There hasn't been much news so I've not written here. I've met some of my friends for the last time and said goodbye. It's not hard for us because neither of our family are from here even if I've lived here for the past 11 years and made some good friends. It isn't the same as some people who have been living close to their family the past however many years. We are not in that situation. J's family lives in Denmark, an hour flight away, but we usually only go there at Christmas. My family is divided between Ireland and the U.S., but again, I do not travel to either place so often. When we do decide to travel we choose places that we can enjoy and try to pick a new country each time. Now with this huge trip I think our travels will be put on hold for quite a while.
We've now also come to realise that although we though for J to travel back and forth between school and home would be possible (even if extremely long), we now see this is not going to be realistic. So to prepare ourselves he has gotten in contact with some people who are renting rooms close to where he will study. He's had quite a few responses and he has chosen the cheapest due to me being the only one to bring income into the family. This means I will be on my own in our house Monday afternoon - Friday morning as he will come home Friday evening. I'm not so thrilled with this idea, BUT I know we need to start like this and get settled and then see what else falls into place. The school is not offering distance courses so that is not an option. On a good note, J did the interview with the school via skype and I was so impressed with his answers. I could only hear his side of the interview, but it sounded great. He heard his official answer two days later and it was of course a yes! We were a bit nervous thinking what if, but we didn't need to worry. So we'll just have to take this one step at a time and let him start school and see how it goes with this travelling bit. At least I'll have him with me almost one month before he has to go to school. Then it'll be two months for me to continue (minimum) for immigration requirements, then I'm free to stay where I am or go onwards.
We only have a few weeks left and every laptop we have just seems to be breaking down. I will be asking my job if I can buyout the one I have since I just love it and a new one costs a fortune which we can't really afford to buy now if we don't have to. I will ask tomorrow, but I'm not counting on it being a yes simply because they are new to the school (bought within the past year) and I just can't see them agreeing. On the other hand, you never know.
For Christmas we're celebrating with friends and their two little girls, the same ones we went to Poland this summer with. They have been so good to me all the years I lived here so this year I decided to get them an extra nice gift as well as the girls. Normally we just get the girls a gift, but with us leaving, we wanted to do something special for them too. I love the gift I picked out (a coffee/cappuccino/expresso/hot chocolate/tea maker with the special packages you buy to put in the machine. We bought two different kinds of packages to get them started too. For the girls we bought them a board game which we loved playing in Poland this summer with them, but their game is always in Poland and now they'll have the updated/bigger version for when they are here. At least we have something to play together for Christmas! I can't wait - I think I'm a bigger child than they are.
We have solved all the errands we needed to take care of on this side. We will only have 2 bills to pay once we've left, but we've signed up where they take it out of our account themselves. I'm going to try get rid of my visa card (one less cost) since as long as I have internet banking I won't need the card. Just have to remember to get to the bank to ask about it. Trying to get us to have a joint account in this country was the most difficult thing to do - apparently it's not common here. We simply didn't want to keep paying the cost of two accounts when we've moved since there'll be no need.
So, we're all excited about our move and it seems everything is falling into place and hopefully for the best. Since we applied all the teaching categories are gone from the lists so we were lucky to get in when we did!
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