First day of school

Another milestone has been reached, Dannette started at her new school today. She seemed to enjoy it although she did say that it is extremely warm as only the classrooms have air con and all the passing from class to class is outside.
Her class is approximately 22 children from all over the world. She even met a girl from Texas!
I think she will be very happy there. She does have a nice easing in period as starting next Wednesday she will be on fall break for 10 days!!!!!

I have now had two days in the office and although very different from the large corporate office park I am used to, it is quite nice. One thing that is quite difficult to get used to here is that shopping, restaurants and office space is often in the same buildings! So literally when I went to find one of our offices, the directions were to take the lift between Levi's and the McDonalds! It is quite nice though as at lunch I have been able to run down to grab a bite, pick up some things we need and still fit in some time to window shop :)

The only downside currently is not having busing for Dannette. This means a 3 hour commute in the morning for me and then John and Halie do the three hour trek in the afternoon to go pick Dannette up. It is quite long and we are both exhausted. Glad this is very short lived.

On the home front, we haven't heard much of anything but no news seems to be good news. That being said we are all hoping that we will receive the keys to our permanent place on the 15th! If you could not tell from John's post last evening, the serviced apartment is really getting old and we are all feeling very trapped. While it is nice, we are doubly confined as once Halie goes to bed at 7 pm in the master bedroom it leaves all of us to sit in the living area, a space that is smaller than 10x10 and has far fewer than 20 TV stations.

Someone mentioned being curious about the grocery stores here. I decided that a picture can better describe how bizarre it is to shop here......even when you think you recognize a familiar product you have to watch out as it may have a unique twist/flavor to it! This picture is a prime example.

Who would have thought Pringles could be different?