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11 Months since emigrating to New Zealand

14th May 2019 By Jonelle

art on the wall

It has been a whole 11 months since emigrating to New Zealand. It’s crazy, a colleague asked me today how long I’d been here and I said 9 months without thinking. Then I counted and it has been ELEVEN months. In a month from now, it will be a year. A full year since we…

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Filed Under: Being an Expat, Expat Adventures, Life, Reflections on Life Tagged With: migration tales, New Zealand, settled in our new home

What race are you? Oh how much I love that question.

24th April 2019 By Jonelle

colourful smoke with shark toy

I recently went on a training course; it involved meeting a whole bunch of new people. I spent time working CLOSELY with a bunch a strangers – not my favourite way to spend the day. Anyone at one point, a lady sitting next to me asked me; “What’s your background?” (translation – what RACE are…

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Filed Under: Being Resilient, Blog, Expat Adventures, Life, Reflections on Life, Social Issues Tagged With: dealing with racisim, racism

Kia kaha New Zealand!

16th March 2019 By Jonelle

Gees, I write this but I’m sick to my stomach. This weekend has been all kinds of disgusting and honestly, I don’t even know how to process this. So many lives lost and for what? Ignorance? Supremacy? Stupidity? I don’t know. I keep thinking this is sick or maybe he is sick but then I…

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Filed Under: Blog, Death & Grief, Expat Adventures, Life, Reflections on Life, Social Issues Tagged With: Christchurch shooting, Kia Kaha New Zealand, New Zealand

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Hello, I’m Jonelle and this is my story.

Wow! This was a moment. Turning 40 when I almost d Wow! This was a moment.
Turning 40 when I almost didn’t live past 32. 
Grateful for every day of every year since then! 
Life is so precious and life is everything you make it. 

Thankful for all the opportunities I’ve had along the way. Thankful for all the people I’ve met and the leaps I’ve taken! 

Grateful to live where we do. 
Grateful for my family and friends. 
Grateful to live comfortably and never have to worry about being without. Such privilege in a world with so much struggle. 

Thankful for my pets who drive me nuts and love me endlessly. 

I’m looking forward to the next decade. Stepping more into myself and knowing who I am and what my boundaries are. The things I will not tolerate or accept. 

Just grateful for my life. 
The end. #HBD to me!
Woop Woop
Saturday pre birthday party vibes… Saturday pre birthday party vibes…
Lazy Saturday mornings ❤️ Lazy Saturday mornings ❤️
Unemployment is working for me! #Relaxed Unemployment is working for me! #Relaxed
Oden ❤️ Oden ❤️
Making the most of being #funemployed 😆#welling Making the most of being #funemployed 😆#wellingtonnz
Take me back… summer sun and ocean swims #newcal Take me back… summer sun and ocean swims #newcaledonia

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