Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Monday, May 21, 2007
Hostels
So I lye here on the bottom bunk of my bunkbed in my hostel in The Bay Of Islands. A guy from the UK a girl from Chicago, one from Canada and another from Germany are here with me right now. Were just hanging out shooting the shit. Staying @ these hostels reminds me of when I was dorming @ TAU. Its good times. Others just like me travelling. All of us just enjoying ourselves. I feel like a complete shmuck for not doing these things sooner. To socialize with others like me from diferent parts of the globe is refreshing. Tonight is the last in which I sleep in a bed. I have attained an automobile, a very good fishing rod, I have a great sleeping bag, an excellent knife, a cooker that works on gas and canned food. I am ready to explore the parts of New Zealand that arent normally travelled. The more exotic parts. Parts where hostels are non-existent. Tomo mng I shall head north with some buds for a day trip to a 90 mile beach. It is the northern most part of New Zealand. Many travellers I am meeting and combined they have been to every country in the world. They are all saying that this country is bar none the most beautiful in the world. They claim Australia is comparable if not second to Zealand in terms of beauty. It turns out the south island of New Zealand is just fine to explore and the people there arent uncivil it simply isnt as populated as the northern island. Everyone is telling me the south island is far more beautiful than this here north one. My roomies and I are having an interesting conversation about astronomy. I like this hostel thing but unlike my roomies I am not here for the attractions and the activities. I am here to explore and document and so I shall move onward as I have the entire planet to explore. Cheers and Love From New Zealand.
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Bliss & Kiwiville
I am so truly grateful to have this here space to record my life. I hope that I will inspire others to break their routine and live as well. Its so beautiful here and keeping with my living everyday as my last mentality I am taking everything in wide eyed and full of glee. Right now @ this moment is where im at. If I was to worry about the plasmas I have to wake @ 4:30 in the mng to ship on mon or my depleting bank account I wouldnt be @ this very place I call bliss. I find that to simply love everything and everyone is the best social practice, the best way to live. Share it with everyone instead of trying to focus it on just one and blocking out the rest of the beautiful people in the world. No worries just cheers. Kiwiville folks Kiwiville.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Some Beauty To Add To Our Dream Files
There are no words that can properly describe where I currently am. It is beauty that I never imagined I would see. Everything here is beautiful, the people, the accents, the amazing nature and coasts. It is truly a dreamland. I am currently in the Bay Of Island and will spend a few nights here. Its an amazing town in the north of New Zealand some 3 hours from Auckland City. I have a car and the drive here was amazing. I brought a mate with me that I call tomtom cuz hes an excellent map reader and got us here quickly and with no error. Hes from the netherlands and many people here are from diferent parts of the globe as am I. I have never seen a city so bustling with jobs and opportunities as is Auckland City. I was solicited at least 5 times to work random jobs like fruit picking or waitering. All types of unique businesses they have here. Once again I am getting this feeling of inferiority in terms of intellectualism. This is the feeling I got while in Amsterdam. Everything here is worry free. The Uneployment rate is only 4. I have never in my life seen more beautiful girls. The soil here is the most fertile in the world. Following the advice of a friend of mine in the produce biz bak home I ate some kiwis and he was on the money wen he sed the best in the world are here. Its just so fruitful. It is no surprise that beautiful women are bred here. In America we are led to generalize, to discriminate. @ the hostel Im currently at I met some arabs in the mng. I was smoking a stogie outside when one of them asked me to take a flik of him and his friends. As I did I noticed they were eating shakshuka. I mentioned it was nice shakshuka and they were pleased to hear I knew what it was. I ate with my Saudi Arabian brothers and drank their drink. Kind fellas. Exploring as am I.
Friday, May 18, 2007
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Another City
Auckland is a city very reminiscent of NYC. Very diverse. Lots of races and immigrants. 20% of the poeple in this city are asian. Anyway I got here yesterday morning. Mind you it is 20 hours ahead of NY time here. I write to you from the future. It is fri morning here and it is thurs noontime in NY. So after I first got here I thought hmm this doesnt tickle my fancy much since Im used to cities and the rush associated with them. Then, I strolled over to some park I seen later in the day after I settled a few things with business. I met a girl there that is a local and not in a rush like everyone else in this city. She was cool and is in bartending school here. She was born and aised in Auckland. Through her I met this Mungo dude and he introduced me to some guy that runs a call center in the city @ nights. We went over there and he showed me the guys operation. It is a bunch of people calling New Zealanders asking them for "charity" to help save the youths of zeeland from drugs. Following my introduction to the guy that runs this joint he asked if I wanted to work there. I told him, ive worked jobs like this before and people dont really like to be solicited thru the phone. He said right, in America. Apparantly here in New Zealand people are more philanthropic and kind. THe hours are between 4:30 and 8:30 pm and it will fit in well with my own business. He explained if I do well I can make over 600 dollars a day. Which in American dollars is like $470. Anyway I came here saying I will keep my eyes open to new business ideas and venturs and I found one already. The commisions on the money you solicit is 25% for the sales person on the phone. This means the owner is probably keeping 70% and giving 5% to trully help the crackhead youngsters. Its a bit of a sleazy business in my opinion but to learn it and maybe open a similar thing here (if this speak of kiwis being receptive to solicitations is true) might be a good idea. I like to think internationally and studied int'l business in college. Very many cars are posted for sale everywhere around here and im enticed by the prospect of having me one of these cars with the steering wheels on the other side. I decided against buying one and hassling myself with registration and insurance. I found a local kiwi that rents cars and is giving me a great deal. $12 U.S. a day for a 30 day rental with insurance and everything. I shall stay in this city for a week to learn that guys biz and see if it is feasable for me to start the same thing here. Then I shall shoot south toward the hotsprings and geysers they have in Rotorua. New Zealand is split into two island and the northern folk consider themselves more sophisticated and say the southerners are less civil. I shall probably stay away from the southern island as the northern one has all the interesting things to see. Wellington is next after Rotorua. It is a beautiful place, not a city like where I am now.
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