In this video I’m taking you along for a proper school-holiday “week in the life” as a South African teacher living in New Zealand. We’re off for two weeks, so it’s less of the classroom routine and more of the real-life stuff that makes settling into a new country feel… real. If you’re curious about what teachers actually get up to during NZ school holidays, this is exactly that—home life, errands, little resets, and just catching our breath. The biggest win of the week? Our couch finally arrived after THREE months. I’m not even being dramatic when I say we’ve been sitting on the floor, so having a couch in the house suddenly makes everything feel more “put together.” It’s one of those reminders that moving countries isn’t just visas and jobs—it’s also the slow, sometimes frustrating logistics of building a home from scratch. If you’re also in that expat season of waiting for deliveries, setting up your space, and trying to enjoy the in-between, you’ll definitely relate.