About

I’m Michael Curtis, born in Christchurch, New Zealand.
While I was born in Christchurch, I (read: my parents) subsequently moved to Taupo (which is too small for the map, right) and then Hamilton. When I began studying in 2005, I moved back (ironies of ironies) to Christchurch.

In 2004, I went on exchange to Germany. The map on the left shows some of the important places in the North of Germany. The large dotted line is a country border and Denmark is not a state of Germany, unlike Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommen and the City-State Hamburg.

I stayed with my host family in a local holiday spot called Plön, barely known outside of (North)Germany. This is the city with the bold text about halfway between Kiel and Lübeck, the latter of which is a very beautiful old Hansestadt. For more information, you might want to read my diary entries from this period.

Chronology

Well there’s a lot to be said for a quick summary with lots of embarrasing, cheesy photos. Which is what I thought when I wrote this up.

1985	Born in Christchurch
1990	I was 5! I started school.
1997	After moving to Hamilton and spending time at primary school there, I was ready for the big wide world of… intermediate school
1999	Started High School
2003	Finished High School
2004	Took off to Germany for a year
2005	Started University, studying Mechatronics Engineering, University of Canterbury