My ideal job

I would love to work for a publishing firm. There are different companies around that publish books, but I would like to work for one that publishes fiction or educational books. I like the idea of having to read books and make decisions about which ones should be published. I think it would also be interesting and rewarding to work with different authors and help them to edit their books before they are published. Another good thing about this job would be that the hours would be quite flexible, so that would suit having to look after my family at the moment. I could work at the time that my kids are at school.

Auckland

Auckland is a very green city. When I went overseas recently, I was really surprised when I came back and found how green Auckland was. I guess I had always thought that all cities were like that.

However, although the parks and gardens are lovely in Auckland, and especially here at Unitec, the traffic is a bad feature of this city. The public transport is not terribly reliable and the motorways quickly get jammed at rush hour. I try to avoid using the motorway at busy times.

I also love the fact that Auckland is so close to so many beaches. On the east coast, the beaches are flat with few waves, but on the west coast they are much more exciting, and the beaches have black sand! Muriwai is a great beach on the west coast, and a visit to the gannets (birds) is interesting at different times of the year when the birds are there.

While the photo at this site about Auckland isn't that great, the writing that goes with it will practice a lot of the vocab that we use when writing about cities. Have a look.