Mon 6th - Fri 10th April

06/04/09
It’s an Apple crazy day – with apples flying left, right and centre and falling off the conveyor belt…..but don’t worry, we don’t pack the dropped apples! They go on the reject line and get made into apple juice or sold to local markets!? Now you know.
At lunchtime, we finally get through to the tax office and get our IRD numbers – yay, we can get paid on Wednesday now! Whoooohooooo!

07/04/09
Our pay actually went in this afternoon, think it’s to do with having a BNZ account. Great success – we celebrate and have some vino for tea. Our exciting evening continues with a dose of Hell’s Kitchen USA – haha, these people are idiots and one guy gets the tip of his finger cut off!! HAHA – entertainment here you know!

08/04/09:
It’s 6.45am here and the start of the Man Utd v Porto match is on – so bizarre thinking that folks back home are watching this on Tuesday evening and we’re watching it over brekkie, the following Wednesday! Porto score in first 5 mins – Yay! Tom aint happy, haha! We find out at break time that it turns out to be 2-2 – decent result for both but still wished that Porto would’ve won – grrrr….
Apple crazy at end of the day – always happens either before a break or time to go home…..funny that….

09/04/09:
We all watch start of Liverpool v Chelsea match at breakfast. Torres scores in first 5mins –great success! It’s going to be a good day……until I find out at break time that they beat us 1-3 – rage!!! I’m in a foul mood at work and try not to take it out on the apples!!

10/04/09:
Another busy day as always. Anna’s sister (grand-daughter of the main man who owns the packhouse) starts on the packing side and she doesn’t stop talking! Her and Aaron yatter on for hours about anything and everything – that’s fine but as long as she can do two things at once – which she blatantly can’t so I’m left going crazy running around doing loads of different lines. Raaaaaaaa!!!
The day finishes and we all clamber into the wee minibus – poor Kamilla whacks her head on the minibus door – it’s scarily loud – poor thing….but everyone is trying not to laugh and sitting sniggering away – like naughty school kids…..luckily, she sees the funny side later on.
We all meet in the kitchen / living room for dinner and we find out that one of the women on the bus phoned up Pat and told her about Kamila banging her head – bless her being all concerned. However, Pat then decides to lecture Kamila and Rachel about the dangers of banging your head and that ‘there once was a girl that banged her head and ended up dying, as she had a massive clot on her brain’………what on earth is this woman all about!? She just has all these death stories!!!!!! And that soooo isn’t going to help Kamila not worry! This woman is a mentalist!!