again, seeing the emotions eloping through the carefully written words that I’ve written mostly before I went to sleep on a particular day. It’s been wild. [...]

Day 3 – Wednesday, 18th November 2009 I woke up at about 7am plus today to the after-rain wet roads and the sound of tyres kneeling over them. I had previously slept on the upper bunk depicted in this picture, where the Japanese dude slept below, but found it to be inconvenient as I’d like [...]

Day 2 – Tuesday, 17th November 2009 I woke up at 7am without my alarm clock, which I had set the night before initially for 8am, then lazed around in my bed by drifting in and out of sleep before I finally woke up proper at 8.30am. I had the free breakfast here—freshly made bread [...]

Day 1 – Monday, 16th November 2009 The night before, Ethan told me on MSN that he’d send me off and the spat of melancholy that swelled up at the thought of not being able to see him or Desmond again dissipated a little, and I felt a little better. I had wanted at the [...]