So, we had a little family get-together this weekend at my aunt & uncle's, just a road over. All of the bros and sisses on my dad's side were there, which is a rare occurrence. They're here, they're in Skatch, Ontario, Denmark (more on that later). There was much food, many photos, & too much talk about school. The basement there got a nice renovation. I'm thinking something just like it for ours. Nice bar, good hiding of jackposts.
The funniest story from it was from my sis. After church, as she was strapping her 1-year-old son into the car, my 4-year-old niece asked something like, "Were there any girl disciples? I know there was Mary Magdalene, but was she one of Jesus's (how she said it) disciples?" She's pretty funny, that one.
So yeah. About that other thing above. My aunt in Denmark is also a teacher. During one of the chats about school (too many teachers in the fam), I was talking about my uncertainty next year, and C's stress. She got to talking about their system over there, and how it's much more about teaching and not all the other garbage that can come with it here... how good the kids are in her district, how rewarding their staffs find it... you get the idea. Anyway, she said how there's always a need for high school specialists over there, and that we could pretty much decide where we'd like to teach. I'd had an offer like that about six years ago from England, but I never went. Well, considering my recent career instability and C's dissatisfaction... we thought maybe we could both go now. We seriously asked her what the chances would be like for the two of us, and she said that me, with my science and tech, and C, with her math, would be shoe-ins. Now, folks... nothing's written in stone, yet. Nothing's been signed or anything. But... we talked about it after we got home, and we're decided. Steverino and the Mrs. are goin' Danish. We're going to keep our house here, and live at my relative's there for the first year, but we're open to it perhaps becoming permanent. You probably won't see tooooo much of a difference here, but it looks like I could be one-upping Chunks and making a big move in a few months.
So, if you were thinking of visiting us or the Island, do it in the next 4 months!
The funniest story from it was from my sis. After church, as she was strapping her 1-year-old son into the car, my 4-year-old niece asked something like, "Were there any girl disciples? I know there was Mary Magdalene, but was she one of Jesus's (how she said it) disciples?" She's pretty funny, that one.
So yeah. About that other thing above. My aunt in Denmark is also a teacher. During one of the chats about school (too many teachers in the fam), I was talking about my uncertainty next year, and C's stress. She got to talking about their system over there, and how it's much more about teaching and not all the other garbage that can come with it here... how good the kids are in her district, how rewarding their staffs find it... you get the idea. Anyway, she said how there's always a need for high school specialists over there, and that we could pretty much decide where we'd like to teach. I'd had an offer like that about six years ago from England, but I never went. Well, considering my recent career instability and C's dissatisfaction... we thought maybe we could both go now. We seriously asked her what the chances would be like for the two of us, and she said that me, with my science and tech, and C, with her math, would be shoe-ins. Now, folks... nothing's written in stone, yet. Nothing's been signed or anything. But... we talked about it after we got home, and we're decided. Steverino and the Mrs. are goin' Danish. We're going to keep our house here, and live at my relative's there for the first year, but we're open to it perhaps becoming permanent. You probably won't see tooooo much of a difference here, but it looks like I could be one-upping Chunks and making a big move in a few months.
So, if you were thinking of visiting us or the Island, do it in the next 4 months!
posted by Steve | 7:47 pm
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So, about that last paragraph. Check the date, sucka. We ain't movin' nowhere.
These were funny today, too.
http://www.google.com/tisp/
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/paper/more.html
Frig - I thought - hot damn how cool would that be!!??
:p You should move to Europe. My parents' friends (also teachers) relocated to Abu Dabi for two years, and they're absolutely loving it. The teaching is good, and the touring is fantastic. Seeing as how you two are kidless, it's probably the perfect time to run away from home and have crazy European adventures.
I was just about to comment about how you just "had to one up me" in the moving department! hahah! You're a funny guy. I totally fell for it!
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