An Update for “One of Them Weeks”

I thought I should post an update to a couple of posts ago where I was having a really bad week. So to start with that update...I did finally receive that package from my mom from DHL...a month late of course. It was an amazing package! If you’ve ever lived overseas, or away from home you’ll know what I’m talking about when I say that getting packages in the mail from home is more exciting than Christmas morning. The package made my week! Granted I’m not sure if I’ll be receiving any more because of the problems we were having and if so don’t think my mom will be using DHL again.

Regarding my job, I did end up getting a raise which is great, but...they kill you with taxes over here, so what I’m being paid is still not that great. At one point I was told by the financial guy at the school that if my team pays taxes on my salary then I should not have to pay taxes on my salary at school. Then talking to him the other day it didn’t seem like this was the case, but I apparently should get some back at the end of the fiscal year. I am kind of having a hard time understanding him as he is Czech and can’t quite explain everything to me. But I have decided to stick with the job as I will be getting 5 weeks paid holidays...can’t complain about that! Things are going great at the school. I’m the Special Educational Needs Instructor so things are finally rolling along with that. I have a bunch of pull out sessions with kids working on anything from math to handwriting. It’s funny because some of the things I’m teaching, I really don’t remember learning and have to figure things out fast, aka sounds or different tricks in spelling, like why do you spell height with ei and how is it ei and not ie. Don’t worry though, I know the tricks now. Swimming is also going well. I’ve removed the water wings from one of my kids, and also had a student take off his life belt for the first time the other day. That was seriously a huge step because the first time he was in the water he was clinging to me the whole time.

Then with the whole furniture thing...well that’s still not exactly sorted out. We did have a meeting with our owner the other week and got stuff kind of hashed out with that. But we’re still waiting on him for the furniture as I guess he has to get in contact with our trainer/equipment guy who has a truck and can move the stuff to our apartment...we are hoping this will happen this week. Then for internet, well let’s just say we really need it! We are waiting for some sort of thing to come in the mail from our internet provided. I guess when we have this “thing” (I’m thinking a router of some sort), then we’ll be able to set it up and have it! So I’m hoping that it will come this week as well, but then again you never know.

So things are getting somewhat better, but I will let you know when we have this whole internet thing figured out so then I can be online more than once a day or every two days and will also be able to use our Vonage phone!