I'm feeling quite a bit better today, thanks for sticking with me through my moany homesick days!
I ended up not going out today, even though the weather was acceptable. I woke up at 9am but got that rare feeling where you're unbelievably comfy. You know, that feeling when it's December in England, and you have to get up for school or work, so suddenly your bed has never seemed comfier? Well today I got that, but the luxary of this trip is that I don't have school or work - success! So I snuggled down and dozed, not totally asleep but almost daydreaming and remembering my dreams from the night before. I really need to stop falling asleep when I'm listening to the Harry Potter audiobooks, because I keep dreaming I'm in them. I fell back asleep until 1pm when the property inspector woke me up. Not by knocking on the door, but by opening my actual bedroom door. It's not that I hadn't been warned, I knew he was coming, but in my sleepy, dozing euphoria I'd forgotten. It's been a while since I've slept in until 1pm. We all know I'm very capable of sleeping all day, that's been proved in the past, but I haven't actually done it for quite a while.
When I finally got up I made myself some cheese and mushrooms on toast and a cup of tea, and tried to motivate myself to go out. But I just didn't feel like it. So instead I got on with some planning.
I planned how long I'll be in my remaining stops, where I'll stay and how I'll get there. I booked a flight back to Auckland and a bus back to Taupo. I looked at my account balance and budgeted for the next 18 weeks until I'm home. (It's not looking bad, could be better, but liveable.) It's sometimes hard to imagine how time-consuming travel planning can be. Searching for the lowest price, finding how to get from/to the airport, getting a map of the terminals, writing in all down in a little book in case you can't get the internet, checking your connections leave you enough time to switch transportation, searching for HelpX placements to save money, writing to HelpX placements, seeing if hostels offer work for accommodation exchanges... blah blah blah. So fuelled with tea, this took up much of my day and I was quite happy to let it do so.
I even had a little look at what I'm going to do in Australia in around 6 weeks time - time sure does fly!
My plan tonight? Dinner, Harry Potter, warmth and sleep. Tomorrow I'm back into a hostel in Wellington CBD so it'll be more exciting then. To be fair, there's nothing stopping me doing exciting things now, I could get the train into Wellington everyday, but my laziness (that very steep hill) combined with the lure of sitting right next to the heater, it just wasn't happening.
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