Hello everybody 🙂 It has been an awesome past week since arriving. Safe to say no one has been disappointed with New Zealand. And wow, what a squad that has been assembled for this journey. It’s hard to believe that this is actually happening. Everything has been going great so far and there is so much more to come.
On our first day in New Zealand, we were let loose in Wellington, its capital, on a scavenger hunt to explore the city and learn a few things about the culture. It was surprising, but satisfying, that Avi and Lauren let us do this on our own. Seems like that might have set the tone for the rest of the trip. Wellington was an amazing city. There was a lot of culture and cool architecture downtown and right next to it was probably the most beautiful beach I have ever seen.
During this time we stayed in a lodge with the coast on one side and mountains on the other. We took care of everything to do with orientation and it feels good to have that behind us. Last night we took a small hike near our lodge to a beautiful peak to catch the sunset on the beach. We had our final ceremony there and concluded orientation and it was a great moment.
And today, we took the bus to a place deep in the country called Paekakariki and arrived at a farm that seems more like a resort. We had dinner with the family who owns the farm tonight and are going to show our appreciation by helping them with all their wild farm activities starting tomorrow.
Looking forward to what’s next but couldn’t have imagined a better start!
– Alex and Dane