The trip in NZ from 31 December 07 to 31 March 08 (3 months) has been finished.
I have been away from HK over 4 months, the trip in NZ has been done and I will fly back to Aus on 31 March. During these three months in NZ, I have a very good time with my mum traveling the North Island. Having a 24 days trip with mum is really treasuable and i guess it would become unforgetable moment in the rest of my life. Apart from this, I have been experienced different types of farm work & kiwi people by staying, living and working with them. It widers my eyesight how people in here love and care their family members, animals and their nature environment. I have learnt many different types of cooking, baking, making dessert and jam. I do enjoy various kinds of farm works, planting, taking care of garden & animals…sometime the hardest work such as building a road, cutting firewood, climb the top of 4 metre ladder to pick the fruit. I love the natural environment in here and enjoy eating organic food mostly in every meal. I really hope that one day I will have my own garden, planting my own vegetable.
There are so many things to learn to explore, to experience and to reflect. Majority kiwi in here are nice and kind but not all of them. The country is so safe but again not everywhere. It is common to hear news on and off that a backpacker being murdered or being killed. I did come across not less difficulties and disappointments but at the end I am alright. Thanks for your prayer for me. In each morning I will tell myself it is going be a brand new day cos this is the promise of God, seeking for his protection and grant me a wisdom to live in each day. At the same time this could be last day so I will try my very best to treasure each day. Being a backpacker, sometime u never know where and when I am going to stay and sleep tomorrow. I learnt to get used to a different strange place and try quickly to get involve in their family cos I normally just stay for one week in each farm. However, a week would be a wonderful short time or a horriable feeling of long month you never know. But anyway, the majority farms I stayed are very good so I miss them so much esp when we have to say good bye and I have to keep going to another strange place. Some of them do invite me to come another and welcome anyone of my family members to come to stay in future.
a 26 years old Scottish backpacker lady being murded by a 14 years old boy in Taupo.
The nature and natural scenery in NZ bring me closer to God. From the top of the mountain to the bottom of seaside. From East to West and North to South, mountains surrounding the country. Hundred types of green tree and plants. There is a time for me to slow down my pace and discover each of piece of tree, wood and flowers, animal, bird….or even a drop of natural rain water, observing people how their live with life. Those are the things telling me who is in control. Compare to those natural wilderness, human being is just a very very tiny & smallest short time appearence in the World but we are being chosen to be the most valuable in the eye of God.
Sometime I feel very lonely not because I am alone, but when there are a group of backpackers being with me but they are doing something different from me. I feel being in a group but not want to be in the group. There are many types of people over the World. I come across some nice backpacker in different age group and enjoyed very much the sharing about life, culture, religious and so on and on. I admire so many elderly couple or single person which are over 65 but they sold out all their house and then spend over a year to travel around the World. One lady from England impressed me more cos she is a grandma status, over 65 but she really want to achieved her old dream so she takes this 1st attemp to travel around the world by staying with us in backpack, however she break her leg in Aus but she never has a sense to give up her dream. So pls think about if u are over 60, you still have chance and time to achieve your dream. On of the WWOOF family invited me to watch a wonderful movie, which is called " Indian" a true story in Invercargill, bottom of South Island. It is talking about a man who is over 65, he want to participate the motorbike competition in the United States. He them try to work as a crew in the ferry in order to get the free load and food to get to the States. The story is really touching my heart and once be a famous movie in NZ. No body trust and believe him that he can do it but he at the end break the World record and put this little tiny small town of Invercargill into the map of the World. He at the end achieve his dream which he waited for 35 years. I also come across a WWOOF Farm, the host dad told me that his brother aged 57 and spending a year in AUS for doing wwoofing, he use the motor bike as main transport equipment and just allow himself to spend less than AUD$ 5 per day.
Anyway, a week ago I start to prepare myself to leave this country. I thought it is very important to leave no unfinished business. Say good bye to everybody I met, say good bye to each of the place, such as a beautiful beach, lighthouse, sheep, deer, flower...a piece of funny cloud. My backpack is more or less the same heavy as before. However, I have leave my footprints in some of the place, what I in return can carry back is thousands of memories, forever friendship and lot of inside elements which I guess will bring me growth and getting more mature. I am glad my dream to travel in NZ three years before has come true, with more than what I expected & imagined cos I never thought that I would bring my mum to travel and we have had a good time.
Now i am back to Aus and what is going to happen..... for what i know is in each day i seek for God's guildence by starting a little sincerely prayer and be sured that God is the one who prepare each day for me, which including the people and the things i come across.
Vivian
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花仙子 2008-04-09 16:52
What a great trip!
God's blessing round you!