Hey All, thought its about time that i add to this for all you avid readers.
Well last week finished with me applying for a few jobs down the sport management field, as im avoiding teaching and trying to develop further in other areas. Played 80mins of footy on saturday and that was good, we played one of the top teams and only went down by 4, i played first 5/8 and was a bit rusty so to speak after 5 months away, but was still good, was a bit sore sunday and monday but sorted now.
Greg and I have moved out of the flat and are in a sleep out together now with 4 outher boys from rugby, so pretty nice house and we are out the back..currently sleeping on airbeds until we find some cheap beds to buy, hasnt been to bad after one night. Monky is pretty sick at the moment so he is sleeping inside so he doesnt keep me awake.
I coached at the wasps academy on saturday, stole some free kit and then went to the wasps vs leicester game and sat in the corporates at adams park and got a free feed so was pretty happy, ill chuck some photos on of that.
Today i had a job interview for a job where i work for sport england, wheel power (disabled sport organsiation) and bucks university as theire disabled sport co-ordinator, pretty much i set up courses and get people to take them to get people that are disabled involved in the administration etc of there own sports, so courses on coaching, officiating, management etc. Its all building up for the 2012 paralympics so these people can be used as the volunteers to run the games pretty much..At the moment the post is 20 hours a week and will be about 5 months long at this stage with the chance of going on further, the first courses will run in april so have to get set up by then...Ill be incharge of finding people to take the courses, and maybe teaching a few myself, we are using state of the art technology where we can get people to take a course from the other side of the world and we will link it in to the classroom ill have at where i work and we can do everything via video link, so pretty exciting...Possibly making the rest of the workign week up with personal training work.. So hopefully this will get me through until about august and then im plannign on doing a contiki around europe by myself.. This job has the chance of going fulltime so might not need the personal training, but aslong as i get some money coming in, will be making about double of what i was as a teacher a fortnight so thatts a good thing.
blair the guy who has sorted the job for me is part of our club, so he told me that i prety much have the job and will be confirmed this week..so heres a start i guess, will be good to get amongst a new challenge, something that ill be soley responsible for and can be driving, pretty happy about that...
I booked my flights the other day to the runnign of the bulls in early july, so when work begins i better put in for some leave for that. AS soon as rugby finishes ill be looking to do as many international trips as possible on the weekends. Spain in may also for rugby so that will be good times..
Other than that ive got the rest of the week to myself, the new place we have moved into has everything, so might watch a few movies etc. will catch up with people in a week or so, if you have SKYPE i can chat to you on there as we now have a better internet connection and a webcam..
catch ya
Turnz
Hi all from Aylesbury, just north west of london towards oxford..well moved in with monky and things are sweet, tomorro i have a days relief about an hour from here, so thats good to get some quid coming in..I have an interview for the duty manager job at a gym and have to construct a ten min presentation on leadership and motivation for it so been busy trying to do that.
Hi all from Aylesbury, just north west of london towards oxford..well moved in with monky and things are sweet, tomorro i have a days relief about an hour from here, so thats good to get some quid coming in..I have an interview for the duty manager job at a gym and have to construct a ten min presentation on leadership and motivation for it so been busy trying to do that.
Well after finally adjusting to the colder weather of the northern hemisphere the biggest weekend of my life begun...waitangi day pub crawl was yesterday and it was awesome...the best expereince ive had in a long time, about 5000 kiwis absolutly running a muck in london central..the police had no show of slowing down the black and white wave of intoxicated kiwis...the idilic grounds of parliment square, big ben and westminster abbey were reduced to something similar to a pig pen after we all invaded there and cut it up..I lost geoff and patrick my fellow 4Square men early in the day and spent most of the day with senior krefty and a few of the old waimea college boys, we managed to miss the haka at parliment square that made the tv news. You can see me just on the news when they show a bird spewing on the side of the road in blue pyjamas i was standing right besides her taunting her and telling her that she was a disgrace to the country.
At about 4pm i made it to parliment square which is a big patch of grass probably the size of half a rugby field underneath big ben and outside westminster abbey (where princess diana was married or funeral or something). I had lost geoff and patrick and still being pretty novice at catching tubes and trains etc by myself i was a little bit woried. I text them both and as i send it, i look up and see them both starting the massive game of scrag/bullrush in the middle of this grass square that is now nothing but mud. So standing afar and watching these boys for a while entertained alot of the watching crowd..i nearly got dragged in but managed to avoid them through the thousnds of people.
I didnt see them finish up in there and leave so when i finaly decided to go i was alone, i saw a sign for waterloo station knowing i had been there the day before and new the way home from there, at this stage pretty sober and cold from wearing nothing but a business shirt and tie i was walking accross westminster bridge when isee two twins absoluytly covered in mud giving every tourist absolute shit so was pretty happy to find them and get home with them, we couldnt get on any public transport with them covered in mud so we flagged down a cab and they had to strip right down to sit in it..
From here we hit geoffs girlfriends dress up party and i ended up coming home about 1am after a pretty solid day doing my country proud..im pretty happy i havnt sufferred from any real jet lag so thats a good thing. Monk decided to get on the piss today (sunday) and have the day off tomorrow so we are training out to aylesbury tomorro to move into the new pad..got a job interview out there next week for a gym mangement job so will see how that goes, hopefully ill pick up some supply work out there to get some pounds rolling in..Im thinking after the footy thing if things arnt set up out there ill come back into london and try chase a job in sport management, not sure if i can be to bothered with the hole teaching thing, as the kids a shit house and thats not ideal for me. I could easily slot into the suit an tie scene of london in an office, so ill surf the sport england website and see how i go..
this link is the video off tvnz news, the guy andrew potter didnt get my joke when i had him up about coming dressed up as the channel one news team, was very dry about it actually, but fair enough to he had probably been getting shit all day.
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/waitangi-day-pub-crawl-in-london-02-04-2466563/video
will be in contact out at aylesbury, will text to get you to go on the net to talk so it doesnt cost money to ring. Love to all in the land of the long white cloud
Well what a whirlwind last 36 hours of my life, started with a delayed flight out of auckland but once we got under way we were all good. I managed to sleep a large part of the leg from brunei into dubai and then a portion of the part from dubai into heathrow...I got sat by a young girl that went to cant uni and is doing a similar trip to me so that was good to chat to someone for most of the journey, she was heading onto dublin so was a big day travelling for her.
Geoff met me at the terminal and once i breezed through the customs check, this place would have to be the easiest place ive ever been to get into the country, just walk in no bag scans or anything.. Rush hour on the tube for my first taste was a good start, we took 2 tubes and a train to get to geoffs. He headed off to work i sat down watched telly for a while and then showered up and went for a wander down to clapham junction down the road from his place, set up a bank account and then got a phone, also setting up with a teaching agency for some work next week.
The first bank i went to rejected me for some reason so had to go to another and get sorted, no biggy though, we got there. So now im sitting in the impact teachers wreaping there free internet before i head off again, i managed to bump into a rat a guy who did forestry at canterbury on his phone outside so ill give him a text and might go catch up with him for a bit before heading back to geoffs via the supermarket coz im starving..i have to get through this afternoon without going to sleep so i can sleep properly tonight, im doing surprisingly well to be honest.
The weather here is real grim, snow on the side of the road and drizzly sleet but its all good i have to remember im here to enjoy it, its all really exciting at the moment, looking forward to getting out to monks and getting settled, got a job interview there next week for the gym managers job so will see how that goes..
Well people i write this the night before i leave nelson on my mission to the UK...What a whirlwind 3 weeks it has beem since leaving bangkok, thailand.
Ended up in Nelson and jumped in the car and went to Wanaka with Chips, that was a great trip and made me appreciate the beauty of NZ once more before leaving.. Wanaka was awesome, with Gus and the family, great hospitiality and generally a brilliant time in a wicked part of NZ...the Wanaka tri was good fun, came last, but had fun doing so, good training run before rugby in uk..
from there went to queenstown for sammys stag and was a lot of fun,, $100 dollars to breath in queenstown cant do anything cheaply there, but well worth it...the wedding in chch was amazing so glad to of sticked around for it and was great to be apart of.
the week back in nelson has disapeared into thin air, and now im off.. a little bit nerve racking but has to be done, this year is about me and seeing as much things as possible...So watch this space closely, ill try communicate through here as much as i can..ill be in touch with you all regarding UK cellnumbers etc.
youve been on the road with Turnz
