In Christchurch I took the bus to the Jailhouse hostel. The door of my cell/room is heavy, but I have the key, so I won't be locked in ;). Then I went back to the city centre, walking in Hagley Park and the Botanic garden. At the Art Centre I've bought some beads, like I've done in many cities where I've been. No idea if they will match to make one bigger necklace (all different colours blue), but they will be a nice souvenir of this sabbatical. And I had some Hungarian snack there, sitting in the nice inner garden. Walking back I made a mistake, my feeling for direction isn’t that good, so I ended up in Hagley Park North instead of South. This park is just enormous. And when I finally was in the right corner I just had to laugh, seeing the brook I had to cross, but fortunately there was a little bridge not that far.
After preparing some lunch (backpackersfood, like noodles with a salad) I had a nice conversation with two German girls. They were speaking German and I spoke English, because, although I do understand German quite well, speaking English is a lot easier for me.
Tomorrow another early start, when I will get a shuttle to the railwaystation to take the train to Picton. Maybe I will have time to read my book, because it seems so nice (Behind the sceens of the museum of Kate Atkinson). When I talk to myself, recapitulating my plans and what I need to do, I realize I do it 50% of the time in English. It seems so easy now to speak English all the time and I hardly ever worry that I sure will make a lot of mistakes. People seem to understand me ;) But yesterday it was nice just to listen to two Dutch people, speaking Dutch with each other.
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