We got the jobs!

It's time to say goodbye to our time in Australia and head to Auckland to begin our time working. Our flight was at 6:30am to Auckland so we booked a taxi to pick us up from our Airbnb to take us to the airport. I was slightly worried based on reviews that the taxi wouldn't show up but as I was calling to check it was coming it showed up. The driver was from Northern India so we had a great chat with him on the way even though we were wishing we were still in bed. As always we were at the airport early but that's the way I like it. It also meant we had time to reorganise our bags because our new lovely suitcase was over it's weight limit; when you only have 7kg it's a bit annoying that it weighs 3kg on it's own. We checked in and had a much needed coffee before boarding our flight. Boarding was delayed but the wait wasn't too bad. The flight was amazing! It's always a mystery what you'd get on a flight when you have someone book the flights for you but for this one we flew with Emirates. Not only did we have great movies to watch we also had unlimited drinks and a tasty breakfast. I watched Beauty and the Beast which I've been dying to watch since we left home and Nick watched the Batman Lego movie. We had just enough time for a movie each on the 3 hour flight if you take out all the time it's interrupted when you're taking off and landing. I could tell Nick was loving his film by how much he kept laughing! We definitely will try and fly with Emirates on our way home because it was such a lovely airline to be with. We finally landed and caught the skybus to Auckland centre once we had passed through immigration. Walking to our hostel was a little daunting because although we are right in the centre of town we passed through quite a rough area with a lot of drunk and homeless people. The hostel itself however is super modern and we had been given a free room upgrade to a private room because we asked to shorten our trip in case we get the job we had an interview for. They could shorten the trip but we had to pay the Hostelworld fees which was understandable but they still offered the change from a dorm to a private room and after such an early morning it was an amazing gesture. We wasted no time in getting things sorted, we headed out to get our bank accounts set up. As we were walking I checked my emails and found out that we'd been offered the jobs! We feel so nervous but super excited to have landed work so quickly but also work that allows us to be together with accommodation sorted for us. Now we had even more need to get things sorted. We headed to the bank we wanted to use to then be told we can't set up an account with them until we have a job and income, but we can't work without a tax number which you can't get without a bank account! We swiftly headed to another bank and made it in line just before closing but were told there aren't any appointments for a week. We were so deflated and felt that it wasn't going to work out and we'd lose these jobs. I then had an idea to ring up and try and get an appointment anywhere and we'd travel there on bus or train tomorrow. After a 20 minute call we have an appointment for tomorrow at 10am, result! We spent time booking and planning how to get to the South Island and then to near the farm. We thought it was going wrong again when there were no buses to Geraldine, the closest town, but a quick look at Google maps we found a bus to a smaller town that is even closer than Geraldine so everything was falling into place. There was only one thing left to do today and that was to celebrate with a Nandos of course! It's been a long tiring day with so many ups and downs but overall we are so excited for the next chapter of our journey and for the chance to create roots somewhere and most importantly we are so looking forward to not having to repack our bags for 3 months!Read more