I had a blog that I updated about once a week or every other week when I was in uni for 3 years for anyone, but mostly so family could know what I was up to in general. Then everyone including my grandparents got on facebook and I moved back to Texas, so I let that blog die. I'm attempting it again since not everything is said on facebook and I won't pretend that many of my facebook friends are even interested in updates on my life. But my new blog is here just in case anyone is. : )
Since the new year Tim and I have celebrated our 1st anniversary by going to the theater to see Wicked. It was so awesome. We spent New Year's Eve at the highest flat around (12th floor) of some softball friends with an amazing view of all the fireworks around London from Canary Wharf (East London). I started my new job nannying for two little boys aged 5 and 7. Jack is 7 and Jude 5. I try not to laugh when one of his little school friends calls out to him, "Hey, Jude!"
The boys are really fun. They are pretty well behaved, polite, and are eager to learn, be silly, and play new games. It's just the schedule I had to get used to. I work 6-9 am, take the boys to school, then again from 3:30 to 6ish when a parent arrives home. It's weird having a huge gap in the middle of my day, but I can nap, be productive, pretty much do whatever I want until I need to go pick up the boys again. Luckily I live on top of a hill so getting to their house or school takes me 1-2 minutes by cycle.
Tim had a job interview a couple days ago. He said so many people applied that they might call for 2nd interviews before they pick someone. Our fingers are crossed for that. It's good pay and is related to coordinating/teaching first aid... pretty much what he has already done for free the last few years.
Tim and I are planning on going to Camden Town tomorrow. It's a huge market on the canal in North London. It has some really unique stores as well as the regular retro or handmade stuff on sale. I'm looking for something for the naked hooks on our flat wall. It's kind of similar to Portobello Rd. if anyone has seen "Bedknobs and Broomsticks," but much bigger and more elaborate.
I'm planning on nannying and volunteering for St John Ambulance for the next 2 years until I can apply to Greenwich University for my paramedic science foundation degree. It's a 3 year degree, but you spend half of year 2 and 3 being paid for actually working in the field to get experience. It's a rigorous schedule, but afterward I can be eligible to work for the NHS (National Health Service) as a paramedic. I'm hoping my volunteering with SJA will help me get in and get a job. I have to wait 2 years, though, because that's how long I have to live here before I am not counted as an "international student" having to pay over twice as much money as national students in student fees. I plan on calling the university just to ask and make sure probably next week.
So that's us. Oh, and Yasmin is just fine. We go on normal dog walks when I take her with me to meet or pick up someone at our local train station, she still loves her Christmas present even though he is now missing an eye. We call him Rudolph Cyclops now. She loves going to Roehampton for our Thursday LINKS meetings 'cause it means she will get tons of extra attention and tummy rubs. (She's allowed out of harness once she gets there)
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