Much Needed Update!!

We get bored..

Haven't blogged in fookin ages so here's as brief a description of the things I've been getting up to that have prevented my from using the internet:

Jammin'

The First of the Snow

• Film nights: Watching classics such as Chocolat, Boy and of course endless amounts of Flight of the Conchords. Truly legendary watching it with actual Kiwi's who find it just as funny as I do!
• I've FINALLY had a hair cut! It's a lot shorter now and it's great to be able to feel the wind on my cheeks again. Special mention for Anika the lovely German girl who was kind enough to cut it for me in return for a meal. 
• In true fruit expert nature everyone at the hostel is now more or less a fruit geek. When someone says "I've cooked an apple pie" the very first question is "Which variety did you use?" followed by an intense discussion of the cookability of the different sorts. I am now able to identify varieties of fruit simply by feeling them whilst blindfolded. Useless talent win. And of course when on FOTC Brett asks for a Red Delicious apple there are instantly people piping up with: "why would he want one of those it's all about Royal Gala!".. Red Delicious are the scum of the apple world. Trust us, we're professionals. The most recent development was an apple quiz where we had about 15 varieties of apple on a pallet which people had to try and recognise. It's actually quite challenging, especially when some jokers thrown in a fake apple and a tomato.
• I've been practicing guitar a bit, I have learnt to play Happiness by The Blue Nile... beautiful song. There have been endless jams using pots, pans, guitars and mouth organs which are consistently epic and usually end with us being told 2 in the morning is not an appropriate time for a music jam. If you ask me they're just being grumpy.
• Found possibly my favourite fruit of all time. Doesn't really get grown anywhere else in the world as far as I know, definitely not England. It's called Feijoa fruit and anyone who see's these in a shop, GET THEM. Soooo tasty. I used some to make an apple and feijoa crumble, it went down an absolute treat!!



Me and the Boss

• I have been learning to drive! At first John was taking me for drives in automatics (one of which is an English Rover with a V8... you feel pretty powerful. But recently I've been driving Monique and I to and from work in a manual. Not strictly legal but everyone is unbelievably relaxed about it here strangely. Tis nice.

I'm sure there are lots of things I have forgotton about unfortunately because it has been a magical few weeks. We've finished the Extreme Ice Creams at work, I have almost $5000 in the bank and will be setting off travelling tomorrow morning. But I'll explain more about that in my next blog post. Peace out!