"The caber toss will be on in 10 guys"

New Zealand is such a mismatch of cultures and countries and this was even more apparent this week when Bruce invited me to come with him and the girls on my day off to the Scottish Highland games. I imagine it was brought over with the early settlers to make the Scottish feel more at home in this new country. The weather was lovely for the occasion and it was nice to spend time with the girls and Bruce and not actually be working. I felt I could relax more and enjoy the day. On the way we stopped off and grabbed some camping chairs to sit on which worked out really well because we could leave the chairs in our spot whenever we wanted to have a walk around or look for food. Rather impressively one of the competitors managed to beat the record for the shot put and even had a go at beating the world record but didn't quite manage to unfortunately. One man also managed to toss the caber over so fast that it split down the middle when it landed so that ended the caber toss early unfortunately because they didn't have any spare that were heavy enough for the top competitors. Seeing women doing the caber toss was super impressive and there was even a lady who must of been 80+ giving it a go. On Monday night we had to pack up and empty the whole house, every cupboard and every draw too. Even the bed and our new $40 sofa had to come out. This was so the cleaners could clean everywhere including the carpets and walls on Tuesday. Amazingly they got it all done within 6 hours which I found rather impressive. We haven't completely unpacked yet back into our new clean home and there are a few bits that they missed but it is lovely to be living in a clean environment after 7 weeks of mess and filth. Knowing it was Jono's responsibility to clean before leaving we refused to do anything to help out of principle so it had gotten quite bad. Also this week I actually got paid to go shopping with Eliza. One of the women who work in the farm shop RD1, that we visit often and the farm buys a lot form, is pregnant and going on maternity leave as of this week. Bruce asked me to put together a baby gift box for her full of bits for the new baby and her as well. It was quite an exciting job to do and I was so pleased with the end result and colour scheme I ended up with. Especially seeing as the gender of the baby was being kept a secret. Apparently it went down very well with Nicole, the expectant mum, so that's the best feeling.もっと詳しく