Dartmouth Mini-Reunion

I've had three outstanding weekends in a row. I think that this is a direct correlation to giving up on the soccer team that I was playing on. One can play soccer anywhere, but one can't visit New Zealand anywhere. I must spend the next three days writing about them.

This past weekend, I attended the Dartmouth mini-reunion at the Wanaka Stonehouse. The listing was meant to be a joke in the last email message from our class council, but I decided to call them on it. Jaime and Anna Kate were amenable. Only two 96s attended the reunion. There are very few alumni in New Zealand. Anna Kate is a '99. Jaime is on the right in the photo.

I drove to Wanaka on Saturday. It's a five-and-half hour drive. On the way, I stopped at a salmon farm outside of Twizel and bought smoked salmon. We had hors d'oeuvre and dinner and watched the All Blacks beat the Springboks. I spent the night in the guest room and drove back to Christchurch on Sunday. The weather was spectacular as you can see in photo. It was a lot of driving but I didn't want to spend much money because I will do a lot of traveling starting at the end of October.

I didn't really know Jaime in college. We have a good friend in common, Nate, and we lived in the same dorm freshmen year. He rowed crew, which would've sucked up a lot of his time. We hit it off well. Dartmouth has many cultish aspects, and I generally hit it off well with other alumni.