backpacker #6 | Wait!!! I want to go the other way.

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^{A rainy day in Wellington, New Zealand. By @cnandofer}

After three months living in Te Puke, I decided to try my luck on the south island. I've never been very organized and I don't like to plan things. So by the time I arrived at Wellington I had no idea of where I was going to sleep or what I was going to do. Not only this, my phone was dead and actually, I realized at that moment that I'm very dependent on it because I really didn't know what to do.

There was a hostel exactly in front of the bus stop, I came in and it was good but my pocket guide mentioned another one that was supposed to be one of the best hostels in New Zealand. I started walking, looking for the other hostel and after 20 minutes walking under the rain, carrying my too big backpack. I was exhausted, I decided to take a minute and just lay down in the street.

I was at an intersection, the traffic light was red at the moment and three kiwi girls shouted at me from their car.

-Heeeey! What are you doing?
-I'm lost looking for a hostel – I answered.

Then they shouted another thing that I didn't really understand and left me because the traffic light was green again. When I decided to start walking again a car stopped at my side, it was the same car with the three kiwi girls again.

-Jump in the car with us!!! We're gonna take you to the backpacker!!!

For one moment I was not sure if I should go with them but of course, I got in the car with them. Three girls in a car can't do me something bad, I thought.

When I got in the car the first thing they wanted to know was where I was from, just like the lasts times that someone asked me that, they got overexcited when I said Mexico. I was the first Mexican that they met and all of them wanted to go to Mexico someday.

I didn't know exactly where this 'supposedly amazing' hostel was, but I knew that was going east. They started the car and start driving west.

-Hey Hey! Wait!!! I want to go in that way!!!
-Nooooo!!! You want to go wherever we take you!!!

I was so tired from the walking to argue, actually I couldn't really understand them (they had a hard kiwi accent), so I just decided to obey them. They drove me around the city a little bit, they were going to a concert that night so they were just making some time with me. The gave me their number and drop me off at some place.

-Walk one block in that direction and you will find a hostel.
-Was nice to meet you!!! Call us!!! - They said.

I walked in the direction they told me and when I arrived at the hostel... It was the first hostel I got to when I arrived in Wellington one hour ago and where I didn't want to stay. At the end I was sooooo tired that I couldn't walk anymore, so I stayed there for two nights. I never saw the kiwi girls again but I have this theory where they are getting paid by the hostel for bringing lost backpacker to them.

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