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One Guy, an Island, and Wine: timing is everything
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One Guy, an Island, and Wine. As it turns out, moving to New Zealand for a period of time longer than 6-12 months is a fairly involved process. Who knew? A student visa, for example, is fine for 6-12 months (provided you can prove your studies will take up to that amount of time), but if the program you want to complete takes longer than 1 year, which mine does, there are one or two extra hoops to jump through. Checks [for civil purposes] which certify that the migrant is of good character. Get yourself ...
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand: November 2006
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand. Starting a new life in Nelson, New Zealand. Thursday, November 30, 2006. My co-worker at Council Nan writes all the internal newsletters for staff. She started (perm employee) about a month before me, we've become good friends and Don and I will have Christmas tea (dinner) at her place in a few weeks. She told me for years she'd been looking for this photo around the anniversary date, it was published some time ago to demonstrate to Nelsonians (Nelsonites?
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand: July 2006
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand. Starting a new life in Nelson, New Zealand. Saturday, July 29, 2006. We thought we'd take you on a walk with us to the market. Today is Saturday morning . . . well we didn't really get up and out until about 11:30am, but such is life! This is what we see when we leave our house, our little road, Pettit Place. It's about 200 feet to the end of our road, maybe less. Then you turn right and walk another 200 feet and over the bridge. The second one here is wha...
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand: December 2006
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand. Starting a new life in Nelson, New Zealand. Friday, December 29, 2006. South Island from space. Here's where we live, our South Island of New Zealand from outer space. Well, the top half of the South Island, anyway. If the top of the island forms a funny V-shape, we are at the bottom of the V, or Nelson is, I should say. See you in January and remember, we get there first. Posted by Don Bartkowiak @ 7:13 PM. Monday, December 25, 2006. Christmas day and eve.
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand: June 2006
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand. Starting a new life in Nelson, New Zealand. Wednesday, June 28, 2006. Here are a few more pictures of the shipping container. It was picked up on Monday June 26 and we are told it will arrive in New Zealand around August 30. Don and I will arrive in New Zealand on July 6 . . . so what are we going to do? This will be our last post before we fly off on July 4. We look forward to checking in with all of you once we land and get some sleep! Yep, we tried to g...
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand: August 2006
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand. Starting a new life in Nelson, New Zealand. Thursday, August 31, 2006. I’ve decided to let Angela have the night off from blogging. I guess I’ll make it a practice to post about every fortnight. Recent picture of me. After leaving we decided to drive around the area a bit more to scout out our future home. For any who come, we’ll take you out here to spend a day or two. Posted by Don Bartkowiak @ 6:48 PM. Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Tuesday, August 29, 2006.
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand: January 2007
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand. Starting a new life in Nelson, New Zealand. Monday, January 29, 2007. From the start of 2008, you will find the rest of our blog site at www.donandangelanz.blogspot.co.nz. You can view our 2006 through early 2007 postings here at this site, then head over to the new site. Thanks. Posted by Don Bartkowiak @ 4:56 PM. Monday, January 22, 2007. Yet we ventured out under a roasting sun to see the world-famous annual Nelson Kite Festival. Entitled The Son is Ris...
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand: April 2006
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Don and Angela's journey to live in New Zealand. Starting a new life in Nelson, New Zealand. Wednesday, April 26, 2006. These are pictures from our trip to NZ in Jan 2005 -. Click on pictures to enlarge. Our favorite beach - Kaiteriteri. Posted by Don Bartkowiak @ 3:54 PM. Nelson, New Zealand. View my complete profile. Moving to New Zealand. Fellow Bloggers on their move to NZ. Different names for different things. Humid weather must be good for socialising. The good . and the bad.
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One Guy, an Island, and Wine: an introduction
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One Guy, an Island, and Wine. I'm One Guy and welcome to my blog. If you've stumbled across this post from somewhere, and aren't finding any content more recent, it likely means you're far more net-savvy than I. This is why I have a blogger.com blog, made from a stock template which has been oh-so cleverly tweaked to meet my wants (note the red hyperlinks! Whereas you may well own a collection of domain names, many of which aren't in use but are kept around for sentimental purposes. Getting an IRD number.
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One Guy, an Island, and Wine: the rough list
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One Guy, an Island, and Wine. More for my own needs, possibly with the side effect of boring away any potential readership, I'm posting this list of things I think are important:. Make a budget, and make it realistic. Set regular, real goals which are quantitative. Talk to more banks and credit unions about student lines of credit, Canada's Lifelong Learning Plan. And whether it applies to overseas study, and gather/absorb any other financial information. Talk to Canada Student Loans. Traditional student...
