Last Wednesday

Has there ever been a period of time that, if you could do it over again, you'd just skip it? Well, for us, that would be last wednesday. Or, more precisely, last wednesday evening. Around 4, I get a call from S that I need to stop over at the pharmacy to buy medication to treat head-lice. C had been given a note at school indicating that she might have head-lice. Great! You know, we've never had head-lice at home, but, move to another country where you can't read the language and you have to gesticulate to make yourself understood (you hope) and you have to buy a treatment medication for head-lice. Awesome!!

I buy the treatment and we spend a portion of the evening combing C's hair, not finding anything. Then, I get a call from a collegue of mine to go shop at the equivalent of Costco. Shure! I'm on board for that, but I just need to go to the school to take out some money at the bank machine. Hmmm, what is something bad that can happen at a bank machine...especially after it already sucked in your card? Dunno if you guessed, but the ATM chose that moment to die. I call S to let her know that I'll be delayed coming home as I'll try to contact the bank (which I was not able to reach, even with the help of the russian guard at school because the bank was closed and I should call back during working hours). Fantastic!!!

I get back home exclaming that I can't believe the bank machine ate my card as I'm opening the door and then I hear my neighbour's voice saying "Hello! I'm here!". I turn the corner to see my neighbour in a big puddle of water telling me that the washing machine broke and that S is over at their place. At the same time, C is telling me that mommy left home crying. Hmmm, what word is better than awesome? Dunno, but I would put it here. Ah well. Needless to say, I cancelled my shopping outing, (where I was to buy a bottle of wine), so our neighbour went back to his place and brought back a bottle of wine for us. Man, we are lucky to have super nice neighbours! Anyways, everything turned out okay (we got a new washer to replace the broken one) and C doesn't have head-lice. Hey, at least we can laugh about it, so that's still good!

So, as I was saying, if we could redo wednesday evening, I would just choose to skip it. Ah well. So that was it...our wednesday evening. ;-)

;-) LIL

First month done!

Well, tomorrow will be the 5th of September. We left Canada on the 5th of August, so technically, today is the last day of our first month living in Moscow. How has life treated us in the past month. All in all, I can say good. Different is also a word that comes to mind. Different is different. It is not better, it is not worse than what you are used to... different is just different. It makes things easier, I think.

So, a question that we had asked ourselves, is this posting really at the hardship level described? Our answer is absolutely yes! Without a doubt, this is a hardship post.

Yesterday, me and S found ourselves watching a sports show in english and I think most of the reason why we watched it was because it was in a language we could understand. Ah well. ;-)

We got to Skype with a few of yous and that is great! It makes us feel connected. I'll try to post a link to this blog entry on Facebook (they have just updated their privacy settings -- once again -- so we'll see how that goes. I think most of yous have the address of this blog, but for those of yous who don't, well there you go.

We miss all of yous!

;-) LIL