Tuesday, October 8th - From CBS to CES

Jacqui left around 7am to go visit the school where she had an interview, and a fire alarm, yesterday. She then visited another place, some kind of daycare/school for kids aged 3 to 8. They offered her a job as well, but her mind was pretty much made up; she likes the school that she visited yesterday afternoon. So she came back home, went for a massage and waited for the offer from Cambridge English School to come in via email (ya, you can take the girl out of Cambridge, but you can't take the Cambridge out of the girl!). She accepted that offer, and starts work tomorrow. She will be in class for the next two days with the teacher that is currently there. It will surely help with the transition for her and for the students. This new school seems to be a big improvement compared to where she was before. She will be teaching a grade 1, with 25 or 26 students in it. It's a british school, therefore following the british curriculum. I'll have a lot more details tomorrow night, after her day at work.

I am now officially a resident of the state of Kuwait. I don't have my civil ID card yet, but I'm allowed to travel in and out of the country at will. However, there are two problems with travelling next week for our holidays. First, Jacqui is not a resident yet and we are not sure what leaving the country and coming back in on a visitor's visa would do to her residency application. She will inquire at school tomorrow. If we have to start the process again from square one, it's not worth it. Secondly, this is very last minute and the cost of flights is ridiculously high. I haven't had time to really shop for flights, but what I've seen so far is not encouraging. We might also be moving during the week, as CES offers lodging, just like CBS does. However, moving wouldn't take very long; all our stuff could be moved in one trip with two cabs! We will have to look at the apartments that they have and make a decision; their location is probably better than where we are now. That being said, they would charge us a certain amount of money per month to live in one of their apartments because only one of us is working for them. So we'll have to figure out what is better money wise and time wise (ie travelling to and from school).

The adventure continues tomorrow!