This will probably be my signoff for 2008. I did a few different Christmas Parties today,two of which I have photos to share. First I went to the Rob and Bromwen's place for lunch and watched a bunch of kids go crazy over one of their first memorable christmases. The Fleming...s have become my extended family and will always be a special part of my life and I hope that it's the same for them. Great lunch and witnessed a traditional christmas meals. We forgot the christmas pudding at home and had to rush back... it's a green light go go [View Full Entry]

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Auckland during Christmas is officially dead. My friends have gone back to the states for the holiday period or gone to their family batches (beach homes) I'll be in Auckland for a good part of the holiday period just taking it easy. We prepared the Christmas ham and turkey today. With this being the summer period I BBQ for everyone, yummy burgers and NZ hot dogs (sausage). Graham and George brought over Playstation's Singstar video game and we belted out the classics until the wee hours of Tuesday morning... surprisingly the neighbours have yet to call noies patrol on us. I [View Full Entry]

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This coming new year is shaping up to be my time to get more involved with the creative pursuit drama, film and voice work on radio. A couple weeks ago I was invited to audition my voice for some voice over internet work. I didn’t know if I’d hear back from the woman, however I just got this email tonight. Pretty cool. Hope all is well for you all in this holiday season. You may have heard about a large earthquake here in New Zealand. I’m all right as are friends. All my best. "Hi Donavin Sorry for delay in getting [View Full Entry]

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With the departure of Jen last week and Sarah's rapidly approaching departure this Wednesday the number of my IEP group is dwindling quickly. I was organizing old emails today and found what I think was the first correspondence I received from Sarah more than a year ago, an invitation to her Halloween Party. From there we’ve seen a number of adventure (or misadventures, depending on who you ask); there was of course a couple Halloween parties, the most recent of which got me in trouble with another friend, the always unforgettable two week trek thru the south island, and etc….. Today, [View Full Entry]

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I'm back again this year doing fundraising for men's health. I'll post a photo this weekend, however I thought that I'd get the invitation requesting a small donation out and see what comes back. Thanks again to all those that donated last year. All you have to do is go to: http://www.movember.com/nz/donate Enter my registration number: 191413 And the rest is up to you. Thanks and have a good day...... Hi All, During Movember (the month formerly known as November) I'll be growin a Mo. That's right I'm bringing the Mo back because I'm passionate about men's health and the fight [View Full Entry]

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My first photo to ever be in print was published today in the NZ Herald. Attached is the link to the page. On Monday I'll know if my photo is entered in the final voting for top photo. The link is: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/feature/story.cfm?c_id=1501478&objectid=10476493 On Wednesday some of my photos are being displayed at a local opening of new photographers in NZ. Work is full on. Recently I've been working on a geothermal powerplant project that is located in Chile. hope you get to check out my photo. Cheers [View Full Entry]

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Halloween 2007. While Stephanie was away we used the house to throw an epic ghoul party. The party brought to an end many things, but that's only for refrence purpose. My ricky bobby costume was a year old but never worn.... out of date entertainment items don't work well for costumes. The scotts showed up in the same costume from last year... see 2006 photos. Overall a party to remember. [View Full Entry]

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It's been a while since I've had anything of significance to mention here. It was a holiday (Labour Day) weekend so I took Friday off from work and made a long four day weekend in Rotorua. Rachel and I headed out early Friday for the scenic drive (long way around) to Rotorua by way of Mt Maunganui and Tauranga. Friday we did a short tour of the small and relitively uniteresting downtown of Rotorua and met up with friends of Rachel's that were passing thru to Taupo. Saturday was a proper tourist day. Visited one of the better geothermal parks and [View Full Entry]

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I'm only making this entry because I heard the funniest thing on the equivalent of your 10pm news. New Zealand news tries hard enough to make itself purposeful, let’s be honest there is just so little news worthy events they’ll do almost anything to fill in 30minutes. Well tonight they hit new low (high) of pointlessness. Picture this: New Zealand anchorwoman, the camera cuts away to a news story decidedly American (American accented male commentator, hick’ish group of guy’s staring up a pine tree at a bear they just tranquilized, debating how to get the bear down. Next scene, said hicks [View Full Entry]

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I figured I'd been here for a year and had been talking about walking coast to coast but have yet to act on that talk. I met with Rachel and headed down to her office to print out a map of the walk. I would have gone it without a map, but that's just not for everyone :-) The walk took us from downtown, up to Albert Park (University of Auckland), the Domain Park, Mt Eden, One Tree Hill park and down to Onehunga Bay. We covered a distance of more than 16KM One of the best parts of the walk [View Full Entry]

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