Staff Party

On the 6th of October, there was the staff party of the RA-Company. The motto was Rock Star. As real rock stars have tattoos, Julia and I drew our own ones…Faked tattoos. I wanted to have something unusual. Amongst others, I decided to have the writing ‘Deutsche Markenbutter’ on my forearm. Very original, isn’t it?!

The reactions were really funny, when the founder of the RA-Company, who is Austrian, and the chef, who’s German, read it. They started laughing and called us “CRAZY GERMAN GIRLS!!!”

After we had a few drinks and lots to eat the complete staff danced wildly down the street to the next bar and kept on celebrating all night long. I had a most enjoyable night!

Jaggedy Ann

At the beginning of September, there was a little rock concert at ‘Bodega’, a club just around the corner of our accommodation.

All together there were 6 different bands playing their songs. I was absolutely amazed by Jaggedy Ann and another group whose name I can’t remember. What a shame! Anyway, the band consisted of three boys and a female singer. Her booming singing voice reminded me of The Guano Apes. When you listen to this group for the first time you can’t really say if a man or a woman is singing. Here it was quite the same. Absolutely amazing!

Jaggedy Ann was the last group and it was the best. Four good looking girls rocking the house! They are big fans of AC/DC… you can hear it in their songs. If you want to listen to a few songs of them, have a look at their ‘my space page’. I can highly recommend it!

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=2159344

JAGGEDY ANN

Volcano erupts

Actually I wanted to write this comment two weeks ago…but well, there was so much to do…But it’s never too late.

Two weeks ago, not far away from me, a natural disaster struck. Mount Ruapehu, situated in the middle of the North Island, suddenly erupted.

Uiuiui after a while it becomes a little uncomfortable here.

In the following article you can get more information about it.

NZealand volcano erupts, one hurt

Tue Sep 25, 5:38 PM ET

WELLINGTON (AFP) - Ski lodges were evacuated, highways briefly shut down and one man was hurt when a volcano in New Zealand erupted unexpectedly, spewing ash and rocks into the air, officials said Wednesday.

The eruption at Mount Ruapehu, located halfway between Wellington and Auckland on New Zealand's North Island, started at 8:20 pm Tuesday (0820 GMT) and lasted for seven minutes, GNS Science duty vulcanologist Craig Miller said.

"It was just straight out of the blue," Miller told Radio New Zealand.

No further activity was reported in the hours following the eruption but it remained unclear whether any further eruptions could occur, he added.

"It's certainly not escalating into anything bigger at this stage," he said.

A 22-year-old climber, who was not named, was hurt when rocks crashed through the roof of a mountainside hut where he was staying, pinning him to the floor. He was evacuated by helicopter early Wednesday, officials said.

The eruption also briefly forced the suspension of train service along the main line in the area and the evacuation of several ski lodges in the popular resort area.

Two trails of volcanic ash and water from Mount Ruapehu's crater lake flowed down the sides of the mountain, but no significant damage was reported.

Photos and text taken from:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070925/sc_afp/nzealandvolcano_070925213824

Crazy New Zealand chicks

In one of my comments I wrote that sometimes New Zealand people dress slightly crazy. A few weeks ago, I met 10 crazy Kiwi girls while I was shopping in a supermarket. I do not know if there was a special reason for their dressing up, but they told me that they did it regularly and went from one supermarket to the other. Just for fun!

It reminds me a little bit of the “Lumpenball” or “Nachthemdenball” in my home village, Kappeln. Gelle?