Comings and Goings

I actually meant to write this last night but I got sucked into a good movie on the big TV downstairs, and before I knew it, it was bed time! (Gads I sound old when I say stuff like that.)

This has been a busy week of comings and goings at our house here. Julianna, our British doctor, headed home to England last weekend. Also on the weekend, we added another Canadian teacher named Jen to our crew - she's originally from Peterborough but has moved her home base to Calgary, and is now doing relief teaching like *my* Jen was last term. Then Olivier, our French computer guy, was unable to find work here in Melbourne so he took off for Singapore on Wednesday. And yesterday I got home to discover that a couple had moved in to one of the other double rooms. Daniel's from South Carolina and his girlfriend Lucy is from right here in Melbourne.

And we still have empty rooms! Our landlord really jacked up the rents for new folks coming in, so it's not surprising me that he's having a hard time filling the place. But there's a huge housing shortage in Melbourne right now, so I'm pretty sure it's only a matter of time. Our landlord has been in every day this week, showing the place off to potential renters.

The weather's been grey and cool and wet all week, and while I know that's not nearly as crummy as what most of my friends have been dealing with in Canada, it's been a bit of a bummer. There looks to be some hope of sunshine today, which is good, as Jen and I are about to head off to help run a training for local Guiders. Toodle-oo!