{"id":513,"date":"2010-03-04T17:47:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2010-03-04T17:47:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T01:47:48","slug":"surprise-im-in-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/surprise-im-in-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"SURPRISE!! I&#8217;m in New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SURPRISE!<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m here in <strong>New Zealand<\/strong> for a year!! I know it&#8217;s crazy, but that is me .<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"495\" height=\"305\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dcMmvY8PQA4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"495\" height=\"305\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dcMmvY8PQA4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>There are alot of reasons I decided to go to New Zealand, one I have just recently graduated and I really wanted to travel but not vacation. And therefore I need to be able to provide myself with some income to fund my travels.<\/p>\n<p>So, the program I registered with to obtain my <strong>Working Holiday Visa <\/strong>is <a title=\"Swap Website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swap.ca\"><strong>SWAP<\/strong><\/a>. That is the Canadian version, however, if you live in different countries there are multiple other programs to go through. A popular one for UK and USA residence is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bunac.org\"><strong>BUNAC<\/strong><\/a>. Here is New Zealand, it is called the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worknewzealand.org.nz \"> <strong>IEP<\/strong><\/a>. One, if you are thinking of doing an overseas working holiday program, by yourself, seriously consider going through a program, they have been absolutely wonderful and helpful to me.\u00a0 AKA, they are also the reason I can upload my videos! (Because internet costs ALOT here!)<\/p>\n<p>So, I am VERY excited to be starting this new part of my life, and to be able to share it will all of you will be just as exciting. However, I am a bit worried about what will become of this blog. See, this is my main portal for all my online work that I do, however, I want this to be my travel blog as well! So, I was thinking should I maybe make a separate travel section of my blog? Or should I just keep everything on here?<\/p>\n<p>I was also temporally thinking of giving this URL a different redirect with a fancy smancy blog name. LOL, but I dunno what that would be yet. So give me some ideas!!!<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, here are some photos from my first few days of being here!! These are from the <strong>Sky Tower<\/strong> in <strong>Auckland!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4031\/4410794806_b8935fd6a3.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1122\" width=\"519\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4015\/4410028495_85efd474e6.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1121\" width=\"525\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wonderful thing about the program I am going through\u00a0 is that not only have then been helping me with getting all the bank info and tax stuff setup, they also organize trips in conjunction with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straytravel.com\"><strong>STRAY<\/strong><\/a> which is a travel bus company down here, and with a local hostel called <strong>Nomads. <\/strong>So I enjoy a couple day trips with them<strong> <\/strong>one being a\u00a0 beach BBQ at a local beach here in<strong> Auckland<\/strong>, called <strong>Mission Bay<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mission Bay\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4032\/4410792698_818fa85a05.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1093\" width=\"526\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The other being a day trip to <strong>Bethelles Beach, <\/strong>and to this wonderful waterfall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4067\/4410027953_843dc3c955.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1107\" width=\"528\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View from atop of the hill!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2745\/4410793798_4190e7620e.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1103\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4067\/4410027491_b31ea59d9d.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am THAT white!! LOL .<\/p>\n<p>Anyways!! I got tons of more pics and hopefully videos coming your way soon, it all depends on where and when I can get the internet to work :\/<\/p>\n<p>TTYL! &lt;3 Nadine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heynadine.com\/icons\/BPV.png\" align=\"left\">  So I have moved to New Zealand ! <b><i>Auckland, New Zealand<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[235,368,397,478,810,1459,1843,1970,2116,2447,2602,2873,3031,3240],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","category-trip-planning","tag-auckland","tag-bethelles-beach","tag-blog","tag-bunac","tag-travel","tag-iep","tag-mission-bay","tag-new-zealand","tag-photography","tag-sky-tower","tag-swap","tag-travel-videos","tag-views","tag-working-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heynadine.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}