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Aug 02, 2007 17:58

I took photos the other night, from a volcanic rise that overlooks Auckland city. I had no tripod and couldn't be bothered hunting around in my camera for the shutter speed control, so couldn't get photos of the crater itself, but took many of the views and of little surprises along the way. The maori that once lived in the area, they believed the original inhabitants of (Mt Eden) were fairies. My jacket needs to be sent to the cleaners, for it got caked in deliciously fertile mud as I slipped trying to climb places I wasn't meant to be climbing. I was covered, head to toe, in the darkest sodden silt I've ever drawn my fingertips through. So smooth, just like fingerpaint.
The full moon was still enough light for the green of the grass to illuminate, and oh how I love the rain and green of New Zealand. The dewy drops glistened and winked at me as I strode along the tracks, and I fancied there were fairies watching. I was later chased by a feeling of dread, a spirit that did not welcome my presence; and it was then I truly saw a fairy. It fluttered by to console and protect me; a winged creature the colour of pearls and trimmed like lace. Perhaps it was a moth, and a trick of the light. It matters not. I was safe then.

I got back at 2pm, read the last chapters of The Leiutenant's Woman, fell asleep, was woken by Matthew the Italian chef, who gently told me I should go to bed.
Yes. There was protective magic in the air that night.

Today I bought an elfish bangle of Paua(? spelling ?) shell, it's very earthly in colour and shape; green, blue, and pink like a sunset ocean, and the beads are bars in shape, so that strung together they look like a bundle of sticks. It reminds me that if I were to be something of a mythical creature, then I'd be some form of tree spirit. I'm going to sleep in a bed of eucalypt when I get to Cairns. As much as I'm in love with the sprawling arms of the native New Zealand trees, and their splendid green upon damp, therefore softer-looking trunks; Eucalypt, Melaleuca and Wattle will always be my home.

I also bought dairy-free hand-made chocolates. I've had two already. One honeycomb, one vanilla. I'm in heaven.

I've come to admit that I'm not at all going to manage to save money here in Auckland. Here in the 'city of sails' the best I can do is work to keep an even-keel. I've come to appreciate the cheapness of my lodgings with family and friends. Hell yes.
I might manage better, with tighter purse strings and less coffee and chocolate. Yes.
I took a 2nd job this afternoon: kitchen hand at a bar/restaurant up the road from me. 3 nights a week. It's not much, but it might make the difference. With the two incomes perhaps it will help with the budget, I know this did in Melbourne. One for spending money, the other straight into untouchable savings. I'm deluding myself if i think i can't go out without spending money. I am deluded. But soon to be resolved. As i am determined. I have many ideas and desires running through my head at the moment, and I'm going to get my head down with my nose to the grindstone... it's too easy to merely think these things, rather than actually do them. I will do them.

Anyway, 2 minutes of internet left.

Hooroo.
Where one can have all of
Star-dust, voclanic craters, and sea breezes,
in the one second...
Kelly-Rae.
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