2006-03-28 - 8:14 a.m.
Wow. Have you ever had one of thsoe weeks that just wont end?
So Criss goes to her convention in Tampa and that week and the following one seemed to last years. I now understand how people can pine away weeks of their lives. I know I was pining when crissy was gone.
She gets back, and we are so out of sync because of the time differences and jet lag. Last week was just a blur, and it made it really difficult to do anything except eat, sleep, and go teach because we had to. this week seems to be going much better, we are finally getting to sleep before midnight most evenings, and we are getting back into our rythym.
so lets see.
1. We have now gotten a full time teacher for the kids. William Jr does 2 hours of school work a day, and brings home math homework. Zeb also does 2 hours, and Rae gets only one hour a day, but her kindergarden stuff and first grade stuff. We are humming along nicely in the school department.
2. we have another foreign teacher here who was a boyscout pack leader in the states, and he would like to help us by running the boyscouts stuff for Will Jr, and Zeb. Rae really wants to join, but we will be starting girl scouts stuff with her soon.
3. The school has asked if we intend to return next year. We have told them we would like to. So we will see who they invite back, and see if they are the people we want to deal with.
4. Here is why, Christine was offered a terrific job in Tokyo Japan. The salary is 2x what she makes here (that includes my paltry 3600 rmb a month), it includes travel allowances to go to TESOL convention every year, and it is supposed to include housing. We will see about that part because she did not tell them about the family (she told them she was married, so a flat for a married couple is about 1/2 the size of a flat for 5 people. And this is tokyo we are talking about.) But we are hoping... ... ...
5. We have gaming group here. We managed to find 6 people who want to play D&D and Rifts. We play D&D on friday nights, and Rifts on Saturday. Sunday is our local Movie Night (watched donnie darko on sunday. OMG that is a fantastic movie.)
Will
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Voice of Will: She's off to TESOL
2006-03-15 - 11:56 p.m.
So my wife has been gone for 2 days, and I'm so lonely I can't sleep, feel like crying over simple things, and then yelling at the kids for... well being kids. go figure.
My wife is a member of a professional organization and as such she attends their annual convention. Two years ago it was Long beach, last year it was San antonio, this year it is Tampa Bay.
We knew it was coming, we planned our classes so it was ok for her to miss a weeks classes. We had everything planned for. Well almost.
My wife gets motion sickness. Now I don't mean the simple, the car is going around curves, lower the window I can take a pill for this kind of motion sickness. No, she has to be different. She suffers from situational vertigo (I think it is a made up term, but she disagrees). Waht this means is she will get hit with motion sickness standing still, or moving and can't take the pills because she will vomit them up. So we need to get a slow release medicine on a patch for her to wear. Simple enough right? In the states it was go to the dr get a perscription and have it filled (you can't buy patches over the counter.. not sure why) In china? Get out of town.
If this were beijing we would be able to get them. In fact the last time criss was in beijing she got patches. but she has used them up. So we go looking in zhengzhou. Shouldn't be that hard in a city of 8 million people right? wrong. It took 3 weeks, and looking in over 50 different pharmacies to find one place that sold patches. And when we have a chinese person read the instructions they are for "muscles aches, or making hurt places feel better" not motion sickness. According to the doctor they are a "traditional" chinese medicine for motion sickness.... well we hoped it would work.
I found out today it did work... sort of. Crissy had a very turbulent flight from zz to beijing, and a lot of turbulence from beijing to newark. it seems that the gods of the weather were at work, very windy, and a massive cold front moving into new york area when she arrived. but she didn't vomit, or feel like she was dying. But she did get a real doozy of a rash on her tummy.... rash or motion sickness????
So right now she is in Tampa bay florida attending her confrence. I'm in china with the kids trying to fly kites. (we've been watching a lot of mary poppins......)
So my wife has been gone for 2 days, and I'm so lonely I can't sleep, feel like crying over simple things, and then yelling at the kids for... well being kids. go figure.
My wife is a member of a professional organization and as such she attends their annual convention. Two years ago it was Long beach, last year it was San antonio, this year it is Tampa Bay.
We knew it was coming, we planned our classes so it was ok for her to miss a weeks classes. We had everything planned for. Well almost.
My wife gets motion sickness. Now I don't mean the simple, the car is going around curves, lower the window I can take a pill for this kind of motion sickness. No, she has to be different. She suffers from situational vertigo (I think it is a made up term, but she disagrees). Waht this means is she will get hit with motion sickness standing still, or moving and can't take the pills because she will vomit them up. So we need to get a slow release medicine on a patch for her to wear. Simple enough right? In the states it was go to the dr get a perscription and have it filled (you can't buy patches over the counter.. not sure why) In china? Get out of town.
If this were beijing we would be able to get them. In fact the last time criss was in beijing she got patches. but she has used them up. So we go looking in zhengzhou. Shouldn't be that hard in a city of 8 million people right? wrong. It took 3 weeks, and looking in over 50 different pharmacies to find one place that sold patches. And when we have a chinese person read the instructions they are for "muscles aches, or making hurt places feel better" not motion sickness. According to the doctor they are a "traditional" chinese medicine for motion sickness.... well we hoped it would work.
I found out today it did work... sort of. Crissy had a very turbulent flight from zz to beijing, and a lot of turbulence from beijing to newark. it seems that the gods of the weather were at work, very windy, and a massive cold front moving into new york area when she arrived. but she didn't vomit, or feel like she was dying. But she did get a real doozy of a rash on her tummy.... rash or motion sickness????
So right now she is in Tampa bay florida attending her confrence. I'm in china with the kids trying to fly kites. (we've been watching a lot of mary poppins......)
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