Traveling to the Other sSde of the Planet is a Bitch

So first post, whoo! Anywho I left from New York City bright and early on Sunday morning at 5:00 to start on my trans-equatorial journey. I woke up and realized I was pretty sick, which kinda sucked. Especially when you consider the trip is five hours to L.A, a nine hour layover, then thirteen hours to Aukland, and another hour to Wellington. Still it strikes me as superemely bitchy that we as a culture whine all the time about flying and how we don't get enough leg space when you consider how much of a fucking step up that is from the cramped, diseased, rat infested sea voyages of even sixty years ago. Fortunately I slept for most of the L.A.-Aukland flight which was nice, though I did watch Inglorious Basterds, because that is a fantastic movie. So I left on Sunday, and arrived on Tuesday which kind of threw me for a loop. Once in Wellington not much really happened. I checked out the apartment I'm going to be staying at (though am in a hotel now as I'm still getting over being sick and all), talked with the person who's helping coordinate my internship and had Ramen for dinner.
First impressions of New Zealand, Wellington specifically. It's like no where else I have ever been. I mean I've done extensive travelling in the U.S. been to Britain, Israel, Austria, Spain, and so on, but I can't make any comparison. Any time I try to attribute certain characteristics of some previous city I've been in, I realize it just doesn't hold up. You have big corporate buildings dotted along, and then nice houses tucked away a few blocks later. The streets are pretty empty compared to New York, and everything is pretty much in walking distance. It's also just so green, trees lining the streets, the city itself never really encroaches on the evniorment, they exist more like to films overlaid on one another. I'm pretty excited to get some exploring done, walk the streets get to know the place better. My roommates don't arrive for a few days, and I don't start work until Friday or much more probably Monday, so it looks like I'll have plenty of time for that.