Ticket Purchased

After making the decision to further postpone finding 'real' work and instead spend the better part of the next year discovering and working in New Zealand, I did some online research trying to find a cheap ticket. It turns out Air New Zealand has an array of special offers, and even though there are plenty of restrictions, somehow I managed to fit into a bracket of some sort and got a ticket from Vancouver, BC to Auckland, NZ for a decent amount of cash: around $1500 including all taxes and fees. Based on the prices I found online from other carriers, this was a sweeeet deal. Impending departure date: November 22, 2006. In the moment of realization that one of my lifelong dreams is actually going to come true, and there was no turning back, I felt like a million little beams of electricity were shooting through my body in excitement at the unlimited possibilities and the vast unknown. At the same time, I felt a paradoxical sense of calmness, a sense of clarity, a feeling deep inside that emanated the fact that "Yes, this is the right decision." And lastly, I just felt the need to scream, "HOLY SHIT!" So what now? I've got a month to get my absolute necessities packed into one bag, get my passport renewed, apply for a Canadian Working Holiday Scheme (a.k.a. holiday working visa) from New Zealand Immigration and research the things I think I'd like to discover and experience in New Zealand...