It has been way to long since I have blogged. I guess I fell off of the blaggon (blog +waggon).. bad joke eh! I kind of felt I really didnt have much to write about, which is a lie i guess. The biggest thing that i has happened in the past couple months is that I have been issued New Zealand residency. It took some time and a lot of patience, but I finally got it. Over the past year I’ve had mutiple medical checks, visa applications, police background checks (all of the came out clean) and lots of money lost or invested depending on how you see it, but in the end I am working towards becoming a New Zealand resident. I have to spend six months of each year for the next two years residing in New Zealand and then I can come and go from this beautiful country as I please. So if I want to return back to Canada to work and live I can without worrying about how to get another work visa for New Zealand. I feel lucky to have the ability to live and work in either Canada or New Zealand… two amazing countries.
So what is in the cards for the next couple of months… trips to rotorua, savings for a flight back to Canada for my bro’s wedding, a few work side projects and some beers eheh of course!
Ive found that anytime I am feeling a bit homesick I just listen to some music from back home and it kind of straightens me out. Everyone has a couple songs that will take them back to chilling with their mates, hanging with family, getting complete and utterly hammered with friends and these songs conjure that image as soon as you hear it, no matter if you are at a pub, it comes on the radio or if it pops up on your iPod – it will instantly take you back to ‘that’ time … for me that musician is Neil Young. Im a huge Neil Young fan, so any time I need that touch of home I toss on some Neiler and away I go..back to Canada; field parties, road tours, camp fire jams at the cottage, getting pissed at my old apt on the deck.. ah Canada. It is something as simple as a song that can really give you that touch of home that you are seeking.
