Well, it's been quite a while since I blogged so thought I should, plus I'm moving ons soon so wanted to fill you in on everything that I've been up to in Russell in the past month or so. SInce I last updated this I changed jobs again! For the past 4 or 5 weeks I've been working at the 'front 4square' which is a little supermarket shop on the waterfront and it's been a total laugh. Ella sorted me out with the job, if I hadn't got it i would have had to leave Russell sooner cause I would have just spent all the money I'd saved up. Anyway, since I've been working at the 4sq it's been awesome in Russell and really all I've done is worked, beached it and gone out - what ... read more

Hey! Haven't posted in a while I know. I was just going to tell you about my average day in Russell but I'll save that for now (aren't you gutted...), since I had a bit of a mad day on my day off on Sunday; So it all began on Saturday night at work... Haha! But really it did. Couple of chaps who know my boss came in for a few drinks and turns out one of them is a multi-millionair and the other is like his shadow a bit like a really un-cool batman and robin... Anyway, they were chatting away to us and then the millionaire - Mike - is origianlly from England so he was like 'where are you from', etc etc! So they said they would take me fishing next time I ... read more

Hey! Just want to do a quick post about our day trip to the top of New Zealand before I do a blog about the rest of what's been happening with me! So on Saturday just past we got the bus at 7am to do the tour of pretty much the whole of Northland, our bus was actually a lorry, modified to get people on like a bus. It needed to be a truck cause the route is on a lot of rubbish roads, as well as a beach. So we headed pretty much straight up to the Cape, only stopping off at a bakery (top bakery in NZ - think that was a pun tbh) for morning tea and in a forest to look at the Kauri trees which are seriously old, they can live ... read more

Hello! I've had a sort of busy time since I last posted. I think that was Wednesday, so quick summary since then. A group of us went up the Sky Tower in the evening, highest building in the southern hemisphere I'm told, think it's 192m high. Awesome views out over Auckland. Came back to the hostel and got Dominos pizza between about 9 of us, nice. Thursday was the first really nice day, we went to this small park and just hung about for a while. Hopefully the weather is going to keep that up. It's still just the end of spring here, summer starts beginning of December. Gonna be using a lot of suncream, highest rate of skin cancer in the world over here. We watched a Kiwi film at the IEP centre in the ... read more

Hey! Here's my first blog entry, hopefully I will manage to keep it quite short! I met about half the group at the traveloge at Heathrow on Wednesday night and everyone seems really cool and friendly so that sort of calmed the nerves before heading off. The flight to Hong Kong was good, didn't seem to long and I managed to watch loads of films. Only thing was my feet ended up a bit swollen and i had cankles all over for the day - boo! Looking a bit better now, thank goodness! We've been in Hong Kong for just over 24 hours now. Think I've fought the jetlag very well, we got to the hotel about 9am but rooms werent ready so we dumped our bags and went out and got some food and wandered ... read more