the sun is shining as if nothing of it ... soooo, I now had several weeks of no internet, but the excuse does not apply to everything and I still prefer to publish the post before the month is to ...
well, the earthquake also. then now so many have asked that I prefer to start right at the set. Although no one seemed really concerned about it, but just to say that again: doing quite well. especially because I am not the approach in the near chch -.- are the facts: on Tuesday, February 22, 2011, an earthquake measuring 6.3 rocked New Zealand's second largest city of Christchurch. no, the quote I got nowhere stolen. The quake was the pay for a lot less than that of last September, but that was results-unfortunately a lot worse. this is the fact that the center of the quake was in Lyttelton, consistent with chch in the same ratio as Planitz downtown to Zwickau, and that it also was not even 10 km in depth. gone stupid. the worst was probably the time: namely 12.51uhr all happened at noon - at a time when the city was full of tourists, office workers, students ... everyone. that some of the highest buildings and the additional visitors to the tower occupied fotowütigen eingeplumpst cathedral, makes the matter is not necessarily better. "Pancaked down," was all here first wonderfully described picturesque. sorry, I'm morbid, right? anyway. until I myself have noticed how bad it really was, was a few more hours. and then began the horror! My host family has feelings all over again with the images of September 11 and compared, but in this case was indeed the place in their own land! I can not remember whether we have a similarly large disaster in the last years in Germany had, but I'm definitely no SO witnessed. nz is not overly large country and correspondingly huge feeling of togetherness is the kiwis (which is now not completely here, but because I just returned from kiwis speak: I'm listening to a few hundred meters away that call. threatened with extinction, I mean). the mood was certainly in the ground throughout the country, all sat for hours in front of the tv and waited for the latest info and discussions took place only in lowered ton. the images themselves, which were shown in television, were also not very nice and really bad were repeatedly preferred. a large part of downtown is now unusable, the cathedral - as tobias rightly said - only a scrap, and countless people who had invested everything after the September quake reconstruction to have, nothing more. the power supply does not work, which could not flush toilets are used and all water must be boiled before use. I got me a few days to make quite my friends made in Christchurch, but as it now has been found (thanks, Facebook!) they are all more or less intact and she is the only house in the neighborhood without a red sticker. to have some insider information to share: they say that one of the worst things that the tv can not even be shown that is odorless. I can imagine! well, not really theory, but in the. now we are at almost 200 dead and almost as many again missing. countless donations and fund raising will be held at all corners and tomorrow (as this is a fact already one week ago) will be two minute's silence. at times on what positive to come to speak: the whole organization to evacuation, search operations, etc. is incredibly impressive! and as the premier john key and Bob Parker (Mayor of chch) deal with the cause as well. and of course, was offered as quick and effective international aid and used. the hyper-modern and largely made of glass arts gallery has been linked to the headquarters for all ... (Argh, I here the whole time struggling to find suitable German term!) For all that's what happens! my two Spaniards have, in fact quite a pitch: they are five minutes after the earthquake in chch and of course landed in the middle of chaos. The airport was evacuated, they had problems with the baggage, and before they finally have a bus to a distant city have found, they had to spend two nights in hotel floors and feed on chips. chch sights they missed by one day ...
so that's enough now, but the earthquake, otherwise I'm never the end. It dominated the news, but still, I can assure you. but not with me, therefore.
seen after one week on the Lavender Hill (nee elisa, the perfume I have not yet I always have not married because I found the book really well but I dolle the film before. I get two years for your birthday, I get some time even after!) I was host of the next on the way home picked up from Auckland and I have my home still moved a little further north. Hikurangi near Whangarei, when someone wants to look. the idiosyncratic type of job had a rock-seller. one probably sounds strange at first, but you would not believe how many people lots of money for actually building blocks - sorry, ROCKS! - Output. Although my job was mostly likely from gardening and housework, but at one of his more creative jobs i have helped:
I'm going down not only with the van (my first van and my first car with the same automatic. scary!), but also excavators. sigh, I would in the long run a little slow, but it's certainly worth a try ^ ^ on the weekends I'm with the "rock man", his girlfriend and her two small daughters on a regular basis with the boot geschippert sea. is a cool feeling, really far out there to swim in the ocean! and besides, I did the first time about nine years since a plunge practiced. and, here come the best things I've caught two fish (both were to keep and eat small, but still learned !!!), sea urchin slaughter (but they taste terrible: S) and tasted scallops. nothing for the raw me, but cooked with curry - mmmh! Oh, and scallops are mussels.
during my stay, I'm through uncanny luck and a friend of a friend come (or something in the art) also NitroCircus. I had already considered November or December that I would like to go, but the thing with the plan and the travel I had already explained several times, I think. first arrived in Hikurangi I was for sure, that is from NitroCircus nothing. I was wrong! how exactly do I tell not now, but I was there! indescribable wow! for all that are not named dani and have been heard so much of it as I before: this is a show where motorcycles, BMX bikers, skateboarders and all other drivers of all existing vehicle to jump over a ramp and off their best tricks and stunts perform. as there is a television show, that in sicherherit dtl on mtv or so runs and a live version with all these types must kra ... is just the second time in the world all on the road. or at least here in the area - with you not one probably ...
very many good pictures I have, unfortunately, not from this event. can not be helped. my favorites are still the zar motorcycles, but there also were a few more exotic things there: a shopping cart For example, a skier, with a 'precious surfboard, or an actual disabled wheelchair which, once failed salto no better comment could think of as "oh no, I will spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair."
the most important type of show was Travis Pastrana - says Dani, who also runs ralley ... - And next to the 'lot' amis Australians and was only a part kiwi. is marked with the orange bike.
one day I had my time over host mentioned that I really, while I'm in New Zealand, a rugby game to go muss.prompt they have taken me two weeks later, the warriors against an Australian team. ok, was rugby league that is called in Australia rugby union and football rather than rugby, but the rules are still largely the same to similar. Auckland Warriors have the home team, of course it won 30:0 and I have begun to sense and understand the game progresses. was pretty cool! what else is there to tell of Hikurangi ... next door was a little park-like nature with beautiful stone (FELS!) information. in some minor bn I climbed, but the largest and most magnificent was barefoot and without Kathy & manage ralph not unfortunately: (but of course there are still a few photos from there
after almost four weeks in Hikurangi I was a few days ago wiedermal picked up now I'm a piece of. kerikeri away. in a family where I feel totally at home! that are really completely like us, the son behaves (school matters left out) is exactly like dani and ... sigh, it's just great! are constantly concerned that I work too much ... lol!
but I will rather not so much about family matters gossip (sigh, I could stay here for all eternity XD), but rather show you what I saw yesterday on the market. I was lying almost flat!
I put the most time on facebook, then you can get your "thumbs up" klicksen XD I was soooo awesome, but somehow seem to overlook all the other more or less have to. or they had become accustomed during the last weeks of it. who knows ...
well, I'm assuming that I could write a whole lot more, but something I must be treated sometimes as a private matter and therefore I would rather call it a day ^ ^
Oh, and on the 1 $ coin is of course actually a kiwi. have to consider asking more ...
ps: I am today, exactly six months prior to my trip to the other side of the broken world. quite a long time!
