Ok so I didn't really keep to my promise of writing again soon but never mind I am writing now! I guess when you are working the last thing you want to do is come home and sit in front of another computer. There have been some changes at work recently with my manager leaving and not working her notice and so I got asked to step up to her role....crazy times. But anyway I'm not here to write about work but more about our two week holiday up north So it started w...

Hi Everyone, Well ok yes it has been quite a while since I last wrote anything on here after Melbourne. I arrived in New Zealand back on the 10th Feb and been busy working ever since.After a week of visiting agencies I landed a 5 month contract at the Victoria University Wellington doing admin in their facilities management section. It been bit of a tough job…not the work so much but more the section I work in has quite few problems and issues between dif...

I arrived in Melbourne around midafternoon and headed to the hostel that I had booked.The hostel looked amazing on the website….the reality was it was currently one big construction site, which they had failed to mention when I booked.The rooms themselves were good; it was more the kitchen and lounge areas that were pretty much nonexistent!I also had high expectations about Melbourne itself as everyone I had met who had been there said it was amazing.To be ho...

Left Sydney at the end of January, which I found quite sad as I had really grown to like the city although I have to say temping there, was hell! I caught a bus to Canberra to go visit my friend Lauren who I met at University in Canada.Lauren has been twice to Europe since we met in 2004 so it was about time I met up with her on her own turf so to speak. Not sure where to start with Canberra to be honest as it is a bit of a strange place.Before arriving whenever...

Its been a few weeks since my last blog and I really wanted to write one to try and capture the thoughts and feelings of watching the horrendous flooding on the TV especially having spent two month myself in Brisbane. The flooding started in Budaberg and Rockhampton in Queensland around Christmas time and has slowly made its way down towards the border of New South Wales. I don't think any one watching the flooding in Bundy and Rockhampton had any of what was to ...