My last hours in MIQ and I get released at 2.35pm this afternoon. I’m just going to treat this morning as if it is business as usual. I found out that those from our intake who are returning to Auckland fly out at 6pm and therefore are not allowed to check out until 4.30pm. I’ll be in Dunedin by the time some of them are still being processed at the Sudima. That makes me smile.
One thing I won’t miss after I leave here is the fact that for the past 14 days I have been very little more than a number (5117) and identifiable by a blue wrist band which was allocated while at the airport in Auckland. You can imagine the joy of cutting this bugger of soon.
I woke up this morning after a good night’s sleep. Unfortunately breakfast arrived at about 7.20am and the first rostered exercise session for our intake was to start at 7.30am until 8.50am. I decided to have just the banana and some water and wait until I return before I eat. Nothing exciting is on the breakfast menu as it is only a muesli cup with yoghurt. Before I head out the door I add additional milk and let it soak while I’m walking.
Afterwards I eat and spruce myself up. Morning tea consists of a large savoury muffin with butter, therefore that, plus the last of my coffee stock, will cleaned up at about 11am. Lunch is going to be an angus beef burger, chips and salad. Hopefully there is a can of coke to wash it down too.
I have one last exercise session, between 1.00pm and 1.50pm, and I’m going to celebrate it as my final act while in MIQ.
One thing I won’t miss after I leave here is the fact that for the past 14 days I have been very little more than a number (5117) and identifiable by a blue wrist band which was allocated while at the airport in Auckland.
If I overlook the situations that have annoyed me, overall the experience has been positive. When I was confined to my room for too long I can accept that it was just an unfortunate oversight and minimal harm was done. As for the two morons who are in our intake group (who do not understand social distancing) if they were trying to put me to the test then I can say that I have shown 95% restraint. A previous version of me would have caused a shit storm so great that the sky would have turned brown. I must be mellowing.
Dunedin here I come…
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