Well Jessica did her Primary Ballet exam today. She looked fab and she was happy with it all. she said she remembered everything she had to do so fingers crossed she did OK.
Won't find out the results for at least a week or so (probabaly even longer) poor things. Will let you all know how she got on when we know.
Well we are loving life here in New Zealand (well I am- Neil still not too happy at work but who is?!) but the whole residency things is getting me down now.
We sent of our PR application and was stupidly expecting a fairly quick turn around with the job etc.
They weren't happy with Neils blood results so requested a re-test and also wanted more relationship evidence (as if being married for over 5 years with 2 kids aged 5 and 2 and being in NZ
Well we have officially been here 6 months.I have no idea where the time has gone.
Well we took a gamble on quitting jobs selling up our home and jumping on a plane with no jobs, no visas, no friends and whatever we could sqeeze into our cases. Well i'm glad to say the gamble paid off. Not quite all the way there yet but almost.
We arrived in Wellington in March to fantastic weather and fell in love with the place. The people are so different to where we came
Well- after a lot of internet browsing etc I finaly decided what I wantedt to do with my tattoo.
I have never really been happy with my original and wanted something doing with it.
Now i'm in New Zealand I figured it was the best place to get a good tattoo done and a found the perfect guy.
Had stage 1 done today- yes it is quite big and no it isn't finished.
I'm going to get some tidying up done on the original and blend into it and then some more
Well finally some good news for us.
Neil has today received a job offer!!!
We have been here almost 4 months and were almost giving up hope of us staying in NZ.
We had got to the stage of deciding where we would go and what we would do if we went back to the UK (we only have 9 weeks left on our visa).
Well today is the day that things change.
Alcatel- after all this time and their messing around and promises finally came up with the goods- a job