I haven't written for a while because I've needed to take a breather. This week has been quite hectic! Both of us started teaching, Jurie a day before me, and both had to lay down the law with the students. It's difficult taking over from another teacher. More so if you are new to the school and are a little hazy with the rules yourself. Another stressor is that this is a completely different culture where the boys sit on the one side of the classroom and the girls another, never to interact. It's all very overwhelming!
But we made it through the week and tomorrow going on to our next one.
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| A rubbish bin on the campus. I think the engineer students created it. |
We have finally moved into our new flat! Yay... On Thursday we met the landlord (a really nice guy) he lives across from us. We waited at our flat for the furniture and appliance guys to deliver. They said they would be there at 17:00 but only arrived at 19:00. So that is another lesson we are having to learn here...patience. Not only that but the appliance guys expected Jurie to give them a tip for bringing the fridge and everything up one flight of stairs.
Friday we decided to go and clean the flat before we moved all our clothes there. The weather was not on our side. The wind picked up and what does wind in the desert mean??? DUST! Everywhere. So we just kind of moved the dust around (well we did get rid of most of the dust)
Today we got the car. I have dubbed her "Priscilla, queen of the desert." It's so nice not having to take a taxi. We will still walk to work in the morning until they have allocated us our own parking bay and an entry disk (which takes a week)
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| Priscilla |
Having the car also means we have now officially moved out of the motel into the flat. We've made it feel like home and are so happy to be here now. Jurie is making us some pasta. I can't wait!
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