My sit spot has gotten colder. It’s now autumn in Dunedin, and while fall here quite frankly cannot compete with a New England fall, the changing colors in the trees are also very beautiful. The view of town from my sit spot in the Botanic Gardens is dotted with orange and yellow in the trees. […]

At my sit spot, I imagine myself as a tree with many stories to tell within the city of Dunedin: given that Dunedin is home to New Zealand’s oldest university, I imagine that a lot of my stories revolve around students. Students coming to Dunedin for an education, and having a fun time around town […]

There’s many birds chirping in the background. The water is flowing quickly, and the ducks are quietly quacking while they are sitting on the grass. I will admit, bird watching is not my strong suit, so I cannot (currently) identify any bird calls. However, I do enjoy making a mental collection of all the birds […]

I feel community when I’m sitting in the botanic gardens: the quiet rustle of the trees, the ducks quacking in the stream, and people leisurely walking by. This space is a retreat from the bustle of this college town. There’s a lookout point in the garden that I love sitting at, besides my usual sit […]

Dunedin is such an interesting city to me in terms of its “naturalness”: it is definitely a college town where its buildings are plentiful and there is no shortage of concrete structures. On the other hand, the river runs through the city, and there are pockets of nature that are hidden within the city. For […]

This seems silly, but being abroad has made me realize that there’s over 8 billion simultaneous experiences in an endless number of places; this came after basking in the sunshine on a particularly nice day in Dunedin, and remembering that back home in Wellesley, the lake has frozen over. I read Michelle Maheu’s email about […]

Recently, I visited Brooklyn Botanical Garden as my sit spot before I leave for New Zealand. It’s not exactly a place I visit often, though it is a special natural (or at least, natural for NYC) spot for me. It was a very special visit too, as their Amorphophallus gigas (i.e. corpse flower!!) was blooming! […]