Christmas Eve in Queenstown- the orphans unite!
Friday, December 24, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
A Berry Merry Christmas!
As Navidad is fast approaching we've been busting out a few Christmas carols. Today Choi and I assembled the tree while I taught him choice lines from A Christmas Carol such as "Bah Humbug" and "God Bless us, everyone. We found a few Korean songs on Youtube, but this was easily our favorite result.
I kept asking Choi if everyone in Korea could sing like Angels, and he just giggled and turned red, so me thinks that's a maybe.
Brett came in and put on an Aussie classic
Brendan, from Ireland and living in the hostel with us, says this is the greatest Christmas song ever written, yet says he's heard it so much that he'll happily go the rest of his life without hearing it again. It gets a decent amount of play here and is obviously a staple in Europe, but I shall admit, I've never heard it before. So it's wonderful and new to me:
And Cam and I fall back on our personal favorite snap shot of Christmas in the US of A: Robert Earl Keene's 'Merry Christmas from the Family'
So as we head out in tanktops and jandals (that's Kiwi-speak for sandals), we're sending the love!
I kept asking Choi if everyone in Korea could sing like Angels, and he just giggled and turned red, so me thinks that's a maybe.
Brett came in and put on an Aussie classic
Brendan, from Ireland and living in the hostel with us, says this is the greatest Christmas song ever written, yet says he's heard it so much that he'll happily go the rest of his life without hearing it again. It gets a decent amount of play here and is obviously a staple in Europe, but I shall admit, I've never heard it before. So it's wonderful and new to me:
And Cam and I fall back on our personal favorite snap shot of Christmas in the US of A: Robert Earl Keene's 'Merry Christmas from the Family'
So as we head out in tanktops and jandals (that's Kiwi-speak for sandals), we're sending the love!
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Cam's thoughts
I have successfully hacked Molly's blog and thought I would fill you all in on what I've been up to. Queenstown is flipping sweet as! Life is good, working at the golf course is a super cruisey job and my game is significantly improving. Finally moved into my official room at the hostel, which is coming along nicely, and I have a proper bed and everything now. The town is really fun to go out in, but it is rather expensive, its a lot like Aspen in that its very touristy and thus everything is way over priced. Even Subway footlongs are like 10 bucks! I haven't done anything else too exciting but I really want to try bungie jumping soon. The place where bungie jumping was invented is like 30 minutes away so I might try that one, we will see. Were missing everyone this holiday season and its really odd having Christmas in the middle of summer, but its all part of the experience.
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Sad News Bears
Two really sweet French guys who we used to live with died in the lake the other night. It's really rocked Queenstown and everyone is very upset.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4433901/Two-die-in-awful-tragedy
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4433901/Two-die-in-awful-tragedy
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