The flight down was uneventful and even went by pretty quickly for 12.5 hours worth of flying. Things were going a little too smoothly though as we turned up at the airport with zero out of two people waiting for us at the airport to meet us. After a quick scramble on our new Kiwi phone and the internet we at least had a place to go with all our stuff and a place to stay while we figured out housing.
We are currently staying at the family home of one of the girls I worked with this summer. Debbie, the mom is hilariously Irish and incredibly nice. She uses the word lovely about every other sentence, calls us pet, and has hilarious Irish exclamations such as "For the love of the Father!", or something like that. Her daughter Kathryn is 15, irish dances, and is also incredibly nice. William the dad is much quieter than his wife, very blunt and cynical, but has been very hospitable. Gary, their oldest is the same age as us and works for the Kiwi equivalent of our MTV. He's taken us out on the town and introduced us to some of his friends which has been nice to get to know the locals.
Its incredibly hard to believe that we have only been here for only two full days. Our first day we went out to lunch with Debbie and out to a bar with Gary later that night. His friends that he introduced us to were really funny and we all enjoyed making fun of each others accents and ended the night with a dance party at one of their houses.
Yesterday we met up with good family friends the Clements for lunch. We started getting a taste for all of the exciting adventures we may be finding ourselves on other the course of the next couple of months. Black water rafting? Rappelling into a huge cave? Skydiving? Bungee jumping? Working for a paintball company? House sitting near the beach? Yes please!
But seriously; we are going to house sit. Andrew Clement's secretary is going out of town for three weeks so she has been kind enough to offer up her house for us to hang out in (and care for her cat) while she is gone. We are really excited about having a place of our own if only for a little bit and not have to worry about imposing on the Mulholland family.
Our plans for now is to not rent and skip from place to place as they open up. (Don't worry, Andrew has a lot of ideas on how to make that work). We're hoping to get some day trips in this weekend and next week we are going to start meeting with people about getting jobs.
Hope everyone is doing well. Look for a good story about learning how to drive on the left side of the road in the upcoming week. We are hoping to have a video to accompany that one.
Love to you all
Anna, Jackie, and Alissa
Aaaah I see the first to comment. You girls are doing a great job of commentary don't forget to desceibe everything so we can really get the flavor. McDonalds is good but do they serve the same stuff?? And I thought we weren't supposed to judge? Sounds like you are having fun time will go by quickly don't worry to much just go with the flow.
ReplyDeleteMiss you tons
MOM R
Hey darlings. I am sooo excited because this is my first blog.
ReplyDeleteIt is great to see the sights through your literary missives.
Keep it coming.
Pa(w)
So good of ya to respond to my e-mail. I think SPIKE is a better name than Spencer. Oh well. Wayne, Mark & Wendy are here helping to clear the personal effects of Harold. We are moving forward and I am grateful for the help. It is sad for me too.
ReplyDeleteI will try to keep up with your blogs daily.
Much Luv, Nani Lue