A rainy week later...

First of all to all the couples out there: Happy Valentinesday!
The sun may have started shining for me again but I’ve gotten wet feet =)
It’s literally been pouring here. Up to the extend that when I woke up, a bit nervous for my first real day, at 3:00 on Monday morning and it was still raining, much like when I went to bed at 22:00, the courtyard had transformed itself into a mudpool and the kitchen was lower then the water level, thus a pool as well. Not the best start of my day.
Luckily at school things went smooth and they continued to do so the rest of the week. It’s pretty exhausting, especially now I still live rather far, but fun. My 18 super small students are super cute. Fatoumata can’t sit still and is always up to mischief such as pinching, mixing up puzzles, etc; Delina gets too much food and is therefore overweight and doesn’t like moving too much which was funny on sportsday Friday; Bamlak is hilarious when he shouts along to 5 little speckled frogs but has trouble pronouncing the word;… They are all really adorable!
The only setback was when on Friday it turned out that I was told the wrong wage and get less then Belgian minimum wage after all during these first 6 months. But that’s not the end of the world. It’s still more then 3 times what I had before.
In the mean time I’m arranging as much as I can all my papers again. With the new visa I have to go to the whole process of immigration again before I get a new residence permit. Hopefully I get everything arranged before its expiration date. This past week I’ve been running about to translators and doctors after work hours then I went home to do some preparing and by the time this was finished it was bedtime. It wasn’t the most exciting week, I can’t wait for things to slow down, I need just a little more patience. The lazy weekend I’m having which involves loads of sleep, food and eating out; is doing me good and I feel ready for next week plus there’s a holiday coming up the first week of March.

From now on I have an address again:
Sanford International School
Corine Huyghe
PO BOX 30056 MA
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia

I now only have a mobile phone with the number: 00251 912488366
School website: http://www.sandfordschool.org/