THE INTERNAL - NEWSLETTER 9/04

TIME TO SAY GOODBYE

This is the final Good Bye to Nina and Annette. Nina has had great fun traveling the North and South Island with her brother. I promised to show a more realistic picture of her this time, for that everybody keeps her in mind as a cute girl…

Also touring the South Island was Annette and she even went to Australia later on – lucky girl!

Daniel ended his internship at MAI FM, too. It seems that this was the right place for him regarding the music and also the work, which kept him pretty busy. The last three weeks he was exploring Australia and the South Island together with Steve.

All the best for all of you! Take care and remember all the great experiences you’ve had at the other end of the world!

WELCOME IN MIDDLE-EARTH

Lothar arrived on Wednesday last week. He is 25 years old and studies Information Technology in Munich. Already on Thursday he took the bus to Napier for visiting some relatives and he will be back in two weeks, starting his internship at Esphion Ltd.

Kristian landed one day later early in the morning. With 35 years he is now the oldest among us and is staying at the WOXA house, like Lothar. He is from Berlin and studies Industrial Engineering and Management in the 8th semester.

There will be some pictures of the guys next week!

WHATS ON IN AND AROUND AUCKLAND

AOTEA SQUARE MARKETS

Every Friday and Saturday from 10am – 6pm

This is when Aotea Square is taken over by the colourful and bustling Aotea Square Markets The Markets offer a range of stalls from Pasifika arts and crafts to pot plants, flowers, underground designer clothes, jewellery, vinyl and CDs. In addition there is a range of fine food stalls Every Saturday from midday to 2.00pm the Aotea Square Markets are "keeping real" with an ever-changing line-up of bands and DJs adding to the atmosphere

TAKAPUNA MARKETS

Every Sunday from 6am till noon

That is when Takapuna’s Central Carpark (corner Anzac Street&Lake Road) transforms into an eclectic market that offers fresh produce, flowers, crafts, furniture, foods, antiques and more.

NZ INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL 2004 – THE BEST OF BRITISH

Until 22 May 2004

Featuring Ross Noble, Lee Mack, Russel Howard, Andy Parsons ....

The Classid, 321 Queen Street, Auckland

Check out www.comedy.co.nz

LATIN MUSIC AND DANCE FESTIVAL

Every week on Sunday from 4 April – 20 April, noon – 5pm, Princess Wharf, Quai St

Free dance lessons from noon, 3 latin bands performing each weekend

PROPECIA RALLY OF NEW ZEALAND

15 – 18 April 2004

Venue: Auckland City and Manukau City, Kaipara and Raglan

Rally New Zealand will open with a Super Special Stage in Manukau City on Thursday 15 April, with the first full day on Friday including five stages in the Kaipara region north of Auckland, with a total of 142km. It concludes with a second night of Super Special Stages at Manukau City. Saturday’s stages are again in Kaipara with eight special stages over 144.5km. The final day on Sunday sees a return to the Raglan region in Waikato with six special stages over 115km, finishing the event with the spectacular Whaanga Coast stage. The drivers return for a ceremonial finish at the Viaduct Harbour in downtown Auckland on Sunday 18 April at 5pm.Website: www.rallynz.co.nz

WOX SUGGESTION

THE STONE OVEN BAKERY AND CAFÉ

5 Clarence St, Devonport

Open seven days a week from 6am – 6pm, this licensed café is weel known for  its’speciality breads and breakfasts of generous proportions. The Stone Oven Bakery and Café can become quite busy at peak times, so be prepared to hover for a table, but you won’t be disappointed, the food will impress!

MESSAGE FROM JONATHON

Hi people! Hope you had a great Easter.  I heard that some lucky people got to travel around the East Coast of the North Island taking photos and lounging around on the beach.  If you got stuck in Auckland like me hopefully you found something exciting to do.

Now far be it for an old fella like me to tell you young ones how to have a good time.  But back in the olden days, I used to go out quite a bit in Auckland after dark.  While the night life scene changes fairly quickly, there’s a few things which have remained the same over the last few years.

The first thing is that, as you have probably discovered, the Viaduct is the place to be on a Friday or Saturday night.  The waterfront area was substantially redeveloped about 10 years ago when NZ held the America’s Cup, and has been a constant ‘scene’ since then.  There are over a dozen bars and pubs within about 200 metres of each other at the waterfront – everything from Irish pubs to sports bars to an ‘ántarctic’ pub.

K Road is the place to go if you prefer clubs to pubs.  There are nightclubs for house, techno, drum and bass, and all those other types of music that I don’t understand and that they didn’t even have when I was a youth.  The ‘K’ in ‘K Road’ stands for Karangahape.  (You can understand whey they shortened it!).  But just say ‘K Road’ anywhere in NZ and people will know what you are talking about – it’s also known as Auckland’s red light district.

Just one word of advice though, if you decide to go out for a night to the pubs.  Don’t go when there is a rugby game on, unless you like the sport.  Since NZ’s official religion is Rugby, you can expect the bars and even the odd club to put the TV on during any important (and not-so-important) matches.  The only good thing about the whole deal is that if NZ (or Auckland) wins, the partiers stay out later than if they lose.

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY!