New student arrives

On Monday 6th August, Alice and I headed to Auckland airport to pick up Katja.  After 15 minutes of waiting, we met her in the arrival area and then headed home.

Katja is from Technical University of Munich and will be with us for 2 months.

Yesterday was her first day out and about after a big catchup sleep.

At 11.00 am we had 34 dairy cows arrive, which will stay with us for 6 weeks.  So, we watched them being unloaded and then put them away in their paddock.

The cows getting off the truck.

Taking the cows down the lane

Alice going to get the cows ... they missed their open gate.







We then packed up and headed to the other block to catch up to Mal, who is subdividing our new grass paddock.  Whilst down there we put up an electric fence for the cows to go to and took another one down.  On the way we stopped at the waterfall.

Katja and the Te Herehere Falls

The rain came ... there wasn't enough room in the fireplace for us all, so some of us got wet!



Then it rained  on us, but there wasn't enough room in the fireplace for all!

The next goal, was to get Katja used to driving an ATV.  In one of our flat paddocks, we took Katja through the steps of starting and stopping the bike and then allowing her some space to practice driving.  Will continue to do this whilst here as safety is important.

Katja having her first ATV driving lesson in one of our few flat paddocks.

We all came home wet ... warm showers for all.  We had heavy rain overnight and tipped out 22 mls this morning.