Hey everyone.
Well, Mark decided that it has been too long since I've seen my friends and family in Jackson, so he has decided to take me home for Christmas! YEA! This has been unexpected, and it's been the main thing that I have been able to think about since. So just letting everyone know! More about it later.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
12 October 2007
Hey everyone!!
Not much other than school and work has been going on around the Becking household. With the end of the school year rolling around, I have been busy busy getting everything in order. In addition to my work, one of the teachers who left in July left a bit of "organizational chaos" behind her. So Lorna Clinning (head of the Math department) asked me to get all of Charmaine's things ready for the end of the year also. It's not hard work, but it was very time consuming. Yesterday was wonderful... I walked out of the school without any work! It was great - the first time in a few weeks. I am tutoring this afternoon, then Mark and I are relaxing watching movies tonight after supper. YEA!! This weekend we are having Mark's family over for brunch then I am going shopping with our friend, Jenny, who is making a trip to the states in November/December with her dad. I'm so excited because she is going to be in Miami one night, so Robert is going to take our wedding photos to her hotel so she can bring them back to us!! I can't wait to see our pics!!!
Mark has been very busy as well - which is why I didn't mind bringing work home for a few weeks - at least we could work together. He's been working for around 6 weeks on a project for a company called Trialogue. Every company in South Africa has to be rated (don't ask me, I don't completely understand - this is just an overview). But it is all so confusing and stuff that no one has written a program that makes the process easier. I'm not sure that the gov't really knows exactly what they are looking for yet. Anyways, Mark has written that program - and since Trialogue has more resources than Mark, he is partnering up with them for this project. Pretty much he wrote the program, they are going to sell it, and the profits will be shared. Sounds pretty good, and they were impressed with his work. So, he flew down to Cape Town for the day on Wednesday to present it. He got home around 9:00, so Sandy and I went to see "No Reservations" - such a cute movie. I highly recommend it.
Well that is about all that is happening these days. I hope everyone had a good week, and I'll try to put up another blog sometime in the near future. Love you guys!!!
Not much other than school and work has been going on around the Becking household. With the end of the school year rolling around, I have been busy busy getting everything in order. In addition to my work, one of the teachers who left in July left a bit of "organizational chaos" behind her. So Lorna Clinning (head of the Math department) asked me to get all of Charmaine's things ready for the end of the year also. It's not hard work, but it was very time consuming. Yesterday was wonderful... I walked out of the school without any work! It was great - the first time in a few weeks. I am tutoring this afternoon, then Mark and I are relaxing watching movies tonight after supper. YEA!! This weekend we are having Mark's family over for brunch then I am going shopping with our friend, Jenny, who is making a trip to the states in November/December with her dad. I'm so excited because she is going to be in Miami one night, so Robert is going to take our wedding photos to her hotel so she can bring them back to us!! I can't wait to see our pics!!!
Mark has been very busy as well - which is why I didn't mind bringing work home for a few weeks - at least we could work together. He's been working for around 6 weeks on a project for a company called Trialogue. Every company in South Africa has to be rated (don't ask me, I don't completely understand - this is just an overview). But it is all so confusing and stuff that no one has written a program that makes the process easier. I'm not sure that the gov't really knows exactly what they are looking for yet. Anyways, Mark has written that program - and since Trialogue has more resources than Mark, he is partnering up with them for this project. Pretty much he wrote the program, they are going to sell it, and the profits will be shared. Sounds pretty good, and they were impressed with his work. So, he flew down to Cape Town for the day on Wednesday to present it. He got home around 9:00, so Sandy and I went to see "No Reservations" - such a cute movie. I highly recommend it.
Well that is about all that is happening these days. I hope everyone had a good week, and I'll try to put up another blog sometime in the near future. Love you guys!!!
Monday, October 1, 2007
Our Holiday at the Beach
Hello everyone!!
Mark and I survived our first holiday away with each other - barely! We went to the Southeastern coast of South Africa to a place called Chintsa East. We drove for 10 hours there and 10 hours home. I cannot tell you how beautiful it was down there. We arrived on Saturday afternoon, walked on the beach, relaxed, ate supper, and went to sleep. We woke up around 11:00 on Sunday, repeated Saturday's walk on the beach, had lunch at a little restaurant down the road and got groceries, relaxed, walked some more on the beach, ate supper, went to sleep.
LOOK AT ALL THE SHELLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And finally, here are pictures of the house we stayed in. It almost reminded me of the green cabin down at Star - kind of smelled the same too.... I wish we had gotten a picture of Lucy who came and cleaned for us each day, but we were too sick to really care all that much about lots of pictures....
After that is when it became not so fun. I woke up and didn't feel very well, so we stayed inside that day. Tuesday we drove 45 minutes into East London to find a pharmacy... by this time Mark wasn't feeling well either. We got our medicine, ate lunch at a restaurant on the beach, and went back to the house. We didn't really leave the house again until Friday - not even to walk on the beach.
On Thursday, though, we were out on the deck of the house and noticed some monkeys in the brush between our house and the water. We stayed fairly still and they slowly came into our yard. Mark got some bread and I cut up an apple to feed them. Don't know if we were supposed to do that, but it was fun!! You can see from the pictures that they were right next to us! They were so sweet, but we still didn't get too close - possible rabies and such.
And finally, here are pictures of the house we stayed in. It almost reminded me of the green cabin down at Star - kind of smelled the same too.... I wish we had gotten a picture of Lucy who came and cleaned for us each day, but we were too sick to really care all that much about lots of pictures....
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