An experienced globetrotter once told me: ‘Plans exist to be thrown away.’
Well, I haven’t thrown my travel plans away. But I well rearranged them…
The family I skyped with has called off. They weren’t sure if I was fit for the role. For any role you can prepare, so even 3 boys wouldn’t have been THAT much of a problem for me. But considering that I haven’t put the label ‘dream family’ on them, it might be better this way.
Just now the hopes to find a family in time are reduced to the little sources that haven’t given notice yet.
Therefore my new plan. The Au Pair thing is always about the Working Holiday Visa. That is valid for exactly one year and you can use it only once in your life (in New Zealand). So..without a host family it makes no sense getting one…
But what if you were to activate that visa when you are already in New Zealand? It is for traveling AND working after all. As a regulat tourist from Germany you don’t need any special visa at all. You can stay for 3 months. Just like that. And once you find your family, you can activate the Working Holiday Visa then.
And that is my plan.
I can go to New Zealand in December just like as planned (dreamed of). Independent of whether I have found a family by then or not… I can enjoy the country as a free and simple backpacker for three months and look for a family on the way.
And it is so much easier to talk to a family being in the place rather than sitting on the other side of the world. 🙂
I don’t know what is waiting for me, but I know that it is going to be wonderful! And soon I will be able to begin with concrete plans.
The last weekend I visited the South once more, only this time as a ‘farewell’… There I got to take this picture, which should serve as decoration of this post.
