Kategorie-Archiv: Travel

I got a pet pukeko! One of the pukeko on the farm decided not to be scared of humans anymore and to live in front of my apartment and I decided to name him Pete. The only problem was that he scared C.’s son J. I spent a whole evening following the pukeko with J. and we fed the bird with bread. J. was very proud not to be scared anymore, but even more important is now that J. likes Pete, N. (who really doesn’t like birds, he actually has a fear of chickens which is pretty funny) won’t be … Continue reading →

Today I didn’t have pruning because of the rain, so instead I had a girly day to myself. I went over to Napier and after a relaxing soak at the Ocean Spa I wandered into town for some shopping. I got myself a blouse from one of the clothing stores and found a great organic store with some pretty cheap stuff, including rye flour. Mmm, now I can have fresh rye bread – yummy. They had some other nice things as well and I’m sure that I will go back again before I leave. Besides the necessary grocery shopping at … Continue reading →

Went to the cinema tonight to watch Pirates of the Caribbean 4. Haven’t been to the movies in ages and Tuesdays are the cheap nights here as well, so E. and I went together and used it as a good excuse to eat some junk food. He might have got just a little annoyed at how quickly I can eat popcorn  🙂

Got back from Wellington yesterday – what a wonderful but rather expensive weekend. Compared to back home clothes are really cheap, but when I think about what I earn here they are horribly expensive. Far too easy to spend a whole week’s income in one store. Must be careful not to lose my feeling for values!

My first week pruning was good – my totals for the four days I worked were 93, 82, 115 and 107. Seems that I will keep making ok money with the new job but now I am having some real problems with my shoulder. It doesn’t really hurt during the day but at night when I go to sleep it aches really badly and gives me a lot of trouble sleeping. The woman I borrowed the pruning gear from had similar troubles and recommended a cream called Deep Heat for it. The cream smells terrible but seems to help enough … Continue reading →

I had my first day pruning today which meant going back to Flaxmere. It’s ok, the people I am getting a ride with seem ok and I can leave Harry up on their property off the street. Apart from saving lots of money on petrol it also means I can sleep for almost an extra half an hour in their car while we drive out to the vineyards. Didn’t do too bad with the pruning either – I finished 93 plants at $1.10 a plant which I’m sure will go up much more with practice. It was great to be … Continue reading →

This week I worked in the glasshouses all week and had my last day on Friday. It was a great week and the people there were really nice. I did all sorts of different things, planting, weeding and winding cucumbers up their wires. The staff were so nice that one of them, C., even lent me her pruning gear and gumboots for me to use doing grape pruning for the next month or two. The only shit thing that happened was someone went into the staff area while we were all busy working and stole everyone’s tobacco. All of my … Continue reading →