Sunday, October 28, 2007

A Little Progess

This week has seen a bit of progress. We decided on a school for the girls and submitted the application forms.
Choosing a school long distance has been a little tricky but thankfully there aren't too many for their age group in Nelson so we managed to narrow it down quite quickly.
We have gone for "Nelson Intermediate School' This looks like a good sized school but it only caters for year seven and eight, so we think that two years there will serve as a good transition period from primary to secondary school.
The headmaster seems very nice and he has been extremely helpful. They are happy to take the kids on as international students initially and then allow them to stay on as regular pupils should we choose to apply for residency - but that all seems a million miles away right now.

We should have manged to wrap the school thing up this week but thanks to the incompetence of UPS we are still hanging on.
The application forms, along with last school reports, character references, letters from the children and confirmation of the bank transfer for the application fees were all completed and shipped off last Saturday. They should have arrived on Monday and we had expected to hear from the school shortly after. We hadn't heard anything by Wednesday so we called the school, it turned out that they had still not received the application!
The next few days were spent chasing UPS in Singapore and New Zealand trying to locate the whereabouts of the package. It was Friday before we heard from Auckland to be informed that they don't have a UPS office in Nelson and it had been passed to a third party courier.
This was a whole new thing for us, we are so used to shipping with UPS and everything arriving with 48 hours, so this was a bit of a reality check and a real example of what living and working in a small town is going to be like! it is certainly going to take some adjusting to.

Anyway we have been assured that it will be delivered on Monday and the headmaster has promised to get straight back to us as soon as he has had chance to look at it. He does not think that there will be any problems with getting them both in (but then he hasn't seen Lucinda's school report yet!!!)

We also managed to get off to the hospital for our medicals this week and we will get the results of those on Tuesday. I was quite relived to get that out of the way but I'll feel a lot better when we have the results, this is where it could all come grinding to a halt!
Will let you know how it goes -

Take Care - Carri x

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