Yeah thats right the queen of indecision reigns again! Its just that as it was starting to get really cold here I remembered how much I hated the cold!! SOOOO..... my plan in my head now goes something along these lines.....Go to America and meet up with Brendon. Travel around for a couple of weeks. Head to Florida and try to get a job on cruise ship. Work on cruise ships over the winter (yay warm weather!) and then maybe head to Canada in the spring to work in bars or whatever. After that heead over to UK about june July. Of course you realise that this will all change next week!!

I also managed to get media accreditation for the Rugby World Cup - not entirely sure what this means so am trying to find out.ie do I still have to pay for tickets etc.  I'm sure tho that France will be hideously expensive during this time! So not sure if I can really afford it.

Well thats about it. Freakin cold here and I'm currently house sitting in a place with only 2 fan heaters for heating brrr.... Am jealouse of anyone who is in summer right now!

JJ x

Yip thats right. The Canadian Embassy has issued me with a "letter of introduction'" which is basically what they call their entrance visa. Woohoo! They're gonna let me in - obviously not many of my stories have gotten around ha ha. So I'm planning to leave in about early Sept prob around the 10th. Then going to LA. From there, its one of two options. #1 Meet up with my boyfriend Brendon [who just left the other day so I'm feeling all sorry for myself right now! :( ] and then we spend a couple of weeks travelling around the states before heading up to work in Canada now that we both have working visas for there. Then after about 9 months there we would head to the UK to do the 2 yr working thing before turning 31. Option #2 is to go to LA. Maybe or maybe not spend time in USA travelling around and then later in the month heading to France for the Rugby World Cup. You see, my darling Brendon managed to weedle his way into getting media accreditation for the World Cup as a "freelance photographer". So I've also now applied for that and if we both think we've got enought money we'll do that before flying back to Vancouver and working there. So I'm not really sure what I'm doing and when exactly I'll be in canada but you can guarantee that I will be there! And if anyone has any ideas about travelling cheaply in France I'd love to hear them - or if you've been and you know how much it cost ya to travel around a bit. So thats about all from me. Nothing that exciting here. There is snow on the mountains for the first time this year - for you north americans its pretty late considering a few of the ski fields were hoping to open this weekend. K. Take it easy Jen x

Yip thats right, its been over a year since I wrote anything on this space! I can't believe how time got away on my when really I haven't been doing that much. So what HAVE I been doing in the past year??? Well still at the same job - a lab technician. Unfortunately the job I used to love is no longer and instead I'm pretty bored by it now as its no longer challenging. So am I going to change my job soon you may ask... well YES I AM! In fact in about 5 to 6 months I'm planning to head to Canada to be a ski bum and work at a ski field over there. Its always been something I've wanted to try so I thought I should do it before I got too old and decrepid and couldn't get into the country under a working holiday scheme anymore (gotta get there before my 31st birthday!). So I'm pretty much just biding my time job-wise until I head overseas. Hopefully after the ski season I'm thinking I might head down the west coast of the US and then go into Central then South America. I've been managing to travel around the South Island of New Zealand a fair amount while I've been working. It's always nice to get away even if its only for a couple of days to have a bit of a change of scenery. This last weekend I went over to the West Coast for an event they call the Wild Foods Festival. Its a day of crazy food and costumes and just sitting around and chilling really. Absolutely loved it! I tried huhu grubs (a kind of beetle larvae), snails (although I'd tried them before), crocodile - which tasted a lot like tough chicken meatand I tried some perogies from the Canadians that were there. There were other things there that I didn't try like sheeps testicles, bull penis sausage, possum pie and worm truffles! Maybe another year. Well I'm off to try and organise my life and get a new passport so i can apply for my Canadian Visa. So to all you Canadians out there I may be emailing you soon and saying 'remember me' and 'how comfy is your couch?'

Well this time my blog and the website colours are dedicated to my cat Ruskin, who died a week ago after being run over. Everyone who knows me, knows that I loved Rusky heaps and will miss him. He wasn't really a cat after all!!! He was actually a human in a cats body. He would sit at the dinner table on his chair while we ate dinner and reach over to claw your leg if you didn't give him any food. At night he would snuggle in bed with me with his head on the pillow and his body under the covers!! Awww how sweet eh!!! He was my baby for 5 years and i'll miss him lots.