Good luck story.

"Evening all"...another pleasant day in Cambrian ,a couple of trees planted out and many cups of teas with neighbours ,here ! Off out now to socialize with the wild population of the valley ,well at least Don McKenzie ,but here's a little "good luck story " sent to me by a WWOOFer from a couple of years ago .

Okay, there is another thing which I wanted to tell you. You were asking for feel good stories and I'll have one for you.

When Sandra and I were hitchhiking north of auckland (almost 4 years ago) there was this guy, Keith, who gave us a ride. He was taking us to Auckland, we were talking about what we were doing, what we were going to do and as we came close to Auckland (he was living in Northshore) it had become quite late, so he asked us if we wanted to stay the night at his place. We happily agreed and half an hour later we had tea with him and his wife. During this period of our travels through NZ we were looking for jobs and as it turned out, Keith was the owner of a saw-mill (well, that was quite a long time before we met you) and he would offer us a job. It was Thursday evening, work would start Monday. Then he told us, he and his wife would go to their bach at the beach the next morning and return on Sunday evening. Sandra and I should stay at their house, visit Auckland and tell them on Sunday what we think about the jobs...So, they gave us the keys for their house and left it to us - two complete strangers from germany (taking germanys history into account probably not the nicest people on earth) - for three whole days! I'm pretty sure you wouldn't find a person in Germany who'd have done the same. Of course we took the jobs, when they came back on Sunday (and Keith told us later he wouldn't have thought that we'd take them, but still let us stay in his house...)

The people that make stories like yours and mine possible are the main reason why I fell in love with your country. You should remember that your blessed living in a country where people trust total strangers and get rewarded for it.

Cheers, Marc

Come-on anyone else got a story ?     cheers ...Bob