hey all!drove past past this lake on way from queentown on coach. am back in christchurch just for the night. am in same dorm but there's someone in my bed!! have to sleep in a different one which is thouroughly strange. we're setting off rediculously early tomorrow to get plane to rotorura. picked up stuff that was in store and now, though it all fits it does so only just as have aquired some more junk during my stay and can't be bared to part with i...

hey everyone! have sat down with coins jangling in m,y pocket ready to plonk into the machine wen the buzzer beeps. am going to tell you everything. our first weekend trip was to greymouth on teh train. that was......hmmmm, 5 weekends ago. as the monday was a public holiday we both had two days spare so on the sunday morning, bright and early, we were picked up by a shuttle bus and taken to christchurch station. considering christchurch is a magor city the sta...

hello everyone! thanks for emails bout annabel, prayers are spreading. dunno how long i havbe left so will type until the 2 minute buzzer sounbds and then i will go and watch another episode of firefly wgich emma rented out form the video store. highly reecomended. already? humpf buzer just went. work is going better and people are being nice. its amazing what happens when i listen to God instead of just complaing about everything. day of tomorrow as is ca...

this morning roseannes brothers came round to watch the all blacks verses france rugby then we went to get a mufffin with her dughter and freind and then visited her mother (who was so lovely and told us about emmas grandparents and gave us a packed lunch and some honey) then we got teh coach back to christchurch (via kairkoura for tea)

this morning we got up and went to the dolphion enxounter center where we were handed all sorts of gear and told to suit up. we had 2 peice wetsiuts and flippers and balaclaver type wetsiiut hood and snorkles and gloves and sock things. we looked amazing. after watching a video about what we were going to do etc. and how to atract the dolphins to take an intrest in you, (we had to sing to them and dive down into the water and make eye contact and look dolphin sha...