re: auckland
wake up it's the first of the month and I am back <2 and updates now in point form because I've been reading mimismartypants' 2001 blog posts:
Auckland was so lovely, bustling, teeming. It reminded me of Pune a little bit and I loved all the cool outfits and skatebaording going on, I've never really seen a city like that. But really, life in a "THIRD WORLD CUNTRY" plays by another set of rules, a whole nother shared reality. Rickshaws dominate the landscape, and the trees and weeds intertwined with careless human infrastructure like a large mammal being caught in an ancient spider web. Auckland feels like an organised, lonelier (read: less chaotic) city.
The trip to Auckland was truly a Friendship-Before and Friendship-After thing with Tim. I learnt she has some pretty concerning views on indigenous rights and profit-driven governance. It was confusing being on that trip with her. It's a pattern, I find myself entangled with conservatives all the time (twice so far). It's my fault I don't heed the sign even though they were so subtle with Tim.
I fell sick during the one and only night we spent there. I spent the next day in the library that overlooks the ocean listening to Arundhati Roy, so randomly watching Dula Peep (her book club), and browsing shitty poetry books.
All in all it was...how you say, extremely uncomfortable, strange, and exciting.
More l8r bcoz my chips (as in fish and chips) are going cold! Adios,
Sam