Jana, Charlie and I went to the Wellington Market. It was a very girly arts and crafts affair, so not really for me. I did however find a stool selling New Zealand green stone. As Joe had lost his I decided to buy a piece and make it into a necklace myself which I hope he likes.
Joe and I also went to Weta Caves, a production studio where The Lord of the rings, Avatar, district 9 and the Narnia special effects and props were made. The tour of the workshop and behind the scenes video were awesome. It's amazing how much work goes into the simplistic of props.
That evening I went to Ben's party which was pretty cool, I played some terrible beer pong as usual.
Sunday was a chill day before Monday, my big day.
The rugby experiance was really great.
I spent loads of time learning from their physio's and interacting and treating a few of the players. In my shining moment when Conrad Smith asked me to strap his wrist. One of the easiest things one can possibly do. I lost my cool and forgot everything about physio and probably wouldn't have remembered my own name if he asked me! Clearly didn't do a bad job as he didn't mind me doing it at every session after.
I also had a bit of a shock on the third day when the guy I had hung out with the most turned out to be Cory Jane! I, along with everyone else call him CJ and I didn't put two and two together as he looks different with a goatee!
Other highlights include being in two 'behind the scenes' videos (granted I'm in about one second between them). Also going down pitch side for the training session and media event inside the West PAC stadium.
At the end of it I got offered a job with an affiliated clinic and some work with the youth teams.
During my evenings I started watching the new Sherlock Holmes show. Really enjoyed it, I would go as far to say it's the new Jonathan Creek.
I was also leant Brian Mulligans text book so I read the entire book one evening!
I also met up with Sarah (from the library) on Wednesday. We went to a gig which was really good even though the heavily tattooed female owner walked around the bar for a while pretending to be an aeroplane! Then I walked her home and tried to dig myself out of the hole that was that even though I barley know her, I made a passionate comment about how perfect my new gloves are if you were a murder. Didn't go down well late at night in a dark, quiet strange city. Shocker.
On my last day in Wellington I hit the gym before finding out my ferry was to be delayed from 1:30pm to 9:15pm. Fun times. I made the most out of it by visiting the City and Sea museum and playing air drums in silence for nearly two hours with my headphones in. In the car. Whilst other passengers walked past either scared or bemused.
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