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my host sylvia is very health-conscious, and she eats really healthily. and by healthily i don’t mean that she simply includes lots of fruit and vegetables in her diet; by healthily i mean that she is on a 100% raw food diet (well, since we came she’s had some transdigressions–like a slice of bread here ...
my host sylvia brought us out to her son’s place last friday, and what was meant to be a weekend stay turned out to be a 4-day stay.her son lives far out in the country, where the only other house in sight is his landlord’s house; the place was extremely simple and seemed very primitive ...
the road trip lasted longer than we’d initially planned, from 10am to 8pm. ’twas my first experience driving an auto car and it started out REALLY shaky. took me a while to get used to using just one leg while driving. hurhur. and driving in nz is really easy especially on the freeways! and thanks ...
i wanted to go zorbing (that is rolling downhill in a ball) and rent a car and take a road trip in NZ and the chance for me to do that showed up today!a girl from the states joined us and we talked about stuff we really wanted to do here in nz (zorbing, bungee, ...
some belated pics, from my zoo trip yesterday and a picture of the full moon we had some time last week ladybugit was trying to grab my camerableeding heart pigeonswent to a piece of empty land nearby after the zoo closed, spread out our picnic mat and studied english (aiko) and japanese (me)
i’ll be leaving hamilton in mid-feb and head down to masterton in the wairarapa region.i can’t really get any horse-riding done with my current hosts although they’re really nice and the food is great (!! OH MY THE FOOOOOD–i’m so gonna miss it) but i have to think about my other goals too.i’m maybe a ...
i dunno if i’m still under the “high” of seeing so much nature around me, or if it’s that i’m just starting to get influenced by my hosts, but i wanna live in a brick house and have my own garden with maybe 1 or 2 fruit trees and lots of veggies and just be ...
so i met with my hosts yesterday, and her 2 grandsons (6 and 9) were staying with her for the weekend and it was just sooo hard to keep up with them!!they have another girl living with them, helping out like me, (she might be leaving next week though, sigh) and i went into the ...
first, pictures from mount sunday, also the filming location of edoras—–started my day late today–left the hostel at 12 and decided to take a stroll along the pier and after about half an hour of strolling, i came across the museum of new zealand te papa tongarewa and decided to go in cos it looked ...
went on a LoTR tour to edoras (mount sunday) yesterday since i had a free day in christchurch and there’s nothing to do in christchurch.the place was beautiful, though none of the filming structures were there anymore as the location has been restored to the way it was before filming started. oh, and also VERY ...
we arrived back in christchurch yesterday afternoon and my family left for singapore earlier this morning and i’m all alone again!planning to sleep the day away today, do a little sightseeing tomorrow and then start on my journey up north to hamilton on the 8th where i will be based for the next 6 months.there ...
moved from queenstown to ashburton for our farmstay, with several photo stops along the way.mount cook in the distancemy host’s house is just beautiful beautiful beautiful. very warm and inviting and the decor is just total love~~the dining tablethe bathroom!! so prettyymy roomone of the deer on their farm (they own a deer farm; they ...
not many photos today, because the activities that we did didn’t exactly allow for picture-taking.wanted to take a ‘copter ride but the weather didn’t permit it so the ‘copter guys weren’t flying today. was mighty disappointed, so i went to run off a cliff, but not before trying to crash my ride on the mountains.took ...
so it’s dunedin to queenstown yesterday, with a few stops in between. according to our guide nz has a population of about 4.2million which i think is just a good proportion of man and nature. nz is so amazingly beautiful and i would hate for all the green fields to be replaced by concrete should ...
on the way to dunedin, we made a few stopsalpacasmountains in the distancebeautiful beach, clear blue seasi like to take pictures of birds in flight, or birds in the middle of taking off for flight. there’s something beautiful about flying the beach housing the moeraki boulderscracked bouldersbaldwin street - the world’s steepest road. didn’t ...
i prepaid an hours’ worth and still have some time left, so here are the pics from today. well, at least the internet is fast! christchurch airport - pretty no-frills and simplenext stop was the international antarctic centre. quite a cool place! there were simulations of falling snow and a wind “storm” in ...
am in nz. internet in the hotel is a whopping 10NZD per HOUR, charged by the second.if i didn’t have to check my work email, i wouldn’t even bother.kthxbye.
according to wiki, seoul is 605.33 sq km and singapore is 692.7 sq km.i was surprised when i found that out, cos i have always thought that seoul was much bigger than singapore!so i thought about it, and came up with a theory on why i (and many others) thought that seoul was a lot ...
i think the start and end of my trip were more eventful than the trip itself, though it was nice seeing hena again! the KL LCC terminal (aka budget terminal) is damn disorganized -_-;;; after i disembarked from the plane, i spent a good 45 min trying to find a way to get into the ...
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