Jordan's Work Experience

Jordan’s Work Experience

I’ve worked at the New Zealand Couriers during School Holidays, it’s located on 33 Portsmouth Drive, Dunedin. My dad, Peter, is an Independent Contractor on the Dunedin to Oamaru run.

My favourite person is Vaughn. He is a good man who can help me load the crates with the right postcodes.

I can load the parcels in the crates to sort them out with postcodes.

The postcodes are Invercargill (IVC), Christchurch (CHC), Queenstown (ZQN), Central Otago (CNO), South Island Mixed, Wellington (WLG), North Island Mixed, Auckland (AKL), Hamilton (HLZ), Gore (GOR), New Plymouth (NPL) and Hinuera (HIN).

Safety list is High-Visibility Vests (I bought it from The Warehouse in South Dunedin), Work Boots and Work Socks. Our work boots have steel caps to protect my toes in case they get squished!

Forklifts are expensive, they lift the crates onto the truck.

The fuels in forklifts are Diesel and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (L.P.G.). I really dislike Forklifts because they are too dangerous.

Smoko Room it has got tables and chairs for take a break for 10 minutes with the other men.

I really like loading the parcels, better than the schools, no bells.

When I’m tired, I go home.

It’s a busy day.

I might get paid when I can do the job really well.

Autumn Holidays trip (Central Otago War Memorials)

Here are the war Memorials in the Taieri, Maniototo, Central Otago and the Clutha District.

During the holidays, I took some photos around Otago. Mum and I travelled on four State Highways (SH1, SH8, SH85 and SH87).

Our first stop was Outram, and from there we travelled via Highway 87 past the Rock and Pillar Range, through the Maniototo to Alexandra. We then returned to Dunedin via Highways 8 and 1.

When we stopped off at various towns, we got out and took photos of war memorials, Roxburgh Dam, Wedderburn Goods Shed & Ophir Post & Telegraph Office.

We stopped for lunch at Ranfurly (Hot Dog and Chips) and Alexandra (Cookie and Coke at Subway). Our journey was 400km and took 6 hours and 5 minutes.

The highlight of my journey was the Art Deco buildings in Ranfurly, which were re-built in the 1930's after damage by fires.

 Outram War Memorial 1

Outram War Memorial 2

Outram War Memorial 3

Outram War Memorial 4

Rock and Pillar Range 1

Rock and Pillar Range 2

Middlemarch War Memorial 1

Middlemarch War Memorial

Stray Bus, Hyde

Hyde War Memorial

Taieri River Bridge, Kokonga

Naseby War Memorial

Naseby War Cannon

Wedderburn Goods Shed (Painted by Grahame Sydney, 1975)

Ophir Post and Telegraph Office

Alexandra War Memorial 1

Alexandra War Memorial 2

Alexandra War Memorial 3

Alexandra War Memorial 4

Roxburgh Dam 1

Three Mile Hill-Roxburgh 220kV Transmission Line

Roxburgh Dam 2

Clutha River Bridge, Millers Flat

Millers Flat War Memorial 1

Millers Flat War Memorial 2

Millers Flat War Memorial 3

Milton War Memorial 1

Milton War Memorial 2

Milton War Memorial 3

Milton War Memorial 4

Milton War Memorial 5

Last week of the 1st term

For Gian's farewell, Aidan did a farewell speech and I did the All Black haka, Ka Mate!

We all had a morning tea, there were two gifts for Gian, a leaving card and a t-shirt.

Finally, he's off to Timaru (194km NE of Dunedin).

In Geography, I have been studying weather (storms and droughts).

In Deutsch, I've worked on Te Kura (The Correspondence School) booklets, I've made a good speech.