Now, after more than two years in
Thames, I notice that my attitude towards our emigration adventure
has significantly changed. The exciting feeling of having moved
into the big wide world has faded and been replaced by a feeling of
living in just a different province. Now, this is natural, isn't it,
as it is the truth.
At the moment, moving back to Germany
is not an option, for several reasons, the strongest being that we do
not want to interrupt the good way our kids are going at school and in private. That
includes that we won't relocate elsewhere either.
As it is my very nature to look out for
a change from time to time, and I do not see how to get involved in
it or see that happen at my current employer, I have opted for
something new – I applied for a training contract that will lead me
to new experiences in overall two other practices – under training
conditions. At the end of this 12 months period, I will sit an exam
(„Primex“) and hopefully, after one more year at another
practice, attain a specialist title, the „vocational registration“
in General Medicine, or the fellowship at the RNZCGP, which means the
same. It is roughly equivalent to the German „Facharzt für
Allgemeinmedizin“. My formal employer will be a medical education
organisation. It is awesome that I will be even paid during that
year, although less than now.
This step I, or we, have taken in view
of a possible longer stay here in NZ, although I will probably
interrupt this training to spend some time in Europe, which would be
no problem in terms of the training. But whatever decision we take,
it will be enriching to see something different, and I will be able
to learn a lot.
I will leave my German speaking
colleagues and friends back at my former workplace, but we will
surely meet often in private.
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