We have been in Timaru for just over a week now. Its been a bit of a roller coaster ride of emotions since the earthquake but we are settling in.
Chad has a job at a bar in town and is volunteering during the day at the Salvation Army helping to sort donations and what not. I am getting used to working in Msk even though its definitely all very new and its hard to go back to placements almost 2 years ago to remember what to do! It's very interesting treating people in a different country....they describe having slight pain as having a "niggle" and usually say things are "average as" and say they are "getting sorted". I spend as much time trying to figure out what they are saying not just what injury they have.
We are pretty excited for this weekend because the family from Christchurch we stayed with are sending their kids here for the weekend while they go to a concert in Queenstown. Conrad, 14 and Cathryn, 13 will be here and we are planning on showing them around exciting Timaru.
Otherwise we are trying to sell our sweet campervan, and are going to book our tickets next week to Perth for around April 10th woohoo!!! Only 5 weeks until Western Australia!!!!
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The post below was written last night. We made it this morning at 4:30 a.m. to the ferry and are currently on our way to Kyushu!!! ... -
We are currently on day 7 of the Annapurna trek and it has been incredible so far! We found a place with internet that just works so though...
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We spent the past few days in a mountain settlement outside of Karakol, we were able to get a ride up the 4WD track in a Russian like army ...
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