Life in Christchurch

Life in Christchurch.


Dated or waa!!

So its now March 10^th and I’ve moved to my apartment in Hillbourgh, south of the city. Im right at the base of the Port Hills. That’s where all the mountain biking goes on so today I took a short ride up, across and down!! Got given an 1997 Giant ATX bike by my family friends. This things a shed of a bike but it pedals fine and is getting me from A to B. I think its another months before I can afford some wheels!!

The work situation is better, got hold of work for a building firm. So its back on site for a few months. I think any technicain work will start around chrimbo time. There is so much to do in Christchurch its unreal. It was announced on the news that it will 4 to 6 years before any domestic homes and structures are rebuilt.



So with work looking more positive ive started to hear from the firms I contacted before the quake, most of which are for technicians positions. Everything was slowed down once the quake hit and has taken 18 days for society to get itself back in place. So I shall see how long I’ll be working on site for. Went and picked up some new tools last week aswell so im itchin to try out my new hammer!!

One of the best things about NZ is that it supports any sports. And with all action sports in NZ having a large following the city council allows for skate park developments all over the city. On most of the city blocks there are skate plaza style skate parks full equipped for BMX and Skaters. I’m on the case already to get my hands on BMX. Theres one hell of a park at the corner of Waltham and Moorhouse which is a 20 minute walk from my flat. Went and had a look down there today and there were about a dozen groms there bunkin off school to go skate. This one kid who was 11 could do 360 flips. I skated on and off for 3 years and all i can show for it is a dodgy kick flip. Shows what can be achieved once one of these skate parks are put in place. (Take note Narberth/Pembrokeshire County Council).

Think its about time though that I bought myself a BMX again. After Cardiff I kow there good city cruisers and I can have play about on the thing aswell. Spotted a full scale BMX track 20mins away from the flat so I reckon I’ll be attending some regionals once the season kicks off. The Troy Lee lid is already in the airmail!! Woop woop!!

Just up the road from me place. This is piss all to the CBD

So im back on the building site, working as a Fixer. Which is basically just standard carpentry stuff. So ive been whippin up a few stud walls and plaster boarding. The chap that I ended up working with on my first day was THE biggest pot head ive ever met. He had a bag of weed the side a bin in his car and spent half the day disappearing off for 15 minute and coming back to work pretty glazed over.
The foremans been a prick all week aswell. He was getting his knickers ina twist about the dust etc and it ended up my boss nearly crackin him one!! Would have been a wild first day at work!!

Think I’ll be stickin with these guys for a while, for the next 2/3 months and build up some dollars before headin to Queenstown for a ski season!! But ive been offered lots of jobs with Hays Construction who I now work for.

Aparently theres plenty of skiing and mountain biking year round down there. And hopefully plenty of chicks aswell!! It has been very quiet on the ladies side of things, but I but havent been out on the piss much. Went for a few ciders the other night. Caught abit of the rugby aswell which was good.

All in all its not a bad place to be, im pretty damn happy with how things are working out. But like ive said in the other posts. Just need a bike for some adventures!!

Right that’s all I got for now, I’ll throw some flavour into the next one. Big Love from Christchurch



Good packaging there Mummy Doug



PEACE

TD