I found a permanent job working for the English branch of TripAdvisor three months after we arrived. I have loved every moment there and have made really good friends.
Ben continues to work at Avis on weekends and holidays, but his main focus is school, school and more school. Can you believe that he is now starting his THIRD year! His first day feels like yesterday, and yet he is half way through being done!
We have grown to love our little flat on Osney. The Winters are cold and damp, but the look of Oxford covered in snow makes it all worth it. The Summers are humid but the River Thames brings the best wildlife and greenery; it makes for a perfectly quaint and English scenery. And English food is not as bad as everyone says, in fact, we really prefer it over American food.
We now say holiday instead of vacation, mobile instead of cell, and we talk in Celsius and read time the European/military way. We love our half-American-half-British ward and have made so many wonderful friends. We are still living the poor-married life, but tight ends of the month are now in Pounds instead of Dollars. So apart from the constant need to put everything in a crust, the ridiculously high taxes and the constant Health Care scandals, England Rocks!
I feel that our life is at a shifting point at the moment. There are many reasons for that, but a huge part of it is because I am about to make one of my all time dreams a reality. Yes people, I got accepted at Oxford University and start the Social Anthropology Master's program this October!
This feels like the start of a new beginning for us. So I hope this blog can follow us on this journey and that it will see many more changes and successes. I hope it can help us see how grateful we should be for all the blessings Heavenly Father throws at us, and that it can help us feel closer to friends and family. Do you want to come along?
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