Brilliant News! (Kiwi Translation: Good News)

We received our second piece of mail today from New Zealand. It was from the New Zealand Qualifications Assessment - basically the people who get to determine if I have enough teaching education and experience to be a teacher in New Zealand.

They have approved me to teach "senior years" in New Zealand - this would be equivalent to our grade 7 to 12. In their school system they have "elementary" and "senior" schools. With this first step complete - I will now finish up my teaching license application to mail out later this week.

  The document that allows me to apply for a NZ teaching license. Now that I have seen it, I have to send it back to NZ with my teaching license application and a few other papers.

I needed a few documents that had already traveled to New Zealand back from my primary assessment, for the teaching license.  By the end of it, these few teaching documents may travel more kilometres than Mark and I together.

Step 1: Apply to NZQA and have my qualifications assessed (COMPLETED)

Step 2: Apply for a NZ teaching license based on outcome of Step 1 (Application Started)

Step 3: Apply for a work visa (Application Started)

  Step 4: Apply for jobs (Looking, but still too early to apply)

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Mark and myself filling out forms on a Monday night. Here you see the medical forms, visa forms and licensing forms

An interesting fact from the forms - all forms must be filled out in black pen with cap locks or they are considered void.

On Mark's end - his thesis from his Masters has been sent off to Fredericton for binding and we are awaiting some letters from UNB to send off to University of Auckland with regards to his scholarship.

We have started to plan our summer - who we will visit when. We have started to look at how much of the summer we will need to work and how  much of it we can dedicate to spending time with family and friends. We are hoping to visit Cape Breton in July for a week and we have plans to head to Ocean Park for a week in August before we fly out. As we figure out dates, we will send them around to family and friends in the area.

Mary-Ellen and Mark