Language Learning
I’m not sure if I can speak for everyone, but language learning has been one of the greatest challenges thus far. Through a friend’s recommendation, we decided to check out private language schools. We initially thought it might be too expensive, but decided that having a smaller class size and more flexibility would better suit our needs.
I think its safe to assume that all of us are dealing with some form of pressure and tension in our lives. There’s no doubt that, ever since our family moved to EA, we’ve been faced with a lot of pressures from the start. And if I can categorize these pressures, they would fall into three distinct categories:
I’ll be posting several “settling in” posts to share our experience with you. We hope they’re as encouraging as they are informative!
Settling in has introduced interesting challenges. The following is meant to create a realistic picture of our experience here and not to complain or compare by any means (although I’ve done plenty of both, sad to say). I hope these encounters will make us wiser and more discerning so that we’ll be a helpful resource to other future pilgrims.
Not really. In the past few days, there’s been a mixture of weather patterns that we’ve experienced. On one day it was cold (like SF-weather). On another day it was mildly warm with a breeze mixed in. Another day it was windy and the air was filled with these giant cotton balls (from the willow trees EA planted years ago), which if you were not careful could easily get caught in your hair, eyes or sometimes into your mouth. And just yesterday we had a major sandstorm that covered the entire sky making the color of the afternoon sky dull orange (see pics here). It made quite an interesting walk with our family with the wind and sand flying everywhere. We even had to use our “rain guard” for our stroller to protect Haddon from the elements.
We expected these weather patterns, but we thought it was interesting that it happened in such a short period of time. The constant weather changes is a pretty accurate description of what has been taking place in the past two weeks. So let me update you on what’s been going on!
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