The week started really nice, woke up kind of early because apparently our dorm was overbooked so there were 5 people instead of 4 people sleeping in my room last night. I don't know what happened but one of the girls had to sleep on the floor and she was charged for twin share. I don't know what happened but to me that's really sneaky. Anyways I had wake up early as well to check out because I wanted to stay with my friends at room 8 so I had to check out from room 11. I have been traveling for a while and sometimes I don't understand why hostels charge the same for 3 beds dorm and 4 beds dorm. I mean I would rather go with the 3 bed dorm since they are the same price. Because I stayed at different dorm last night, there was a newbie from the US who stayed with my friends, she is an awesome girl and just started her round the world trip. It was cool to meet her, so the next day we went for a hike. We have been told that the hike would take at least 45 minutes to an hour, however after taking many pictures (we think) and getting taking detours (lost) we arrived at the peak of the mountain in about 2 hours or maybe less, at that point, we weren't bothered with the time because it was worth it to be honest. The view was fantastic and splendid. The trek was a bit long but it was interesting because we only took 1 break, even thought we planned to take breaks every ten minutes, but after realizing that we were better than that we didn't do much break and since we were talking about things, time did fly and we reach the place in one piece. 
On top of the mountain we decided to luge, something that I have never done it before and it was exciting and fun. We wanted to do the faster lane but since we have never done it before, they had this policy that don't allow first timers to go on the fast lane so we had pay to go twice but it was well worth it. After the most exciting ride of my trip here in New Zealand, we decided to take the gondola back to earth, the trip was really relaxing and chilling, and well deserving.
Before going back to my hostel I decided to rent some gear so I can ski the tomorrow. I have to be honest I never thought that skiing was such a pain in the arse. I mean first of all the shoes were so tight and uncomfortable and after trying those boots I do feel sympathy for those women who were forced to wear corsets. Man my feet were in pain but the rest of the gears were OK. They were not that expensive but if you want to do it more often I do advise you to buy your own cause renting them for a few days might be worth it but not for long termers.
After that we decided to go to our hostel and play some cards and drink some caipirinha. I taught them how to play the Swedish game called cucumber and then played some bullshit. The night ended quite early as I prepared myself for tomorrow, the day when I go to the mountain and try to ski. I bet you that I will be in pain the following day.
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