arrival and flat-hunting

Hi everybody
After a very long flight (30 hours) with stops in dubai, bangkok and sydney i was pretty smashed the day i arrived and the following day too. But Jason (the guy i will work with and the guy i can live with at the moment) organised an awesome dinner which his wife Mary was cooking for us. Gusgus, nice prepared, barbeque grilled salmon and some nice salad. That was a nice welcome dinner! :-)
But the flight wasnt just exhausting, it was sometimes exciting as well... see photos!

^^dubai airport

^^dusty sydney

^^sydney down town (white point in the middle of the picture: opera house!)

^^southern alps near christchruch

^^beach near christchurch

The day after I arrived  (sunday) I went room-hunting. I visited 5 flats where i chatted with the people and had a look a the room'n' stuff...
The first flat i saw was kind of a party cave... they had a party garage! Ive never seen something like that... ! But the flatties there were a bit young, so i wont take the room in that flat.
So what i am up to at the moment can be described as flat-hopping. It is quite tough and exhausting, cycling from flat to flat, especially when its raining... (and it is pretty rainy at the moment).

Yesterday, Jason took me to work the first time and that first impression was great. It looked like a normal huge office room with all the separating little walls, but when i looked closer it looked like a little building site. you could see wires, little cases, total stations, gps, reflectors, 'toy excavators', 'toy pavers', ...
i am really looking forward to work there... :-)

ready for take off!

Last week I went to the dentist just to make a control before I leave Switzerland. I told him about my trip. Then at the end of the control he told me that there is a hole in one of my teeth, so I had to come around once again before I take off. So I went there a few days later and after he fixed the problem with my teeth he said: "Now your ready for take off!". I had to laugh.
Well, but then I was far away from being ready. I hadn't even packed one thing and all that had still to be done.
Now, the day I finally will take off, I luckily am ready. Everything is packed, although I had too much weight and  my loved slackline will be alone for the following seven month.
I hope my flight will go well and I am looking forward to tell you some stories about my flight and the first impressions of chch (Christchurch).
stay tuned ;-)