First day of school!

I'm beat!  Grace's first day of school resulted in my spending 7 hours unloading books in the library.  I volunteered to get on the "inside" and may - big may - have landed myself a part time job.  Have to get a resume together and talk to various people etc.  But what's more important is how Grace's day went.  She didn't think it was terrible!  She likes her teachers so far, though her Scottish English teacher is difficult to understand and her Australian Homeroom/Social Studies teacher is new and nervous and has "big pit stains". The kids seem nice and the cafeteria food is fantastic (I ate there too and it is).  In a country where everyone drives a car the size of a vacuum cleaner the parking lot was filled with Jeeps and vans driven by the Americans who are here with Chrysler, and BMW's, Audi's, and other goodies driven by those "who can". Luckily our temporary rental that the company provides before GP's car comes in is a Mercedes wagon so I fit right in.  Hopefully everyone one will have accepted me already by the time I start taking Grace to school in my plebeian auto. It will be too late to look down their noses at me for being.....middle class.  Actually everyone has been very pleasant and helpful and I am optimistic that all will go well.   By the way...the police have already caught the guy who murdered the hooker.  Who woulda thunk it.  xxoo me