Daily Archives: December 7, 2007

Postcard 15: Party at Joe’s 0

Jake explains his hat of many badges One of the things I was most looking forward to in coming to New Zealand was a party that had been arranged three months in advance by my friend Joe. The idea was to get a bunch of people I wanted to meet up with while over here [...]

Postcard 14: The Temple 0

Mum took Jake and I to Auckland’s new Buddhist temple. It’s somewhere she takes a lot of visitors, who want something local and fascinating to go see as tourists. It’s quite an amazing place: really incredibly serene, and yet close to the overblown, banal Botany town centre, and deep in new development suburbia. Buddhism is [...]