So today Tiana and I spoke to people on skype for like half the day. Our mornings the next day are your evenings the previous day. It's hard to keep track. It's nice to talk for free!


It's crazy here in New Zealand. Everything is soooo expensive because it's imported. You can get jewelry cheaper here, but electronics are ridiculous. Our phone and answer machine cost us enough for a fancy phone back in America. Hmm.

We've found a good Christian radio station called Life FM. It plays a wide variety of music that I love. Kudos to them!

We've gone to two different churches so far. The first one was great!!! And I recognized some people from when I was in New Zealand before. But, the church is in Cambridge and so we cannot get there. We went with the couple that we stayed with last week, Luke and Kristin. Last week we went to another church around Hamilton. It seemed okay, but we are going to keep searching. Please keep us in your prayers. We may try to catch a ride to the cambridge church again, by bus or by carpooling with one of the guys who picked us up.

Speaking of Luke and Kristin, the high-school history teacher by day and rock singer by night, with his wife the M.I.A. Kiwifruit 18 hour working day maniac for the next few months due to the Kiwifruit packing season for her family's farm...yes, they were a big blessing to us. If someone would have told me that my first week in New Zealand would include a tour of a Kiwifruit packing site, a highschool Maori hangi competition, and a NZ battle of the bands with the bass guitar and electric guitar players of the "Holy Rollers" picking us up from the airport, and the lead singer being the guy that was a friend of a friend who we'd be staying with-not to mention our stay on an open land of beautiful rollings hills and cows and sheep and all the things that make New Zealand so beautiful,....yeah, I probably wouldn't have believed it.

Whew!

Too bad I was sick for the first few days. But the bad cold is wearing off and the jet lag is slipping away. It's all good.

We moved into our apartment last Thursday. It could have been cleaner, but, it's very nice. We just a lot more cleaning to do than we expected. Internet is up and running again after some wiring problems. Sorry I couldn't post sooner. We just recieved our couch and two dressers today from Habitat for humanity who not only builds houses, but also fixes furniture and sells it at thrift store prices. Oh, and they deliver, so thus we were able to get a bit of furniture in our apartment. Beds cost tooooooooooo much, at least twice as much as home. So, we'll be sleeping on our air matresses a little longer. We tried to find tall air matress than can last a year. Y'know, so we're not sleeping on the floor with little ones. We've had no such luck so far. We'll such the web for a little, then we'll turn to ebay or somewhere to see if we can get one shipped here.

Well, I need to get some decorating done. Pictures of NZ will have to come a little later.

Cheers!