House Tour and Job Update

As per Andreas request a while ago I have taken some basic photos of our place and posted them on our photo albums. Hoping to get more photos up of the city shortly. The link to the album is the usual (also found in the right hand corner of the site if you were so inclined).

And on the job front there are some positive changes and some that I am not too sure about. The job I was getting really excited about still has some complications around payment and timing. So I have been thinking about how I could make that position work for me without completely taking up all of my time so that I can still have time to do paid work while not working 24 hours a day. So hopefully my proposal of a day a week goes well. It would be a great thing as it essentially will be an apprenticeship at a whole foods cooking school. So I would learn a ton!

But in the meantime I have accepted a position at a home as a caregiver. I start next Friday the 6th. It doesn't pay the best but it will get me some health experience here in NZ and hopefully teach me a ton of skills that I can transfer to other health jobs. I want to try to do something as far away from administration as possible so that I can test out what type of job would be best for me in the future. I am really looking forward to starting this.

I also have a job interview in order to work an international flower and gardening show which would be fun since now that I have a yard I can go to these type of shows and actually take ideas home!

So things are looking up on the job front, just in a bit of limbo still but should be so busy I can't think soon enough, which I adore, so here's hoping.

Large Picture Upload

In the process of doing a large photo upload to the album. Check it out. Album on Picasa.

Four Weeks In

We are now about four weeks into our travels. Currently staying in Napier with wine contacts (the friends through friends scenario) and looking forward to moving our way towards Christchurch in the next couple of days. Traveling has been fantastic and I am hoping to have time to update in more detail soon enough but as of now I am just too tired when I do sit down to the computer to write much of anything and keep it interesting.

I have updated the photo albums with a few new sets of pictures if you are so inclined to take a look. You can view them at my photo pages.

Loving it here, but also starting to feel a bit homesick as it is sinking in that this isn't just a vacation. Looking forward to settling in one place, but think I will miss this freedom of travel as well.

Auckland Photos

Staying in Auckland has been really great. Now that our car is sorted out and most of the camping gear is in order we will be departing North tomorrow. Our hosts here were awesome and we have been kept so busy that we haven't had much opportunity to write any of what we have been doing down. Hopefully we will have the chance to catch up on that while camping and will be posting a myriad of blog posts once we have internet access.

Still been meaning to update on the last few days in Rarotonga as well. So keep tuned for that. Just a quick note is that our 8km walk was actually 11km. Insane we were. I still have the scabs on my feet from the blisters.

But the reason for this post is to say I updated the photo album with pictures from Auckland. There are captions so some stories are listed there. They can be viewed at the Auckland album.

Photo Update from Rarotonga

Hello all. Got photos uploaded yesterday of our time in Rarotonga. Don't worry, this isn't all of them so there will be plenty to see in our slide show night should we return to Vancouver.

They are viewable at: http://picasaweb.google.com/boycottbroccoli/

Enjoy!