Reflecting on 2014

Looking back on the year of 2014, I have had some pretty amazing adventures,  of course it had all started, when I started getting in contact with different families through au pair link in New Zealand and also the agency in Germany, so the first family that I came in contact with lived in a place called Karlsruhe, then it took a little bit longer, for a wait but after a few weeks ended up with 3 families getting in contact with me at once, which was  pretty amazing, one of the families in Koln

and then of course the family I picked lived in the capital city of Berlin,  which was where I would have loved to go the most, so the start of this adventure began with my flight journey, leaving Christchurch for Singapore, Singapore I must say has an amazing airport, was quite nice to look around, then from Singapore to Doha ( Qatar), another place that I have never been to before, but it seemed quite nice, then of course my last flight was Doha to Berlin, I had to keep looking out the window all the way, was lovely flying over different parts of the world.

And flying into Berlin was just amazing, I can safely say, that before I had even landed I fell in love with the city :),

so even though I never got to stay in either Berlin or Germany for the one year that I had wanted I am so pleased that I experienced so much of that amazing and wonderful place, I saw so much, and learnt a lot as well, went to a pretty fantastic german school where I got to learn the wonderful language and also made a wonderful bunch of friends from my experience.

It was sad that my au pair experience there ended so horribly but I can say that there are sometime where I do miss little Rosa that I had formed a bond with in those 3 months, she was a pretty wonderful child to work with.

I have also learnt not to trust those agencies anymore because of all that happened after my contract got terminated where I was not offered very much help at all, it is also sad that England didn't quite work out because of misinformation but that is ok, that is still a dream to come true later on :).

My flight back to NZ was pretty amazing as well with flying from Berlin to London ( Heathrow) from there to Dubai, then a long flight all the way to Sydney, then of course back to Christchurch,


So later after not having to much luck looking for jobs, I decided that I would try my au pair experience again, so I re opened my account on Au Pair world, which I had found to be just amazing, I heard from families very quickly, from  a lot of different places in Australia and other areas of the world

So after a decision Darwin became my choice of my next adventure, which I  can say has just been amazing, I have been with that family for 4 months and I am loving it, so much I have no idea if I ever want to leave, the family is just wonderful I
love looking after little Jonathan, made amazing friends in Darwin as well.


Looking forward to my next adventure next year in Townsville




Wish everyone a Happy New Year, and a Fantastic 2015

New Update part one

So it has now been nearly 3 months since i have been with this pretty awesome family :)

what an exciting month November has been so far :),
I have hung out with a few more Au Pairs again, meet a new au pair called Sandra who is from Germany, we went to the water front for lunch, had a pretty large burger that ended up being just far to much to eat, afterwards we walked a little bit along the waterfront checking out the fridge festival that was going on, which was pretty interesting,

the fridge festival was just pretty much, art work done with fridges that no one uses anymore, which was pretty cool, there was a doctor who one of the police box.

After looking at the fridge festival, we walked along the esplanade for a little bit, chatting away, afterwards headed back home.

over the next few days i spent studying and looking after Jonathan,  i also managed to sit my exams as well, so now i have officially finished studying for the year which is just great, so now i can do more sightseeing around Darwin and also read a few more books :).

I have also caught with my friend from Italy Vale, we went to Crocudylus park, which was pretty good, tried crocodile meat for the first time, it really only tasted like fish, but it was yummy, also had the chance to hold a baby crocodile,
there were so many other animals there as well which was great, there were some lovely White lions, dingo puppies as well as beautiful Timor ponies :)

The next day i went and hung out with my other great friend Dilan at the Palmerston shopping centre, we first had coffee and chatted, looked around then ended up having lunch, that was a lot of fun :)

that is the end for part one at the moment, part two is full of Adventure

Hello

So since my last post,

Jonathan had his first birthday which was just great, his grandma (esmee's mum) and come all the way from melbroune although she was only just back from the states, on the day after she had arrived we went out for lunch at Findlay's store, i had a very tasty pasta dish that actually ended up being far too big for me to even eat :). over the next few days we set up decorations for the party, and also one of Jonathan's Aunties came for his party as well, so there was a pretty full house.

The party was pretty good as well, although not very many did show up, the party was great anyhow, the day of the party though i did end up with getting a cold which ended up being stuck with me for over  a week which was just not fun at all, for a few days all i had wanted to do was sleep, the cold had just made me sleepy as :)

So over the week, whilst i hadn't done all that much other than doing some work and also studying as well,

although because it was a free entry day, i did go along with the Family to the territory wildlife park which was pretty cool, it was a hot day, and also very busy, didn't see to many animals, but will be going back again another day to have a look around at other animals.

so i now have a few days to yourself, going to get a lot of study done and also catch up with a few friends which i am looking forward too :)



PS i must so it is just amazing watching a child develop and being there during their milestones, especially with Jonathan who when i started was just crawling at moving around objects, and now he is full on walking, and slowly beginning to talk which is just fantastic