Chuck Norris

Nelson! NZ's sunniest town...The passport situation is finally sorted. Once I flew back into Auckland from Queenstown I checked back into Oakland's Lodge. I ended up scoring the gardeners position at the hostel so I pulled weeds for a week for my accommodation (thanks mom all that slave labor has payed off, I'm a damn good weeder:) After a bunch of paperwork and real crap passport photo sessions I got all my paperwork and stuff turned in to the embassy. It took literally a week to get a new passport, which is way quicker than a kiwi can get a new passport here, weird huh..while still in limbo with the passport dealio i upgraded to a cleaning job at the hostel. So up at ten every morning scrubbing the toilets and other exciting things. I'm not complaining at all, I'm super super grateful for all work I can do seeing on how Mr. MasterCard has now become my best friend. I booked a ticket to fly back south on Monday the 1st hoping the passport would arrive before i left, sure enough it did! So I arrived here in Nelson Monday evening. Nelson airport is about 6k's from the town center so i opted out of a cab ride and walked....figured id try my hand at hitchhiking again...didn't go so hot....but i made it, so i passed out in a local park and woke up refreshed the next morning! not! i woke up and it was raining...it was like a movie where things cant get much worse and then it starts raining...So i decided rather than hitchhiking to the next town, where ill be looking for work, i would just check in a hostel for a night and relax....so its off to a little fruit pickin town called motueka tomorrow to find work (fingers crossed) picking apples...