cold, jobless and happy

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We woke up yesterday to snow. The heater in our room has been waging a valiant but loosing battle against the cold for the last few days. Greece was supposed to be warm. We are freezing. There is an upside though...We live right on the sea inside an old Venician fort and as we look out we can see the waves pounding the harbor and the coastline. When I came to Greece last time I only saw the Mediterranean in a calm and placid state. The stories of ship wrecks and violent storms in the Bible, like the type that shipwrecked Paul, seemed pretty unimaginable. I can see now why the sailors should have listened to Paul (Acts 27:21).

The TEFL course ended about a week ago. Laura and I have not found jobs yet. It has been impossible finding work in Greece at this time of year without the EU paperwork. We do have some solid leads elsewhere though. There is an American school in Florence, Italy, that hires Americans. We will be interviewing with them this week. They are looking for two teachers to fill six month positions. It would be a good situation for us as we could get our EU work permits there and then try to return to Greece with the right paperwork and some experience in time for the main hiring season. We are also looking in other parts of the world. We have job offers in Taiwan and some contacts in Korea. There are a lot of opportunities out there... though unfortunately none of them are in Greece.

On a different note, Laura and I have now been married for exactly one year... Its been a great year.