Did the earth move for you too?

Damn Damn Damn the server just shut off and I lost HALF AN HOUR"S Typing so excuse me if this is long cos I'm not paying any more time! I had just finished and was saving it when it ***************** disappeared!!!

We had an earthquake this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was brilliant!!!!!

I thought someone was in the next room making the bed and shaking the wall and so making the couch vibrate. When someone else said the same and they weren't near the wall I looked outside and everything was shaking! It was amazing! I have still to find out the magnitude but it won't be much! But it sure was fun! If had been stronger and I had known what was going on I would have made for the doorway but otherwise it was great! All I have to see now is a volcanic eruption and a tornado and then I'll be happy. :-)

Anyway! another week has gone past! Not much has happened! The pay is still really bad and I'm still working from 7.30am till 5pm but not for long! Soon I'll be on hourly wages as I'm being taken off thinning trees to do summer pruning because the managers don't trust boys. Last year the boys - on finding out they were on hourly rates - did a really bad job but got good pay! so this year they are taking only girls to do it! My first 'girly' job! On saturday I went to Alexandra with a number of people from the hostel and did some shopping and sightseeing. I didn't get much that would interest you just some stuff that has come in very useful - like a tape stereo, to block out the annoying people in the orchard! The tapes that I got were: Village People, and Pink. Before you laugh (or after) they were the only tapes I could get that weren't chrissy music or classical. We ended up playing frisbee in the park after. The Japanese girls haven't played it too often so some are better than others so it was fun esp as we had to run everywhere to collect the frisbee as we were so spread out! At night we went to the pub and played pool so again I won by fluke! On Sunday I got locked out of the hostel after Mass. I went to Mass and was invited to join the parish in celebrating the First Communion of 3 kids so I went and when I returned to the hostel I found it locked and I had no keys and for once no one had left a window open! It was quite good getting to meet the rest of the Parish and I may go to dinner with a family before I leave Roxburgh. South Islanders are soooo nice - it's amazing. SO when everyone did return after a long walk I could get my sleeping bag washed as I had been intending to do for some time. Only it didn't dry in time and I spent the night with hardly any sleep as I was so cold. At night the temp drops to about 7 degrees (so it does cheer me up that you are getting minus encounters) and during the day between 14 and 28 degrees. On Monday I went to work in a new block and thinned very few apple trees for very little pay - though I wasn't the only one to do so little. Out of our car load everyone else thinned the same number for the same pay - this week I think we'll be skint! It's raining today so no work and the weather is not looking good for the rest of the week. Damn!

I think I've remembered everything from my last writing up of this entry - even if it isn't as well written or as entertaining!

I gave up on the no fast food and had a chippy the other day - the first one in a long while but it was soo worth it! Anyway I'm going home to look out for some more impending weather situations and get some food! :-D