The hostel in Chinatown (Auckland)

The first night in the hostel. 7-8 hours of sleep. Being rested is something else. Let's stay in bed for a few more hours. There's a smell coming from outside, it stinks like Asian, old, and dried-up food - disgusting. It's as if our window is the kitchen hood. My friend and I get up and go have breakfast. It's 8 o'clock now. We get two paper bags at the reception, each containing: 2 slices of toast, a pack of margarine, a 125ml orange juice packet, a pack of jam, 250ml of milk, a pack of cocoa powder, a tea bag, instant coffee, sugar, and a small box of cereal. It looks quite meager in reality, but surprisingly, it's enough and we both feel full. Then it's time to do the dishes, we have to be independent for everything here. But the spacious communal kitchen is really nice, it has everything you need, it's clean, and you can use everything freely.

Back upstairs, we take a shower and then - back to bed. Luckily, there's free Wi-Fi here, otherwise, it would feel completely lost - besides, I have to expand my Pokédex. It's now 1 o'clock, and the good old friend hunger comes. So what now? Either we order something or go shopping. Hm, it was the latter. On the one hand, it gets us out and gives us a reason to leave our room (after all, we want to explore the city, even if we're completely exhausted and jet-lagged) and on the other hand... well, it just doesn't smell good from the restaurants here. See above in the text: Hashtag room window = kitchen hood #nohate. So get dressed and go out. We really feel like in Chinatown, there are Asian shops and restaurants everywhere, seems to be a neighborhood here. It takes 13 minutes to get to a supermarket that is not Asian.

Just a clarification on the side: I have nothing against Asians, but I don't like instant noodles and I don't want to consume any other products that are not fresh and tasty. And it just stinks!

So, back to the text. It takes 13 minutes to reach the aforementioned supermarket. Slowly, one realizes how much one would like to live here. It's multicultural, pleasantly warm, super beautiful, and simply a dream. I haven't seen much of the world yet, and then being able to travel directly to such a beautiful place - awesome! Above all, this is just the beginning, we have hardly seen anything yet.

But I digress. Arriving at the supermarket, we are relieved that the selection of products is much larger and you can also get fresh fruit.

Just for a moment: My girlfriend is sitting on the edge of my bed, taking a sip of water that we just bought fresh, and looking so disgustingly disgusted as if it were poison. How is the little princess supposed to survive here? I'm laughing my head off, divine! :-D

Okay, so the supermarket is great. Everything here is more expensive than in Germany, but you also earn more. Now we have: bread, cheese, salami, kidney beans, tomato sauce, salt, pepper, oregano, juice, water, various fruits, and vegetables. All for 44 NZ$. That's alright, after all, it's for 2 people and several days (well, okay, not several, but at least tonight and tomorrow, so somehow several, but several sounds more like 3 or more days, oh well, anyway, price-wise, it's fine and we'll survive).

Now we're heading back to the hostel, this time we remembered the way. Once we arrive, we first store the items that don't need to be refrigerated and label the rest in the refrigerators provided in the communal kitchen.

By now we've eaten and we're back in bed. We don't feel well, jet lag is really annoying. So let's continue to rest and enjoy the rest of the evening in togetherness. Tomorrow is a new day...