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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

Six Months in New Zealand

20th December 2018 By Jonelle

If you had asked me six months ago, where we’d be today, I’d have looked at your and said without a second thought “hopefully not homeless.” We packed our bags, cashed in our savings and moved here with the hope of a better life, what ever that looked like.  We had only one rule; no…

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Filed Under: Expat Adventures Tagged With: expat life, migration tales, New Zealand

The first week in our new country! | Migration Tales

26th June 2018 By Jonelle

FIrst week in our new country

I’ve spent the last week humming to myself, sometimes I pause for a minute and smile when I realise that I’m humming “if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands” – it seems silly. A week in, a stressful week and I’m humming about being happy. It’s a new feeling – this excitement…

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Filed Under: Being an Expat, Blog Tagged With: expat life, International move, migrating to New Zealand, migration tales, New Zealand, South Africans in 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!
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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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