Nov 13, 2023
Today I’m at home. I’m leaving in three days!! Oh my god.
I just figured out how to cancel my phone plan. That was like the last thing I needed to figure out. The only other thing that’s important is making sure I have my visa documents ready for the airport. I also need to find out how to get to the hostel from the airport in Auckland. That’s about it!
I’m going to an AA meeting soon. It’s Curtis’ home group. It’ll be my last time going to that one. It’s a nice one. I enjoy going to those things. Especially because of Curtis. I feel lucky I met him.
I had work at 8 am today. It was with Allied. It was probably the most physically difficult job I’ve had to do. We were basically carrying extremely heavy wooden boards up and down a flight of stairs. There were a few times I physically couldn’t lift something, but for the most part I surprised myself with what I was able to do. The other three guys I was working with were all from France. They were super nice. I feel like I had adopted the stereotype that French people were snobs. These guys were some of the nicest guys I’ve met doing this type of work. One of the guys named Luca was particularly curios and asked me all sorts of questions about Canada and what kinda things I was into.
Over the weekend I went to a Diwali festival thing at Marvel Stadium in the CBD. Mom had suggested I go. It felt really serendipitous, because that day was 11/11.
I’ve had really nice phone calls with mom and dad the last couple of days.
I’ve had really nice phone calls with mom and dad the last couple of days.
That’s about it! I’m just excited to get away from Carly, but I’m a little nervous about being in a hostel again. I’m gonna miss having my own room and bed, although last night Carly seemed to wake me up every hour. She kept opening the back door for the cat and just doing random stuff in the kitchen until like 4 am.
I also found out that the Beatles are number 1 in the charts with ‘Now and Then’. That’s so crazy. It makes me pretty happy. It has a very surreal feeling. It just feels like the Beatles are here, somehow. It’s he only time I’ve sorta known this feeling. I kinda feel happy to be living through it. But I can’t believe they went with that artwork for the song. It’s just so fucking pathetic. It’s really bad. I wish they would’ve just asked for someone’s opinion.