strathmore school kids from Wellington and their new bikes from Variety - charity for kids

first attempt at U/W photography... my favorite shot

travel

sitting in a basically all chinese open air food market/court on a computer for internet use, a bird just landed on the keyboard and it really hit me:

I love to travel. This is what I was meant to do. I just got done sitting on a deck overlooking the pacific and coast of Cairns drinking some cheap ass pints and wondering how many more beers its going to take me before I talk to the waitress and ask her what she is doing after she gets off.

I love to travel.

Anthony Bourdain might be my new mentor/hero/god/krishna/whatever hahaha. I just cant believe where I am right now. There is a stall next to me selling deep fried lemon fish heads for about 20 cents american. DEAL!

---///Tales from the road\\\---

tefl

I think I should get my TEFL or TESOL first, and I want to do that somewhere exotic like Mongolia. I have wanderlust, and a bad case of it.

To live would be an awfully big adventure

T.I.A.

I want to go to Africa. There is an opportunity to work on a wildlife preserve south of Kruger National Park, and I think I'm going to do it.
Do I come back?

"Is it okay if your mate's mum gives you a woody?" - line from a commercial in NZ

The two pictures that are going along with the captions in the beginning of the story one post down

Story I wrote that will be in the last week issue of Nov for the Cook Straight News

Be A Christmas Star

Andrew Routt

IN NEED: Father Des Britten holds this program close to heart, and holds the empty boxes out to show the need for donations.

DONATE: Find these golden boxes throughout the city to place your donation of toys, games, or foodstuffs.

The Wellington City Mission is normally the first group to lend a hand; now, they need you to lend them one.

Their annual “Be A Star” program, in which they donate presents to worse of families in need of help to put presents under the tree, has hit a snag.

By this time last year, the Mission would already have over 400 boxes of gifts out to needy families. According to Dan Boyd, the Special Events Organiser, they are only two-thirds of the way to their goal.

“Wellingtonians are always so generous and give so much with our Christmas boxes,” says Fr. Britten. “I’m sure they can pull together and get the campaign really humming.”

This program is put on by extremely dedicated individuals who work their hardest to help those in need throughout the Greater Wellington area. The Wellington City Mission targets from Cook Straight to Porirua, so donating a new toy, game, or foodstuff to the boxes throughout the city will be helping the entire city.

With the program set to kick off next week, they will be driving around in their decorated “Breeze Bus,” which is a GO Wellington city bus decked out in full Christmas regalia, they need help from all possible donations as soon as possible.

Corporate Businesses and organizations are being asked to contact The City Mission if they can help, with many different ways possible.

Fr. Britten and the entire staff at the Wellington City Mission are passionate about making sure as many children throughout the area are able to celebrate Christmas like the rest of us are able to, and are asking for your help.

For more information about the Wellington City Mission, visit: www.wellingtoncitymission.co.nz

N Zed

"Squeaky" Fromme is now squeaky clean? Jeez...

Yes, you read that correctly. Ms. Fromme, one of the more famous members of the family that was once known as "The Family", or, Manson's followers, is now a part of "normal" society.

Wait, you mean she didn't try to escape this time? Wow... whoever passed on parole for her is an idiot. When she escaped the first time (yes, the first time), they caught her less than three miles away from the prison, but the key is, she had already killed three more people. She pointed a gun at the President. SHES FREE? Is our society in that shape now? Why not release Charles? I mean hes 80ish, so he won't do any harm, right?

(taken from CNN.com)

She said she knew Ford was in town and near her, "and I said, 'I gotta go and talk to him,' and then I thought, 'That's foolish. He's not going to stop and talk to you.' People have already shown you can lay blood in front of them and they're not, you know, they don't think anything of it. I said, 'Maybe I'll take the gun,' and I thought, 'I have to do this. This is the time.' "

AND WE LET HER OUT OF PRISON? Wow, you know what? I am actually proud of her for bullshitting her way out of prison. Sadly, this is kind of sadistic, but I hope she does something really bad. It'll just prove mine, and so many others points.

Hey since she is out, can we let DMX out? Im sure hes done his payment to society, and would really appreciate not wearing a pink jumpsuit anymore. "Ya'll gonna make me, loose my mind, up in here, up in here." You know what DMX, I would loose my mind if I had to wear a pink jumpsuit. Now... the whole prison thing about being the "bitch" or having one in prison... whats more better suited than having the most "gangster" thug in the prison wearing pink...