The issue of utmost importance now is a possible moving in another country. My fiancé insists on living in his motherland, because everything is settled there: he has a job, an apartment, a summer house and a teenage daughter to look after. While I will be a unwelcome emigrant, who has no job, no citizenship and speaks a local language badly. Sounds exciting, isn't it.
I’m now considering if I can survive without my beloved family and friends and if I manage to stay sane there.
Besides, the whole citizenship status thing thrills me, as it requires too much time, efforts and bureaucracy. And I hate waiting in queues and gathering papers from the authoroties.
P.S. This whole situation reminds me "Mistery" by Hugh Laurie
On The Sunny Side Of The Street
- Sunny
- A fun-loving fan of rock -'n'-roll, who used to walk in the shade with those blues on parade, but is fine now!
Wednesday, July 15
Monday, July 13
new job
I'd been dreaming about a regular job for a few months and finally got it. Hope, I will survive two months of probation.
The office is a lively place filled with sales managers, who are distributing marine equipment and I’m to translate every document that all these guys feel like giving me. For two weeks I’ve been working on translation of technical specifications, brochures, information notices, drawing, what not, which is quite exciting. I have never translated anything on this topic ever (!) and now learn more and more useful vocabulary. I know I’m going to like all those ships, pumps, navy planes, towboats and so on.
Two sales managers of maritime equipment are sharing desk with me. They are quite peculiar personalities. The guy is a short fat fun-loving fellow, who jokes and laughs all the time, comments any remark heard in the office, mocks on stupid clients, green translators, received e-mails and so on. In the evening he quarrels with another guys in the office claiming that the other guy is lazy and bolder than himself, that this guy has stolen his magazine, talks to much or to little and is an ugly one in general. While the lady is a tall, middle-aged, strict Madame, who is always tired, sick and annoyed with overwork, stupid clients and customers, her desk-mate’s comments and “this whole thing”. She rarely smiles and always complains. Her assistant is a twenty something fellow, who works really hard, is uptight and feels uneasy if there is nothing to do. At the same time he watches working hours, comes exactly at 9am, leaves exactly at 6 pm and has a late lunch out of the office exactly from 1pm to 2 pm.
Watching these guys I do my best to concentrate on translating.
The office is a lively place filled with sales managers, who are distributing marine equipment and I’m to translate every document that all these guys feel like giving me. For two weeks I’ve been working on translation of technical specifications, brochures, information notices, drawing, what not, which is quite exciting. I have never translated anything on this topic ever (!) and now learn more and more useful vocabulary. I know I’m going to like all those ships, pumps, navy planes, towboats and so on.
Two sales managers of maritime equipment are sharing desk with me. They are quite peculiar personalities. The guy is a short fat fun-loving fellow, who jokes and laughs all the time, comments any remark heard in the office, mocks on stupid clients, green translators, received e-mails and so on. In the evening he quarrels with another guys in the office claiming that the other guy is lazy and bolder than himself, that this guy has stolen his magazine, talks to much or to little and is an ugly one in general. While the lady is a tall, middle-aged, strict Madame, who is always tired, sick and annoyed with overwork, stupid clients and customers, her desk-mate’s comments and “this whole thing”. She rarely smiles and always complains. Her assistant is a twenty something fellow, who works really hard, is uptight and feels uneasy if there is nothing to do. At the same time he watches working hours, comes exactly at 9am, leaves exactly at 6 pm and has a late lunch out of the office exactly from 1pm to 2 pm.
Watching these guys I do my best to concentrate on translating.
Saturday, July 11
animal planet
"Teach your children to honor themselves with integrity and you will teach them to honor your love."
Wes Fessler
Sunday, June 21
Sunday, June 7
Wednesday, June 3
despair
My fiancé incidentally discovered that a school teacher had been taking advantage of his underage daughter for a few years. Actually, he suspected that something was unhealthy between his daughter and the teacher. His daughter said there was nothing. Neevrtheless my fiancé requested the school to take care of the matter a couple of years ago. The headmaster promised that she would. Apparently, she did not.
As for the girl, my fiancé used to trust his daughter and when she said that she would stay at her friends, it never occurred to him to check it. The truth was discovered a few days ago, and the daughter took off with her abuser.
Noone knows where she is now.
Neither my fiancé nor his ex-wife knows how long their daughter has been misused. The most heart-breaking thing is that the teacher has been manipulating the girl and made her believe that her parents are bad people. He has also been defaming the girl’s parents at school and everywhere he could. The daughter likes her teacher so much and is so credulous that believes his every word. She even lies to her parents in order to protect her lover.
My fiancé hoped to get hold of the girl after the entrance exams at the university, as she had said that she would be taking them there. It was another lie. Her parents called the University and found out that her school test results had been so high that she had been enrolled at the University without any further exams. Now the police are looking for her. They have managed to get in touch with her, but she did not reveal her whereabouts.
My fiancé and his ex-wife are heart-broken. I pray for them and the girl and I want so much their daughter to return in the family having realised what wonderful people her parents are.
And I’m… I’m simply shocked. This animal is actually my colleague.
I thought, teachers are supposed to be virtuous and set a nobel and righteous example to their pupils. Apparently some of them have a different opinion.
As for the girl, my fiancé used to trust his daughter and when she said that she would stay at her friends, it never occurred to him to check it. The truth was discovered a few days ago, and the daughter took off with her abuser.
Noone knows where she is now.
Neither my fiancé nor his ex-wife knows how long their daughter has been misused. The most heart-breaking thing is that the teacher has been manipulating the girl and made her believe that her parents are bad people. He has also been defaming the girl’s parents at school and everywhere he could. The daughter likes her teacher so much and is so credulous that believes his every word. She even lies to her parents in order to protect her lover.
My fiancé hoped to get hold of the girl after the entrance exams at the university, as she had said that she would be taking them there. It was another lie. Her parents called the University and found out that her school test results had been so high that she had been enrolled at the University without any further exams. Now the police are looking for her. They have managed to get in touch with her, but she did not reveal her whereabouts.
My fiancé and his ex-wife are heart-broken. I pray for them and the girl and I want so much their daughter to return in the family having realised what wonderful people her parents are.
And I’m… I’m simply shocked. This animal is actually my colleague.
I thought, teachers are supposed to be virtuous and set a nobel and righteous example to their pupils. Apparently some of them have a different opinion.
Tuesday, June 2
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