We're getting there. It really is beginning to feel like that. Finally the universities have got their acts together - my wife has received transcripts for both her qualifications and mine have been promised to me by early next week. And this time, I believe them!
So this means that we are getting to tick some things off the enormous 'to-do' list we have created in order to get to New Zealand. Each of those little ticks - however small - feels like a massive victory and a genuine step in the right direction. It's a long list though and it is going to take a long time to get the the end of it and tick off 'Arrive in New Zealand'.
In theory, it is less than a year now. People have started asking about the specifics at work and people are beginning to take us a little more seriously instead of the previous responses of 'Oh, that's nice' and 'Yes, I've heard Australia is lovely'. One year left - in that year we have to; renew passports, write awesome CV's, quit a job we've been doing for five years, sell all of our superfluous stuff, save a lot of money, fill in an EOI (Expression of Interest), have qualifications assessed, research, find a job, say goodbye to everyone, get medicals, get police checks, send stuff to New Zealand, cancel accounts, find lost documents, and worryingly about 100 other things I haven't thought of! It's not easy :o)
When those transcripts finally arrive, I will be taking about 15 copies and placing one in the folder, one in a book, one in a cupboard, one in ...
