Greetings from a well rested blogger on a rainy Monday afternoon. I was graced with an extra hour of sleep this weekend as New Zealand fell back out of daylight savings time. For those of you in the central time zone, just subtract 7 hours from your current time and add a day to find out what time it is here. Classes are going well. I ended up dropping the Physical Geography course but still managed to get in touch with the subject by climbing Signal Hill in the time allotment the class normally occupied. One of the coolest things about Dunedin is how quickly you can get out of town and into nature. And not like the dirty Papio Creek or Lake Laverne nature at home, clean, fresh nature like forests, streams, and mountains. From my flat, it's a 15 minute walk to the city center and about a 30 minute walk in the other direction to be surrounded by sheep pastures, huge rolling hills, and the occasional towering gum tree forest. I fulfilled yet another life goal by swinging on a vine over a stream on our way back down from Signal Hill. Yes, a vine. Tarzan style. Except I was a little better dressed. Nevertheless, despite not going anywhere extreme, it was a very solid weekend. I finished it off by playing this Israeli card game with some friends and participating in a club that does the Japanese war drumming called Taiko.
This morning I began serious work on my essay for my God and Ethics class. My topic may be whether it is a fair statement to say that Christian ethics are not based on a set of rules but rather the drama of salvation as outlined in the Bible. I'm always amazed in college libraries, of the the amount of quality material on any subject you are looking for. Hopefully my my research on developing countries in Africa for another essay goes equally as well. A tall order considering the sleepy post lunch syndrome that I feel settling in, now. With that, enjoy the pictures of the Eucalypti and me achieving my life goals!
Love, Daniel
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