hairart

good to hear from you, and good to hear that you've settled in ok. keep in touch and enjoy your new life in Oz.

WaitingKills

Congratulations

enjoy Monica

Sweet news to all of us

mk1012

hello vanillaoz,
thank you for the wishes.
my CO was from region 2 and yes my profession in on MODL.
hope this helps.

monica

mk1012

Hello Sally (aka IrishGal),

Thank you for the wishes. I must mention this, I've been reading your posts from last 1 yr and I must say they are quite informative and always full of hope! Thank you for being a great support

I too am moving to Melbourne, my brother works there.

Good luck with your life downunder.

mk1012

hello everyone,

a BIG thankyou to everyone for all the good wishes.

hope things work out soon for applicants still waiting.

take care
monica

Mottie

Congratualations!!!! Enjoy your new life down under! xx

carolinemaria

Congrats Zimba and Mk1012 - Sooo pleased for you both

Hi Babyboo - glad you're settling in? Have you had a taste of the bad weather? We've watched some excellent lightening storms!! However, we're still in shorts and tshirts and loving every minute. It just gets better and better.

Caroline

Colly-Gill

PAGE 5!!!!!!!

Hello from Australia guys, this is the first chance I've had to get online and it feels good. I haven't read back on what I've missed (will read the last couple of weeks in a minute). I hope all is well with you all. We arrived here Monday 10th November. The kids were great on the flight 4yrs, 3yrs and 11 months I was so stressed out that they'd be a nightmare but it turned out it was only me who was sick on the flight!!!!!

Anyway we are so pleased to have chosen Cleveland we love it here, we organised a rental before we came out here which is lovely a wee bit too big for us but getting used to the space now, the neighbours have been lovely some of the neighbours came over with a fruit basket to welcome us to Australia how nice was that.

I will fill you guys in with more info later I just wanted to come on and see how everyone was getting on, take care off to read what's been going on for some of you in the last couple of weeks.

Gillian x

Nix and Mike

Hi There Gillian !

A nice bouyant message for the first couple of weeks in your new life ! Things can be hectic, and sounds like you are settling in just fine !
Thanks for posting and we look forward to seeing your posts in the weeks to come.

Cheers!
Nix

Colly-Gill

Debbiedoos Great to hear you all arrived in Australia and enjoying your new life down under.

Babyboo2101 Enjoy your new life down under.

Mr Benn/Mary Fingers crossed you'll get your house sold. Will be in touch soon.

Tiger222/Catherine Your probably here somewhere in Cleveland hope to meet up soon for a coffee.

Zimba and MK1012Congratulations on your visas.

MelbourneWe used Hifx also opened an account with NAB I'm sure so far we're not paying fees on the amount we're transferring into account, I would need to check that with Colin.

Gillian

Colly-Gill

Hi Nix

Aw cheers, your right with hectic, so busy since we arrived. The storms wow!! never seen anything like it! Off to catch up with emails, speak soon.

Gillian x

vickie

Apologies again everyone for not being so up to date!

Well the count down is officially on, We're leaving for Sydney on Monday and I don't think we're ever going to be ready! My husband on the other hand is very chilled and tells me we're not going to the third world and we can get anything we've (me) forgotten on the other side! I am loving all my leaving presents but not enjoying packing at all. We're flying with Singapore airlines and i intend to use the full 160kg we're entitled to!

I was feeling sick on my last post with all my worry but thankfully this has settled down and now I can't wait to board the plane, although I'm sure I'll change my mind a few hours in! I haven't been able to complete my registration for nursing while over here, so have sent an e-mail with an updated OZ address. We're staying with OH's auntie and Uncle initially, in their spare house in the garden as you have...

Well if any of you who are out there can think of anything you wished you brought with you, or things to do before take off please let me.

Will drop a line before we finally go.

Love Vic X

Ryaner

Hi Vickie

I arrived 10 weeks ago and theres nothing I miss (food wise) my OH misses teabags and my Mam sent us a box but thats all, you can get everything here. I would advise to pick up a couple of plug converters at the airport as they are invaluable. Oh and bring everything you use at the moment even the smallest things like can openers, potato mashers etc, because you only have to buy them all again and they all add up. Good Luck

carolinephillips

Good luck with it all Vickie- having gone down that route very recently, get lots of plug converters, two isn't enough! You can get most things here, but they may not taste the same-eg chocolate, sausages and mayonnaise. Look at the mini culture shocks thread, or one that is something like "anything you wish you'd brought over?"- can't remember the exact title. I brought lots of M&S bras over as they are the only ones that fit and proper bras are expensive. Get lots of cheap Tesco swimming costumes and t-shirts too,(probably the wrong time of year to do so tho)and cheap jeans.

dinner-dash

anyone closer to going over today....house offer/sale/completion/booked validation trip ?