I'm spending the next few Thursdays & Fridays doing work experience at the Kapiti Observer newspaper - have to get back into practice with journalism. Whether it leads to paying work is another question. When I mentioned it to my flatmate her first reaction was "are they paying you?"
I do seem to spend rather a large percentage of my time doing unpaid work. Maybe it's something to do with guilt about having been raised in a middle class family, not rich but never (that I was aware) struggling to put food on the table. Even these days when I'm broke I tend to eat well. Somehow I never picked up the hunger for money that most people (my cousins) seem to have - I tend to only be aware of money when its absence becomes a barrier to something... I should have gone travelling years ago. Anyway.
I do quite like the Kapiti Coast as a part of the country though. I went up the Paekakariki escarpment on Saturday to do some gorse-removal and tree planting (kanuka in my case) with Nga Uruora. I love the steep landscape there and revegetating it does seem to be something worthwhile that I can get behind.
I wouldn't mind living there when I'm older - most of my family are in the Wairarapa now but I didn't grow up there so don't feel much connection to it, and I'd rather live by the sea. Paekakariki's great, but trouble is the housing prices are pretty steep. Even renting out there's no cheaper than Wellington.
Anyhow, up early & out to Paraparaumu tomorrow to write about whatever the locals have been up to in my absence. And back in the evening for band practice...
Posted by fiffdimension at July 27, 2005 01:29 PM | TrackBack