We got to start the next morning (Thursday, March 14) with
our 4th and final Geography class. It was definitely the most
miserable class we had yet as we looked at demographic characteristics of
Australia for three hours. After class, we were given time off for most of the
afternoon, but we all worked really hard during that time because we wanted to
be done with all our work before the free day the next day and everything was
due on Saturday. I got a lot done before we had our debate that we had been
preparing for that evening. Fortunately, it only took 30 minutes, so that we
could work more (a huge joy). Once we were done though, I decided I needed a
little fresh air so another person and I walked into Queenstown and grabbed
some ice cream and headed back. Of course, it was another late night and I
knocked out geography essay, and I was finally down to one module left, but I
decided to save it for the free day because by that time, it was almost 1 AM.
The next day was our long awaited free day where we could
explore the adventures of Queenstown. A lot of people went bungy jumping, some
people went skydiving, others went horseback riding, and some people had to
stay in and work on their essay. I myself woke up around 8 and went to a local
gym with our professor and got a workout in. It was good to be active, but I
was pretty exhausted. Anyway, since my time in Queenstown with my dad when I
got to cross the bungy jump off my list, I had been really curious about these
jet boat rides through rivers where there were ads for everywhere, so I booked
one the day before so that I could see what it was all about. The company came
and picked me up from the hotel at noon and took a group out to Skippers
canyon, which is a pretty remote part of Queenstown. The ride through the
canyon was all part of the adventure (although the road was on the edge of cliff,
which is always a heartwarming feeling…). They took us down to the river where
we were met by the jet boat. I was amazed by the thing. It only needed 4 inches
of water to accelerate, so we could go on some extremely shallow parts of the
riverbed and up fairly large rapids. The drive could operate it with extreme
precision and we would fly past cliff edges within inches and do 360s around
corners. It was pretty cool and I’m glad I did it. I got back to our hotel
around 3 and was dying to get down to the beach to meet everyone else who was
down there, so I did my best to write my module as fast as I could.
Fortunately, it was an easy one and I had thinking the whole ride back about
what I would write about. I knocked it out in about 30 minutes and headed to
the beach. We all met up and hung out there for a few hours and came in for a
little bit before going out to the bars. It was pretty fun out there, but we
knew we had a pretty early morning ahead so most of us went in before midnight.
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