jenn and gaston and barbara at mt. maunganui

this is me with my two favorite argentinians, gaston and barbara!!! i was very lucky to have them as co-wwoofers in cambridge as we got along very well and will (and already have been) keep in touch. they had been in new zealand for about 5 weeks prior to wwoofing with the osmonds and during those 5 weeks they were living in papamoa, just south on the coromandel peninsula. barbara had been working in the kiwi fruit pack house to make some money before they discovered wwoofing. on thursday night of my first week in cambridge they invited me to go back to papamoa and the mt. maunganui area for dinner and to visit their packhouse friends. we drove the hour and twenty minutes north to mt. maunganui where we walked around the beach that was full of shells (there was no sand) and we trekked along the base of the volcano which is home to sheep and rabbits and one heck of a beautiful sunset! once the sun was down we found ourselves a lovely cafe where we indulged in coffees and newspapers and some magazines for fun. the dinner in papamoa was at the flat of a group of other argentinians and included the three of us, 8 other argentinians and one german fellow (also from the packhouse). the dinner was lively, loud and included a lot of sign language, some spanish, some english, a little german and some italian for fun.