New Zealand	Australia

I spent May 13 through June 6, 2007, traveling the South Island of New Zealand on a study abroad program with the University of Georgia. After the "Maymester" ended, my friend Josh and I stayed with a family in New Zealand through a program called WWOOF -- Willing Workers on Organic Farms. On June 13, Josh and I flew into Sydney to meet some of our classmate friends from the UGA Maymester. On June 16, I departed Sydney to WWOOF by myself with two different hosts in New South Wales until June 27, when I flew home. Above are links to series of photo essays. This page is not intended to be a memoir or diary, but a kind of photo travelogue. Consequently, I have not included any written stories per se, although I have included captions in some photos that I feel need explaining. So, call this a record of what I saw, literally, and not what I did, who I met, or what I thought. For a record of emails that I sent out to family, click here. On that note, I do have a lot of stories, and I may consider recording them at some point. Right now, they remain in my head and in a weatherproof orange field book. It is also important to remember that these photo essays are specific to my experience with the UGA Maymester (green group) and WWOOF, and that the two are not linked in any way and I in no way reflect views held by the two organizations, etc. I have edited some of these photos. Besides cropping, straightening, and grayscaling, I have adjusted fill light or contrast on maybe one fifth of them. I generally steer away from color adjustments. I have not done anything that I consider "digital manipulation," because most of my editing can be done with film in a darkroom through techniques like dodging and burning. As an example, the top left photo in this page is the most-edited photo on this site. I upped the contrast--the original is not as green. I designed this site to be geographically accurate rather than chronologically accurate, so the order of things, while not that important, might get confusing. If you want to follow chronologically, you should start with New Zealand above. Then, at the map, view the first photos of Christchurch, then go back to the map, follow the route clockwise until you return to Christchurch, then view the second two parts of Christchurch (Banks Peninsula and WWOOF 1). After that, come back to this page and view Australia, which goes from east to west. If you can't view the photos from the links on the map, or if the map won't load for some reason, then click this link. Comments, complaints, suggestions, or photo requests are all appreciated. wdanieljordan@gmail.com                                                                                            Enjoy,                                                                                                   Daniel