Yup got my ticket sorted. Only cost a couple extra hundred dollars. But that's okay, I also got a job. I'm going to work on an apple farm thinning apples. Which basically means I pick the bad ones off the trees so the good ones can grow more. I'm so excited. If I'm really good I can make up to 1000 NZ dollars a week! And since I really only have like one week, that is what I'm going to have to do.

Jota and I finally left Christchurch. I liked it there, but I was getting pretty bored having nothing to do. Jota's hammocks finally came in and since we had to go north to Takaka for the Canaan downs music festival, we decided to base ourselves in Motueka. It's a pretty beachy town right before the Abel Tasman and Takaka.

New Years was so nice. Jota, Diego, Kristal, Zepe, Kristal's family and I spent it in a valley on top of a mountain. So many campervans and hippies and tents. Everyone was just really happy to be there. New Years we just spent dancing under the stars till it got light out. It kinda sucked because it was raining new years eve so of course all our stuff was wet but you know, it was still an experience, I wouldn't have changed a thing. Mainly I was just happy to have people to spend my new years with. I also met up with Marina and her friends at the festival. That was kind of a relief for me because, to be honest, being the only one who doesn't speak Portuguese in a group is a little difficult. The upside is that I can now understand what is being said maybe about 50% of the time, but I still can't really say anything. Learning French has helped since a lot of the words are similar.

So we spent three days and night camping on top of a mountain, and now Jota, Diego, and I are in Motueka. Mostly I just hang around our beat up hostel while the guys sell hammocks. Diego met and Israeli girl and we have become friends fast. She said I can come to her kibbutz when I go to Israel. :) So now I am just passing the time till I start my job. Then I will begin to make my way up north toward Auckland again. Sigh. I will miss New Zealand.