Upon arriving in Tauranga I promptly got lost and arrived at the hostel a full 2 hours after I had planned (even including some time for getting lost, turns out I took a "wrong" turn in Rotarua and so came to Tauranga the LONG way through Te Puke); however, this turned out to be a good thing because I checked-in 5 minutes after a lovely Dutch lady named Lucia who offered to share her dinner with me since we were staying the same room and all. As it turned out she's a vegetarian and it has be SO MUCH FUN having a friend staying in the same room :) I am also living with Ray who is from Germany and very pleasant company, he has joined Lucia and I in a dinner-making rotation so we each cook for the others and it gives us good conversation and different meals and I much prefer cooking for 3 (or 4) rather than one. Nora (also German) is the fourth in our room and she's nice but I feel like I never see her because she works long hours in the pack house but all the interactions I've had with her have been good.
One of the best things about the hostel (The Bell Lodge) is that they help find work for you. So far I've worked for a guy who owns a small farm doing odd jobs and sold fruit by the side of the road out of a van while waiting to start picking kiwifruit. Kiwi have to pass 4 tests before the massive picking can really start and the weather hasn't been super cooperative so they haven't started; however, I may be doing a different job working in a juicing factory instead, we'll see what happens. Maybe by the time this is posted I'll know. I'm going to try and do a better job of short posts (partly because if I want to do any large ones with lots of pictures I have to get to the library or pay for lots of internet) which I'm sure you like reading better anyway :P
Anyway...WOOO new adventure time!
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