Life of Jess

 So, as most of you will have guessed by now I got the job at Taumarunui High School. Which is of course a very mixed blessing. It means a great job, at a great school, in a town with the cheapest living costs imaginable. But it also means leaving this great city I have called home for the past 6 years.

But it's all set in motion. We leave in a week, well I do anyway. Rajeev has to give 4 weeks notice at the Duxton so I'm moving up first and setting up house and starting the school year, and he's going to catch a train up in a few weeks and meet me. We move out next weekend in fact, on the 4th of February.

We have a flat in Taumarunui already in North Street, it's a school flat, and it's not perfect, and no where near as nice as this place, but it's only $75 a week for a two bedroom place. So I can't complain too much. Who knows, we may have enough money to buy our own house very quickly. Hopefully.

If you have no idea where Taumarunui is click here and the link will take you to Wises maps where you just have to type in Taumarunui, and then you'll have to zoom out a bit to get an idea of the location.

So anyway, we're having a leaving BBQ on Monday the 29th of January. It will start at 3pm and be an afternoon/ dinner hopefully in the sun ino our backyard. I was hoping to go to Mini Golf in Porirua beforehand, but seeing as we're moving we have no money left for anything other than moving related things so that has gone out the window. And keeping that in mind it's BYO drinks and meat. We'll provide salads, veges and dessert. And as you all should know, my desserts are the best.

Anyway, I can't think of much else to tell you. If you have any questions post them as a comment, but most of you I will hopefully see on Monday.

Lots of love, Jess.

 Last night I watched the comet from the hill in our backyard

Today my fortune seems to have turned.

I have a job interview at a High School in Taumaranui on Monday. It's for an English teaching job, they have school houses available to live in, and a nice friendly atmosphere at a small rural school. When I say small, I mean small. Only 557 kids in 2006. That's only just bigger than my Primary School was in Auckland. So yeah...

Travelling to Turangi on Monday morning to see mum and dad and drop my stuff at our hotel, then driving to meet the Principal, HOD English and get a tour of the grounds and accomodation. They sound like they really want me and I don't think they won't hire me unless they find something totally wrong with me when I get there.

So, I would probably start in 2 weeks. How's that for short notice. Exciting, but it will be hectic trying to pack up 6 years of my life here in 2 short weeks. Yikes. Onto greener and greater things though so I can only be excited.

And yes, Rajeev is coming with me. And Achilles. We'll find a nice little quiet house in the middle of nowhere and live quite happily. With Mount. Ruapehu on one side threatening to spill at any second, and Mount. Taranaki on the other side sheilding us for the nasty wind, I think it will be pretty cozy.

So here's hoping everything goes well on Monday. I've already started preparing for the interview. Yay.

Wish me luck!

The end is nigh...

 

Well, end of 2006 anyway.

 

It hasn't been a particularly bad year, but not a particularly amazing one either. The annoying thing is that i'm always referring to next year as 2008, yet it isn't, so my kind of logic suggests that next year isn't going to be a stunning one either, but 2008 is the year when everything will happen.

 

That's my logic anyway. Hopefully 2007 can come along and prove me wrong.

 

Next year will start as always, with the shooting nationals, where this year I am Senior Range Officer. Well, 'senior' is a title i have given myself, but it is my second year as range officer, and the others are just newbies. Except for dad, but he's Cheif Range Officer, and if he can have a title then why can't I!

 

I just have to be wary of Sunburn this year, seeing as the past two Nationals have results in serious burning. I do plan on learning from some of my mistakes.

 

I need to find a free website host server coz my new website is almost ready and I need something to post it on, that perferrably doesn't cost money. Although maybe I should pay and dodge those damn annoying pop-ups!

 

The end of the year is such a strange thing to me. Mainly because I feel it should still be 1998, not 2000 and something! Especially not 7 years into this decade! It's crazy.

 

Anyway, I'm going to play Sims. It's write a longer and better update sonn, probably when I get my new site up and running properly. Mainly because I don't think anyone even reads this site anymore and I don't want to waste time updating something people don't even check.

 

Love you all :)

 

Jess.

I'm slowly learning how to cheat with HTML and add some awesome as stuff to my site. So here goes, lets see if it works!