We have lost both our SA simm cards… so phoning to SA has become problematic… I have some work from SA STARTING TOMORROW so we are desperately trying to get wireless internet at our apartment (a tricky and costly business!)… but then we will be able to email more. My job here still in the air and I am trying hard to find some work here (pray that I do)… in the mean time Issy and I went to a moms and toddlers get-together in our neighbourhood this am… (on the bechfront)… very nice to get out and connect. Issy has a bad chest so I am toying (not toyi-toying fortunately!) with taking her to the dr… (at about R300 a shot!). Dan is in school for the second week now… he likes it though it is a long day til 3:30…and brother and sister miss each other…we have put Dan in the 4 yr old class (he will start the 5yr old class in sept)…(quite a bit of TV watching and not much wild outside playing like we are used to) he also finds the Turkish (2 lessons a day) quite hard…his teacher is also not GREAT at Eng… but hey…he is not licking his lips as muh as he did when he changed schools in SA… so so far so good…. Also it is gr8 that he goes to work on the bus with his dad in the morning and that his dad is always close by… Issy is VERY upset that her school when only start from about June when she is 3…this also makes working for me quite a challenge… the other major challenge ahd been transport and we should finally have a car by fri … a good price of R2 500 pounds for a nice 98 hundai…LH drive, without aicon… now we can rint around the island! (We have it now! Will post a pic soon)
People here are great and also some utterly crap… things seem very child orientated, laid back, safe… but we still miss the nuances and some people (administrative types) just could not give a sh*t about one…as you know… that species seems to be everywhere… (but we will kill them in the end!)
G is having a tough time sorting out admin issues at work.. reimbursement for airticket, opening bank acc etc are very hard when no one cares to inform you about procedures…! His classes are small though and there is a nice internationalism at the uni (people from asia minor…lots of Turks, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kryzgstan , Russia, Kazakstan, Pakistan, Bangladesh , Iran, Americanistan and Lancaster and London and York and bath and a few Yanks).
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