Well Hi There,
I did say i would post again soon but wow how a whole month flies by, anyway here is my follow on to our journey.
Well since I started this message a LOT has changed, we have been here 2 months on Sunday, and are really loving our new life.
The kids are all enrolled at Namadgi School, from pre-school to grade 8 and they have all the modcons that one can think of for use at their fingertips supplied by their school, taking into account the school only opened last year. Apple Mac desktops, apple laptops as well as ipads, and they do a lot of digital work; even my youngest in pre-school is learning how to use a computer!!!
Hubby got a job the week after we moved into our house, they guy who came to fetch and clean the blinds for our rental offered him a job the day he came to our place, all this without knowing us, but knowing we were in need (God orchestrates these things and can use anybody) so now he is working for a company called Amazing Clean as a blinds technician, totally out of his depth but he is doing so well. God’s grace has truly been over us and we have achieved so much in such a short period of time. So we keep getting told.
We have now renewed our lease till end April 2013, so at least now we feel a little settled. Hubby and I are still sleeping on the mattress on the floor and so is our daughter but we are slowly but surely getting on top of everything and we should have beds soon. We bought our lounge suite on Saturday from the tip (rubbish dump) Tiny’s green shed and it cost us $80.00 a lovely suede L shaped set and new they cost around $500.00, so we scored a bonus it has nothing wrong with it and is very comfy.
I am not working yet, I have turned down the very first job I was offered, the interview process was difficult but the pay and hours were not suitable once we pay for daycare for our youngest etc as well as petrol. I have been approached by another company and we will know our decision in the week. The reason we need daycare even though J goes to pre-school is because so many things work so differently from South Africa. Pre- school is 2 days one week and 3 days the next, so he goes to school Thursday and Friday this week from 9am – 3pm and next week Wed, Thur & Fri from 9am-3pm, and is currently home with me on the other days. So if I get work I need to pay for Daycare as well as holiday care so we need to obviously make sure all these little hiccups are taken into account.
We have been visiting a church near us called Life City, and they are very nice people, we have been to dinner with the pastor and his family as well as to a BBQ with another couple from the church (he is from South Africa – been in Oz 11 yrs). We will be visiting another church this weekend called Fusion Church Int. so we are still looking for a “home”.
Life here in Australia is VERY different to SA, especially the city in which we are living. We live in the South of the state in a Suburb of Kambah in Tuggeranong.
We find there is ALWAYS something on over the weekends and this month is Canberra’s birthday month so it is a month of events but here is a small summary of what we have had to choose from and what we have attended.
- Multi-cultural Festival end Feb
- Australia Day 26 Jan – HUGE fireworks (Free)
- 29 Jan Coffee Club get together – we didn’t make this one we bought our car instead.
- Next weekend we moved into our house.
- Valentines week – a BIG thing here
- Coffee club 26 Feb we went to this and got rained on and then the sun shone. (Free)
- 2-3 & 9-10 March enlighten festival – we never made this too much on (Free)
- 10-18 March the Canberra Air Balloon Spectacular – we went on the 17th at 6.15am (Free)
- 16th March Australian Ballet Theatre Ballet in the park – I took Tanique was awesome. (Free)
- 17th March Sky Fire fireworks spectacular to music. Also had a Helicopter aerobatics display as well as air force training plane display all FREE.
- 24-25 March National vintage guitar & Amp Expo $10pp.
- And so the list goes on have a look at www.eventscanberra.com.au it will help you see what we have to experience.
We miss our family and our friends,and Church!!!! As well as the security of jobs we know and the comfort and convenience of knowing everything (the familiar) but I we will be honest we are settling in more and more everyday especially now that we have routines in place. Oh yes and that we have internet at our fingertips again is a HUGE help. We have posted many pictures on Face book, to keep our families updated
Oh yes the bird life here is amazing, the feathered birds that is,( the human kinds are way to revealing for our liking) but we are adjusting to that and training the kids, although thankfully with the values they have been brought up with they do not appreciate the way the youngsters here dress or behave. (there are some great kids here though)
Today we went to Questacon, and were there from 12-4pm, there is just so much to see and do and the kids just loved it, as did we adults, sometimes I was not too sure as to who was having more fun
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Well, That's the blog update from me for now. Hopefully I will update again before too long.
Chat soon
T
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