Off to Asia!

Howdy all. Italy was amazing! I am now in China after reuniting with Sam in London at the end of the season. We are both settled into life in Changchun now and Sam is working away on his sculpture. We are keeping a blog about our journeys. Rather than keep two blogs please check his one out for all the goss....you can access it from his website in "News from Changchun" click here Dirty Fingers Pottery

European Adventures

yep, have finally managed to visit Rachel in London after 6 or so years of her being here. am currently staying with her and re-exploring the sites of London - it was 1995 that i was last here scary!

I am off to Italy to start my first Euro season with Full On, my third year with the company. We are based at Assisi in Umbria, a beautiful hilltop town hosting the St Francis Basilica and lots of tourists. After a few weeks there I am back to London to meet Sam and we are heading off to China as he has been selected for a sculpture symposium there you can see more about it and his design for the project (his first bronze sculpture!) at Dirty Fingers Pottery Website

Thats all for now folks. will try and get around to posting pics as i go.
ciao
j9

More pics

The Sand form that acts as a mould to cob over
the bricks on and starting to build the walls
Rollin the cob

Leaving the cold cold South! The end of my Full On contract....

My contract with Full On has come to an end and to my great excitement its only a few days until I leave Christchurch & head back home to the Wairarapa & Sam yay! Its been a fabulous few months with lots of learnings & much fun. I have a couple of weeks off before I start another season with Wairarapa Outdoor Pursuits yep, I've signed up for more school camps! To my fellow SOMs and the rest of the head office team THANKS for a wicked time you guys rock & I will miss you all heaps.

We finished the season in style with a boat trip to the Marlborough Sounds....thanks to Mark & to Paul our able Captains. My first time in a sailing boat!

FosJo at the helm
Wends above, Waikawa Harbour below

SOM Teambuilding!

The Season that was.....

End of season ice skating......






around the beautiful ozzi coast line with the crew

the full on programme in action....

thanks guys and gals, you were awesome!!!

oops its been a while!

Hey everyone, I've been living and working in the land of Oz for since late May doing another season for Full On. The company provides a personal development programme for students from the States. check it out sometime at www.fullon.co.nz its a pretty awesome programme and I'm having a great time learning bout being a manager....me as the boss?? scary i know! I've been out of contact for a while and all sorts of things have been happening for people, pregnancies and weddings left right and centre which is very exciting - and great for the social calendar. Nice work Luc, Bomber and Chels. Things have been crazy busy here at work but are quietening down over the next week and then not long till I'm back in NZ.....but on that note, I betta get back to work!

xxx J9

WOMAD & the Coromandal

Sam & I headed off on a bit of a road trip before I headed off to the South Is to start work. It was a fantastic trip, starting off with an epic weekend at WOMAD with Peps & Quinn (Peps is Sams sista), torrential rain and magic cats. Thanks for a wonderful present Peta! After a night drying out in Rotovegas and visiting galleries, we headed to the Coromandal to catch up & for me, meet, some of Sams good friends up that way and enjoy the stunning weather that had finally come our way. To finish it all off we spend a wonderful couple of days up at Driving Creek Railway & Pottery created by legendary potter Barry Brickall and came away feeling utterly inspired to go away and make our markson the world! pics attached.......


Random addition to photos....Sam's eels at Sculpture at the Park recently


Check out Angus's new studio in the wop wops....beautiful!

Sam & Angus hangin at the bar


At Dirty Creek Pottery....miniature kiln


The famous railway winding its way up the gully