Right
now I'm about 40 minutes west of Auckland in Waimauku, in the North Island. Staying with a family in a little apartment a 5 minute walk
away from their beautiful home. They live on a farm, take people in
and feed them in exchange for help around their farm/home and helping
them with their kids. They have two little boys and a little girl.
Their English speaking abilities are impressive! Their Thai is
lacking though. Got here on the 21st, staying for as long as they
will have me. One of my friends put me in touch with them because she
had nannied with their neighbors a few years ago. Their names are
Tim and Kelly. Kelly is a chiropractor (just like my dad!) and Tim
owns part of a helicopter manufacturing company and works on the
farm. Spend the first few days at his shop, cleaning windows and
things like that. They pay for my lunch and cook me amazing dinners
at night. In my biased opinion, I am getting way more out of this
deal than they are so far, hopefully I can change that. Enjoying it
here, haven't spend loads of time on farms in my life so should learn
a couple of things with my time here.
Got
on job on Whakapapa ski hill, half way between Auckland and Wellington
as a lift attendant/de-icer. Want to try the de-icer part, apparently
they hoist you up close to the top of the lift, take a baseball bat
and smash all of the excess ice off the chair lifts. Should keep me
in shape and sounds like a hardcore way to spend your days. Off days
will be spent getting better at snowboarding and ideally learning a
few tricks in the half-pipe. Start work June 24th and found a place to stay. They cook you your
breakfast and dinner and it is the main staff residence. Rent
there is $820 a month, steep but not cooking your own food is
something I've just grown very accustomed to. That's kind of what's
happening so far.
Next few post ideas will be about how much it costs
to move to New Zealand and a list of New Zealand sayings that just go
completely over my head and see if you can guess the definition. Hope
everyone had a great long weekend, if you ever need to get a hold of
me here my number is or e-mail me at bertbrandon@gmail.com.
Shot my first shotgun today and they have a skeet shooting device
here as well. Farm life, nothing wrong with it.
Thinking
quotes for the next few weeks will be coming from things these little
kids say. Taylor is the oldest, Jack's in the middle and Ella is the
youngest.
Me:
How do you use a 3D printer?
Taylor:
We use a program called Google Sketch.
Me:
What's that?
Taylor:
You don't know what Google Sketch is?
Me:
No
Taylor:
Do you know what Google is?
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