I'm on fire. A full week of work! And it's really fun stuff too like data entry and photocopying. I'm getting right good at that.

Despite my sarcasm I am very grateful to have work. Maybe I'll just be a professional temp the rest of my life. Make enough money to justify my adventures and continue on with brainless tasks the rest of the time. I've only got one way to go on the temp food chain... survival of the fittest...

I'm at Honeywell this week. Sound familiar S-siders? There's a Honeywell office in Slemon Park. They make control panels for different types of parts and techie stuff like that. The office I'm at only has about 10 staff and they do only service - no manufacturing and minimal sales.

Adventures... Sunday Sherilyn & I decided we would head down to Akaroa, a coastal town about an hour from here. We called friends of ours from BC who we met in Nelson but who live in Chch right now to make plans for the evening. As it turned out, they were going to a nearby town for the day and offered us a free lift down which was so kind, and convenient as it allowed us to have a visit before Sherilyn headed off (she left for Australia this morning) and saved us from hitchhiking. Just kidding, I would never do that mom. That's just a silly way to be killed isn't it? Akaroa is a really beautiful harbourtown surrounded by mountains. We had a great day and just wandered and took a paddle boat out for awhile. (30 mins was all our legs could handle!)

History lesson - Akaroa was where the French landed in 1840. Europeans had been visiting NZ for 100 or so years before that but only started to settle about 1815. In 1840 the British & French were racing down to claim NZ as a colony. British landed on the north island and the French landed on the south at Akaroa 3 days later. NZ was 3 days away from being a French colony.

Sunday night we went to see Monster with our friend Kinga who works in the cinema industry in Germany. (Don't know if I would recommend the movie or even say I enjoyed it - it's a disturbing story). I started work yesterday around noon after a fun adventure figuring out the bus route and last night we ended up celebrating Sherilyn's last night with different BC friends, some Scots & Kinga. We found a pub just down the road that sells their brew in 2L take away jugs for $5. Good times were had by all.