Another Step Closer To New Zealand
Somehow I neglected to blog about the most exciting thing to happen lately.
I supposed the fact that I went to a blogging conference or the fact that I ended up in the emergency room with kidney stones distracted me from what happened. Those are pretty big things themselves, so it is easy to see how I could forget about something as small as an email. When you are on pain medication and stuck in airports because of weather you forget anything besides trying to get through the present moment.
But the email was important. It roughly planned out my future for the next year and a half.
The email told me my working holiday visa for New Zealand was approved!
There was less than a .0001% chance that it would not have been approved, but it was very exciting to receive the email with the words, “We are pleased to advise that your application under the Working Holiday Scheme has been approved.” Hurray!
This means that I am going to move to New Zealand for sure. It’s real. Before when I posted about moving to New Zealand it was just an idea. Now it’s becoming a reality. My next step is to buy the plane ticket. And then there are the million other tiny steps in between like selling my car and scooter and the majority of my stuff (because who wants to bring a ton of crap along?). But luckily I have several months to do all of this since I’m not going to New Zealand until the second week of September.
I will most definitely blog more about this process and the move and New Zealand. I’ve been distracted lately with my health blog and the projects related to it, but I still want to create something recording the process separate from the healthy living frame of reference.
I know moving to New Zealand won’t be perfect, and I’m trying to keep my expectations realistic, but sometimes I can’t help but get excited. Like really, silly excited. It’s such a huge thing to do, to move across the world. It’s something I have always wanted to do and this is the year that I do it. Woah!
Very cool! Good luck with everything. I would be extremely stoked to do something like this, but I’m pretty well grounded here in Memphis.
While you’re still in town, feel free to hit me up for coffee and conversation. I’d love to see what you’re doing online, with your info product, etc. Maybe I could offer some advice from my own business experiences?
Congrats on the visa approval,
Reuben D. Rock
Thanks Reuben! I figured I should do something like this before I get grounded somewhere. Memphis is a pretty cool place to be though.
We should! I need to pick your brain. You seem to know a ton of stuff about this kind of business.
YAY! This is so exciting, mary. At the end of the day, it’s going to be a bit tough, and not always ideal. but none of that matters at all, because you’ll be with the one you love <3. and that's worth everything.
xx
have a great weekend!
Thanks Amanda! I’m pretty excited about it and you are totally right. It’s worth it.
O hai der.
I stumbled across your blog in a fit of loneliness, as the person I am in love with, who is my best friend, lives in Bucharest and I live in silly old Washington DC. (It’s not as far as you have to go! Still.)
(Difference being he doesn’t know yet, as I am waiting until I see him in the flesh to tell him so.)
Advice? Coping strategies? Help.
Aw. I’m not sure about coping strategies for being in love with someone who doesn’t know it. As for being in a long distance relationship – it takes some work. Since you can’t be together you have to set aside time to talk on the phone or through skype. But I guess my best advice is to just concentrate on your own life. Make it better. Do awesome things. Know that later you will get to be with that person but for now you just have some precious you time. It doesn’t make it a lot better but at least you can be productive!