Archiv für den Monat: April 2011

Today was too rainy to work and so I had to spend the day at home. The long weekend has been made even longer though and of course no picking means no money. At least there is finally Internet in the apartment and I don’t need to sit out on the terrace to use it anymore. I did get an excuse to leave the house tonight though – I had the first lesson of a six week salsa course. I haven’t danced salsa in years but I really enjoyed it and the people there were nice so I think it … Continue reading →

Another day off for the long weekend, nice! Went out for another lunch, this time at P. and H.’s house which is 30 minutes away and in the country. It’s an enormous old 8 bedroom, two story villa. It has beautiful wooden floors everywhere and a nice fireplace in the lounge, not to mention an Italian style garden and wonderful pool. It was another miserable day outside, so after a great Mediterranean style lunch we sat around playing Wii. I had great fun hurling snowballs, doing ski jumps, and getting all the new high scores that I could. Before leaving … Continue reading →

Today I was invited to a reunion lunch for the 20th anniversary of the National Youth Drama School. I expected it to be thoroughly boring with endless speeches and nothing fun, but the promise of free food and wine was enough to convince me to go and put on a smile for a couple of hours. As it turned out it was a wonderful afternoon. Apart from the delicious food (prosciutto, and good cheese!) and good red wine the whole day was quite entertaining. Even the serious speeches were given with good humor and with style, and in between everything … Continue reading →

Despite being a holiday weekend we ended up picking on Saturday. It wasn’t great to be picking in the middle of the long weekend but at least everyone was in a relaxed, laid back kind of mood. To make it even better we were picking Granny Smith – a big apple that is all just plain green. It’s not exactly hard to fill your bin when you hardly even need to look at the apples and so I had 3 bins before lunchtime. In the middle of the morning we all stopped together for an official Smoko (thats how they … Continue reading →

Yesterday I went with friends to a local bar that runs poker tournaments in the evening. They all expected me to play (I had of course profited $8 playing online already!) but at first I declined. Once the game got started though I found out that standing around watching poker is actually rather boring. I watched for a while and then had a chat with the guy behind the bar. Once the first few people were out I found someone to play some billiards with. The guy running the tournaments came and found me and tried to convince me to … Continue reading →

What an awful day! Picking was shit, didn’t shoot any rabbits and my mood is more than bad!

Working on Saturday makes the weekend so short! It was still a good one anyway – I got lots done in the afternoon yesterday and tonight a German couple, who are colleagues in the orchard, visited for dinner. It was H’s birthday and we cooked a nice barbecue with fresh baked bread, rabbit, veggies, cheese and salad. We even got to light the brazier once it got dark and we sat around talking and having a few drinks. C. stopped by as well and we all discussed the differences between NZ and Germany. We talked about the bureaucracy in Germany … Continue reading →

Last night I went and visited J. Everyone there was sitting down in front of a computer playing poker. After watching for a while I got bored and decided that it was my turn to play. I jumped on a spare laptop, made someone give me an account to use, and started playing my first online poker games! I played three $1.10 games and came out with a profit of about $8 – not too bad for a beginner! It did mean that I had played until almost the end though and didn’t finish and go home until after 1 … Continue reading →

Got my first wages for the last week’s work! Hopefully I won’t need to use my savings anymore!