I recently started uni again. It will take me 1,5 years from now to become a teacher (prefferably in high school/our level before college, but I would be qualified to teach 10-15 year olds as well). The difficulty will be that I will have to travel to the capital a lot (since my city stopped to offer part time teacher exams), but I can stay with my sister which may be fun, also all this international travelling has given me quite the patience for weird national travels.... My boyfriend is super proud of me which is a plus! I am not worried about the exams or even that much the teaching as the studies are at bachelor level and I have taught before (albeit mostly to adults).
My cat has grown super big (not fat, but he is very long and weighs about a ton, it is like holding a child). He is a bit agressive, so it looks like I have "fallen through a branch of thornes", as my sister puts it, and I will have him castrated soon. Sometimes he is just cranky and will cuddle my brother/flatmate and not me. Yet usually by the end of the day he will be in all Mummy mode and will insist to fall asleep on my chest. I used up most of my birthday money to buy toys for him, he is a very spoiled cat and he will defend his new multi-toy/cave/bed like his life depended on it! I will send SO an endless stream of cat pics like he is my actual baby. Luckily SO likes cats...
I have started to feel more comfortable meeting the ex. He suggested that we should encaurage our fellow friends to invite us to the same parties and I agreed. He is being quite patient with me having not gotten a flat loan to buy him out yet. He even set me up for a job interview in ten days (how weird is that). I still have days where I am quite angry with him but...It is like what's the point. I dont want him back, so the best way forward would be to hang as friends more. Ithurts a little bit knowing that he has seen some of our friends more than I have, but I think honestly some were trying to be respectful by not taking initiative (we are Norwegians after all!) and I just need to show I dont mind them meeting him and I want to meet them too.
SO decided to quit his job, I think because they did not want to give him more vacation time or raise. I mean he works EVERY day EVERY week EVERY month, 10+ hours a day. He also does not get any days off (sometimes a couple of hours off) when I am there. He has no weekends off. He is too tired to work out and I have noticed that he looked tired, even for this time of year.They said like, maybe you will get 2 weeks, but we are not sure when that will be... So, he was like, fuck this. I am going home. Remember, his mum lives on a farm, his grandmother has cows... His brothers and cousins are students. It is not like it is easy for them to just go to him. He is not really adventurous (also he does not have that much money), he just wants to go home to the other side of the country to see his family. Now that we dont rent, it is harder for those who can travel to come see him too. So he has decided that in a couple of days, he will go to his family and stay 45 days (it sounds long, but when he worked season, he had 3-4 months off!).
Oh, and he has invited me to come stay a while with his family
I just need to wrap my head around the study schedule before booking my flight, but I think I will go mid February. The pictures are of me with my cat, and him with a random dog he met ("I have a new friend!"). I think he is looking forward to a holiday!
Thank you so much for sharing your story.