WEEK TWENTY SEVEN, GUNS. GERMS, INKED
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Wanaka,
New Zealand
Thursday, September 20, 2007
This week we had our staff day out and we went to a place called Have A
Shot where we, ummm, had a shot! We played crazy golf and then Battle
Zone where we loaded air canons with foam balls and blasted each
other!! Well, we didn't blast each other, we all blasted our managers!
My that was fun and a great way to take out aggression! Then the rest
of the group went rifle target shooting but I don't agree with guns or
shooting for fun or sport or any reason so I sat that one out!
Later
that night we all went to the pub and were given awards for various
things that we had done through out the season. I won the OCD Award!
The Offers to Clean Daily Award for Not being afraid to get my hands dirty or
the floor clean. I won this for my obsessive cleaning around work,
thanks mum for passing me on that trait! My reply was that cleanliness
is next to Godliness, so therefore I must be a God! Also, cleaning the
toilets beats cleaning a kids shitty nappy any day!!
On my way home, as is always in Wanaka, the sky was dark and every star
in the galaxy was shinning down over the lake and mountains and as I
looked up I saw my first ever shooting star. It was just like you see
them in the movies, fast, bright and with a brilliant trail of light
behind it! I was so happy and it was just so perfect and beautiful that
I stood mesmerised looking up at the night sky for ages as I made my
first wish upon a star!
This week I also started my latest fad, to become a Vegan! I mean, how
hard can it be? I was a Vegetarian for 12 years! Well, we will see how
long I last, but so far so good! All I can say is thank God for Green
& Blacks Chocolate!!
My week ended with a trip to the only town of any reasonable size near
where I live, Queenstown, a good hours drive away! So myself, Em, Nix
and Sanka piled in to Ben's Jeep and set off to civilisation! Four
hours later, we all had fresh, raw tattooed body parts! Nix got BETTER
TO HAVE REGRETS tattooed down his rib cage. Sanka had HE MATAHIAPO TE
NA (Maori for Life is Precious) tattooed down her spine! Em had her own
design put on her foot and I had a traditional Maori carving tattooed
on my neck, at the top where my hair ends!!
I was so nervous going in and I thought that I was going to pass out! I
was shaking and sweating and being such a wimp! But it didn't really
hurt that much at all! I was fussing over nothing. I felt like such a
girl!! It only took about 18 minutes and I was done! Permanently inked!
But it looks great, and so cool! I am so glad that I got a traditional
Maori tattoo in a country whose people invented tattoo art! I've
included a photo of my newly inked neck! I only got it done 6 hours ago!
The shape is a stylised Maori fish hook known as the hei-matau
(pronounced hay-may-tow), matau meaning hook. The Hei Matau signifies
Abundance and plenty, strength and determination, it brings peace,
prosperity and good health. It is a device for catching good luck and
positive energy and provides a safe journey over water. Hei-Matau are
symbols of power and authority which are held in great reverence by the
Maori people!
So here's to all the good luck and safe journeys I should be having now!
