The Lay of the Land

Before I post up a recap of yesterday's academia (Timmy will follow that with the afternoon's more hands-on viticultural knowledge drop), here's a quick description of our digs/the town:

Establishing Landscape Shot

Google images tells me that's what the city looks like from a lofty perch, If they're right we are hanging just off the middle left edge of the pic in Selwyn College.  Cael, Scott, Rick, and I live in a dorm called "The Dollhouse", but given there is nobody other than the Bovard/Baldwin crew (who live a few doors down) living in Selwyn during Summer School, we have no clarity on the nickname's origin.  The University of Otago is a bubbled hamlet on the north end of the town; the 5-0 pretty much leave the students be.  As for the town, you can walk south down George St. well past the "Octagon" and find anything from casinos, Thai food shops that give Robert some quality magazine reading time, or any one of four hundred and ninety three Vodafone shops.  No one's had trouble finding their rhythm; we learned to layer up after day two's weather sequence of sunny/drizzle/partly cloudy/downpour/sunny/hail/sunny and are internet capable as of yesterday.  My biggest complaint: Dunedin's answer to Pantana Bob's is closed for the summer.   The full PBob's deathblow after the jump





The Promising Approach (Close to home, edge of campus...) -

The Confirmation of Hope (A back porch...YES) -

 

The Utter Devastation -

Just look at it: The porch, the wooden picnic table, the college...WTF COOK?!

Hope that gives you a sense of our home base for the next couple of months, I'll post on our first TOUR 214 lecture next.

- Trevor