Had an interesting and enjoyable visit with friends last night. Val and her husband Jack are visiting New Zealand for a week after spending 2 weeks in Australia. They were in Auckland for the night and called me up so I met up with them and we went for a walk to the Harbour where we had supper in an authentic Irish Pub. Val was one of my better Weekenders Fashion clients, and is a co-worker and good friend of Debbie Sova's. Debbie had written to me about 2 weeks ago to say that Val and Jack were going to be here so I passed along my contact info for her to pass to them. That was the last I heard and then while doing e-mail last evening my phone rang. I expected it to be the dive shop so when she said who was speaking I didn't know who she was at first. Hell, you don't expect to get a call from someone like that when you're in my situation here.
Anyway, it was a great visit. They left today to head north to the Bay of Island and then they'll go to Rotorua to see a real Maori community and enjoy Maori culture and hospitality. They get back here on March 1st so will call for another supper out. We will compare notes on out experiences of the northern part of the north island. I will be a bit further north at Poor Knights' Islands diving this weekend.
I have my class tomorrow night for my PADI Advanced Diver's Certification and will be doing 2 of my 5 required dives over the weekend. Then over the next week I will do the other 3 dives signed off. There are still another 11 dives on the roster to be completed but I will have my Advanced Certification and will be able to flash that around for the job search. Every little bit helps.
Sent out a couple more resumes yesterday. Filled out a couple more online applications. Searched for and researched vessels on the internet. Searched the web for agencies and posted jobs. Found a few.
Gotta go eat lunch now... actually it is getting so late that by the time I get to a restaurant (it is too far to go home) it will be an early supper. Oh, well, it will save money to combine the two.
Posted by gailene at February 25, 2004 02:47 PM