Things are Looking Up!

Dear reader, I confess things have been a little tumultuous lately, but things seem to be on the up again now!

After a difficult month of December, various students cancelling on me, feeling very burnt out and missing home, the cherry on top was Nolz suddenly and unexpectedly being made redundant. Oof! That came as a bit of a shock and was obviously somewhat stressful. However! Whilst it was a shock for us, we knew that God was in control and we were convinced that in the longrun it would be a blessing, even if we couldn’t see the way forwards ourselves or know what was going to happen. So Nolz finishes up at his work (he worked up until the end of December), fast forward 4 days and he has an interview and subsequently a job offer 🙌🏻

The next thing that is looking up is our sense of being in a community. After being here nearly 4 years, I finally stumbled across an expat group! It’s a truly delightful group of all sorts! Different ages and nationalities and because of this I feel like I inherently fit, ya know? There’s no one age, no one nationality, it’s a whole mix! Which is quite unusual I feel. Usually people come together because of their similarities, but this group unites in their similarity of understanding the cultural difficulties, whilst having a whole load of differences between ourselves! Whilst Nolz is obviously not an expat, he’s come along to a few things too, as a few of the ladies also have saltenian husbands, so it’s a good fit for him as well.

Thus far there have been 3 things we/I have been to: a book presentation, a girls dinner (just me on that one!) and an asado (bbq)/ pool party. I cannot even begin to explain how nice it was for me to go to the girls dinner. My own plan, not connected to anyone here, my very own thing!! And then again with the asado. So good for me 😊