From Whoa to Go

Here is a timetable of what needed to happen before we could move to Samoa and begin work. It took 3 months all up!

November 2007 - Applied for the position of Senior Librarian, USP, Alafua
January 2008 - Received an email with an interview date
January 2008 - Interview postponed due to bad weather - a cyclone hit Fiji!
February 2008 - Telephone interview took place between myself and staff from Fiji and Samoa
February 2008 - 1 week later I was offered the position
February 2008 - At the end of the month we took a trip to Samoa for 5 days to meet everyone and find out what it was like. This was our first taste of Samoa.
March 2008 - When we arrived back from our trip we sent away the forms for a Police Check and made appointments for X-Rays and Medical Checks. These were necessary for a visa to work in Samoa.
March 2008 - Handed in 1 months notice at work
April 2008 - It took 5 weeks but finally our Police Checks turned up in the mail. Now we had all the documentation required to apply for our visas.
April 2008 - We are now unemployed but are frantically packing up our house, putting it on the market and finalising things to move to Samoa
May 2008 - 4 weeks after applying our Samoan working visas finally turned up. Yippee we are now on the plane destined for Samoa!
24 May 2008 - We make it to Samoa and this blog begins.......