Sitting in bed in a hotel room half way to Antartica and finally having some time to myself. Have spent an hour reading everyone elses blogs and looking at some woman hugging my husband on Stan's blog. Well she was hugging him at Heathrow airport actually and looking pretty pleased with herself!! Is it nice to have him there Carol?
I have finally heard from my man this morning which made me late for the course, well for setting up anyway. Thankfully Jillian, who, sort of, does my job in Southland, was there - and organised. I'll explain. I am teaching on a VTC down here, a course I was meant to organise, but Jillian has done most of it. She works in Invercargill and we have both been teaching this last 2 days. As well as doing the VTC from 8.30am - 5pm we had a Vaccinators Update to teach from 5.30 - 9.30pm last night. Well it was a disaster. Started off with no-one coming to re-arrange the room, the meal coming late and consequently us starting late. We then had a power failure on the cable running the dataprojector and then tea for the break was 25 mins late. We patted ourselves on the back for soldiering on but God it was stressful! I fell into bed around 10.30am exhausted and struggled to wake up this morning. I woke at 3am and, having given Eric strict instructions to text me as soon as he got to the baggage lounge at Heathrow turned my phone on as I reckoned he would be arriving around then. Woke at 7am and finally struggled out of the sack. No texts so texted Carol and demanded to know where my husband was, he phoned me back and had just arrived at her place, they having just dropped Stan off. It was SOOO good to speak to you Pooh! Have tried to phone you for the last hour but some infernal woman keeps telling me you are unavailable. What does she know that I don't I want to know!!!!!?
Anyway after finally having a chat and knowing Eric had safely arrived I finally got along the corridor to the course. Today went really well. I had a discussion with the hotal assistant manger about the appalling service yesterday and he has agreed to deduct the cost of my room and was falling over himself with apologies. The group were more interactive today and gave us lots of really positive feedback on evaluation. We even got a round of applause which was a first for me!
We cleared away and Jillian took me down to Bluff, mainland New Zealands most southerly point. Eric there's no refinery down there and I think it's pretty, in a rugged sort of way. Reminded me of the drive to Pembrokeshire or Holyhead but with lots of flax. We went for a short walk on the coastal walk and blew the cobwebs away. I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was so nice to get out after being cooped up for 2 days. Thank You Jillian. She kindly bought her camera and promises to email me the results which I may post. We then drove around the hotspots of Invercargill (Harri and Alice apparently they are netball mad down here!) and finally collected the evaluations and adjourned to the bar. We sat over a (now don't laugh!)... Dubbonet and lemonade (me) and chardonnay (Jillian) and had a post mortem on the last 2 days. We chatted for ages and had a very pleasant evening. I hope I get asked back and look forward to catching up with Jillian in the new year at some IMAC meeting. I had posh fish and chips in the restaurant, spoke to the girls and booked my shuttle for the morning and came to bed. Alice is mortified at having to get up at 6am tomorrow. Bridget is taking them to Waahi to an A+P show and I will collect them from somewhere in Hamilton on my way home. 1 more sleep!!!!
7 sleeps until CRD (Carol Return Day) and 8 sleeps til PRD (Pooh Return Day).
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