Happy New Year!
And maybe, hopefully, another year here too! We just heard that our much awaited recommendation from the Social work office is finished. This letter authorizes John to be a social type worker in this country. We thankfully had a friend in the capital willing to pick it up and take it to the next stop along the journey, the Work Force office. We now await a letter from that office for the Immigration office which will recommend a work visa be issued for John. As far as we know this is the last step before actually moving to the immigration office. The rest of this should now take about 8-10 weeks which would put us exactly at the end of our current social-cultural visas. As always we will see and just keep trusting in the mean time.
We hope you all rang in the New Year with thankfulness for all the blessings of last year and the hope of another year. We had a pretty low key celebration. I, Erin, made pizza with a few neighbor girls, we all set off fireworks at about 9pm, and then we sat the boys down for a movie. We were all in bed by midnight and just listened to other fireworks set off from bed.
The next night proved to be louder and more lively than New Year's Eve, on our street at least. Many of our neighbors are police officers. Two of them recently received promotions. To celebrate they rented speakers and a karaoke machine, cooked food, and celebrated well past midnight. Their party didn't really get going until 9pm.
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| Promotion Party Our house is the last on the left, after the tall orange/brown house. |
The party, like most events, was held outside. It is usually cooler outside at night and of course there is much more room. This also led to a lot more noise.
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| Karaoke |
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| Tan lines in January |
