Many things happen in a month. Friends have babies (please welcome Sjoerd in the world!), my brother finds a new job in the Netherlands this time, I had job interviews (yes plural!) and a presentation to do, Patrick leaves for a month to go to Ireland, I happily quit my contact centre job (YAY!) after having 2 cool job offers and decisions needed to be made. So as of August 11 I will be working as part of the academic staff at CPIT (Polytech in Christchurch, for the Dutch among us: compare it with a MBO/HBO) doing a 2 year project regarding integrated literacy.
Cool? Absolutely!
Impressed? Hell yeah!
Happy? Over the moon!
At the moment I need my time to arrange all the paperwork. Work regulation in NZ are so much different than back home, so I am reading every single paragraph of the agreement. Little things that make me happy: no more work in weekends, 36 hours is a full work week, I will get a teaching qualification and I am allowed to do courses at the institute itself...
I am also the lucky girl who can arrange a proper visa now. Which means a police record, a medical with X-rays, new passport, loads of papers to fill in, birth certificate, but, yes that will give me a 'Talent' Visa. I didn't know I had talent, but there you go. If it gives me a visa, I am more than happy to be talented!
I also need to get my NZ driving license so I can 'steal' Patrick's car again. Although they fully understand what a Dutch category B license means, they want to have it translated...even though it says 'driving license' on the front. Just another way to get some extra cash out of me!!
For the time being I have added 3 other posts:
- Mount Richardson: A day trip from 4 weeks ago
- Icy pictures from last weekend
- Mount Summer: 2 day trip last weekend
And yes: me, blogs and pictures don't go that well together, but I cannot be bothered to get the pictures right (I know some people who would spend hours on getting it right...I won't say full names but it starts with a P and ends in atrick... ;-)
5 comments:
Or starts with an S and ends with joerd. On a landline modem in PNG, that is...
Hola chick! Here's a message from your fellow-traveler / ex-colleague / ex-teammate... Good to know you are still updating your weblog, I will bring the address overseas. Congratz on the job and good luck with the visa. It's funny to see we're in the same situation even though you're at the other side of the world right now. This morning I had my medical check up in Rotterdam (including Xrays!) and I am now waiting for the visa-procedures to start. I'll think of you from time to time when it is starting to frustrate me ;-) Hope to talk to you soon through skype. Byeeeee! x Marloes
Hey Maaike,
wow, congrats on your job and therefore a visa!
We just visited Bri in Italy for a few days: great to see her again, great to see her totally in love and off course just great to be in nice weather...:)
And, I started playing football again: at KDS, so I will be playing in yellow this year: a bit strange but it's fun to be running around on the green fields again :)
Good luck with all your paperwork etc.
xNelie
Right, only now did I see Femkes reply...bugger.
Never bored is you're continuous state of being there in NZ, I guess! Good luck with your new 'stulpje'.
Dxxn
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