i hope i was keeping everyone a bit up to date through other means of communication... thanks to skype and facebook... :-)
a few things happend over here since the last time i blogged.
first of all, i went travelling with my parents and my brother, which was really nice. we saw a lot, really a lot in that little time. that was our route of travel:
...starting from christchurch, then kaikoura (seals), abel tasman (nice beaches, kayak tours), with the ferry over to wellington, tongariro national park (very nice volcanos, where we did a 7h walk which was just awesome!), rotorua (lots of pools smelling of rotten eggs, maori culture experience...), back to wellington, ferry over to picton, then to the westcoast (pancacke rocks, glaciers), lindis pass (very strange but nice landscape), catlins (pinguins ), otago peninsula off dunedin (albatross, seals), then lake pukaki, lake tekapo (both lakes have a really strange, milky color) ... and back to christchurch.
here some photos:
moeraki bolders, north of dunedin
find the star fotographer stalking ;-)
my mother and our van at lindis pass
family with kayaks at abel tasman
tongariro crossing
my brother at the very front... whats that girl doing? ;-)
The time after my parents and my brother left nz was quite strange. Being together so closely with a bunch of people for every day over three weeks, and then suddenly be on your own... Of course i had tobias and joseph, the guys i work with, but not too many other people... so that time was a bit hard. Although i was quite busy finding a flat, which was good... meeting new people, talking about the trip...thats always pretty exciting...and finally i found a really cool flat. It is very close to the city, a bit further away from my work place, but its alright. It takes me about 20 minutes to cycle to work, but no hills or the like, everythings flat in christchurch (except the port hills by the peninsula), which makes it an easy ride. A big part of the trip goes through hagley park, which is really nice.
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So i live together with 6 other people, one english girl, one english guy, one japanese girl, a korean cuple and a local kiwi girl from christchurch. all of them are really cool, some of them a bit more talkative as others, some a bit more outgoing as others... its a very good mixture! :-)
At work, it took a change today. We finally found a bug in the code that was hiding quite well and fooling with us since before christmas... In the meantime the machine i am working with got fixed too. It has been broken for a couple of weeks now because the gear box was completely fucked... it sounded really bad when we were running the machine and it even looked worse when we saw what was broken... uiiii.
So the last few weeks at work were a bit hard. I had to do stuff like updating the documentation, which is not always a lot of fun, but it had to be done too of course... But on the other hand i spent some time digging in the code looking for the bug and doing some coding for independent tests of just a few parts of our code, so that was quite interesting.
In my free time I was hopping around on my slakline quite often in the nearby park, was cooking some new dishes, went to a music festival (which was more like a family festival, but fun), went surfing....
In the evening i was following the blog of the brave and young aussi girl jessica watson, sailing around the world... im quite fascinated by her:
hope you are all doing well!
cheers
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