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Jan. 29th, 2008 11:30 amI have all my teaching and travelling sorted until July. The teaching can wait a few days until I start preparing classes - this post is all about travel.
I will be in Sydney once and Melbourne once, and that's all. Otherwise I'm in Canberra.
My wonderful Sydney friends have offered to make their place 'drop in' for a few hours in March, in case anyone wants to catch up with me. This solves all problems of allergies and I do rather suspect I owe them bigtime. Mind you, I owed them bigtime anyway. Anyhow, if any Sydneysider friends want to catch up with me in March, all you have to do is leave a comment here or email and I'll get back to you with details once we have them sorted. (We plan to meet someone called Esther during my Sydney trip, which will be exciting - I've been longing to meet her for a very long time).
Melbourne is both simpler and more complicated. I'll be there for Passover, so there'll be certain blocks of time that are purely for family and teh friends of my childhood. Also, I eat kosher l'Pesach during Passover, so I can't get even a cup of coffee outside the home (which makes the allergy stuff easier, this time round). That's the complicated.
The simple is that Mum loves meeting my friends. Dropping in is always a possibility. I can do excursions (and I'm an art gallery/museum kind of gal). The only limit on excursions is that I can't eat out because of Passover. (I can buy chocolate for eating after Passover, though, as long as I keep the chocolate under wraps in the house.) Everything will have to be managed around work, as the Melbourne trip isn't a holiday so much as a change of work location.
I guess what this means is that meeting up with friends on both trips will mainly be done over cups of tea and coffee. Not a bad thing, at all :).
ETA: I'm exceptionally clever. I was so busy thinking about my social life in Sydney that I forgot I will be travelling there to teach one time as well. I'll put that in my teaching post, though - I won't have much free time/energy and I need to see my Sydney family before all the teens turn into adults and don't want to spend time with me any more. Where will I obtain my music appreciation lessons when J gets older, that's what I want to know?
I will be in Sydney once and Melbourne once, and that's all. Otherwise I'm in Canberra.
My wonderful Sydney friends have offered to make their place 'drop in' for a few hours in March, in case anyone wants to catch up with me. This solves all problems of allergies and I do rather suspect I owe them bigtime. Mind you, I owed them bigtime anyway. Anyhow, if any Sydneysider friends want to catch up with me in March, all you have to do is leave a comment here or email and I'll get back to you with details once we have them sorted. (We plan to meet someone called Esther during my Sydney trip, which will be exciting - I've been longing to meet her for a very long time).
Melbourne is both simpler and more complicated. I'll be there for Passover, so there'll be certain blocks of time that are purely for family and teh friends of my childhood. Also, I eat kosher l'Pesach during Passover, so I can't get even a cup of coffee outside the home (which makes the allergy stuff easier, this time round). That's the complicated.
The simple is that Mum loves meeting my friends. Dropping in is always a possibility. I can do excursions (and I'm an art gallery/museum kind of gal). The only limit on excursions is that I can't eat out because of Passover. (I can buy chocolate for eating after Passover, though, as long as I keep the chocolate under wraps in the house.) Everything will have to be managed around work, as the Melbourne trip isn't a holiday so much as a change of work location.
I guess what this means is that meeting up with friends on both trips will mainly be done over cups of tea and coffee. Not a bad thing, at all :).
ETA: I'm exceptionally clever. I was so busy thinking about my social life in Sydney that I forgot I will be travelling there to teach one time as well. I'll put that in my teaching post, though - I won't have much free time/energy and I need to see my Sydney family before all the teens turn into adults and don't want to spend time with me any more. Where will I obtain my music appreciation lessons when J gets older, that's what I want to know?