Blogs from Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania - page 14

Hello everyone! Kerstin and I are now employed full time at a landscaping company! It is very relieving to have a steady job with hourly pay, something about knowing how much money you’re going to get at the end of the week is just nice. The work is physically demanding, but not a great deal more than what is required for kiwi fruit picking and pruning. We only work weekdays so Saturdays and Sundays are time for rest and relaxation (and updating everyone back home). We’ve been doing the landscaping at criminal youth rehabilitation centre that is currently under construction, most of the work is just planting small plants and covering them with week mats, but yesterday and the day before we were laying turf. More accurately, I was hauling the turf off the pallets, the ... read more

A few days before I climbed to the top of Mount Manganui! Ines, Katja, Timo, and I went along the main path with another German couple (Alana and Tobias) form the hostel. Anika and Kerstin decided to skip the climb as they had both done it on an earlier occasion. The hike to the top took about 45 minutes and we got very lucky as the weather stayed nice long enough for us to get back to the hostel before it started to dump. We split off of the main path close to the top of the mountain to follow what we decided to call the extreme trail (trail being a very strong word for this little rut in the side of the mountain) and got to the top before Alana and Tobias. The view from ... read more

Como verán en las fotelis, pasamos un cumple muuy lindo!!! No habíamos trabajado en toda la semana por la lluvia y como no podia ser de otra manera ese día trabajamos, por suerte fueron 4 horitas y nos fuimos a casa!! En la semana que tuvimos libre hicimos las tortas varias y empanadas!! Sepan que le ponemos mucha onda ya que no hay dulce de leche y lo hacemos con leche condensada, y las empanadas es masa de tarta recortada igual quedo buenísimo. Nat deleito a las cumpleañeras con una súper Vainitiorta, (no encontramos galletitas de chocolate). A la tarde soplamos las velitas y a la noche hicimos fiesta en casa y salimos por ultima vez a la Fiesta Latina lo pasamos súper lindo!!!!!! Muchas Gracias por los saludos!!!!! Besos!!!! Las girls!!! ... read more

Hey everyone, Whangarei was a bust for the job market so Kerstin and I have traveled down to Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty (not to be confused with the Bay of Islands). The hostel we’re staying at is called, I kid you not, “Just the Ducks Nuts” which just about made me spit out the water I was drinking (a similar incident happened when I had to explain to Kerstin and a girl from France named Julie what marital aid meant ) when I was told it was a viable option for our stay in the Bay of Plenty. There was a nice walk to a waterfall and through a little bit of Kauri forest (forest is a strong word as there were less than a dozen Kauri trees) and along the river back into ... read more

85, what a great age, especially arriving at that age with very good health. Well done Dad and Grandad you are an inspiration to all the family. You have been very moderate in the way you have lived your life, what you have eaten and the fact that you have not been one to drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. As you say you have also been blessed with great genes. The flip side to all of the above is the way that you have been one to take all sorts of risks with your life. Of course you would say that they were calculated risks!!!! You are like a cat you have been blessed with nine lives!!! How many times on the farm did you fall off your horse, been kicked, stomped on by various animals, ... read more