Life in Aotearoa

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Kelburn, Wellington, New Zealand
Saint Michael's College in Colchester, VT is my home, but this semester (fall 08) I am in New Zealand at Victoria University of Wellington. I'm going on adventures and studying in my downtime ;-)

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

Catlins again

This morning I woke up to an empty house and a list of things to get painted. Soon Diana and Keith returned, before I had started, and they explained that Mable was feeling ill this morning so they went over to make sure that she was all right. I started painting the cabin first, with a red jump suit on, and soon finished the two large sides and headed back to the house. I was going to finish the other sides but Diana said that was okay and I had a small snack of cashmerey-naan, which is sweet bread baked with coconut, coconut milk, banana's, apricots and cinnamon on top. It was delicious, we made it last night for a late night snack after dinner.  After that I started to paint a few directors chairs, two needed a primer and a color coat, and the other just a second color. I had finished painting the primer on, which they call the undercoat, and I was called in for lunch. When I went back to paint the color on, it started to rain so I only did two of the three chairs. It's pouring now so I do not think that I will be doing any more work today. Later, maybe after tea, we may head down to the donkey's paddock and bring them to the closer plot of land where they usually are, but that is all. When I got up this morning I noticed that my ears were itchy, meaning my ear ring holes were most likely infected, so I took the 2nd holes out but my left ear is really puffy and it hurts when I pull on it. I am not sure why, but the top is thicker than normal and I would really like it if it fixed itself.

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