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To get away early for a weekend trip to Lake Taupo I tried to finish work at 3:00 o’clock on Friday – of course it didn’t really work and late as always I started the 2.5 hour drive into the mountains. I stayed in a lovely little holiday house in a small town called Turangi further around the lake from the main tourist town Taupo. It was really nice with a big warm fireplace and wooden floors and it barely cost any more than a backpackers, great! On Saturday I did the Tongariro crossing – a day walk over a … Continue reading →

Got work in the Glasshouses and so can stay one week longer in the company. „The Glasshouses“ are a big area with glasshouses and fields, where they grow all sorts of veggies. My first job is to weed a big field of broccoli and cauliflower. I hated weeding when I was a child and now I do it voluntarily.

What a crap day today! First of all they made me pack in the morning instead of picking. Packing is boring and it gets paid on hours so I make less money because I miss out on picking the granny smith apples again. The packing finished at lunch and then I went back to the orchard where I had of course lost my ladder and had to spend half an hour finding it before being told we couldn’t pick anyway because they had the wrong bins – awesome! We ended up changing orchards and picking juice which we didn’t even … Continue reading →

I’m sitting in front of Apollo Pack and waiting for C. to pick me up. She’ll take me to Ohiti to do the final juice pick there – the days with the good money are all over, only juice is left. The days with the Vanuatu gang are over as well, they had their last day yesterday and will leave on Friday. They are going to the South Island to watch a rugby game and then do some pruning work. It’s sad, so many weeks picking together made us all friends. It took so long in the beginning for them … Continue reading →

I had the day off sick today – my right arm is completely fucked. I’ve been working in an office too long. The Internet says that I have cubital tunnel which is when a nerve gets pinched in the elbow. It usually happens when you have to bend your arms all the time (which you do when you pick apples) and gets worst at night if you sleep with your arm bent up next to your head, which of course I do. I have to try and find a weird way to sleep with my arm straight which is much … Continue reading →

Last night I went to a salsa party in Napier. Of course I wasn’t very good dancing after just one lesson, but it was good to get out and do something. Today I had to work, because of all the picking we missed we even picked on Sunday. I was very tired but it ended up to be my best day with $175 – that’s alright. While I was working N. repaired Harry. Of course it’s the last day to do it. Tomorrow I have to take it to the warranty station, to get it rechecked and to show that … Continue reading →

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 →