WA Nursing registration & Health Staff Party

After a month of waiting and wondering, I finally received my WA Nursing Registration! Here in WA they are very particular and very slow… not a good combination for someone like me who has been waiting for longer than needed. After getting the nursing coordinator at Lakehead University to resubmit my more detailed university transcript, all I could do was wait. And that is exactly what I did, wait and wait and wait. I was supposed to start work on October 1^st, but instead now I am starting work November 3^rd. This puts us behind a little bit, but we were thinking of being here in WA for 3-4 months anyway. I am just really glad to have something to do for myself now, Ross has been working pretty much since we arrived and the days were starting to get boring. Never thought I would say that about Australia, but there is only so much you can do by yourself. We have also moved into our new place and are no longer living with the French sisters Sophie and Fanny, so until we get to know our new house mates a bit better Ross and I pretty much hang out with ourselves for now. Anyway, I was so excited to hear from the WA nursing board, that that same day I walked down to their office and picked it up myself! Felt so good to have it in my hands. Ross and I celebrated over a yummy dinner together and started our countdown to starting our actual travels together. The next day we attended a party put on by Health Staff recruitment (the agency I worked with) at the Subiaco Hotel in west Perth. It was so nice to finally meet Jonelle the girl I had been talking on the phone with since last June, great to put a face to her voice. She was just as excited to meet Ross as she was to meet me, which was so nice of her. It was a nice evening, free drinks and appetizers all night. We met a really nice couple there named Ben & Zoe Davis. They both work at the Royal Perth Hospital (RPH), and they were very excited to tell me all about what it is like to work there. We ended up talking to them all night and exchanged numbers with them at the end of the night. Jonelle was so nice and was just like I had pictured her to be like. I think she was just as excited to hear that I had finally got my registration as I was. It was a good night and I am really glad that we were able to attend the get together. Now all I have to do is get a hold of the nursing manager at the RPH and set up my start date!!! Yay!