Backpacking

New Zealand – Life in Auckland at the Railway Campus

I got dropped off by our taxi driver at the Railway Campus Student Accommodation. actually the building has formerly been a railway station, but now students from the university of auckland life there, mostly in 2 or 3bedroom-appartments.i share an appartment with a canadian guy (chris) and an american guy(randy)(actually we dont see randy often, he is a pretty busy business student working all the day..but we dont care *g*)timo and bjoern temporarily stayed at the Grafton Hall of Residence, later on they (and Heiko) moved to a pretty new and modern Student Accommodation called UniLodge. see timos reports for further details concerning UniLodge..i really like my accommodation. we ve got a small kitchen, bathrooom, a small living room with sofa&table and each of us his own bedroom. furthermore there is a public kitchen with fridge, freezer, oven, cooking facilities, cutlery and other kitchen stuff, etc for each appartment. actually chris and me cather for ourselfes, e.g. we cook spicy soup(thats another story *g*), make pancakes(with tasty canadian maplesirup), chickenwings, pork&noodles…COOKING IS FUN :-)the only disturbing thing is, that we have not yet found anybody who would like to wash our dishes :-(for sure, cooking requries heaps of (the kiwis say ‚heaps of‘ instead of ‚lots of‘) groceries, so we took our huge bagpacks and went to a huge supermarket (these small stores are really too expensive..)