Well 2009 has been fantastic so far!! It started off with a party that I went to on New Years Eve where I knew nobody at all and it was the best New Years Eve I've ever had!! Basically I'm part of a travel website called Couch Surfing where, instead of staying in hotels/hostels etc, you stay on peoples couches for the night. They also organise loads of social events so you can meet other travellers plus locals! It was a total mix of people at the New Years Eve p...

Yup still in Auckland!! Not for long though... flights are booked to Oz in January which is exciting and I'm heading up north to the Bay of Islands before that FOR FREE! Yup - you heard right! There is a story to why I got a free trip north... last Thursday (just over a week ago) I went into the IEP office and saw a poster looking for people from the UK to do a thing for Tourism New Zealand on the Friday so I said I'd do it (not really knowing what I was doing.....

A couple exciting bits of news - I got out of Auckland last weekend for the first time since being in NZ!! I was taken to a gorgeous place called Hahei (see www.hahei.co.nz for some amazing views!) by my 'cousin', his fiancee and her family. Was really nice to get out of the city and especially to a place as pretty as this! We also got amazing weather for the weekend, although I did get horribly sunburnt!! (And yes I was wearing sun cream!) The next exciting thi...

Well it's been a busy old time since I last wrote so figured I should give an update!! Although most of my time is taken up with work, swimming and the 'occasional' drink, I have had a couple of exciting days over the past few weeks! I did eventually go on the other free day trip and had a cool time - went pretty much the same places I went with the other one but there was a bit of difference (take a wee look at the new photos!). It was also labour day on Monda...

I survived my first bar shift at work! Woop! Is very strange though spending more time setting up and clearing up the bar than actually serving people but hey the 20 mins of interval is a crazy crazy time!! Bring on the ushering shifts... Am going on another free day trip round Auckland tomorrow! Been on one already with one company so am using the other company tomorrow!! What can I say? I'm a cheapskate! You can take the girl outta Aberdeen but you can't take...