so did you see my movie? and my haiku? and all those new photos? fun stuff, isn't it!
i am still in tauranga, at the backpackers. i finally got some work doing summer pruning in kiwifruit orchards. it's easy work, i mean, how hard can pruning be? but i have to look up the whole time, and by the end of the day my neck hurts. i've been told that after a couple of days you don't notice it, and it did hurt less the second day. the job is supposed to last until around christmas, which is perfect. that's about how long i wanted to work until. fantastic! i haven't done an awful lot of new stuff since my last post, i haven't been back to mt. maunganui. it's hard to get around here without a car, just to get to the pak n save it takes about 45 minutes each way. that's a long walk for groceries!
one of my co-workers/fellow backpacker's resident is an american named jessica. yesterday when we were almost finished working i mentioned how i REALLY wanted some pizza SO we walked to pizza hut yesterday evening to get some pizza. but then it started to rain. we decided to eat our pizza on the sidewalk in front of the store, and the delivery guy saw us and gave us a ride back. he wanted to show us some kiwi hospitality!
i have been reading a lot lately. rebecca by daphne du maurier, the life and times of the thunderbolt kid by bill bryson (i literally lol'd, and quite often) and ask the posts of the house by witi ihimaera. all good stuff.
a couple photos of tauranga:
a view of mt. maunganui from my room, and
big gulp! i found it in a shop here in tauranga, all the way from spirit lake, iowa!
I loved The Life and Times... also. I laughed quite often as well. That Bill Bryson is one heck of a writer. I found myself wondering if I would have enjoyed the book as much if I didn't also remember a lot of those things from Des Moines, and if I wasn't attached to Des Moines in general, but I do still think I would have.
ReplyDeleteI also loved your haikus. I'm not big on poetry, but those worked for me!
Dear Sarah,
ReplyDeleteWho knows, maybe I made some of that Gulp!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW! Your pictures are so cool you just HAVE TO SHOW THEM TO THE WORLD. WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW. I bet something could be arranged for a show even if you are not here by the power of digital photography and the internet. LA LA LA. I could be your curater.
hmmm amazing! thanks for the distraction from my paper -- which i'm doing typical Cornell style -- two nights before it's due and pulling the all nighter to write the remaining 8 pages. why oh why did cornell only teach me to procrastinate... well actually it was high school, cornell just refined it into an artform. though no perkins in the middle of the night out here. hopefully breakfast with a fellow classmate though. wow, i'm tired and it's not even late yet!
ReplyDeleteok, about you! amazing! i loved everything and am now super homesick for wandering days. i envy you beyond belief -- NZ might have to be more than just a two-month lune du miel for me...
thanks for the fun postcard! keep having fun! This is super important!