The Last Two Days of "Adventure Week"

Sunday July 4

This was community and we spent it at the Ngongotaha Rail trust. Apparently they want to become some sort of tourist attraction but thats in the distant future. We helped by cleaning some trains, painting, chopping wood, moving stuff, odd jobs basically. My fellow international students where good ambassadors for our country with all their whining and complaining and saying that we were doing "slave labor". Which was pretty sad considering most people just stood around and did nothing and those who did work weren't doing anything very difficult. But what can you do?

Monday July 5

Today we went caving in Waitomo and it was amazing. It started off with a 25 meter repel into a hole in the ground then after a 30 meter repel we hiked through some narrow passages until we got to a large cavern known as St. Benedict's Cavern. Here they had a 30 meter long zip line set up. Zooming through the pitch black 50+ meters below the earth is one of the funneist things I've ever done, it's so exilerating. After that it was another short hike through the caves looking at all the formations and stalactites then through an air lock of sorts (a large concrete tube with doors at both ends) and into the rain outside. (the "air lock" is to prevent the formations from drying out)