Back to New Zealand for a bit

I've been back in New Zealand for the past few weeks after a nifty visit back to California where I got some family time for the holidays. Things are usual here for about a week more til all my co-workers are going to leave the hostel and work. It seems to be mass-exodus time for people. So I'll be with all new cleaners and the manager just bought another restaurant so he is leaving and putting a new guy in charge and taking the other waitresses with him (I'd switch restaurants too, but it's not worth it for 2 more weeks). The new manager's first move was to hire a Argentinian who he thought was hot. He's also on a power trip half the time and luckily the new girl is pretty nice and competent and we speak spanish to each other so we are able to discreetly gripe about the new manager. So having our own language that noone else understands come in handy, I just hope we don't come across a customer doesn't secretly speak spanish, which isn't likely since we're asked twice a day what language we're speaking (what, you think it's chinese?!).

Oh, so the big news to all this is I decided to move on as well, and go do a round-the-world-esque trip to embrace the traveling opportunity while I can. So considering seasons, discounts, and other logistics, I'm starting in London of all places! Crazy!! Well, so I got a flight to London for March 1st and it's got two stopovers in Sydney and Singapore where I get to spend two days in each. Despite England is economical violation for Americans, it's a good flight point and I've got some many british friends from New Zealand who have gone back, that I get to crash with them and get personal tours which is pretty sweet. So I'm hoping to be in Europe hoping on cheap flights and seeing bits for a month or two and then going to Asia for a month or two, and then heading to the US. So that's my unofficial rough draft plan, which I hope works without any serious bodily harm done. So I'm pretty nervous about backpacking around such crazy new terrain by myself, but so far it's gone well and now I've got plenty of people to visit in Europe which is sweet. The irony is that I've met so many people from Europe here, but I bet when I'm there and traveling, I'll be friends with more travelers from other places since many brits and such do not backpack through Europe like they do through Australia and New Zealand.