Rubbishness....

Today has been a bit rubbish, some of you may have read this elsewhere so if you have, well, tough!
Got up with loads of plans to find it pouring with rain and blowing a gale..again, so that stuffed up pretty much all my plans.
So switched on my laptop to find my internet not working..again. Was buggered last weekend but was apparently fixed but it seems not. Sat on hold for 45mins to report the fault but wont get fixed till Friday. Luckily it started working again this afternoon so we'll see how long it holds out this time.
Returned my DVD player that I bought last week but didnt have the right connections for my TV for one that I can connect by HTMI. Got home connected it all up and it doesn't bloody work. Connected it another way and it does work so don't know if its my HTMI cable or the DVD player itself that doesn't work. But, doesn't really matter as the DVD remote doesn't work either so its going back tomorrow.
By this point I was a wee bit stressed so decided I needed to get out the house before I started to break things. Checked the internet and found a Zumba class on tonight just a few minutes away. Got ready and headed out to find the venue totally deserted. Hung about for 10 minutes, no one showed up so I turned round and headed home again.

Why cant things just work. I dont want them to do more than what they're made for, just the basics will do really, its really not asking for much...

Settling in..

Ok, so I blame my inability to remember to update this blog on my repeated problems to get a reliable Internet connection, nothing to do with my forgetting...no siree!!

Anyway its been nearly 4 weeks and life here is beginning to become normal. Started work although still on my 3 weeks orientation until the end of this week but getting up and going to work 5 days a week kinda forces you into reality.
The house is pretty much set, well I still have 2 empty bedroom but right now there's no one queueing up to use them so it isn't too much of a problem. Got Sky (NZ TV is dire, although NZ Sky isn't that much better) and hopefully now have reliable internet.

Havent done much more in the way of touristy sight seeing type things, mostly because of the torrential rain (just NZ's way of making me feel at home!) Everyone keeps telling me this is the wettest winter they've known for a long time, not much consolation when your wading to the car in the morning. But its now officially spring so it should start to get better from here, been hearing all the horror stories from other expats at work about how often they had sunstroke in their first few years so looking forward to that!

Ha vent been being too sociable as yet but been out for coffee a few times and out to the pub quiz with a few other expats. Hopefully from next week when I'm onto my 3 day week (3 long days just in case you think I'm a total slacker!)and with the weather hopefully picking up a bit I should be able to get out and about a bit more.

Off to do my 2 day cultural awareness course from tomorrow. The Maori culture is very evident around here so it'll be good to get a bit more of an understanding around it. Rotorua has about a 45% Maori population so its something I really need to know about so I'm hoping it'll be useful.

Off to consider dinner....