The Dunedin day was just breaking when work started 12,000 miles from home.
It was 7am on the other side of the other world and a bleary-eyed Huw Sutton found himself up on a roof picking up bricks.
There were no thoughts about training and packing down with Wales stars Alun Wyn Jones, Justin Tipuric and Adam Beard at that stage — far from it. The 19-year-old was just content to earn a few pennies to pay for his lodgings and pick up what knowledge he could from a campaign playing rugby on South Island in New Zealand.