Settling in and thinking about it all

By now i've been here for almost 48 hours, and these hours have been full of joy, happiness.. and of course feeling very tired too. Still takes time to get into NZ time properly.

On 30th January, i spent my day like that: woke up at 8am. Sun was shining, birds were singing and i started my perfect day with running. Our place is near by Auckland Botanic Gardens, really fantastic and beautiful place to do workouts and just to relax, enjoy good examples of New Zealand nature. The weather was pretty hot - and hot for me means 25 degrees already. I felt so alive again. Some sleepless nights made me not to do any sports in meanwhile and now, when it is possible again, it's just so great to do usual things.

Then i had a breakfast, at the same time Marge was talking over Skype with her good friend Eidi. What a nice and direct way to communicate, it felt like she was here with us. And we made jokes that it's really good opportunity to be in contact, even to organize for example wine evenings together :) Well, the only thing is that we need to decide who will have wine "evening" and who will have wine "morning", because our time differences are just so big. Ha-haa. We are having 8am in the morning here and it is 7pm in Estonia at the same time. The thing that makes feel that we are really very far from home.

At midday we went to Auckland center by train. It takes about 40 minutes to run there, because officially we are not in Auckland but in its near by area called Manukau, Manurewa. We met in Manurewa train station a nice newzealander, really friendly old man and we all opened up to talk about everything. It is very usual behaviour here: people in street, when you turn to them, start to talk with you very easily and if you have time, they don't talk just such small talk but ask about our country, friends, family... And it's easy to open up here.

Later we met a friend whom i know since we were here in November 2008, had some wines (great NZ wines!) in an outdoor bar and headed back home soon.

Today it's different weather, more cloudy. But cannot say it about my mood and the way how i feel :)