On my way to NZ! Oh wait...

I'm stressed. Not because I am not on the flight I'm supposed to be on because New England decided to give me the middle finger in the form of a two day blizzard. Not because I can't get a flight out until Sunday, arriving in Christchurch on Tuesday, one hour before International Student Orientation starts. But I am stressed because setting up a blog is HARD. To all of you who have set up a blog before, my goodness I have more respect for you. The number of options is both great and terrible. I can change the font of the title of the blog, the blog post, the blog post title, the links. I can also mess with the font size, background color, format of the blog, and more and more and more. I'm using all I ever learned at InScribe about matching fonts (I worked there for a couple summers creating sample invitations on new stationary designs. It is imperative that the fonts work together, one fancy, one straightforward, but not too straightforward because it should all be fun and light and effortless, etc.). Only choosing the title font was easy because it looks crazy similar to my actual handwriting, right?

I actually wasn't going to have a blog for my New Zealand travels, but I made the mistake of showing my mother (and most of my family) that my roommate/grand traveller/better communicator, Anna, has a fantastic blog for her time in Cameroon. The conversation went like this:
Carola, shouting down from her office upstairs - "Kiri, Anna's blog is great! Are you going to have a blog?"
Silence.
Me, sitting at the dining room table - "...No."
"Because Char has one and she can show you how to do it."
"She could."
"So will you have a blog?"
Silence.
"...Yes"
Hence, here I sit writing this blog, and here you sit wondering when I'll actually get to the point.

Here's the point - I'm going to be studying (read: "studying") at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, NZ for their academic year, February to November. I WILL be back for thanksgiving. Char, my wonderful cousin who also has a blog everyone should read, told me that sharing pictures is much easier on a blog than over email or anything. And since one of the main reasons why I'm going to New Zealand is because it is so freakin beautiful, I want to have lots of good pics to share. I am also going because I hear nothing but great things about the Kiwis (New Zealanders) themselves, super friendly people, super sexy accents (I hope that's not offensive?). So I hope this blog doesn't become too rambling and ridiculous. Hopefully my next post will be from my dorm room at UC.

Why I'm not going anywhere.

Also! If you have a better title, tell me. I'm usually good at cheesy titles but I was drawing a blank this morning.