Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 8902260)

Well here we are, 2 years to the day since we landed at Brissie Airport. Never been to Australia beforehand, just applied for the visas, sold up and left on a big massive plane!

To say I felt shell shocked for the first couple of weeks is an understatement and I sorta walked around in a bizarre daze. Lots of shopping passed the time quickly though as we had to start from scratch. BigW was our best friend.

I have to say, the first year here I hated it, was bored, lonely and terribly homesick (hence the huge BE post count in my first year) and at one point, was set to go home. I really struggled, but managed to sort myself out and decided to stop being daft and live my life.

I still have the odd feelings some days that I should go home and wonder what the hell I am doing here. It doesn't last long though.

We have been thoroughly impressed with the school the boys are in, the staff and kids are very welcoming and can't do enough for you. The Mater children's hospital in Brisbane too has been fabulous. My son has hydrocephalus and the plane pressure tampered with his shunt (which shouldn't have happened according to all the specialists we spoke to), he got ill basically as soon as we hit base, so a trip to the hospital bound we were. Turns out one of the ward nurses was from the same town as me, so really helped make him feel comfortable. We even got to speak to doctors in the middle of the night (outa their beds they were dragged) to our request. I only have the best of words to say about the hospital and education system so far. :thumbup:

There are still things I don't like about Australia, but they don't bother me any more. I like it here now.Though I am still adamant I want to move to Europe when my eldest finishes high school (he is only yr 6 just now) so still lots of time left to explore Oz.

Have the inlaws arriving in a fortnight, then the day after they leave, have my mum , her bf and my sis arriving for 5 weeks.

Roll on xmas. :thumbsup:

ps - don't get me started on how crap xmas is here! :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by plantpot (Post 8984560)

scottishcelts, you have a lot of similar experiences to me...maybe we will be neighbours in France in our lil gites when the time comes;) Glad things are going well!

PP
:)

Originally Posted by scottishcelts (Post 8984833)

Ah oui oui. :thumbup::D

Originally Posted by soapy© (Post 8984838)

remember to wash your hands!