Song From JUNO: Anyone Else But You

Always been one of my favorite movies. Juno rocks!

Day 10-15: Auckland and surrounding

We finally leaving Southern Island. I think that the seven days travel in Southern Island has made me tired haha. I wasn't that excited anymore to see the city. Though I haven't been to many big cities in this world, but somehow I had a feeling that most of the city in this world have similarities. It's just depend on us whether we want to adapt living on it or not. On this few days, I've seen how very laid back people are in Auckland. I heard that some of western cities are also like this, 5 p.m. the office over, then most of the shops are closed by 7. It's really different from Jakarta or some big Asian cities where shops closed at 9-10 p.m.

Here are some pictures of the places we went

Auckland War Memorial Museum

Mission Bay - Fave place on summer

Muriwai Beach - who goes to the beach on winter anyway?

Up: King Albert Park. Below: Britomart Transport Centre

One Tree Hill and Mt. Eden. You can see Auckland skyline from there

Soljans Winery and Cafe

And finally, after this long fifteen days of journey wandering in this wonderful island, we went home on the 16th day. Now when I think about it again, it was a really long holiday in a stranger's land. hahaha. I had a great time but honestly I just couldn't wait to get back home cause ain't no place like home :)

E noho ra NZ. Thanks for the mind opening journey for the past fifteen days!

【MV】我的歌声里 - 官方正式版 首播 - 曲婉婷

I first hear this song during my listening class last Autumn Semester. Since then, this song has been filling my days in Beijing.

For those of you who want to know what the meaning of this song, you can find it here :)

NZ Day 9: Arrowtown + Queenstown

This is our last night at the Southern Island. We went to a nearby town called Arrowtown. This town was previously a gold mining city. You still can see the history of it on the museum. At first we found this church near the town center named St. Patrick Catholic Church.

What a peaceful place

Nearby toilet: Girl's nightmare

After that we go directly to see the Arrowtown Town Centre, the area looks like an old town theme arena in Universal Studio. 

The most crowded place in here was a candy store called "The Remarkable Sweet Shop" which sells local and imported sweets (later I found out that they also have a branch in Queenstown town center). 

Can only afford to buy one small bag *sob*  

Our next destination is AJ Hackett Bungee in Queenstown. AJ Hackett Bungee is the world pioneer of commercial Bungy Jumping. 

Which smile you prefer? That girl or us?

None of us had that much courage (and money) to jump from that bridge. But lucky us, we had a chance to see someone doing a bungee jumping there. 

Maybe he jumped to find a new definition of life

Then off we go to our last destination for the night, Queenstown town center. A lot of shops and restaurants here, also some souvenir shops. In the end, this is our last pit stop on the Southern Island. On the next day we're going back to Auckland. Back into the big city life. I'll miss Queenstown. Maybe we'll have a chance to come again sometimes. *fingers crossed*

The Peaceful Queenstown

We heart Queenstown