Well, if someone had told us a while back that we would be spending our two-year wedding anniversary in a tiny apartment in Balclutha, New Zealand, hunting for jobs and eating alarming amounts of Cadbury chocolate, we probably never would've believed it. Yet, here we are, exhausted from our one-day job yesterday involving planting flax plants on 800 acres of farmland. But I'm getting ahead of myself. It's been a long and, frankly, quite dreary two weeks. Summer is giving New Zealand a miss this year, apparently (something to do with El Nino?), so we've been buried under gray overcast, blustery winds, and almost daily hailstorms (or freezing rain, at the least). Needless to say, it's been very difficult to get motivated to go out and look for work under those circumstances. But we've been plugging
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