My life as a vineyard worker

Its been a good 2 weeks since I last wrote, I seem to have settled into life quite quickly over here, waking up at 6am 5 days a week to the freezing cold and having permanenly sore hands are all part of every day life for me now. I've been working in the vineyards for 3 weeks and I'm slowly getting better, this last week being my best yet, I even broke the $150 a day mark yesterday! My first week was pretty appauling, it rained a lot so we ended up having a few half days and I was very very slow, so my first pay cheque wasn't much to sing and dance about.

However, I just received my second week's pay and I did much better, almost doubling my first pay cheque (to be honest, it wasn't very hard!) so fingers crossed it only gets better from now on!

That said, I'll be glad when me and Stacy leave in 2 weeks time, my hands and back will certainly appreciate the break from vineyard work. We'll be heading back to Christchurch to meet up with a friend of ours who'll be joining us for a few months and hopefully by then we'll either have ourselves a nice little campervan, or will soon be buying one! Definitely looking forward to having a little place to call our own, our little house on wheels!

I'll be sad to leave the hostel we're in though, my current home away from home in New Zealand. There's a great group of people staying at the moment and hopefully we'll meet up again sometime in the future, whether it be back in our own home countries or somewhere else in the world!