Rugby and The South Island

Hey everybody! sorry I havent posted recently I have been busy with school, travelling, and watching rugby. Since it has been nearly 2 weeks since my last post, I figured that it was time. I have been taking quite a few pictures but stupidly left the cord to transfer them over to my computer back in Whakatane.
         Last week I went with three of the other teachers from the school up to Rotorua for a rugby game. It was the Bay of Plenty team V. Otago and The Bay beat them convincingly. I have really enjoyed watching a lot of rugby down here. This country is rugby crazy and I am catching the fever. I am dissappointed that I will not be able to make it to an All Blacks game before I leave but there is still plenty of good rugby going on.
          Right now I am sitting in Blenheim on the south Island wating to take a bus to Christchurch. I caught a ride part of the way to Wellington and a bus the rest of the way. I stayed in Wellington for a night and hopped on a ferry the next afternoon, arriving in Picton on the South Island at about 6:00 PM.
Wellington was fun but too much of a city for me. Picton on the other hand is great. It is a cozy little community with a big harbor. Coming over on the ferry if I didnt know better I would have thought I was back on Kodiak Island. The shoreline and forrested hills have very similar features. There are little homes tucked at the back of each inlet accessable only by boat or a long rough logging road. It made me a little homesick. I have no plans for this week besides seeing as much of the south island as I can and maybe catch a rugby game.