Coming back to New Zealand was really difficult, it annoyed me I felt like that, but it was off the back of an awesome couple of weeks somewhere I just didn’t feel ready to be leaving. It crossed my mind for sure that I could quite easily spend the next year in Aus, looking for the same sort of work as I am out here. It turned out I was way more sold on beach life than I ever thought I would be. I felt like I had rushed into my working holiday here when I could’ve been in Australia, but this is where I decided I wanted to be this year and there's no chance I’m gonna waste it! Timing really is a dick, but who in their right mind would be so reluctant to come back here. It’s just taken me a couple of weeks some very special people to realise that.
I flew back to Auckland on the 6th of Jan, up until this point travelling hadn’t really felt like travelling. My months holiday in Aus had lead straight into work with Rupert and back to another holiday in Aus. Pretty ridiculous. This time was different though, I was arriving without the comfort of going straight up to Rupert’s. I did have a loose plan, which involved putting a load of pressure on myself to find the same sort of work elsewhere on the North Island for the remainder of summer, at least for a couple more months before heading south for winter. A very loose plan, I’m writing this from Wanaka…
I spent a day wandering round Auckland, printing CV’s, drinking coffee and just feeling slightly trapped between wanting to travel and finding work, gradually getting more frustrated. Then I got a message from Vaness, Vaness is a friend of Rupe and Lou’s. Who I had met twice before Christmas and briefly at that, she's french. We had a quick catch up over messenger and she picked up on the fact I was super grumpy. Instead of ignoring me I guess she figured she could help, so she told me to snap out of it and took me for a drive up to Piha to take some pictures.
I flew back to Auckland on the 6th of Jan, up until this point travelling hadn’t really felt like travelling. My months holiday in Aus had lead straight into work with Rupert and back to another holiday in Aus. Pretty ridiculous. This time was different though, I was arriving without the comfort of going straight up to Rupert’s. I did have a loose plan, which involved putting a load of pressure on myself to find the same sort of work elsewhere on the North Island for the remainder of summer, at least for a couple more months before heading south for winter. A very loose plan, I’m writing this from Wanaka…
I spent a day wandering round Auckland, printing CV’s, drinking coffee and just feeling slightly trapped between wanting to travel and finding work, gradually getting more frustrated. Then I got a message from Vaness, Vaness is a friend of Rupe and Lou’s. Who I had met twice before Christmas and briefly at that, she's french. We had a quick catch up over messenger and she picked up on the fact I was super grumpy. Instead of ignoring me I guess she figured she could help, so she told me to snap out of it and took me for a drive up to Piha to take some pictures.
Thank you Vaness for slapping me with a dose of Piha, waves, sunset and fire dancers. It sorted me right out.
As we started driving back Rupe called her, Lou had given birth to Lily. Perfectly timed news.
As we started driving back Rupe called her, Lou had given birth to Lily. Perfectly timed news.
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