As we laid
down our battle plans for a trip to our certain friends and relatives the
reactions were more or less skeptical. The promised accommodation is going to
be some barn that the host’s ancestors build in the late seventeen-hundreds or
has probably some mold issues and has one-layered-glass used in windows which
come to winter ends up freezing the whole house. On top of that if someone comes
to your house to work and live for few weeks what kind of work do you ask them
to do? Labor of course! All the shitty stuff you were supposed to do yourself
last year, month or decade but were too tired, too busy or too drunk to do it
yourself. That is what we were prepared to do and what we are doing, right? Well
not exactly…
This is our…well
we are not sure what to call this but for three weeks it’s our home. It’s huge
in size plus we have ourselves our own bedroom, bathroom, toilet and living
room in distinct ”wing” of the building. It’s really hard to describe what
everything looks like so we decided to summarize it as modern, peaceful and
elegant and post a video that summarizes everything up.
This is our supervisor Carla. She’s bit of a bitch. Literally. She’s a one-year-old
jack russels and wire fox terrier who loves everybody, likes scratches and gets
off by chasing bunnies.
And this is
our office. And backyard. And front yard. All spiced up with bright autumn
colors <3
And
what about the work…? It’s not THAT bad come to think of it. Some people do it
on their spare time, are actually aching for it, especially in the springtime in
Finland and some does not understand how someone could ever care about
something like that. And this is what we do…
Ok
so we are living with somebody else’s house. In this case in a gorgeous house
of lovely British lady, her cute puppy and muscular, though minor, demigod of a
son. And we have to work to earn our keep. Yeah if you call picking weeds,
mulching and picking berries in a sunny garden surrounded by famous mountain
ranges a work. So as we reviewed our situation with a glass of local Pinot Noir
we decided that our life in Queenstown was not THAT bad. Even though we still
lack a working Wi-Fi, next accommodation site near Christchurch, an actual
company who hasn’t closed for the winter season and the actual text for the
Bachelor’s Thesis we are feeling pretty awesome.
With Love Miia & Lotta
