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Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland » Karaka March 8th 2010

We had a family 70th birthday celebrations for Graham at St Margarets Dyke Road Karaka. What a lovely place this is, the weather was perfect and the food excellent. Evans and Gill drove up from Karipiro for the day. It was great catching up with them. Sue and Kevin joined us as well and they were able to catch up with Chelle and meet Joel. We are now all birthday'd out thank goodness 70 only comes around once!!!!... read more
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Graham and Sandra
Kevin, Joel, Graham and Gill

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland » Karaka February 12th 2008

Yesterday was a pretty cool day, and I got alot done. The meeting at the IEP offices was very informative, and helped to drastically change what my future plans are. The people there are people like us, who did the same thing, and now are part of a not for profit organization designed to help us have as easy and successful a time as possible. The helped us fill out our application for an IRD number, which is needed to work in NZ. They also told us where and how to get a bank account, and gave overviews of the working and living opportunities all around the country, as well as festivals, attractions, and other really cool things to do. One of the most important things, they said, was to get out of Auckland. Fast. It's ... read more
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