Entry 6

Well I wanted the next blog to be from Dunedin, and here I am.  I'm currently sitting in my room at LivingSpace Hotel.  I move into the flat tomorrow. 

The flights were pretty good on the way down, aside from the noisy children.  I sort of blocked them out anyway.  My mind was on other things so it was easy to ignore the background noise.  It's quite incredible how quick it is to get to (almost) the bottom of the South Island. 

I had a brief look around Dunedin city centre.  It is really pretty.  The architecture is very English, which I love.  The Octagon is crazy small!!!  I'm accustomed to the Square in Palmy, which is actually pretty big, well it's definitely bigger than the Octagon anyway.  There is a really beautiful Cathedral on the Octagon, it almost made me want to go to Church...almost.

I managed to glimpse the tallest street and I've decided that I must have Vertigo.  It had never occurred to me before but I've had issues with really steep things before but looking at the street made me sick!  So I think I may avoid that.  The Cadbury factory, on the other hand, is a must on my to-do-list. 

I'll probably make a time this week to go into the Bioethics Centre and get acquainted with everyone and get myself sorted out in terms of an office etc.  Plus I need to go have a look around Otago Uni. 

All in all my first impressions of Dunedin are positive.  I'm quite certain that the homesickness has not yet kicked in, so if I avoid my blog for a while you'll know I'm probably curled in a ball wallowing, while trying very hard not to get back on a plane and come home.  Don't get me wrong I don't think I'd give up doing the PhD for anything, but I love Palmy and it is always going to be home.  So living there while still continuing the PhD wouldn't be such a bad thing.  At the moment I'm going to try hard to make the most of the opportunities that present themselves. 

Live long and prosper (figured I needed some sort of sign off and since I'm a geek I thought I'd go with that for now at least).