Kmateo

"Matapiro" Vineyard is where I worked about 2 months. Corbans is name of it's wine, the website is http://www.corbans.co.nz. I finished "Tai Lao" work this week in Matapiro vineyard and I'm going to South Island for traveling , maybe find another work to be another kind of "Tai Lao" again, hope I can get a easy work in hotel where close to mountain, then it's easy for me to hiking and see the specturlar views of South Island. There are some friends whom I worked with them more than one months: 2 from Malaysia (Malaysia born Chinese), Wang and Liu, they all speak Chinese, especially Wang can speak "Min-Nan"(Taiwaness) too, because his grandfather was from Xiamen, yes very close to my hometown - Kinmen. Liu is very kind, there are many Taiwaness girls left message on Liu's notebook, I think when she travel to Taiwan, she can easy to meet some friends at most of Taiwan's county. Japanese: Yuma and Yastomo both of them were my roommates and drivers (Napier and Hastings), Yuma learned Spanish 3 years in Japan, most of time we talked to each other in Spanish, helped each other don't forget Spanish. Yas will go to kaoshoung next year, maybe after his Australia trip, he has a big travel plan that he won't go back to Japan within 5 years. Minami, she is good at work, she always do her best to do every boring work, I really appreciate what she did at work, and she likes sports, surfing, ski, hiking....cool. Nabe, he had traveled around the world by ship too, like Minami, this is his second time visit NZ, what he surprised me is that he is 31 years old, what I think about Japanese (man) is that they work hard and doesn't change their job all his life, but he does. Korea: Jin, she is the youngest among all of us, and she is funny when she is talking, everytime I tried to learn some Korean from her, she always responded in many long words in a funny way, so I can't remember any korean except "An Niang", because I knew it from "Jane Liu"'s blog. Thailand: Lek is our boss(contractor), she is kind too, paid to us on time and we always got a long "smoko" (break time) than we can get, when we did hourly job, sometimes she asked us "work slowly or you guys won't have any job later", but I think we really did a good job, so she asked us didn't do it so fast. there were some friends worked with me too, Take, Leo, Halumi from Japan, but we didn't worked together too long, and some guys from Germany and Canada and I don't know them too much. Bye bye Vineyard, Sleeping Giant... next destination - Wellinton then South Island ....