You'd think that after the last year of waiting for our New Zealand residency to come thought, I'd have learnt a little patience?

Nope!

This week I have been waiting on the verdict of 2 job interviews. Every morning I eagerly open the email account and nowt, and each evening I've sat waiting for my mobile phone to ring.

There are 2 potential jobs, one in Wellington and the other in Auckland. I've even come around to the fact that we might end up in Auckland...

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It was nearly a year ago that Jon and I made that momumental decision to try and emigrate to New Zealand. After lots of frantic surfing, reading and researching we had not only decided to "go for it", but also that we loved the idea of living in Christchurch.

We sent off for new passports, and submitted out EOI, all the while gathering as much information as we could. Our cunning plan was to buy a campervan, tour and travel New Zealand and somehow magically get a job, and...

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Saturday – Monday.
Jon drove me up to Heathrow … and between us we found the check-in queue for Air New Zealand. Thankfully, Jon just dashed off back to the car so there was no long drawn out goodbyes, so I was left to get on with queuing, and going through the various palavers of checking in, going through X-ray machines etc.
We boarded the plane at 4pm, and it took off on time. The first half of the flight seemed to go really quickly – I soon became acquainted with the entertainment...

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Hiya,

Seeing as Beth has started the ball rolling, I thought I'd better follow suit - esp. as Jon is internet-less so am really posting for both of us.

As this is my first blog, thought I'd just do an "up to speed" one.

We applied to NZ Immigration in July 2007, and are now finally in the last stages of gaining residency. We have a case officer, although you wouldn't know it as have had no contact what-so-ever.

Our house was sold...

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