Overdue but here are some of the best made in April featuring Napier, Rotorua, Hamilton, Whangarei region and the Overlander Tranzenic Express.
woensdag 25 mei 2011
Why did the photographs never arrive?
...And why did I never notice, for that matter?
Overdue but here are some of the best made in April featuring Napier, Rotorua, Hamilton, Whangarei region and the Overlander Tranzenic Express.
Overdue but here are some of the best made in April featuring Napier, Rotorua, Hamilton, Whangarei region and the Overlander Tranzenic Express.
dinsdag 10 mei 2011
Visual Communication Design Studies Mark 1
Question A: 45 D
Question B: 55 C+
Overall grade: 53 C.
2 ticks on satisfactory, 5 ticks on fail.
Now, C is and remains a pass. So I don't have to retake this assignment. But it didn't go well.
Going to discuss what I did wrong with the lecturers and learn from that. Most of my errors seem to be in the referencing and writing of the essay in itself. It's not that I don't understand the course content, just that writing essays is a lot different than back home.
Made an appointment with the centre of teaching and learning as well, so I'll do better next time.
Question B: 55 C+
Overall grade: 53 C.
2 ticks on satisfactory, 5 ticks on fail.
Now, C is and remains a pass. So I don't have to retake this assignment. But it didn't go well.
Going to discuss what I did wrong with the lecturers and learn from that. Most of my errors seem to be in the referencing and writing of the essay in itself. It's not that I don't understand the course content, just that writing essays is a lot different than back home.
Made an appointment with the centre of teaching and learning as well, so I'll do better next time.
vrijdag 6 mei 2011
The first grades are in!
222.3330 Computer Animation 1
Assignment: Motion
Research: Excellent (A)
'Sufficient collated background material, analysis of theories, practice of techniques, and processes relevant to the computer animation medium.'
Process: Good (B)
'Examples of fluid animated movement that is controlled and expressive, utilizing timing, nuance, weight and other key animation attributes.'
Control: Satisfactory (C)
'Control over support areas of video referencing, camera and rendering. Consistent control over the software and the medium.'
Formal Resolution: Good (B)
'Inclusion of additional style and originality that extends the meaning for the audience.'
General comments:
A great start to digital animation - your character is nicely modeled and engaging. Good development of blend-shapes. Good development of storyboard elements and exploration into character animation. There are elements of very expressive character animation and good sense of gravity eg: the jump and the first interaction with the fan. However the narrative element does not always give a clear indication as to what the character is doing and often confuses the 6 sequences. Also some of the shots do not frame the character well to make explicit the animated movement. The time spent developing the wheel cycle has probably left you short on time to really polish your animation. Overall this project shows a good foundation of animation skill that will greatly improve with more animation time.
Overall Grade: B 67%
22.492 Play Research and Design
Assignment: Why Play?
Research: Good (B)
'Identify and discuss relevant processes and theories of play'
Critical Thinking: Excellent (A)
'Develop meaning, relevance and application of play through a process of analysis, exploration and experimentation.'
Process: Good (B)
'Apply strategies of play to resolve an identifiable need or task to a high standard.'
Implementation: Good (B)
'Provide reflection and discussion on own work and that of others in the area of play research and design.'
General comments:
Overall a great start to the play paper, your project is timely and very pivotal to current social events. Good selection of target audience - although expansive, this present a unique challenge to engage the masses within your work. Your presentation provided a good insight into the structure and strategy of your play world and the elements you wish to develop. Although this project is well-formed and visually cohesive, it does sit on the fence between and educational, role playing or simulation game design. This positioning has the potential to extend your play world engagement and functionality- however this project needs to further research into the platforms of play, and what are the motivating forces behind them in order to make a cohesive blend of genres.
The use of visual mapping helps to convey the functionality of the play world, this project just needs to further illustrate the play research and strategies informing the design.
Overall a good project with plenty of potential.
Overall grade: B+ (74%)
This comments about a design I came up with in regards to the failed emergency preparedness campaign back in the Netherlands and New Zealand's frequency of natural disasters. The design revolves around people playing a social game that prepares them for natural disasters and encourages them to assemble a kit.
Assignment: Motion
Research: Excellent (A)
'Sufficient collated background material, analysis of theories, practice of techniques, and processes relevant to the computer animation medium.'
Process: Good (B)
'Examples of fluid animated movement that is controlled and expressive, utilizing timing, nuance, weight and other key animation attributes.'
Control: Satisfactory (C)
'Control over support areas of video referencing, camera and rendering. Consistent control over the software and the medium.'
Formal Resolution: Good (B)
'Inclusion of additional style and originality that extends the meaning for the audience.'
General comments:
A great start to digital animation - your character is nicely modeled and engaging. Good development of blend-shapes. Good development of storyboard elements and exploration into character animation. There are elements of very expressive character animation and good sense of gravity eg: the jump and the first interaction with the fan. However the narrative element does not always give a clear indication as to what the character is doing and often confuses the 6 sequences. Also some of the shots do not frame the character well to make explicit the animated movement. The time spent developing the wheel cycle has probably left you short on time to really polish your animation. Overall this project shows a good foundation of animation skill that will greatly improve with more animation time.
Overall Grade: B 67%
22.492 Play Research and Design
Assignment: Why Play?
Research: Good (B)
'Identify and discuss relevant processes and theories of play'
Critical Thinking: Excellent (A)
'Develop meaning, relevance and application of play through a process of analysis, exploration and experimentation.'
Process: Good (B)
'Apply strategies of play to resolve an identifiable need or task to a high standard.'
Implementation: Good (B)
'Provide reflection and discussion on own work and that of others in the area of play research and design.'
General comments:
Overall a great start to the play paper, your project is timely and very pivotal to current social events. Good selection of target audience - although expansive, this present a unique challenge to engage the masses within your work. Your presentation provided a good insight into the structure and strategy of your play world and the elements you wish to develop. Although this project is well-formed and visually cohesive, it does sit on the fence between and educational, role playing or simulation game design. This positioning has the potential to extend your play world engagement and functionality- however this project needs to further research into the platforms of play, and what are the motivating forces behind them in order to make a cohesive blend of genres.
The use of visual mapping helps to convey the functionality of the play world, this project just needs to further illustrate the play research and strategies informing the design.
Overall a good project with plenty of potential.
Overall grade: B+ (74%)
This comments about a design I came up with in regards to the failed emergency preparedness campaign back in the Netherlands and New Zealand's frequency of natural disasters. The design revolves around people playing a social game that prepares them for natural disasters and encourages them to assemble a kit.
Easter Vacation
Spent the period between 19th of April and 1st of May traveling around the North Island.
Arrived in Napier on Tuesday evening, slept there, looked around.
Went past Taupo to Rotorua on the 20th. Almost had an empty gas tank in a national park on the way to Taupo, but made the city. Signed up for a Maori Cultural Experience for the evening: It provides an official Maori greeting, a look into how the people were living in the past, a Hangi meal, song and dance and storytelling. The next day featured a visit to Wai-o-Taupu, a volcanic park with lots of geothermal pools (not swim-safe though)
Went on to Tauranga, but the information that it was a Maori site was a bit wrong. On to Whitiangi then, to be able to spend the next day at Hot Water Beach.
Beach was on Friday. Visited the Cathedral cove there and learned about the volcanic river under the ground that heats up the water. Took a bath in it.
Later that day marked the arrival in Auckland. Spend Saturday doing some sightseeing, visited Mt. Eden and SkyCity. Continued further up north on Sunday afternoon to Whangarei. Took a resting day before going up to Russel Island on Tuesday. It was a whaling village in the old days. The next day was a roadtrip past the gigantic Kauri trees and the northern coastline.
Back down on Thursday, to Hamilton for a visit to a friend of mine. Stayed there a few days. Spend friday mostly underground with the Waitomo cavern system, which was a deeply impressive experience. Took the Overlander train back to Wellington city on Sunday to conclude the two weeks. It's like you're passing through a Bethesda world, for about 8 hours long.
Arrived in Napier on Tuesday evening, slept there, looked around.
Went past Taupo to Rotorua on the 20th. Almost had an empty gas tank in a national park on the way to Taupo, but made the city. Signed up for a Maori Cultural Experience for the evening: It provides an official Maori greeting, a look into how the people were living in the past, a Hangi meal, song and dance and storytelling. The next day featured a visit to Wai-o-Taupu, a volcanic park with lots of geothermal pools (not swim-safe though)
Went on to Tauranga, but the information that it was a Maori site was a bit wrong. On to Whitiangi then, to be able to spend the next day at Hot Water Beach.
Beach was on Friday. Visited the Cathedral cove there and learned about the volcanic river under the ground that heats up the water. Took a bath in it.
Later that day marked the arrival in Auckland. Spend Saturday doing some sightseeing, visited Mt. Eden and SkyCity. Continued further up north on Sunday afternoon to Whangarei. Took a resting day before going up to Russel Island on Tuesday. It was a whaling village in the old days. The next day was a roadtrip past the gigantic Kauri trees and the northern coastline.
Back down on Thursday, to Hamilton for a visit to a friend of mine. Stayed there a few days. Spend friday mostly underground with the Waitomo cavern system, which was a deeply impressive experience. Took the Overlander train back to Wellington city on Sunday to conclude the two weeks. It's like you're passing through a Bethesda world, for about 8 hours long.
maandag 18 april 2011
Geothermal Taupo
Geothermal hot springs, sulphur damp steam fountains, vulcanic craters and a waterdriven power plant.
Had my feet in the hot water, very carefully sniffed the steam that spouted out of the earth, poked geothermal squishy mud, watched a pruttling mud pool and a hatch of the dam opening up to send a torrent of water down to the river. The water becomes so white and foamy because the force and pressure mixes a lot of oxygen into it.
Had my feet in the hot water, very carefully sniffed the steam that spouted out of the earth, poked geothermal squishy mud, watched a pruttling mud pool and a hatch of the dam opening up to send a torrent of water down to the river. The water becomes so white and foamy because the force and pressure mixes a lot of oxygen into it.
zondag 10 april 2011
woensdag 6 april 2011
vrijdag 1 april 2011
Animation 222.330
Look at him, he's so cute! And he knows Pythagoras. Thank to http://www.lostpencil.com/
Oh, and that's a blend-shape set to HAPPY mode 0.8. Happy mode 1.0 is a bit creepy.
Oh, and that's a blend-shape set to HAPPY mode 0.8. Happy mode 1.0 is a bit creepy.
vrijdag 11 maart 2011
Close encounters of the Panda kind.
I can write stuff here about how this day was... but we're just gonna let the pictures speak for themselves:
Panda on my lap!
This was such an epic experience I will never forget.
Video:
This was such an epic experience I will never forget.
Video:
dinsdag 8 maart 2011
Red Pandas over for breakfast.
Side-topic to the studying: Hitting Wellington Zoo upcoming Saturday to scratch an item off my bucket list:
(Picture from http://www.paradisepark.org.uk/news/news10/Hand%20Feed%20a%20Red%20Panda%20at%20Paradise%20Park.html)
(Picture from http://www.paradisepark.org.uk/news/news10/Hand%20Feed%20a%20Red%20Panda%20at%20Paradise%20Park.html)
woensdag 2 maart 2011
2nd of March
Today I attended the 4th year paper called Play. This is a game design class which was listed as a special topic, but the actual topic didn't show in the available paper catalog. Else I definitely would've applied.
The lecture of today involved a basic introduction to the concepts of play. On the 6th of April the teams of this class will present a game design plan. On the 1st of June they will deliver the prototype of this game.
Teams were made based on how you did in several rounds of cards. Which is a very entertaining way of making groups.
Halfway through the class I had to skip out for my appointment to get signed up, which was successful. No questions asked: papers were swapped so it's now design instead of drawing. Which is much better and makes me much happier.
Game Design times ahoy!
The lecture of today involved a basic introduction to the concepts of play. On the 6th of April the teams of this class will present a game design plan. On the 1st of June they will deliver the prototype of this game.
Teams were made based on how you did in several rounds of cards. Which is a very entertaining way of making groups.
Halfway through the class I had to skip out for my appointment to get signed up, which was successful. No questions asked: papers were swapped so it's now design instead of drawing. Which is much better and makes me much happier.
Game Design times ahoy!
dinsdag 1 maart 2011
1st of March 2011
Today's summary of the classes:
VCD Studies.
In short, this is art history focused on Post modernism. It will have no tutorials, which means that the four hours of lecture are all you're gonna get for guidance. Let it just so be that in preparation of this lecture, I got stuck on 2 out of the four assigned articles to read. Yes, Eve got stuck on some English articles.
Luckily, I was misinformed and the articles did not need to be read in advance. Some won't occur but in week 3. Running several articles fast, for the moment.
By the end of this lecture, I got a better understanding of how this lecture can help me in game design. Learning about post modernism and how the world is developing is good.
Animation.
This is a practical course in animation. I love it. First assignment is modeling and animating a household item. The second assignment is character design.
I think we could have fun with game seeds.
At the end of this class, I was suddenly invited to discuss enrolling in a fourth year paper revolving around Game Design by the lecturer in person. There is a place free for me, but I did get advised to swap it for one of my existing papers, and not add it to the list. There's an appointment so I can discuss this with the college.
Drawing for VCD
This is a bit of a strange but nice drawing class. The first assignment is drawing the vocal sound of Maori place-names.
We drew sound today. That was... awkward. But very interesting!
VCD Studies.
In short, this is art history focused on Post modernism. It will have no tutorials, which means that the four hours of lecture are all you're gonna get for guidance. Let it just so be that in preparation of this lecture, I got stuck on 2 out of the four assigned articles to read. Yes, Eve got stuck on some English articles.
Luckily, I was misinformed and the articles did not need to be read in advance. Some won't occur but in week 3. Running several articles fast, for the moment.
By the end of this lecture, I got a better understanding of how this lecture can help me in game design. Learning about post modernism and how the world is developing is good.
Animation.
This is a practical course in animation. I love it. First assignment is modeling and animating a household item. The second assignment is character design.
I think we could have fun with game seeds.
At the end of this class, I was suddenly invited to discuss enrolling in a fourth year paper revolving around Game Design by the lecturer in person. There is a place free for me, but I did get advised to swap it for one of my existing papers, and not add it to the list. There's an appointment so I can discuss this with the college.
Drawing for VCD
This is a bit of a strange but nice drawing class. The first assignment is drawing the vocal sound of Maori place-names.
We drew sound today. That was... awkward. But very interesting!
maandag 28 februari 2011
28th of February 2011
Today I attended the 222.370 paper of Video 1.
It is a great and interesting course, but I felt immensely disappointed to discover that the course contents contained the exact same principles on which I graduated about 4 years ago.
The majority of the course involved outside filming. This means that it's a great course if you want to become a professional filmmaker!
But one should not forget that the main point of an exchange is to learn new skills and theory that apply to one's current education. Mine is game design. I use the film industries' theory and practice of storyboards, scening and scriptwriting for this quite freely because there are points where it is useful. Yet the only camera I've used since graduating has been the filming option on my digital photo-camera. The chance that I will use let alone come across a three star camera after my studies is nihil. Chances are bigger that when there's a need of such equipment, there's also need of someone who made filming their vocation.
We should expect to spend about 12 hours of extra study for each paper. If you go out filming, you're dealing with a course depending on a lot of factors such as weather, actors and locations.
For the reasons of already possessing the theory and being unwilling to endanger the focus on my other studies that contribute more to the study back home, I've withdrawn from this paper after discussing the situation with the teacher.
At this point in the semester, there are no consequences to such a thing.
It is a great and interesting course, but I felt immensely disappointed to discover that the course contents contained the exact same principles on which I graduated about 4 years ago.
The majority of the course involved outside filming. This means that it's a great course if you want to become a professional filmmaker!
But one should not forget that the main point of an exchange is to learn new skills and theory that apply to one's current education. Mine is game design. I use the film industries' theory and practice of storyboards, scening and scriptwriting for this quite freely because there are points where it is useful. Yet the only camera I've used since graduating has been the filming option on my digital photo-camera. The chance that I will use let alone come across a three star camera after my studies is nihil. Chances are bigger that when there's a need of such equipment, there's also need of someone who made filming their vocation.
We should expect to spend about 12 hours of extra study for each paper. If you go out filming, you're dealing with a course depending on a lot of factors such as weather, actors and locations.
For the reasons of already possessing the theory and being unwilling to endanger the focus on my other studies that contribute more to the study back home, I've withdrawn from this paper after discussing the situation with the teacher.
At this point in the semester, there are no consequences to such a thing.
vrijdag 25 februari 2011
Massey University Orientation week - Day # 5
Friday! Last day of these orientation days.
Featuring: IT and Subject briefings.
Subject briefings meant meeting the first-year lecturers for my studies. Not sure if we'll ever meet again after this day for the remainder of my time here... but nice to meet them anyway, right?
Didn't need anything else to attend, so guess where Eve went next? Right, IT department. They're really really nice up there! Offered to trade my laptop for a Mac, even.
All fun and giggles aside, the end result is that windows 7 64-bit provides an error somewhere. It's not the fault of my system, as more encounter it. Asked to come back a few weeks later to see if they resolved.
Bought a usb to solve my problem.
In the evening they had a freshers' party going on. You didn't think Kiwi's didn't party, right? They do.
The party was nice and a lot of fun.
Featuring: IT and Subject briefings.
Subject briefings meant meeting the first-year lecturers for my studies. Not sure if we'll ever meet again after this day for the remainder of my time here... but nice to meet them anyway, right?
Didn't need anything else to attend, so guess where Eve went next? Right, IT department. They're really really nice up there! Offered to trade my laptop for a Mac, even.
All fun and giggles aside, the end result is that windows 7 64-bit provides an error somewhere. It's not the fault of my system, as more encounter it. Asked to come back a few weeks later to see if they resolved.
Bought a usb to solve my problem.
In the evening they had a freshers' party going on. You didn't think Kiwi's didn't party, right? They do.
The party was nice and a lot of fun.
donderdag 24 februari 2011
Massey University Orientation week - Day # 4
Today meant more lectures about handy student stuff.
Not so new for me, so instead of sitting at an optional lecture telling you how to use a computer I hiked around the campus confirming papers, sorting timetables, getting evening access cards, get tickets for orientation-week related events for next week and much much more.
Halfway through the afternoon I got up to the IT department, and my laptop made such good friends with them. Seriously, it did. Every IT-technician gets happy from working at a laptop for about three hours straight and not getting it to use the browser, right? It uses internet for skype and msn and such, but browsers can't connect to the Massey server.
In the end, I was told to come back the next day to have another try.
Not so new for me, so instead of sitting at an optional lecture telling you how to use a computer I hiked around the campus confirming papers, sorting timetables, getting evening access cards, get tickets for orientation-week related events for next week and much much more.
Halfway through the afternoon I got up to the IT department, and my laptop made such good friends with them. Seriously, it did. Every IT-technician gets happy from working at a laptop for about three hours straight and not getting it to use the browser, right? It uses internet for skype and msn and such, but browsers can't connect to the Massey server.
In the end, I was told to come back the next day to have another try.
woensdag 23 februari 2011
Massey University Orientation week - Day # 3
Did I mention that orientation here is really aimed at getting students ready for their semesters? No? Well, by now this gets really obvious, with today starring all sorts of classes and lectures about how to handle your finances as a student, use the library, get set up with studylink and most important, how to study.
Massey likes to pack their students with lots of workload, announcing that for each paper, students would have to count for about 12 hours extra study time.
While they didn't cover things a third year USAT student wouldn't know already, these lectures allowed me to get in contact with other people and make friends. That's a good way to spend these hours.
In the evening there was a movie night for the international students, featuring a Maori movie called Whale Rider. It's a great movie featuring some of their traditions, go and see it if you're interested!
Massey likes to pack their students with lots of workload, announcing that for each paper, students would have to count for about 12 hours extra study time.
While they didn't cover things a third year USAT student wouldn't know already, these lectures allowed me to get in contact with other people and make friends. That's a good way to spend these hours.
In the evening there was a movie night for the international students, featuring a Maori movie called Whale Rider. It's a great movie featuring some of their traditions, go and see it if you're interested!
dinsdag 22 februari 2011
Massey University Orientation week - Day # 2
Today was the orientation day for the College of Creative arts.
We had several important persons of the college give a welcome speech to the new students, and after that we got a tour around the campus showing us where's where. Considering that the quick and easy route through Massey is now a construction site for a new building... this was very welcome.
Around 1 there was a traditional Maori Powhiri. It is a ceremony where one would be welcomed into the Marae, the Maori's meeting house. It involved a lot of singing in the native tongue, where leaders of our group would answer the calls of the Maori inviting us and then we'd shuffle in.
After everyone got seated in the main hall of Tokomaru, which is the name of the museum building, we got more speeches. Most of it was in Maori.
The language is very expressive in both tone and body language, with wide gestures and sharp deviations in how words sound. I couldn't understand most of it, but still it was very inspiring.
We had several important persons of the college give a welcome speech to the new students, and after that we got a tour around the campus showing us where's where. Considering that the quick and easy route through Massey is now a construction site for a new building... this was very welcome.
Around 1 there was a traditional Maori Powhiri. It is a ceremony where one would be welcomed into the Marae, the Maori's meeting house. It involved a lot of singing in the native tongue, where leaders of our group would answer the calls of the Maori inviting us and then we'd shuffle in.
After everyone got seated in the main hall of Tokomaru, which is the name of the museum building, we got more speeches. Most of it was in Maori.
The language is very expressive in both tone and body language, with wide gestures and sharp deviations in how words sound. I couldn't understand most of it, but still it was very inspiring.
zondag 20 februari 2011
Massey University Orientation week - Day # 1
So, today marks the start of Massey's first semester. Or at least orientation week kicked off.
It was quite the interesting and inspiring set of presentations in the morning, introducing us International Students to Massey and letting us know what's what and where.
Then we got a bus tour through Wellington city, which was very, very nice. I intend to go back to the Mt. Vic outlook sometime later during a day because the camera had stayed home.
On our return to the University grounds we had a little presentation regarding the apartments, who to go to and what the rules are.
I took the hour break between this Accommodation Orientation presentation and the presented dinner to hop by the College of Creative Art's office to check for my papers. Because a second one also started to disappear mysteriously.
I am now confirmed for the papers Drawing for Visual Communication Design, Computer Animation, Digital Video and Visual Communication Design Studies.
Would've timetabled them too at the library if it wasn't for the on-line network flipping out on me.
Tomorrow will be CoCa day, with an orientation and welcome from the college whose classes I'm attending, as well as a Maori welcome. Very excited for that!
Can't wait for these papers to start.
It was quite the interesting and inspiring set of presentations in the morning, introducing us International Students to Massey and letting us know what's what and where.
Then we got a bus tour through Wellington city, which was very, very nice. I intend to go back to the Mt. Vic outlook sometime later during a day because the camera had stayed home.
On our return to the University grounds we had a little presentation regarding the apartments, who to go to and what the rules are.
I took the hour break between this Accommodation Orientation presentation and the presented dinner to hop by the College of Creative Art's office to check for my papers. Because a second one also started to disappear mysteriously.
I am now confirmed for the papers Drawing for Visual Communication Design, Computer Animation, Digital Video and Visual Communication Design Studies.
Would've timetabled them too at the library if it wasn't for the on-line network flipping out on me.
Tomorrow will be CoCa day, with an orientation and welcome from the college whose classes I'm attending, as well as a Maori welcome. Very excited for that!
Can't wait for these papers to start.
donderdag 17 februari 2011
vrijdag 11 februari 2011
Te Papa Tongarewa
Visited the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum in Wellington today. Went to the Treaty of Waitangi exhibition which provides an indept overview of the history of British arrival to New Zealand and the agreement they made with the Maori.
Very interesting was how the Maori version of the treaty seems significantly different from the English version about the rights and entitlements of the Maori.
Also visited the Greenstone and Maori culture exhibitions. Greenstone or ' Pounamu' are apparantly Maori property at all times and included in traditions. The Maori Meeting House exhibited at the museum was incredibly pretty and immense.
No pictures of this as I normally don't photograph in musea. But the museam is a great place to visit and I will probably visit again sometime later.
Very interesting was how the Maori version of the treaty seems significantly different from the English version about the rights and entitlements of the Maori.
Also visited the Greenstone and Maori culture exhibitions. Greenstone or ' Pounamu' are apparantly Maori property at all times and included in traditions. The Maori Meeting House exhibited at the museum was incredibly pretty and immense.
No pictures of this as I normally don't photograph in musea. But the museam is a great place to visit and I will probably visit again sometime later.
dinsdag 8 februari 2011
New Zealand - Wellington - Day Two
Made a walk around Wellington today, but it eventually became more of a hike. Found: a nice little park me and Ingrid had lunch in, the railway station, Botanic gardens, the ocean, a curled up fern, a butterfly, a bank that wanted to change my dollars and euros to NZDs, an internet cafe, free wifi region on the pier, so many churches you can't help notice and much much more.
Gonna head home to the Cube for dinner now.
Lets hope someone's there to tell me how to get internet in my room.
Gonna head home to the Cube for dinner now.
Lets hope someone's there to tell me how to get internet in my room.
Travel from Amsterdam to Los Angeles to Auckland to Wellington
Travel summary:
Flight to Los Angeles from Schiphol: 11 hours
Departure: 10:50
Waiting time: 10 hours
Departure: 10:50
Waiting time: 10 hours
Flight to Auckland from LAX: 12 hours
Departure: 22:00
Departure: 22:00
Flight to Wellington from Auckland: 1 hour
Departure: 9:30
Departure: 9:30
Total travel time: 34 hours
The trip to Los Angeles International Airport was literally just sit and go, watching movies and playing a few DS games along the way. Space was a bit cramped, even for me, so there was little sleep to be had.
At Los Angeles I met up with a good friend of mine, and we visited the Aquarium of the Pacific. We had tons of fun there and saw wonderful critters. People know how much I like to photograph critters and nature.
After a good meal at a steakhouse (Australian, for laughs'n'giggles) it was back to LAX terminal 2 for the check in with Air New Zealand. Destination: Auckland.
I fell asleep as soon as we were in the air, completely exhausted after 21 hours of being awake.
I fell asleep as soon as we were in the air, completely exhausted after 21 hours of being awake.
The hardest part for me was the time spend at Auckland Airport, where I wanted nothing else but collapse and sleep more. Unfortunately, there was still an airplane being readied to take me to Wellington. Which is not funny.
Having arrived in Wellington, there was no-one waiting to collect me, while this should have been the case. A few phonecalls later and a shuttle took me to the Cube appartement building.
Having arrived in Wellington, there was no-one waiting to collect me, while this should have been the case. A few phonecalls later and a shuttle took me to the Cube appartement building.
I'm in New Zealand, Wellington. My appartement is on one of the main streets in the city.
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