Update!
Time has passed. A little too much, really.
However, I have been busy. We have been busy. The course, you see? The month long intensive training to be some sort of grammar-savvy English teacher, that’s been going on… in a minorly intensive, but gradually intensifying way.
No longer though, it ended yesterday. Forever.
Unless of course, I/we failed my/our exam/s. However, this seems unlikely. We’re bright cookies.
So, a brief overview of what’s been going on?
Update!
A week or so ago we adopted a small American girl by the name of Rachel. Her last place of residence in the States was the Deep South, by all accounts, or at the very least the Bible Belt. The stories she comes out with best anything that Campbelltown, or Wagga, can possibly offer. She is a cheerful, and awesome thing, who says “Ya’ll” a lot. The school/course had recommened that she stay in some apartment that they knew very little about, and had never gone to see, and that we have since dubbed “the Red Stench”.
Shortly after Renee had walked her home one evening, and actually viewed the substandard living space - details another time, but substandard is an under-exaggeration by all accounts - we pushed our beliefs onto her, and suggested that she move in with us until she finds a more permanent, and less soul-destroying residence.
Follow Up: She found that place a few days ago, and moved out today. We will miss our 23-year-old daughter very much.
Update!
We have made various friends and enemies amongst the people that are in our course! Mainly from Britain, and the States. They have been awesome fun so far, and we’ve been out on the town with them several times now. Ranging from shy-and-not-too-sure-about-the-world English, to I’m-young-and-I’m-always-drunk-and-here-to-party English… all the way through to intensely pithy and minorly depressed about everything American middle class (Are you, Tanner?), and fantastically feisty, giggly and amusing tiny girl who seems to be Amerussian. I realise that sentence was all backwards, and confused, however, we’re about to run out the door to see some of them.
Follow Up: All of them except for our adopted American daughter actually leave the country over the next couple of days! We are sad to see them go.
Update!
We have a job interview for this Monday! It is with the German International School (where Rudy & Karina’s children attend, ah-ha) and would be in the nature of fine-tuning native English speakers, because their general English teachers at the school simply can’t cope with them. As in, Jonothan has been getting homework such as “Learn to write and say, the numbers 1 - 20 in English”. An easy task for someone as fluent as he.
The only real questions are, what are they going to pay us? Can they offer us enough hours? Will they help us sort out our visas?
Follow Up: We’ll just have to wait and see.
I have many, many more things, and photos, to show and tell you all about.
However, we have to get out on the town, it’s finally time to celebrate Renee’s birthday properly.
So, Happy Birthday to her…!
