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Hello! It’s Vicki, as shown by my above initials. 

We are officially Queenstown residents! As I sit here in our little box, I can’t help but feel so bloody lucky that we have somewhere to live! I can’t imagine the continued stress of still looking for accommodation AND a job, whilst staying at massively expensive hostels and lugging my 32kg luggage around. Stress was not supposed to be included in our adventure! At least it’s only half the battle now… the battle of the jobs. I’ll keep you posted on that front. “Two weeks, two weeks! All the jobs will be out then!” Hmmm. We shall see…

We’ve only been here for 13 days and despite the slow start, we’ve come far. We hired a car on Tuesday and drove to Dunedin to watch the Lions vs Highlanders. That was exciting! Amazing chance to see our team on the other side of the world! What I didn’t expect: the opposition to boo before every kick… we have respect in England! Despite that, it was a good game and very close right to the end. And we got foam fingers… result! 

As we had the car we grasped the opportunity to go to the famous Pak’n’Save to do our first proper food shop. Hours later, over 300 bucks spent and finally unpacked, our box is finally kitted out and feels like home. Ahhhh!

One last thing that I feel important to share. On Monday night we had just moved in and still needed to buy essentials such as washing up supplies etc so we decided that we would go out for dinner as it was actually cheaper than going to FreshChoice, the local, expensive, supermarket. 

So we went to Searle Lane, where Craig works, to make the most of their deals and his discount. We had a 7 dollar (!) pitcher of beer and the best part…a 4 dollar pizza each. And it has been my favourite pizza in my life so far. No joke. Not only was it a mere £2.30, IT HAD BRIE ON IT!!! That’s right… brie! It was amazing and I can’t get over it. I might become a regular at the bar just for their pizza happy hour. Brie, my friends, brie and cranberry. Magic. 
Thanks for reading, peace out.