Kategorie-Archiv: Travel

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!

I managed to get two bonus bins of apples, plus I got given an hour’s wage for time we had to spend all doing a row of apples together because one of the bosses missed it. All up I earned $107.50 before tax – I’m trying to ignore the fact that it’s half of nothing. It’s a hard life these days ;o) Shot another rabbit, either it’ll end up on the barbecue or I can trade it for some other meat. Nothing against rabbit, it is very tasty, but everyday? I wouldn’t mind some change of meat in the menu.