I arrived on the morning of the 22nd of September. Clearing customs and all that sort of thing was a breeze - I arrived on a plane full of New Zealanders so the line up for non-Australians/New Zealanders wasn't very long. From the time the plane landed, it took about 40 minutes to go through customs and get my luggage.
I've been busy doing all the things one needs when they move to a new country:
Opened a bank account
Applied for Medicare (that had to wait until I was in the country for 5 business days)
Switched my driver's license over (no test or anything!)
Applied for a tax file number (like a SIN in Canada)
Got a new phone
Glen got a job just after I left Inuvik so he's been busy working. He had three days off when I first arrived and is getting three days off in a row this week (otherwise I don't think he's had two days off in a row since I got here) so we're going to go stay in Anglesea and drive down the Great Ocean Road.
We haven't done too much otherwise. We're trying to get over to the big park near the house as much as we can (on Glen's day off and if he's only working till 6) to go for walks, we've been bowling and to see a movie. I've been into the city twice (that's what they call the downtown) and yesterday went to a craft expo with Glen's mum.
I'm hoping to get back into regular posting mode soon!
Yellow-tailed black Cockatoo
(photographed in the park by the house)
Temperature: +18C
Sunrise: 6:43am
Sunset: 7:42pm
3 comments:
Yay, a new post from down under!
Hope you finish settling in and find a happy rhythm there soon.
I'm glad you made it there safe and sound. Thanks for (Finally!!) updating the Blog - I was beginning to worry! I'm excited to see all the new photos of your new surroundings ;)
Take care and Hi to Glen!
Thanks guys!!
I didn't realise I had comments because I wasn't getting emails! whoops!
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