Adriaan's Blog

With the end of year, comes cleaning up,we loaded the van and took our rubbish to the dump, I helped make sure it didn't roll around in the van!

We had out drama Christmas party beak-up this morning, it was great, getting back together with all the other guys from arohanui who attend drama this term, we danced, sang and enjoyed party food!

My part in the xmas production was being one of the three wise men. Very appropriate as I am very wise.

I had a friend come to see me we hand out it was cool.

Off to the supermarket my task was to push the trolley.

Since getting the new van, we've had a step made by a lovely local man, this is to help me get into and out of the fancy big and high van! The crew at the studio varnished it and put non slip tape to keep me safe!

Have a look at me. My job was to find the tissues at the supermarket so many to choose from.

Tracey found a table for us to work on with renovation, we are sanding it back in preparation for decoupage, it sounds like a fun project, I've got my apron and block ready to keep sanding this table back! It's a real team effort

Now the weather is a bit better we have managed to get back out to the community garden, I'm overseeing the vegetables growing, after we watered them

I enjoy seeing the photos and stories about the adventures arohanui are up to, the day the new Commet arrives is a good one,it sure keeps me busy!

Wow take a look at this. We have been to the community garden this morning and I get to take one of our cauliflowers that we grew over winter to share with my flat mates. Lucky me all that work I did planting and weeding. Watch and wait and see what we plant next.

It's such a beautiful, nearly spring day, so blue and warm outside so we took a walk through town, visited the op shop and the community gardens, I really enjoyed having a rest on the park bench and looking through mitre 10.

I love to look through my CDs, the bag that jacky made, fits them all perfectly, and green is such a cool colour! Music makes me happy!

I've found a lovely sunny spot to practise my Maori Culture, spinning the Poi makes me happy!

I'm enjoying being in my happy place, I'm a bit of a tech wizard with my games on the computer, just look at my happy smile, it says it all really!

I had a grand time lining up, and tossing the rings onto the butterfly pegs, even if I missed it was fun, I had a great laugh

I had a wonderful time exploring bayfair, and as a bonus we met up with some of our greerton friends, was great fun

I enjoyed visiting the worksite of the new cafe up the road from the centre and I really got into my cooking this week too!

I really enjoyed helping with the centre shopping and this week we performed our sound of music piece at drama, our friends came to watch us!

I had a lovely lunch for our mid-winter Christmas get together, what a nice way to be with my friends.

Happy birthday to me today. Also our tactile group has been busy making rice bags that smell of lavender.

Hard at work supervising the afternoon activities, it's been a busy day of crafts, computers and enjoying my friends!

Here I am booting up the computer already to start work on the comet which will be out again soon. To let everyone know what's been going on at all of the arohanui centres.

This is my flatmate Leigh who called to see us all at the studio. He has a huge smile.

Muisc it lots of fun

We went to the aMaze me maze in Rotorua. I had a great time working my way through and best of all I could take a break when necessary.

We were out and about in te puke. We even checked out some safety equipment for cars.

I went to do the studio shopping at Te Puke New World. I helped to get our groceries fron our list.  

Cleaning our vans and giving the outside of the studio was a job for all of us this morning.