ok I'm coming home!

ok first thing is first please don't ask me about it! that's why I'm putting it up here! and please don't ask me if i am doing the right thing and ask if i will regret it later! the answer is yes i am doing the right thing and yes i probably will regret it but that's what i will deal with later.

the main reasons for me coming home are lots, i haven't really felt happy while i have been here at all, i feel lonely and out of place. i'm just not happy at all and i have this feeling inside me that's is just eating me up and makes me feel so sick i can't just stand it any longer. i miss every one at home and even a simple thing like talking to them takes planing. and that's not how i want to live my life

also i have been let down alot while i have been here, work, friends etc! and that has been getting me down! as well as frustrated and angry and has ending up costing me a hell of a lot of money.

its hard to explain feeling the way i feel and i know i should maybe have given it a little longer but the pain it is given me is unbearable. imagine being in a forest, lost and its cold, dark and you can see now way of getting out at all your stuck and scared with no way out! that's how i feel. only i do have a way out, and yes it maybe is the easy way out but I'm taking it and that's home!

look travailing and living in another country is not for every one! i thought it was for me! as it turns out it isn't at all i need to be around people i love and Care about (yes staying at the farm has been soo nice and my Auntie Carole and Uncle Simon have been brilliant at making me feel welcome) i have learnt that i don't seem to look at the whole picture before doing things, i just think of the good things and cast the bad aside! and something that 'seems idealistic' is probaley not and what really matters is what your heart is telling you not your head because your head can forget your hart never does. (god i'm making it sound like i'm breaking up with some one)

so there that why i'm feeling the way i do! Ellen i'm sorry just proves you are strong and brave and i really admire you! and well done! i am so sorry though! i do feel i have let you down a bit! xx

i know you all seems to want whats best for me (well most of you) and it is let me deal with the after effects!

thank you all that have followed but i guess this will be one of the last posts!

Thanks Adam xxx

WHAT A WEEK! :-S

ok so this week has crazy! and not in the good way!

ok so on Monday was the day i said good bye to my rents and i was going to Auckland! so i was able to go to the gate with them to say good bye which was nice in one way but horrible in another! i then went to Auckland lets just cut a long story short with that one and say i didn't like it (at all ) so booked a flight for wednesday to come back! so i am back at my uncles and decided i will move and get a job in Christchurch its only an hour away so need to family and its a nice friendly (and kinda English) im happy now ( as i was not before) and i am excited about what i can find i am just sorting out my CV and get cracking on the whole job front!

will fill you in more when i have more time but i am in a internet cafe and have to get a lot done!!!!!

I hate Natwest! but i am having fun :-)

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first of all i hate natwest bank! because they just wont let me transfer my money over here unless i do it it person in a UK bank! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr but i do love my favorite auntie CAROLE and she knows why!

right so part from that all is good! the rain has started to pour though so stuck inside! but that means i can start sorting things out like work and stuff! as i speak i am just getting some e-mail address and phone numbers for production company's and just going to e-mail them my cv etc! see what happens!

nothing else to really talk about! sorry this is a big of a boring post really isn't it!

oh we went to Christchurch yesterday which is the nearest big town to where we are staying! that was nice, lots so see we went round gardens, mum liked that then we went to a museum and those who know me knows how board i get easally but i didn't at all! it was really fun and had everything there! from about the early mouri (the first settles to today with mota racing which was cool! we also got on this old tram which took us round the city and told you stuff about it which was fun!


emmm i think that is about it!

oh yer I NEED HEINZ TOM SAUCE! there tom sauce is strange and i need heinz!!!

love to all xxxx

END OF THE ROAD!

ok so the tour is done! we have been do dunedin which i'm not gogin to lie was baoring but did get to see a dragon parade for the end of chinese new year which was cool! from there we went to omarue which was brillant we got to see sealions in the wild and yellow eyed pengins! i have video fotage which i will add on later! to see them we went up to this hyde and waited watching this beach ( yes for about 3 hours i was a bird watcher!) but it was amazing seeing these pengins (tiny as well) waddling up the beach to theer nests was just amazaing! while all this was happing there for like 20 wild sealions just sunbathing on the beach, was so funny becaus ethy looked dead but every so often they would flap a fin! from there we drove back to Ashburton (which is where my uncal lives, well not ashburton but i'm not sure what the place is called laurston????, i am sure my auntie who follows this blog will soon comment on the name) tomorrow i have the FUN task of sorting out my money and banking and stuff GREAT! but what can you do i got to live!

ok that is it for now i will post videos and stuff later when i have edited them! ok bye for now xxxxx

finally the videos from hong kong!

Sorry for amount of time this took me to do! but hey i did it! via face book! (see it does solve everything) but i do apologize for the quality as i had to make them less quality or it would have fore ever to load! make sure you check out the blo beow of queens town, sorry i went a bit blog crazy today!

Disney Land



the budda

Queenstown

ok so yer we are in queens town and it is really nice the sun is shining ( i have a bit of a tan and that is not like me at all)The place is full of brits most of them working and living here! every where you go be it eating, drinking, jet boating you will be served by a brit! But we are staying in a really nice motel (run by kiwis btw not brits ha ha ha )and it opened the day we got here so we could not ask for it to be newer or cleaner! so yesterday (when we got here) we just had a wonder around looked at the shops and at the attractions you can do like jet boating, parasailing, bungy jumping (no thank you), sky diving etc etc. we then had a nice meal in a sea food restaurant which was nice and then strolled all the way back up the hill to are motel to sleep arrrrrr.

Today! it's waitangi day which is a New Zealand Bank Holiday!

from wiki!

Waitangi Day is a significant day in the history of New Zealand. It is a public holiday held each year on 6 February to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document, on that date in 1840. The Treaty made New Zealand a part of the British Empire, guaranteed Māori rights to their land and gave Māori the rights of British citizens.

So there you go that is a bit of information for you all (see you do learn something every day!) and my dad and i decided to do some trilling stuff today! We started off with a cable car up to the top or a mountain where we did Luging! it is a bit like a sledge you can steer of dry land! that was fun! then we had some lunch in a irish pub (to be sure, to be sure) and then dad and I booked into 1 hour of jet boating which was really fun BUT at the start they asked me if i would like to wear a rain mac because of the spray back i said NO I WON'T GET WET! and they sat me right at the back in the corner which you get soaked in! ha ha ha was great fun tho!

we are now back in the room just having a rest before we go into town again for some nice food and drink YUM!

then tomorrow Dunedin another big town! bring it on!

p.s oh by the way instead of posting the pics on here i have found a way for all you non-facebookers to see my pics on face book! ill post the link on here so you can see them!

bye for now! and if your reading this please comment i do like them ha ha ha! if your a follower just sign in! if not just click on the 0 comments bit below! and type a way and be anonymous then i think you don't have to be a member!

xxxxxxx i'm going not for real!!!!

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Wanaka

ok so after hokiki ( i don't know how it is spelt) we went to see the glaciers which were amazing! i mean amazing! solid blocks of ice flowing down a mountain in the middle of summer! dad even went down to the river and found a block of ice from the glacier!!!! crazy man! now we are in Wanaka which is beautiful! its set on a lake that is massive with amazing mountains in the back drop amazing! the sun was out NICE! We and next off to queens town which sound like fun! right im off for now! sorry for the quick message and i will add the vids soon but they seem to take forever to add! maybe i should make them smaller! 

ok bye for now!!!!!!

On the road in NZ

ok so ma, dar and me have hit the road today to vist some of south island! we have driven thought a place called arthurs pass which is all through the mountains and is beautiful just like going on the lord of the rings film set! we have ending up in a place called hokitika i think it is called (pronced like the abba song chicatika, come on guys you know i cant spell and these names are hard) the place is really cool and the sun is out we had a look round the the town which was nice (but places allways look nice in the sun) tomro we are off to some where with a fox in it (lol) no its fox glacier which i find stange as it's like 40' outside and we are off to look at ice :-s ????????????? after that we are hitting some more town (dont know how to spell them) then we are off to queens town which we have been told is the most english city of new zealand (you can even buy english papers and sweets yum) then off to see more! right i gtg now cause i dont know when my time will run out on this computer i am using! (it's like one of the rides at a supermaket where you put the money in, but it's a cpmputer instead)

p.s i have finnished editing my hong kong videos now so when i find wi-fi for a long period of time i will up load them on here! so you can all see the fun. ok i'm gogin for real now!

bye x

It now sunny in Paradise

ok THE SUN IS OUT AND ITS HOT HOT HOT! i mean its hot its like 40' out side and its great and i am all red ha ha ha! we have just been to the 'pond' today which is like a massive laketo hold the water for the irrigation system for the farm to keep the grass moist as the south island is very dry! the thing is we can use this lake as a swimming pool and because it is so big you can even kyak on it which was fun! we are now home cooling off inside! later on i am meeting my cousin and we are going to a party thing and then into town for some drinking (lets hope there is a nice beer garden) on monday we are off to travel around the south islandto have a look around! which i am very looking forward to! chat to ya all soon

oh! by the way i have a new zealand mobile now my number is +6427 448 6566 i still have my english phone but my new one might be easyer to get ohold of me but i'm not sure about cost your end! so either will do!

bye bye for now xxx

I'm in New Zealand!

ok so at 820 pm on the 28th of jan (hong kong time) i left off to new zealand stopping off in sydney before I went on to christchurch (my final stop) so i am HERE YAY! my 6 months start ............................. NOW! it's warm ish as i'm in shorts! but its a little over cast but tomro might be nice and hot been told the other day was 40' woooo exciting! ive seen my cousin's Dean, Mark, Daniel and Ellen and untie Carole and uncal simon ohhhh and of cousre my ma and dar! we are just chilling at the Farm just about to haver a BBQ which is so exciting! any who im off for now! i will leave a pic of the farm so u can all see where i'm staying! we are off into twon tomro so i can get an NZ phone i will give u all the number too! andf maybe start a bank account!

see ya all soon

I Leave for NZ today!

ok la! sorry havent typed for a while been very very busy! since i last time i wrote we had the hot pot which was AMAZING! it was like a massive pot of stock bubbling in the middle and you order all your food which is raw! and you dip your food in the pot to cook it! and it tastes AMAZING! after that we went to a club called 'all night long' which be left at 5am got home at 530am and for some reason didnt get to sleep till 7 ha ha ha! was a great night the next day we went to to see the markets which were crazy! and yoru get to barter which i thought i was good as untill... i got chucked out of a stoll cause my price was too low and i insulted the guy ha ha ha! and yesterday we went to vist some parks around honng knog which were very nice and too perfect if you know what i mean! then because of chinese new year we went and watched the fire works in TST and there were 10000's of people it was mental we coudlnt even move! but they were very beautiful and lots of them to see! and they react the same as us 'ohhhhhhh' 'awwwwwww' was very funny! ok i am off to go eat the last time in hong kong! and next time i chat to you will be in New Zealand BRING IT ON!!!!!!!!

The Big Buddha

ok this will be a short one! because i am so sleepy and we are meant to be going out soon! But i am so sleepy!!!!!

ok today was another amazing day! we went and saw the big buddha and yes he is massive! you get a cable car up to the top which takes like 25 mins and is soooooo high up you get amazing views of the bay! we then visited  a temple which was so relaxed and piecefull but still has the same as at the top of the buddha a coke machine which i found really funny! so nice and is cool to see it in real life and not just in photos!

we are now off to a traditional Chinese meal which is a massive 'hot pot' looking forward to it! and then we start celebrating new year hong kong style which is going to be fun! ok la (thats what the chinese say 'right ok') 

i will be making another vid to put up soon when i have time will be disneyland, the island and the buddha! 

ok bye for now!!!!! and leave comments i like getting them ha ha ha! if you click anonymous then you don't have to sign up to this! xxx 

love to all xx

Hong Kong

The vid i said i would put up ha ha feels a bit late now!

been having an amazing time! yesterday Steph and I went to DISNEYLAND i didn't even know Hong Kong had a disney land! that was AMAZING, small but amazing! went on all the rides and because of chinese new year the whole park and characters are dressed up! it looks amazing! ill put some pics up aswell! after that we had a night in  and watched some films and drank some wine FUN!

Today we went to vist one of the islands called 'Lamma Island' which is so different to hong kong! we took a ferry over which cost like £2 and took 20 mins! the island is not built up like hong kong with its massive tower blocks its just small houses but a little hilly! It also has amazing sandy beaches and feels like your in a different part of the world! we had a look around and say it was quite a well of island as this is where most of the brits and Americans move to when then move to hong kong because its so nice!

any who by for now will try put some pics up in a bit!

Catch ya soon x

I'M IN HONG KONG

ok just a quick one while i have 5 mins waiting for Heather, Danni and Steph to get ready!

IM IN HONG KONG! its crazy here really smoggy and massive tower blocks!

ok also my flight!

I GOT UPGRADED TO CLUB CLASS OH YER!!!!!!!!! I HAD A FLAT BED AND EVERYTHING WAS SO SO AMAZING, amazing food and drink! i had champange just before i took off! was the best 11 hour flight i have ever had i didn't want it to end! was so amazing i only had time to watch 1 film! AMAZING lots of sleep to!

i have pics and videos which i will put on later just wanted to say hi and that i was here! off for dinna and then going to a karakeo bar after! i feel like im in a dream world at the mo its very surreal!

ok that me for now i will tell you more soon!

Bye for now!!!!

TODAY!!!!!!!

Ok i have now printed off my boarding pass! i am sitting in seat 52J (which i have been told by a web site and Stuart is a good seat!!!!! woop i have just come back from bath which was amazing! thank you to all my friends coming out was such a good night! and a very hung over morning! Sad to say good bye!xxx then off to Nats house ohh that was sad!

It's now today and i go in 20 hours! arrr and guess what I'M NOT EVEN PACKED! ha ha 6 months of going away and i pack at the lat minuet! ha ha ha ha

I leave at 4pm tomorrow to go to the airport fly at 8.25pm xxxxxxx

love ya all xxxxxxx

4 DAYS TO GO

Arrrrrr its getting well close and it's not really sunk in yet! but i am excited! i thought i would try out the video thing on this! I don't know what i'm chatting about I promise they will be better as the times go on!

1 week to go!

Hi 

Wow its one week to go! ONE WEEK! I am so excited! i am starting to be a bit scared now! mostly because every one keeps saying to me “aww you all packed and have everything ready” the problem is i haven't! i mean i have my travel papers sorted and my visa and stuff but i don’t really know what i need i mean clothes and stuff ha ha ha. i am sure i will have it all sorted when i need to!

i am very excited about monday as it’s my leaving do in Bath as i have so much fun when i am there and its a cheap night and all my friends from TGI’s live there! very exciting!

Ok that is it for now! more when i pack and then next time will be Hong Kong!