job update

Hello all..

I did not get the active movement advisor job. I am not too disappointed about it because there might be a teaching job in the works for me. One of the ladies I interviewed with was the head of a kindergarten association here and she was interested in me for some type of job there. I am very excited about this and I hope that I will get a job soon!

We had a great weekend. It was spent with good friends and new friends, eating pizza in a great restaurant with views of the ocean, and a car! We are going to buy a car this week! It is a baby blue Honda odyssey. We haven't bought it yet, but we have taken it for a couple of test drives and we hope to sign the contract tomorrow!! It is going to be so nice to have a car to muck around (as they say here) the South Island. We decided on a van, because if the weather is bad we can sleep in the back of it, we can throw bikes in the back, and of course the room for our lovely visitors! We have less than a week until the Elam family gets here and we so excited!!

The weather has been hit and miss this past week and it seems like that is the theme for the weeks to come. Sun one day, rain, rain and more rain the rest of the time. One thing I have learned about New Zealand, or at least Dunedin, is enjoy the sunny days while you have them. So I'm off to enjoy our sunny day just like the chickens on the side of the road below.

Otago Peninsula

Last week Kit and I explored the Otago Peninsula, the drives are absolutely beautiful. We went on a short hike and can't wait to go back.

I had a job interview last week for an active movement advisor. I would be given presentations to preschools, communities and parents on how they should incorporate more physical movement into children's lives ages 0-5. I would really like to teach, but my qualifications are still being assessed by the government and I won't even be considered for a teaching job until that happens. I will find out by Friday if I did get the job or not, or if they are still in the process of deciding. We will see what happens. That is all of the news here in Duendin, besides the most wonderful weather we have been having here. We actually went to the beach on Saturday and it was hot out! Kit and I went into the water which was freezing, but refreshing at the same time. Summer has finally arrived on the South Island.

Pictures of the Peninsula below:

A cloud moving in

Above the clouds

Dunedin from the Peninsula

Two more weeks until visitors!!

22 days!!

22 Days until Barb, Dave and Cody Arrive. All of the Elam Family will be in New Zealand. (minus one unoffical Elam, Jenni, we will miss her). We are so excited to have family coming to see us so soon. They will be here for two weeks and we have so much planned. Kit wrote out a list of places we want to take them to eat, places to explore around Dunedin and around New Zealand. We are going to go to Milford Sound, Queenstown and Wanaka. We are also planning on trying to bike some of the Central Otago rail trail. We love having visitors and alot of room, so if anyone else would like to visit, we would love to have you!!!!