Blogs from Albany, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 2

Everything needs a conclusion right? I mean how many politicians actually read the whole report? But the whole experience and my thoughts on it are difficult due to complexities to summarise succinctly. My conclusion one liners: African aid has been going on for over two decades. Africa is a dump (In my opinion). Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein Aid money from countries, is usually your tax dollars. Don't stick your nose, where it doesn't belong. You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. Let Africa fix Africa. We actually have problems of our own, and if we are not careful we could end up... like them. But aid ... read more

Here are a few photos that I may use in the exhibit.... read more

Kahikatea Eco-art Village To tell you all the honest truth there's not an awful lot to report this fortnight. I stayed at the Kahikatea eco-art village place an extra week after we last spoke and ran the kitchen for the festival they put on. We did foor for 300 people or so. I spent 3 days buying and making the food and by the saturday morning we had this beautiful, sleek food making machine ready to go and serve all the people who flooded through, we even had a couple contingency plans for when we sold out. Alas and alack, no one came; well not no one, but no where near enough people to make it worth our time and money (not my money, others' money, but a lot of my time as i was head ... read more

Well in one week's time we'll be off to the airport - although if I have my way, being my father's daughter, I'll be at the airport already (for our flight in four hours' time)! Not much to report except another station win in the Radio Awards and a good night had by all - except for me the seedy hungover feeling on Sunday turned into a long, drawn out case of the...well let's just say the bathroom and I are good friends! Never thought I'd have to be taking drugs my GP prescribed me for 'just in case' before I even left the country! The last couple of days we've been seriously relaxing, sleeping in, lying around watching TV all day and babysitting Molly the Toy Poodle in her Albany castle. So today we're off ... read more

Week 2: Auckland, NZ We arrived in Auckland and made it through the most friendly customs ever - they opened our Christmas presents but didn't tell us what they were, we didn't even peek! We found some maps and caught a shuttle to Evelyn and John's place in Albany (North Shore of Auckland). Their home, aptly called the Treehouse, is beautiful and surrounded by trees with a path leading down to a stream. It was hardly what we had pictured when arriving in New Zealand's largest city. They welcomed us with open arms and spoiled us rotten with great meals, laundry and internet. We rented a car and began looking for a vehicle of our own at auctions. After a few days looking we found two we wanted to bid on, both vans that we could ... read more