I must ask you to forgive me, for I have greatly neglected my duties to this site by not informing in writing what has so recently come to pass.
Firstly, I'm reading Pride and Prejudice. It's almost as bad as French; I have to read some sentences three times before I understand what they mean. Sometimes I can't. I've also recently finished Terry Pratchett's Men At Arms - so much easier to understand, languagewise. Concepts though... I can't imagine where he gets them!
I'm now near Auckland. I'm hosted by a family whom I found through HelpX. com. I work about four hours a day, grooming and "hacking" (that's riding leisurely) horses. That leaves plenty of time in the afternoon to read or sometimes watch TV. Watching TV is the favourite pastime of my "boss", who has broken her foot. A frightened horse of 600kgs stepped on it. I'm planning to spend two and a half weeks of my last three and a half weeks (!) here. Then I'll have a week left for travelling with my beloved brother, then flying out to Sydney for a short while and Hong Kong for a short while and then - it's back to Europe.
By the way, I hope there is lots of snow around here, because we're going to go skiing at Mt Ruapehu!
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