Living.

So, everybody knows that I'm living in on-campus accommodation, but not everybody knows what that actually entails. Massey University is situated about 10-15 minutes away from Palmerston North City Center. I can take free bus rides to get there, so groceries and the assorted bric-a-brac required to survive are easily attainable.

In massey university there are three main sets of dorms, the Courts, Moginie Village, and Atawhai village.

Atawhai village is by far the least convenient of the three accomodations to get to, you're basically required to take a bus to get to and from home. On the other hand, the accomodation is effectively self-catered apartments, so the people there are allowed to be a little more independant than the rest of us.

The Courts are in the middle of campus, easy to reach, two floor dorms with large, singular rooms. Ben lives in Miro hall, one of these, and so I've been able to get a peek inside. They're fashionably furnished, roomy, and smell of fresh spring. Unlike . . .

Moginie Village, which feels as if one lives in a prision. The rooms are small, whitewashed brick, giving off all the delightful atmosphere of the state correctional facility. The one perk is that the particular Dorm that I'm staying in, Walter Dyer, is perhaps the largest on campus. The upshoot of this is that I meet insane numbers of people from across the campus on a daily basis. Unlike the Courts, Walter Dyer is situated atop a lone hill some (amittedly very) small distance from the rest of campus which is gotten to by a series of inclines, stairs, and the Mugger tunnel.

Rooms in all of the aforementioned dorms are singular, without roomates. I've had no small number of discussions with Kiwis about how a person could possible share a room for the whole year. I have to adimit it, they have a point.

The first half of my room.

The second half of my humble abode.

I call this the "muggers tunnel" for reasons obvious and plentiful.