Yes Me!! I know I've been absolutely terrible, no good emails or updates or anything. As I'm sure many of you can imagine that means I'm in a bit of rut, but that's no excuse, you all are my near and dear and you deserve better!
So, as for me, I'm still working in the Kindergarten, I've basically been working on and off at the same child care center for almost a year, which is a little ridiculous! I was there for 3 months before I came home for the summer and then I've been there pretty much full time since October. I'm unbelievably over it! I love my kids to death and a lot of days are really fun. I am, however, tired of spending all day every day with people who scream whenever they don't get their way and occasionally shit themselves. Add to that the director of my center is 24 and completely inexperienced, she wants everyone to like her so she doesn't put her foot down or manage at all...grrrrrr.
I've finished my qualification to teach English and I will be highly qualified, but I can't find a place to student teach...I need 10 hours in the classroom and I'll be all set ready to find a teaching job and no one will let me student teach! I can't tell you how discouraging it is. I've called every language school and community center in the Melbourne Area and so far no luck, if any of you have ideas please let me know! I want to start my career!!
Personally, life couldn't be better =) Mike and I are starting the ground work to apply for permenant residency (pr), which means we can stay in Australia for the next 10 years if we want to and have all the rights (not a lot of the responsibility: oz has mandatory voting!) of citizens. That may not sound like a super big deal, but let me enlighten you! Australia has health cover called medicare and they way it works is the government takes 1% of your paycheck and you get covered for all emergency, contraception, doctors, etc...all the big stuff. Almost everyone is eligible for medicare b/c Australia has recipricol health agreements with almost every country in the world....except the United States. So, while everyone else gets this awesome coverage, I'm still paying for everything out of pocket AND to add insult to injury, b/c there is this awesome gov sponsered health care system, the private cover I do have doesn't cover the basics, no private cover does (don't worry mom, I've covered for emergencies etc!). When I have pr, I'll be able to get this totally awesome health care! YAY!
We've also done a bit more traveling around oz, we went to adelaide a few weeks ago, which is the capital of South Australia and is offically the farthest west I've been on this continent! It's a charming little city full of lovely sweet people and delicious food!! South Australia is a very famous wine growing region so we were able to take advantage of the local speciality! haha I'd like to think I'm becoming a bit of a consiuerr of Australian wines, so if you have any questions, let me know! I'm definitely becoming a total wino =)
As many of you may have heard there were terrible fires in Australia recently, the worst fires in Australian recorded history, almost 200 people died and thousands lost their homes. The most severe fires were within about an hours drive of Melbourne and although we could see and smell smoke in the city, it never got more serrious than that. To put it in perspective, everyone I know who is from Victoria (Melbourne is the capital of Victoria) knows at least one person/family that lost their house. It's just incridibely tragic.
As for me, I continue to enjoy some of the happiest moments in my life, despite missing you all dreadfully! I've started Bikram Yoga, which is a 90 minute yoga class in a 102-107 degree room (38-42 celcius)! I know it sounds ridiculous, but its one of the best life decisions I've ever made, I adore my classes and feel fantastic =)
I'm sure most of you have figured out that I won't be home this summer and believe me, I'm pretty gutted, but I figure its time to get real about my finances and I can't afford it. You all, however, can probably afford to fly here =)
Qantas airways is offering flights for about $600 round trip from the west coast and about $800 round trip from the east coast....when I came home last summer my flights cost $3000!! Even better, for those of you under 26, STA travel is offering roundtrip flights for under $500! I mean, come on people, I had better be seeing you this year, I don't think flights will ever again be this cheap!
I hope you all are well and excited for spring =) Contrary to my actions, you are always on my mind. I will do better and make more of an effort with this blog, so we don't have entries as long as this one!
Congrats if you made it to the end! I love you tons!
xxxxxxx
me =)
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