Every morning I take Simone to school via 2 London public transportation buses. It’s super fun (he said sarcastically)! Without Simone with me, I can walk the distance faster than the bus can take me, so to save some time and get some exercise I walk back home. Then in the afternoon, I walk back [...]
For those of you who know me, I like to intersperse the occasional descriptive “adult” word in my speech. It’s true, I throw down expletives all the time! I have made a conscience effort, however, to leave the naughty words out of this blog because I want anyone to be able to read it…including Simone [...]
So, I must apologize again for not posting more often. I want our blog to be very honest about our experiences here, but there are some subjects that are simply too private to post on a website for the whole world to see. A lot of great stuff has been happening, of course, but my [...]
Since I haven’t been posting very often, it’s difficult to figure out what to write about…too much is happening! This has been a red-letter week since we finally, finally got real-live internet access of our very own! You would expect that living in one of the world’s largest and most metropolitan cities, you could just call [...]
I’m sorry that it’s taken so long to write our first post from London…but we’re here, we’re safe, and we’re…OK. We didn’t think that this would be easy by any means, but we certainly didn’t think that it would be this difficult and stressful either! These past couple of weeks, we’ve gone back and forth [...]
I spoke with a very nice recruiter this morning (I am not being sarcastic) who told me there would be a rather slim chance that I could find permenant employment in the UK with no post grad experience. These are my new plans… A. Cry, Drink, blame Eric, even though he has done nothing wrong [...]
Good news! Simone has been offered a place at Coppetts Wood Primary School this Fall! It is a state school, but it is competitive to get into the good schools so we couldn’t be happier. Coppetts Wood is located in North London near Alexandra Park. The school is located in the borrough of Barnet which contains the [...]
