It's the end of another week. Had quite a bit of uni work to do this week, so just updating now!
I said in my last blog that I would spend MLK jr Day relaxing and doing nothing, but this is Hawaii, and it's hard to do nothing!
So I went with Georgia, Yohan, Sam and Keith on a drive up to the North Shore.
We drove past heaps of Macadamia farms and pineapple plantations - pineapples look so weird when they grow, they just kinda randomly pop out from shrubs.
So we went to Foodland and stocked up on snacks, then went to Pipeline to watch the pros surf.
Our beach picnic, consisting of cheesecake, donettes (not donuts?) and donut holes:
Probably not the best beach food, but it was so delicious.
Some surfers waiting for a wave:
Surfers actually riding a wave:
Chilled out there for a bit, didn't see Kelly Slater so we went in search for our next beach!
On the way, we stopped at a place where everyone was jumping off a cliff/rock bit.
It's actually the rock that Mila Kunis and Jason Segel jump off in Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
The guys sussing out the jump:
Yohan jumping off:
Then I decided to jump off.
It was super fun! There was even a pufferfish in the water. But we stayed away from that. It was actually having the best time, doing little flips and stuff.
Our next beach was Lanikai, which was super pretty and was really nice to swim in:
After swimming and sunbathing, the sun was starting to set, so we head back and called it a day.
It was a great day.
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Tuesday was all classes, did another spin session and worked up a mean sweat.
Which mean that we deserved... Tacos!
It was Taco Tuesday after all.
So we rode mopeds down (I got on the back of one) to Serg's Kitchen for some yummy tacos and a fiesta.
Then moped'ed back home.
Went to bed feeling very satisfied with my tacos.
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Wednesday I had swimming and weight training (still chuckle when I say I'm doing weights) in the morning.
Went to Kahala Mall which was a pretty chill mall, it smelled like popcorn.
This place looked kinda cool and kinda creepy at the same time:
They had non-creepy shops too, like some cool surf shops where I bought a rash top:
And some thongs coz I lost mine at kayaking:
V. comfy thongs.
Went to Wholefoods just to have a look, but ended up doing my whole grocery shopping there because it was so so amazing. They had so much!!
I stocked up on heaps of stuff.
Made a burger for tea, with bread instead of burger buns because I'm an improviser.
Also got some chocolate made from local cacao beans.
It was crazy creamy and delicious.
The rest of my night was spent doing assignments and stuff coz I'd been at Wholefoods for too long lol. But pineapple lumps helped me through it.
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Thursday was classes again, gave my lil presentation in bioinformatics and everyone loved it because of my accent.
And because I'm the bomb at giving presentations.
I saw this super fluffy dog on campus but I didn't get a very good picture of it:
I don't know what it was, but it was so fluffyyyyyyyyyy!
I went to the UH store and bought a couple of things to show my University of Hawaii pride:
That backpack is the bomb. It's quite small, but it can fit HEAPS in it. It's like the Mary Poppins bag.
After classes, Georgia and I went to another spin class (full of booty-related music) and then to an international evening with unlimited pizza.
So that was a good time.
But a bunch of us left there (after pizza) for the Tropics Bar and just hung out there for a while, which was really cool.
Came home and went straight to sleep!
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Fridays I have no classes so I slept in!!
Went to the market an got a few veggies and some bread and stuff.
Put on a load of washing, using up my cool quarters.
Each of them was from a different state:
Then Georgia and I went to a core class to work on our rock hard abs.
After that we treated ourselves with Snow Ice, which is like shave ice but it's with ice cream!
Got a cool spoon to eat it with:
These were our monster mountains of snow ice:
Sooooo good. It just crumbles off and melts in your mouth.
Mine was Haupia (left) which is coconut & chocolate and Georgia's was dark chocolate and peppermint (right).
Then I had dinner and I've just been chillin' and Skypin' !
Ready for the weekend.
Mahalo for reading!
Madeleine
:)
