After a massive session in Manly on my last night, I stumbled to bed and set my alarm to go off three hours later as the airport shuttle was picking us up at 6:30am (urghh). I certainly don't remember the alarm but I remember seeing Fin coming through the door shouting, "get up, the taxi is here." The fact that I was sprawled out on my...

... And I'm here in the environment today to talk to people about the neighbourhood... Yeah. I screwed my opening line more than 5 times by mixing environment and neighbourhood up. This job is difficult, but I've been told that it gets easier with practice. I hope it does, because at the present stage my words just keep tripping over each o...

The weather is quite unpredictable in Auckland, but because it is spring time, it keeps raining. This morning it was quite sunny and then suddenly it rained quite heavily. Then it became sunny again. Quite difficult to estimate the times to do laundry. It's a bit cold out now, because it just stopped raining. I am crouched in front of the laptop...

Even though this trip was for work, I managed to fit in an adrenalin rush or three!  I jumped from the Auckland Sky Tower in my lunch hour one day during the course. It was AWESOME. SkyJump is the highest building base-jump in the world:  192metres - 85kph - 14 seconds. Woohoo!  As soon as I landed I wanted to jump again ... but they were closin...

Today was Elen's last day in New Zealand as early tomorrow she catches a plane for the long journey back home. (Made me quite glad to be heading to America before flying home - it helps break up up the 27 hour journey!)  SO this morning we checked out of our motel (my last night of luxury for a while...tonight I'm back in hostel dorm r...

I was back in Auckland again. Luckily, it was for less than 24 hours. I was worried I was going to have to spend my last night in Auckland alone, but on the bus back, I bumped into two guys I knew. A big British guy named Pete that I met my first time in Auckland and a cool Canadian guy I met in Paihia. Despite both having to be up early, they v...

It was great to catch up with some old buddies again, but now it's time to go solo. In the next 4 weeks I'll either meet lots of cool new people, run in to people I know by strange coincidence or be a bit lonely and isolated. Catch a morning plane to New Zealand today for the short flight to Auckland. I look forward to seeing Auckland again...

Last day of work in Auckland and look what those bastards did to my desk! Off course, last day at work means going to the pub from lunch time to midnight...

Well, after a mammoth journey and alot of sitting, my sore bum, I made it to Auckland New Zealand!!!  Spent about 5 hours walking around the huge airport of Hong Kong looking at expensive things and strange sweets, before getting the second flight, both lasted about 12 hours. I went through customs with no problems, unbelievably short queue...

Je suis arrive a auckland vers 12h30 et j'ai enchaine directement sur un entretien avec un representant du concil pharmaceutique de Nouvelle Zelande pour valider mon certificat. Tout s'est bien passe et je peux desormais travailler en NZ si je le desire. J'ai ensuite retrouve John Ho, un ami pharmacien que j'ai rencontre a Londres et qui veut s'...