Travel Planning / matkustelun suunnittelua

Third week is almost finished and I still have not done anything exciting. I am still waiting for my tax number to arrive which should be here is couple days. After I have received that I can open a bank account and start looking for jobs. I have already been looking but here in Hamilton, there are not many casual/temporary jobs. I really need to get a job as I am getting bored as here is nothing to do :(  The weather is not too good either so I dont want to travel either as most of the places are beach places. I just need a job until x-mas and then I could spend rest of my time travelling. 
It is long weekend/labour weekend so I am going to Coromandel for the weekend. Plan is to do some hiking, chilling on the beach and just get out of Hamilton.

Here is map of New Zealand, both north and south island. I have made blue dots and circles of all the places that I want to visit. This is just a rough idea, where I want to go. Like you can see, the whole country is quite well covered and most of the places are at coast. My main travels will be in the south island as last time I didn't have much time in there. 

Kevät on jo ja kesä on tulossa!!

Terveisiä täältä Hamiltonista, täällä on nyt parisen viikkoa oltu. Matkaan tänne meni ovelta ovelle noin 43 tuntia, josta lentokoneessa istumista oli nin 27 tuntia, et voi kyllä sanoa että on toisella puolella maapalloa. Ei täällä oikeen mikään ole muutamassa kuukaudessa muuttunut. Ensimmäisenä päivänä kun tulin tänne niin tuntui kuin en olisi pois ollutkaan :) Muutenkin tuntuu kun olisi "kotiin" tullut. 

Pari ensimmäistä päivää meni ystäviä tapaillessa, joten jet lagia ei ehtinyt tulla. Muuten parin viikon ajan olen ottanut rauhallisesti kun ei ole ollut mitään pakkollista tekemistä. Viime viikon alussa tein veronumero-hakemuksen jotta voin avata pankkitilin ja alkaa hakea töitä. Nyt sunnitelmissa olisi saada töitä pariksi kuukaudeksi täällä Hamiltonissa, ja sitten joulun jälkeen alkaa matkustelemaan :) 

Mitää kovin järkevä en ole täällä tehnyt ;) shoppailua, kävelyä ja hengailua. Jos jotain kiinnostaa niin polvi voi hyvin. Kierukkaa poistettiin leikkauksessa enkä tarvinut keppejä mukaan tälle reissulle :) Toivottavasti se veronumero tulisi pian, jotta voisin alkaa hakea töitä, kun täällä alkaa aika tulla hieman pitkäksi kun  ei ole mitään tekemistä. Muuten voisinkin matkustella, mutta kaikki ne paikat johon haluan mennä on parempia kun säät ovat vähän paremmat. Täälää on muutaman päivän ollut aurinkoinen ja lämmin sää, mutta muuten on ollut epävakaista, sateista ja tuulista :(

Ensi viikonloppuna on kolmen päivän viikonloppu, joten voi olla että silloin lähden pikkureissulle. Se riippuu vähän millaista sää on luvassa, koska tarkoistusta olisi mennä telttailemaan kansallispuistoon. Muutenkin nyt on ollut aikaa hieman alustavasti suunnitella minne haluaisin mennä ja mitä haluaisin nähdä. Etelä-saaren alustava reitti on melko valmis, ainakin suurin piirtein. 

Lisää matkasunnitelmista sitten seuraavalla kerralla. 

I got the visa!!

Olen saanut viisumin Uuteen-Seelantiin, joten nyt on aika muuttaa paluulentojen päivämääriä. Tarkoitus olisi olla siellä reilu 6kk ja palata takaisin Suomeen huhtikuun alussa, jolloin olisi hetki aikaa järjestellä elämää ennen kuin kesätyöt alkaa toukokuun alussa.

I have got the visa to New Zealand so I can stay there longer than 3 months. I am planning to stay there for bit over 6 months as I need to back in Finland at the beginning of May. That is when I start my job.

A week and half before I am on my way :)

Updated:
Flights have been finalized, I am leaving thu 2.10.14 and coming back wed 15.4.15!!!

only 3 weeks until I am on my way back to New Zealand

I have finally graduated and worked whole summer in Finland as a nurse. I decided all ready when I was in New Zealand that in the autumn I will take a break from work etc. and go back to New Zealand. As during my exchange period I didn't have chance to travel as much as I wanted. There is so much more to see and experience. 
I will use this blog to tell about my travels and life in the other side of the world. At the moment I am waiting to hear about my working holiday visa, if I will get it or not. As for it I needed to send chest x-ray certificate because I have spent over 3 months in Africa. If I am not get the visa then I will stay in New zealand for 10 weeks but I get it then I will stay there for about 6-7 months :) So fingers crossed that I will get the visa :)

my student exchange is almost done :)

I have not been very active with my blog lately or actually at all during my time in NZ. I have had so much to do all the time that I have not have found time to write a post. I have updated my other blog in Sairaanhoitajaliitto webpage quite regularly. In that blog there is mostly work and nursing stuff. I still need to write all my trips and life in general here. I can't believe that 3 months is already gone, time flies when you are having fun is so true. I have had awesome time in here and looking forward to come back here as there is so much more to see, do and explore. 

So I am now on my last week of my student exchange which means that I am also on my last week of my nursing degree :) I really looking forward to be finished and be done with studying. No I am not going to get another degree, 3 degrees are enough for one person ;) I have really enjoyed my time in here, on and off work. I would really recommend to everyone to widen their practice by going abroad, especially while studying as it is made easy. Even if you don't want to work in other country than Finland, it still would be beneficial as there are foreign people living in Finland, and they get sick, too. 

I have got into routine now, work in the morning until 15:30 then gym for 1.30h and then it is dinner time. I am looking forward not to share kitchen with at least 14 other people as dinner time is chaos, there is not room for everyone. I am surprised that there has not been que for toilet and shower even when there is 14 people sharing 3 toilets and shower. Weekends I have been travelling or doing something fun. I have been at Waihi beach, walking to beautiful waterfalls and watching some rugby league live. 

I have really enjoyed being here and I think that I could live here, it is so similar to Finland but not have cold winter like in Finland which is always a good thing. 

My holiday starts on Friday and my sister is coming on Sunday. We will travel for 2 weeks in NZ before going to Australia for 2 weeks. 

Some pictures from the travel to South Island

Some pics at the start, wellington, picton ferry, kaikoura and christchurch.

 wellington

Picton

 Seal at Kairoura

Can't believe that I am over half way of my exchange

Time flies so fast, I can't believe that I am over half way of my exchange. I have had really great time and met many nice people and traveled to beautiful places. I have really enjoyed being here, I think that I could live and work in here, as this is so similar to Finland. Being in here, has stronger my desire to live and work abroad, but it have to be English speaking country and England would be an easy choice.

2 weeks ago I started my second and last clinical placement. I am now at the Ward 53, which is children's medical ward. At first it was quite boring as I didn't have preceptor and only thing that I was allowed to do was to take vitals; pulse, respiration rate, temperature from the kids, nothing else. Now it has been little bit better as I have had my own patients, but I am not allowed to give any medication to them as I have done medicine management and calculations in here. I have been talking quite much with the parents, as they have been interested where I come from and why I am here. There are different age kids, from babies to teenagers. I like taking care of babies and toddlers, not that much with the teenagers. I will have chance to go to the day stay ward, where they do allergy testing etc. and also for the surgical ward, where is high dependency unit for children.

The past 2 weeks I haven't traveled anywhere, as I have saved money for the trip to Christchurch trough Wellington, Picton and Kaikoura. Last week I had Sunday and Monday off and on Sunday I went to Maungatautari, Sanctuary mountain, where is lots birds and nice walking tracks.

 I have been to Hamilton Gardens again, it was really nice as I didn't go everywhere last time when I was there. Then I have been watching the SuperRugby, it was not great game as it started to rain which meant that they will kick the ball much more. And also Chiefs lost by one point.