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If this hostel's internet got any stupider, I'd actually be scratching this post into the wall. With a blunt stick.

Every time it signs me off - which it does, frequently - any sites I've signed into, including LJ, Nationwide banking, Googlemail etc., get flagged by Norton as suspicious because they're trying to take me back to the login page. It is the only hostel wireless that has done this to me and I've stayed in something like fifteen hostels, maybe more at this point. In addition to this I'm only up, dressed and sitting in the hostel lounge at 9:05am because my sleep-in day got cancelled when I was woken at 8am by the guy in the bunk underneath mine doing Darth Vader breathing. I would be less annoyed - everyone gets a cold; I probably sounded none too pretty in Whitianga - if he hadn't GONE OUT FOR A CIGARETTE AT 730AM. Real clever there Darth Lungs of Death.

Then after I got up and got dressed, I walked back along the balcony - yes, going outside to get to the bathrooms is still irritating, especially since it's actually cold enough to snow here right now. Fun times! - opened our dorm door... and the smell literally made me take a step back. Guys, I'm sorry. I don't know what it is. It's probably not all guys. Maybe. But a group of five of you sleeping together in a room really stink in the morning.

I resisted the temptation to leave the door wide open to air the room with the freezing breeze (three of them were still asleep, snoring away, fuckers) but I'm waiting for them to wake up and piss off so I can do just that. I need to repack my backpack and all my stuff to send home into a box, and I can't do that right now without a. a gas mask and b. turning on the light which, since guys apparently sleep in even in hostels (having shared rooms with girls pretty much the whole time? We do not do this. Ever. Even when I wanted to sleep in I was getting up by 8am because everyone else was already up), I cannot do right now. So I'm stuck here in the lounge for the forseeable future.

So, so glad I'm leaving first thing in the morning. I still have four more hostels to stay in but only for a couple of days at the most. I'm thinking my one in Alice Springs might be the suckiest, just on a hunch, but that's my very last hostel before I head home so hey, whatever.

Do kind of want to go home now. The last two days reminded me why New Zealand is unspeakably awesome which I'd kind of been forgetting up until then in the overload of scenery and activities, but I'm definitely ready to get out of hostels, to stop carrying food around with me, to stop having cute American guys somehow get me to spend $40+ in one night on food and drink, which when my bank account is looking distinctly battered is stupid (I'm only £380ish into my overdraft and I said before I left I'd come back around £500 into it, so I'm pretty *much* on track moneywise with three weeks left. It's just, I won't stay on that track if I keep spending).

And in saying that I've just realised that I do in fact get home three weeks today. Maybe a day extra given the day I gain in travelling but datewise. Wow. I don't know how I'm cramming as much stuff as I am into the next three weeks though. o_O Three more places in NZ, Alice Springs/Uluru for five nights, hanging out with