Time machine

It is time to once again send some news back home to Switzerland. A lot of things happened here despite the fact that I didn’t write a blog for a long, long time. Luckily I write my diary every day so I can easily look up all the major events of the past few weeks. So come and join me on my little voyage through time.

Friday the 30th of November:
It was a rainy cloudy spring day.we international students from upper hutt college went to Mt. Bruce just past Fetherston with mrs. Howes and her Japanese husband who came to the Tongariro crossing with us too. Mt. Bruce is more like a hill than like a mountain and it was also not the actual reason why we went there. The reason was a little wildlife park with enclosures for native bird and plants, some creeks and ditches and of course a Kiwi tunnel. Because the kiwi birds are nocturnal they always get to stay in tunnels and caves when they are captured and living I a zoo or wildlife park. So we spent some time there watching what the live nest camera captured(in our case a lonely egg in the nest). We had a something to eat and drink in the park café and looked around in the souvenir shop before hitting the road again to Masterton. On the way there we stopped at a war memorial which commemorates the Japanese soldiers that where looked after by the surrounding community in the second world war. Very interesting for the 4 Japanese people we had with us. Not so much for me. In Masterton we went to the ‘Paua shell’ factory. Paua is a very big sea shell with a hard thick crust. But the if the crust is removed it reveales a very nice fragile shell which shimmers in turquoise. Jewelry and all sorts of souvenir is made out of it an the traditional Maori carvings are often decorated with it. For a certain reason I didn’t go back to upper hutt with all the other international students.
In my next blog your gonna hear about a British agent and why the Paua shell factory wasn’t even the third most exciting thing this day.



Greetings from a sunny country down under



dario