August and Winfly is just a few days away...
WOW! I can hardly believe it's August and that Winfly, the time when we get our first flights of the winter, is just a few days away! OY!! A lot has been happening in our lives:
First, there was a crazy hall party two weekends ago that just kind of happened. We were invited over to dorm 155 for drinks with a few friends and that seems to have been the plan for nearly everyone in that dorm so it didn't take long for things to turn into a full blown hall party with lots of mischief! Here's a picture of Heather dancing up a storm in our friend Tony's disco room...
and here's a picture of us together...
So that was two weekends ago... This last weekend we got notice from the New Zealand Immigration Service that they will be granting us a two year Work To Residency visa! We've got three months to claim the visa, which we'll do first thing off the Ice in October and then we'll have two years in which I'll have to get a job in NZ with a NZ company that is considered "skilled employment", which basically means it's employment that applies to my education or previous job experience. Once I've held the job for three months we can apply for our residency, so we're practically there! WHOOO HOOO!! Sorry, no photographic evidence of that weekends festivities!
Oh, and as for the potential job in Port Hueneme... Well, in typical Raytheon fashion the powers-that-be have failed to make a decision on anything and, in turn, failed to tell us anything. I got an unofficial email from one of our bosses noting that the subject was supposed to come up at a recent meeting and didn't and his advice was to make other plans because it likely wasn't going to happen this year.
Still no official word, but Heather and I have vowed to only wait until Friday and then take ourselves off the list. Part of me actually hopes they do get it together and then are left with NOBODY to fill the positions! Would serve them right!
First, there was a crazy hall party two weekends ago that just kind of happened. We were invited over to dorm 155 for drinks with a few friends and that seems to have been the plan for nearly everyone in that dorm so it didn't take long for things to turn into a full blown hall party with lots of mischief! Here's a picture of Heather dancing up a storm in our friend Tony's disco room...
and here's a picture of us together...
So that was two weekends ago... This last weekend we got notice from the New Zealand Immigration Service that they will be granting us a two year Work To Residency visa! We've got three months to claim the visa, which we'll do first thing off the Ice in October and then we'll have two years in which I'll have to get a job in NZ with a NZ company that is considered "skilled employment", which basically means it's employment that applies to my education or previous job experience. Once I've held the job for three months we can apply for our residency, so we're practically there! WHOOO HOOO!! Sorry, no photographic evidence of that weekends festivities!
Oh, and as for the potential job in Port Hueneme... Well, in typical Raytheon fashion the powers-that-be have failed to make a decision on anything and, in turn, failed to tell us anything. I got an unofficial email from one of our bosses noting that the subject was supposed to come up at a recent meeting and didn't and his advice was to make other plans because it likely wasn't going to happen this year.
Still no official word, but Heather and I have vowed to only wait until Friday and then take ourselves off the list. Part of me actually hopes they do get it together and then are left with NOBODY to fill the positions! Would serve them right!
posted by Heather & Pauli at 9:23 PM
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