It has been three weeks since my family has left and I can
finally look at the pictures and look back on the visit without breaking into
tears. It was a wonderful visit. Movies,
shopping trips, snuggle times, good talks, long walks; having other people clean
my house…it was great! I am still going through pictures and have a few left to
put up on Facebook but I’ll get to that eventually.
In other news we are officially moved into our new flat! We
moved the weekend of August 26th. It took five trips in total. Two
on Friday, two on Sunday, and then one on the Monday we went in spent the night
because we had to drop the car off on the Tuesday in Northampton. Our new flat is very tiny compared to our
other place. You could probably fit this entire flat in the two bedrooms of our
other place! We really like it though. We did discover a leak in the pipes
behind the toilet and then when that was fixed last Saturday the worker
discovered lots of mold behind the wall and under the floor. He was going to
tell the agency but now Donovan is starting get a bad cough that apparently he
only has first thing in the morning and then again in the evening, while he is
at school or if we are out and about he is not having any problems. So, we are going to go talk to the landlord on
the weekend. The agency actually, our new landlord lives elsewhere so we deal
directly with the letting agency, but so far they are great. Way better then
the last agency. So other than that,
things are getting back to normal!
I have actually been looking for a job! Or volunteer work,
or pretty much anything that keeps me busy as I am going crazy with boredom
once again. The main problem is that Sandy is a much smaller community and
there really aren’t that many opportunities! I am keeping my eyes open and
praying that I find something soon. In the meantime I am trying to give myself
a project of some kind to keep me busy. My mom bought me some more
cross-stitching projects while she was here…they are a huge jump up from the
ones that I made my mom and Donovan’s mom for Mother’s Day. But I am handling
it. I just made a huge mistake and didn’t really feel like unstitching it all
so I get frusterated easily because it is all out of sync with the rest of it.
I skipped a row somewhere and I can’t figure out where…and short of taking
apart the entire thing…which I am not doing…there is nothing to do but keep
going. I shall post a picture when it is done. :)
Donovan is loving the new school. He is teaching mainly
History but some English as well. He has 16 classes in total but some of those
are repeats. He teaches five different year 12 classes…so, today he gets to
teach three of those five all about the Russians, and the other two tomorrow!
He’ll be good at that class when he is done! He is already making some good
connections with fellow teachers and we both believe that it is going to be a
good year.
We also went to church on Sunday! We have three churches to
choose from in Sandy. A Methodist, a Baptist, and St. Swithins (Church of
England). We went to St. Swithins. We are pretty sure that no matter which one
we choose, it is going to be roughly the same no matter what. It was nice to be
worshipping with fellow people. We didn’t stick around last week, we are going
to go a few times and work up the courage to talk to someone. It’s been awhile…so
this might take some time.
Well, that’s all I have for now! Now that things are getting
back to normal hopefully I will remember to blog more frequently.
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