lundi 25 mai 2009

Mount Mauganui + Tauranga

hi all,
Like my grandfather said, i must prove my english progresses so this part of the diary will be in English!
I left Auckland 10 days ago. The journey was a discovery of my new car...awesome. It's so good to have his own car, i felt so free! the car work perfectly and the landscapes during the travel were really unmazing. The only problem was that i didn't have some music in the car...but it s not really important.
I have been to an hostel in mount mauganui. I knew that this bacpacker could provide me some kiwi picking's job. The big advantage of this hostel was his location. Mount Mauganui is a famous holiday place with a beautiful surf beach. So the first two days, i didn t work and i just enjoyed my stay. I bouth a bodyboard and surfed in the goods waves of the mount mauganui s beach. Of course the waves were not as big as in Australia but really not too bad.

I have begun the work the third day of my stay in this hostel. I have been really really lucky with the work because it s in a very friendly little farm. We are 15 for the kiwi picking: 5 travellers like me (2 guys from Chili and a couple of Czech) and 10 kiwi's people (people from New Zealand are called « Kiwis » because of the famous New Zealand bird). This 10 people are actually the members of the farmer s family. It s a big family and they live all in the same area close to the farm of the granth parents. When the kiwi s season is coming, all the members of this family help for the kiwi picking.
The big advantage of this work is that the working atmosphere is unmazing. All the people speak, joke and laugh non stop during the work. They are really friendly and fun so i really enjoy working with them.
The other advantage is that it s hourly and well paid: 15$/h...really not so bad for a fruit picking s job.

Me and the 2 Czech guys have been to the house of one of the famers for diner one evening. It was really good, i hadn t eat so good since i left my mother and her delicious meals. He live in a beautiful house with a unmazing view. I put some pictures of the view from his garden at the end of this mail. The problem is that it was really early in the morning and the brightness is too weak.
This farmer like soccer and he proposed to watch together the champion s league final thurday morning before working. Here it's between 6 and 8 am...It will be crazy to watch soccer and drinking coffe in place of beers.

The problem was the bacpacker where i slept: too small, expensive (140$/week), too much german people and especially, not enougth girls! So i decided to leave after a week because the two chili s guys who works with me propose me an accomodation in their house. It's a shared house with 8 beds. They are 3 chilian, 3 germans and one from Argentina. The atmosphere is awesome and i really enjoy my stay! There is free internet and it s cheap (90$/week) so i think i have finded a place where i will stay fot a long time. Some people asked that i give an adress to send me letters an other thinks when i stay in a same place a few weeks . So i give you the adress:

103, Greeton road
3112 Tauranga
New Zealand

I think it s finish, i have nothing other to tell. Sorry for the english mistakes and for the people who don t speak english....but it s not me who asked for that!
Please, give me some news from Europa!
Martin

6 commentaires:

  1. La version française est pour quand?

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  2. heuuuu jamais...mais c est pas de l'anglais compliqué!

    Sinon, il y a toujours le cpoier-coller dans google translate...
    http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=fr#

    Sinon, merci de signer lorsque vous postez un commentaire, sinon je ne sais pas à qui je réponds!
    Martin

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  3. héhé c ça qui est bon!

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  4. Zigmund, j'tai reconnu!

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  5. perso moi j'ai tout compris et je ne suis pas une bête en anglais.

    Ca fait plaisir de voir que tout se passe bien pour toi.

    Ici les exams arrivent à grand pas et il ne se passe pas grand chose si ce n'est que le standard est champion et que grâce aux tests matchs, la Belgique a cessé de parler de la crise, des problèmes communautaires et de la grippe mexicaine pendant une semaine.
    Hier j'ai été bouffé chez max et sara avec zizi, leur appart' est génial.

    J'essayerai d'aller plus souvent sur ton blog

    A+ Loulou, tu manques à tout le monde

    Biz

    Frans le débonnaire

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  6. Merci mon cher France, bon courage pour tes exams!
    C'est cool que le standard soit champion, c'est toujours mieux qu anderlecht!

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