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  Kerikeri, New Zealand
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

We left Auckland in search of work in the northland. The plan was to head north to where the Fruit picking season was beginning. We decided on Kerikeri as this is the fruit picking capital of the northland. It's a small town but nice all the same. We arrived in Kerikeri on 8th April, applied at the local supermarket on the 9th, had an interview on 10th and began work on the 14th - not bad eh? I'm now a fully fledged member of New World's Deli Counter, Kerikeri! I've had a couple of days working and its clear the work isn't easy but it's going to beat fruit picking, especially now that the weather has changed.
Whilst working I'm staying at a local hostel, it's great, we have our own room for around 7 pounds a night- bargain! I'm looking forward to have a settled period for the next month or so.
On our days off we have plans to see all that Northland has to offer. So far we've done the walk from the hostel to Rainbow Falls, a walk to Haruru Falls and a day out to Russell via the car ferry. Last Sunday we headed up to the Far North on a day trip. This included driving on 90 Mile beach, riding the Sand Dunes at Te Paki Stream, a walk in a Kauri tree forest and visiting Cape Reinga itself. It was a fun day and best of all was sharing with some friends from the hostel.
As far as our nightly plans, most have included a film of some sort but we've had a couple of special nights. One night we had a BBQ and playing drinking games and then last night we ventured into Kerikeri to check out their saturday night entertainment. It was a good night and the majority of people in the pub were actually from our hostel.
I finished at New World on Saturday 10th May, I was sad to leave the people I worked with over the last month but it was time to move on. That night I went out with the girls from my hostel and met up with someone else from work. We had a great night at The Homestead, dancing our socks off!
Before leaving New Zealand our last stop was Auckland for a night. We stayed at Ponsonby Backpackers which was really nice and for my last night we went to see Westlife - all I can say is they were fab!!
So I leave New Zealand now after 11 weeks, I have fallen in love with the beauty of this country and hope I can come back real soon. 
Farewell NZ...!

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My Meat Counter	Co-workers	My sexy uniform	Chicken duty
Cuddling meat	Me and Anna at work	Me doing inward goods	Me with my bosses
My leaving cheesecake	Slicing   Comments!	Hone Heke Lodge	Kitchen and Living Area
Hone Heke Bus	Our own fridge and cupboards	Our room	Steve the manager
My Room	Us at Rainbow Falls	Rainbow Falls	Ryan's homemade steak and chips
Taking in the view	Wet Day Off	At the Bridge	Russell Beach
Paddling	Me at Russell Beach paddling	Us at Russell Beach	Paddling in the sea
Me at Russell Beach	Haruru Falls from afar	Me by the falls	Haruru Falls
Ryan at the Falls	Rainbow at Haruru Falls	Trip to Warehouse	Quiz Night fun
Group pic	Chef Jaime at the BBQ	ryan anna wing	Our BBQ grub
Ryan and Olivia	Me and J	otherside of the table	Ryan and Anna at the BBQ
moi at bbq	Me and Ry	Ryan thru bottles	Ryan and his girls
BBQ Group	Full tummies all round	Full to busting	Drinking Race
Playing Yee ha!	Yee ha	Day Trip to the Cape	Me and Ryan on the Coach
90 Mile Beach	Jaime and Anna on the coach	90 mile beach girl	hole in rock
top of sand dune	me on sand dune	Ry, Wing and Matt boarding	sand dune view
Jaime and Anna sand boarding	Sand dunes	Sand boarding on the dunes	Me at lighthouse
Me at the Cape	View from the cape	The Lighthouse	ryan by lighthouse
Sea and Ocean meets	Cape Reinga	Wing, Ry and Jaime	Us at the Lighthouse
The Countryside	Fish n Chips	ryan in costume	Me at the fish n chips shop
Girls in forest	Sunshine	Me and Jaime in forest	Giant Kauri Tree
More countryside	Kerikeri	Paithia centre	Paitha Beach
P.Harbour	P. Church	Nest Girls	Girls on night out
Jaime at the bar	Shots	Girls night	Dancing
Ryan and Olivia dancing	Naughty antics	My hostel mates	Catch my breathe by Westlife
Westlife picture	Westlife Preview	Westlife Still

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