Yapadapaduuu

Auckland recevied us on October 15th, the night before we took our plane at 6 AM, luckly we went to the airport early because the supervisor of Qantas didn’t let me to do the check in because I didn’t have a ticket to leave NZ. I don’t know if he thought that I wanted to stay longer or what, but were not possible argument to made him to decline his asking, so I bought a full refund ticket for January that I should to return soon.

The first days we stayed with Federica, her boyfriend Kleber, from Brasil and a friend of them, Grace. The Friday after we arrived, Fede, JX and me had dinner with a friend from Argentina, Guillermo, who was on business in Auckland; in a very cool Greek restaurant.  That weekend we went with him to Waiheke, an ex hippie island in the north of Auckland. It is a nice place with lot of vineyards, we rented a car and we drove and walked all over the island. The company that we rented with asked us to fill the gas by the end of the day and they didn’t came up to pick up the car, lot of trust or a little of disorganization.

Before we returned the car, we were walking on the beach and we saw a group of 8 or 9 girls playing soccer on the beach, so we asked them to join the game, after a while we realized that they were a little young so we asked them how old were them and one of them said: ¨is Shanny’s 16th birthday! after that Guille said: chicos cuidado que vamos todos presos!

The day after we went to Rangitoto and Motutapu islands (Maori words, not easy to pronounce or remember). If you stop by New Zealand don´t spend the 24 bucks that the ferry cost, it doesn’t worth it.  It is a volcano, which you can walk to the crater and there are also some lava caves, but the walking is a little boring.

After Fede´s apartment we moved to Anna´s house. It was a mess but she was a very nice and interesting person, IT consultant, medieval sword teacher and with arms all over the house. She was from CouchSurfing and Michael, another CSer hosted by Anna, was living with us. Michael, cool guy from LA, helped us a lot preparing our resumes and he cooked the best mussels with pasta and garlic that we ever tried! We all went to our second CS meeting on the pier.

Edi Talbot came with a contact who was renting a house in Herne bay, (very nice neighborhood from Auckland). It was a cloth store with two floors, Edi´s mother gave us some mattress, sheets and pillows; so after 3 months using a sleeping bug and sharing a bedroom, and sometimes the bed with Juan Cruz I returned to a gorgeous bed by my self in my own room (tonto te extraño). We revolutionized the house, there is a big sheet were all the people who comes has to sign in, there are two mannequins, one with a special sign in and with furniture built by us, yes we cut and ensemble the wood to made our own furniture. It is not the best but it is beautiful. The first week we took cold showers but now the hot water is working properly and the fridge and the stove has to arrive soon. If you stop by NZ, or you have friends coming to in the next 5 weeks, there is room available!

We went too, what was supposed, the best DJ in NZ, Fat Friday. It was like Rangitoto and Motutapu, not because there was a crater because it was a little boring but we had fun with the group of 8 Mexicans, Nick and Edi. On the way to the house two crazy girls asked us: red or black? for probably more than ten times….. they didn’t know what to bet in the casino and they find us as a solution to clarify the doubt, so Juan choose red and I said black. Yesterday they came to play cards, “Podrida¨ para los que la conocen. They are still a little crazy but they are nice people. Finally for this post, last Sunday we had one of the coolest programs ever, we went to a ¨professional¨ bike park in Wood Hill with four friends of Edi, we rented bikes and we started going down. It was little risky sometimes but it was lot of fun!

Now I have to focus seeking jobs so it is where this post finished!