The Outer Paihia

Hey, just a quick one.

Last weekend I went to Paihia to get away from Kaitaia for a change (one of the few places Kaitaia is close to!

It worked out well - I had intended to stay in a dorm room, for $20, but since they were quite full, I got charged $23 - however it all worked well, because the room I was going to be in, which was a shared room, there was a girl who didn't want any guys in her room, so they put me in a two-bed room, and lucky for me there wasn't a second person. But for Saturday night I was moved to a single room with a double bed, because they wanted to use the two-bed room for some other people. No complaints here!

Anyway I went over to Russell for a couple of hours, but the weather turned bad, so I could only do indoor things, like the museum, so I came back after about two hours. Other than that I read most of a new book mum had sent me, and caught up with a friend.

Anyway, below is the last scene from the last play I was in - The Lover by Harold Pinter. In this scene are the two main characters, played by Paul Andrew, and Magda Cotman. Im not in this scene unfortunately. Enjoy, now I know how to do this I'll upload some more! (Just be warned there is some potentially offensive language)

The Lover - the finale

Uninspired

Well, its been a little while, but Kaitaia isn't exactly the hive of activity.

Went to Kerikeri that following weekend - it was Ok, but now its checked off the list, theres not much more up here for me to see LOL. The Laughing Samoans were OK, I think I didn't enjoy them as much because I was tired, and had driven for an hour to see them.

A few weekends later I went to Kerikeri again, for a night, and came back Saturday - the day the big storm came through - almost got flooded out, but was OK - at one point the water was over the road, but shallow enough to get through.

Since then the last 3 weekends have had my Saturday's at working bees at the Little Theatre for the Dramatic Society. Not exactly fun activity of the century. However last weekend I went with my mate Matt to a quiz night - a fundraiser for his Parents to get back to Tanzania - it was a lot of fun. Our team came third - pretty good considering we only had three people, and other teams had about7-9 in them.

Not much else to say. Although a funny observation for the week is this- I found out my Sri Lankan flatmate is a Buddist - as I was cutting up some beef on my Pig-shaped chopping board, ie chances were that I would have been unintentionally offending him, but as it turns out I wasn't.