Okay wow today has been interesting

Apart from me actually being able to sleep in till 12noon (I had uni lectures at 1pm-4pm so I had to wake up... otherwise I probably would have spent the entire day in bed)

Well as some of you know -due to my complaining about earthquakes and crap- that I live in New Zealand. hehe I'm actually Maori but I'm the palest in my family so I can pass for a european.

*cough* anyway I'm deviating from my story that I wanted to tell~

So this year I moved away from home, a small place called Whakatane (the of all jokes because it's pronounced -ar-tar-neh) with the small population of about 32,000 people in the Whakatane District. Now the thing about Whakatane is that it's on the coast of the pacific ocean (for the past 10 years I've lived within 2km of a beach) and it's also on a flood plain which has earthquake faults underneath it.

(that's only a picture of the river, Whakatane's a lot bigger than that)

Spells disaster from the get-go.

So Whakatane's had it's fair share of natural events including a small tornado a few years back. But what has me laughing is this...

I moved away from Whakatane, moved to the other side of the country.

Turns out 'my side of the country' decided to throw a -fit (as earlier stated in my previous 'earthquake' blog post) and started getting all bloody geologically unstable (trust me, it was already unstable).

OH! I FORGOT TO TELL YOU GUYS!

We had a 6.9M earthquake the other day~ followed by at least 15 aftershocks above 5M

Exciting right?!

No! It was terrifying, I was standing at a traffic light and a tall pohutakawa tree when it happened and I was almost ting myself thinking that I was going to be flattened by those bloody things.

*cough* Carrying on with my story~

So I thought that I had been safe moving away from Whakatane.

But everything just seemed to follow me here to Palmerston North (the CITY not town that I now reside in while studying at university).

That's not what I find funny though

What I find funny is that fact that off the coast of Whakatane...

(Crap I forgot to mention that there's a volcano off the coast of Whakatane called 'White Island' or 'Whakaari' if you're maori... and yes it has a similiar pronounciation as the previous town but it's ar-ah-ri)

So Whakatane has a volcano off the coast... New Zealand's most active volcano I might add...

Guess what White Island's doing at the moment?

/giggles/

It's erupting!

AND i'M NOT THERE!

HURRAYYYYY

buuuuuut

the rest of my family is still there~ /gulp/

So now I have to live with the huge earthquakes and they have to deal with minor earthquakes and the eminent danger of an erupting volcano.

I keep on offering my mum to come live here in Palmerston North with me but she's has to look after a few foster-children before she can move down~

The weirdest thing about New Zealand is that 'this' /makes wild hand gestures to all of the natural disasters waiting to happen/ is normal

Sure~ we're a nice country, but I would prefer it if it wasn't so geologically unstable~