So Wednesday was OK I went to look at the house on Mana Esplanade, a nice little sunny place 2 bedroom , a little damp in the bathroom, and there could be more kitchen cupboard space space, but clean. i though it was worth an application , it looked OK good location, 3 doors doors down a alleyway that went to the estuary and across the road access to the beach, a very busy road that is. peak hour traffic a bitch to say the least .
the rental agency was a nice lady and she must have liked me. when I said I was interested in it she got to me to fill out an application, which she approved on the spot.... Not even a reference in sight....
so I have a place to live , yes I get to pay her lots of money 3 weeks rent for bond , and moving day is Sept 10
i get to get my stuff out of storage , my sheepskins for my car seat
and my couches and my blanket. i know know why but i just want to curl up on my cream couch with MY blanket and watch TV and have my stuff.
2 weeks-- Sept 10 is moving day.
( yes I will get photos when I move in )
August 25, 2011
August 22, 2011
Culture Shock Dancing Style
In Alaska we dance what ever style takes our fancy it was a small community, so the Latin crowd and the ballroom crowd got to hang out, most of us know both, salsa bachatta, merange perhaps.
now Wellington is fine for ballroom but trying to find salsa in this own is like pulling teeth, the salsa club closed sometime earlier this year, there is a small salsa crowd that hang out in town on a Sunday night. and bachatta whats that?
its not important cause it not an official dance with medals and grading etc
Am i doomed to never dance a Bachata till I go back to Fairbanks...... that would just hurt.
I went to a dance from supreme dance school, and danced with a few people i discovered that they are taught routines here, which of course i don't know them, these men don't know how to lead. i am supposed to know the routines , all stuff designed for medals etc. am i going to have to go back and learn beginning dance classes just to lean these dam routines. i had said to myself that i would do competition if the opportunity ever arose.
hell you cant avoid it here.
Tango classes on Wednesday are fun, Argentine tango from a man whose from Argentina, fancy that. just learning to tango like they do, no Medals just dancing....
here ends my tale for today. ( I'll be in a better mood tomorrow)
now Wellington is fine for ballroom but trying to find salsa in this own is like pulling teeth, the salsa club closed sometime earlier this year, there is a small salsa crowd that hang out in town on a Sunday night. and bachatta whats that?
its not important cause it not an official dance with medals and grading etc
Am i doomed to never dance a Bachata till I go back to Fairbanks...... that would just hurt.
I went to a dance from supreme dance school, and danced with a few people i discovered that they are taught routines here, which of course i don't know them, these men don't know how to lead. i am supposed to know the routines , all stuff designed for medals etc. am i going to have to go back and learn beginning dance classes just to lean these dam routines. i had said to myself that i would do competition if the opportunity ever arose.
hell you cant avoid it here.
Tango classes on Wednesday are fun, Argentine tango from a man whose from Argentina, fancy that. just learning to tango like they do, no Medals just dancing....
here ends my tale for today. ( I'll be in a better mood tomorrow)
August 19, 2011
House hunting
Houses to look at this weekend , just to rent for right now looking around Plimmerton/ Paramata way one tomorrow and and one on Sunday then another one Wednesday.
rent is really expensive here, i am looking at 2 bedroom ones and rent is by the week. $250 on the cheep end and 270 then the one on Sunday is 295. and that is just rent then there. with electric heating in winter, is the power bill.
that is not counting the cost of commuting to work which will be 50 a week.
Can I live with this budget ?.
The same place in town with no commuting costs would be 350 per week. so if im not in a hurry to move this is why.
rent is really expensive here, i am looking at 2 bedroom ones and rent is by the week. $250 on the cheep end and 270 then the one on Sunday is 295. and that is just rent then there. with electric heating in winter, is the power bill.
that is not counting the cost of commuting to work which will be 50 a week.
Can I live with this budget ?.
The same place in town with no commuting costs would be 350 per week. so if im not in a hurry to move this is why.
August 15, 2011
Snow In Wellington
Yup it snowed today.. I am so done with snow,
it sat on the ground a little bit, this morning there was no wind then this afternoon it was blowing, after they started cancelling schools and closed the Rimutaka hill. in town it may in the ground but was gone by the time i went home at 4 pm. Rimutakas is the hills that separate wellington from the Wairarapa 30 ks of roads
according to the news there were records falling today it was cold 4 degrees was the high, 40 f
People at work were just looking out the window and thinking it was funny. apart from Me.
The South island is getting slammed with there usual winter storms ( move your sheep to shelter, or risk loosing lambs) August is lambing season. any way this weather is supposed to last 3 days
I am done with snow!
light well there's 1/ 2 hour more light around this month but it is increasing soooo slowly. we have lambs and daffodills but no warmer weather.
it sat on the ground a little bit, this morning there was no wind then this afternoon it was blowing, after they started cancelling schools and closed the Rimutaka hill. in town it may in the ground but was gone by the time i went home at 4 pm. Rimutakas is the hills that separate wellington from the Wairarapa 30 ks of roads
according to the news there were records falling today it was cold 4 degrees was the high, 40 f
People at work were just looking out the window and thinking it was funny. apart from Me.
The South island is getting slammed with there usual winter storms ( move your sheep to shelter, or risk loosing lambs) August is lambing season. any way this weather is supposed to last 3 days
I am done with snow!
light well there's 1/ 2 hour more light around this month but it is increasing soooo slowly. we have lambs and daffodills but no warmer weather.
July 28, 2011
July 15, 2011
New Job details
first week at work
batisism by fire a long week but got to pay direct depost of 400,000 today. looks like lots of data entry, the software has and 10 years of errors and people who didn't know how to do stuff. somewhere along the line. The people at work are fun to work with, way more sexual innuendo that what would ever happen is the USA, cultural difference major. ( not directed at me )
Dancing has been good this week
got to go to Practise on Monday and figure out some quick step and samba routines, with Sean, who is looking to find some one to try new vogue dancing with. Planing on going to a class next weeks to see if i like it . ( look it up on u tube)
Sean is 6 4 and way good frame but limited number of moves that is comfortable with .
did a rock & roll class on Tuesday and more Practice on Thursday
We have just had 6 days of wind and heavy rain, Today was better today we had a Frost it was 32 f i had to scrape the ice of the car to go to work, (oh my god. )
July 4, 2011
Job
Yes i have a job, i start work next Monday, it s only 30 hours a week but paying a bit more than what i had in Fairbanks.
I know I haven't been writing in a while but since I don't have to go job hunting i have spent 10 days in wellington house / cat sitting for friends of my cousins who was in Australia. the cat was very old and needed to take her pills every day. so spent a bit of time running around wellington finding my way around, going dancing and doing some knitting. yes I am knitting project again, for the first time in 7 or 8 years. i have thins really nice cool colour, its a nice teal colour and i am doing a cable cardigan for me. its so much easier to be motivated to knit when you are doing it for your self. ( yes i have photos on my phone but they are on my phone and not the computer.) i got to go shopping for some more work clothes.
the weather is crappy can now we are past the shortest day not that anyone celebrated it , the temp has dropped just a couple of degrees followed by some good winds howling form the south. and damp wellington is damp. it rains a whole bunch. the only thing i can say about the weather is roll on November.
there will be more news on my job when i start work and actually know more about it ..
I know I haven't been writing in a while but since I don't have to go job hunting i have spent 10 days in wellington house / cat sitting for friends of my cousins who was in Australia. the cat was very old and needed to take her pills every day. so spent a bit of time running around wellington finding my way around, going dancing and doing some knitting. yes I am knitting project again, for the first time in 7 or 8 years. i have thins really nice cool colour, its a nice teal colour and i am doing a cable cardigan for me. its so much easier to be motivated to knit when you are doing it for your self. ( yes i have photos on my phone but they are on my phone and not the computer.) i got to go shopping for some more work clothes.
the weather is crappy can now we are past the shortest day not that anyone celebrated it , the temp has dropped just a couple of degrees followed by some good winds howling form the south. and damp wellington is damp. it rains a whole bunch. the only thing i can say about the weather is roll on November.
there will be more news on my job when i start work and actually know more about it ..
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