July 2010
2 posts
21/7/10 Update Email
Hey guys-
Just wanted to drop everyone a line since it feels like it’s been a while since I’ve communicated with anyone back home and I’m realizing it’s a bit much to expect people to read every entry in the blog. It’s been an incredible week and amazing month. Things are going really well for me here to the point where I honestly can’t believe how much good...
10/7/2010
I haven’t had the chance to update for a couple of weeks because I’ve been so busy, but really wanted to since so much has been happening. I got a job at the Remarkables! Finding a job in QT was insane. Incredibly competitive. I’ve never seen anything like this before. Thousands of qualified people looking for a handful of jobs and a lot of people shit out of luck as a...
June 2010
6 posts
5PM, 28/6/10, on the drive home
“Look at this view, guys. Look at where we live.”
“Do you think we will ever be truly happy living anywhere else ever again?”
“Nope, I think we’re fucked.”
Powder!
Wow. The last couple days on the mountain have been seriously epic. Powder days but clear, sunny skies. I take back everything I said about the mountains in NZ. I love this mountain. I get it now. Yes there are only three lifts, but the mountains are freaking HUGE and you can hike all over them to literally get first tracks in knee-deep powder all day long rather than having lifts go all...
L.T.D.
My roommates wake me up this morning at 8 AM and tell me to look out my window - it’s snowing in town! (A rarity - Queenstown gets rain, you drive a half hour up the mountains for the snow). I look out our living room window to this scene:
We were like little kids, super excited. I see dudes snowboarding down Fernhill Rd into town. Fuck. Yea.
Beginning to exhale...
It’s been a week since my mom left. In a way I feel like it’s only been a week since I got to Queenstown. I was kind of in vacation mode while she was here, and I wanted to make sure she had a good time too, so I really didn’t get down to the business of getting settled into Queenstown or meeting people until she went home. It’s been a roller coaster ride over the last...
Housing headaches
So one of the top 5 questions people would ask me before I left was, “have you found a place to live yet?” Welp, I’ve already found and kind of lived in three places actually…it’s been a bit of a fiasco.
So the first offer for a room came from the 2 aforementioned Kiwi dudes in my previous entry. Right off the bat the guy asks me “Are you a big partier? ...
Recap: SF => Christchurch => Queenstown
First public entry. Recap of the last couple weeks!
I liked Christchurch. It’s a pretty, downplayed city with a lot of hidden treasures, hip little cafes and bars and restaurants, once you dig a little deeper. There really just weren’t that many people around though. Considering that the population of the whole country is 4.25 millionand 1/3 of them live in Auckland on the north...