Walking Across Wellington

Day two here in sunny New Zealand, it's seven o'clock and the sun is still out, how's winter treating you back home? But I jest. So my second day here was spent mostly just shopping, and walking around to said shops. I went out and bought a ton of food at the super market, as I am the only one in my apartment for the next four days it's important I have food. So I bought some frozen meals, and some bread, cheese, chocolate milk, random stuff and the like. There isn't a lot of space to store it all though, so I had to improvise (there is cereal and Ciabbata on top of my fridge).
I also checked out Wellington's comic book shop to prepare myself for the coming months. I bought a copy of Ex Machina vol. 5 and spoke to the dude at the desk about comics getting here. According to him they get all the comics a week late, which is meh, also since they mostly just sell trades there they don't get a lot of copies of each comic, but that is remedied easily by the fact that I am just going to have him reserve stuff for me. The worst part though, is that comic books are about twice as expensive here as in the states. That's not even because of the currency difference (the New Zealand Dollar is about three fourths of the American), it's because of the fact they have to ship it around the fucking world. So that makes me very sad, but there is no way I'm missing both Siege and Blackest Night. However I have Midtown holding about half of my books for me while I am away, so I'll have to wait three months but I figure it's worth not paying double price for a bunch of titles (like Marvels Project, Spider-Woman, Streets of Gotham). It does mean I'll have to pay in one fell swoop though which always makes me feel guilty when I see what my addiction actually costs. Being a coke head is probably cheaper.
Also I met two of the kids who are on the program with me. I checked out their apartment, and chilled a bit. They seemed nice enough, though one of them likes season one of Dollhouse more than the second, so take what you want from that. Still it's all really quite cool, tomorrow I'm going to go meet the people I shall work with to discuss what I'll be doing there and the terms of my internship, then Friday I'll go and buy me some kosher food, because meet is good.