Settling in here is continuing to go well, and having just submitted my first cover letter and resume to an interesting organization, I'm not actually feeling that overwhelmed! I've learned that only 25% of jobs are posted here, and that non-profits do almost all of their hiring directly, so what I'm doing now is finding interesting local NGOs and just writing them about "a position with their organization" even though I have no idea if said position even exists. It may sound like chances are remote, but since I spent ALL last week and today just researching, it feels good to finally have submitting something.
I honestly bet your move to Charlotte is more daunting that our move here for a couple reasons. First, you're moving on your own! Both to Madison and then here I've moved with a best friend and partner, so that's pretty much just like taking home with me! :) Second, you're moving away from family, and believe it or not, I've moved geographically closer to my family in England, who I'll be seeing twice in the next month!!
How does everyone know about meetup?? You're the second person who has recommended it to me! I actually ended up finding it on my own just by looking through expat resource/relocation websites, and it was through a meetup group that we found the trivia night we went to! It's an awesome system, and you should definitely find a group in/near Charlotte to be a part of!! It's awesome and it totally facilitates the relocation process!!
So you would think that I have good skiing options here, but it's actually a 10 hr drive :( I know this because I was talking to a local ski bunny today, and he was like, "It's only 1000+ km!" And I was like...greeaaat... Perhaps that's better than WI, but apparently Holland still has got nothing on CA!! :)
I only care about your 4 weeks of vacation if you use it to come visit MEEEEE!!! Alternatively, I have a friend doing birth right in June-ish, and T and I plan to go meet up with him when it ends and have him show us around Israel a bit. Any interest in joining??
So on top of T just being gleeful about his new-found deportation power, he's taken to (attempting) to demand 50 Euro per week from me as my monthly bribe to let me stay. I think not!! :) I think people here do live together before marriage, so that has nothing to do with the domestic partnership thing. The only reason we're registering is that highly skilled migrants (which T is) can bring their "partners" with them and those partners are granted the same living and working privileges as the highly skilled migrant worker is, but only as long as we're registered domestic partners! Now I should really tell T he has to start paying ME to stay because so long as I'm not employed by the end of the year (which is unfortunately somewhat likely), he'll be able to file his tax returns the same as if he were married in the US and spread his income across two people, so it will essentially look like he earned half of what he actually did! So really, the dom. partnership is just plain useful for him!! :)
Nope, I don't know a Mrs. Coyner, but perhaps some of my Madison friends do! That's cool that Mike knows her! I didn't even know they were giving out such awards at the White House!!
I honestly bet your move to Charlotte is more daunting that our move here for a couple reasons. First, you're moving on your own! Both to Madison and then here I've moved with a best friend and partner, so that's pretty much just like taking home with me! :) Second, you're moving away from family, and believe it or not, I've moved geographically closer to my family in England, who I'll be seeing twice in the next month!!
How does everyone know about meetup?? You're the second person who has recommended it to me! I actually ended up finding it on my own just by looking through expat resource/relocation websites, and it was through a meetup group that we found the trivia night we went to! It's an awesome system, and you should definitely find a group in/near Charlotte to be a part of!! It's awesome and it totally facilitates the relocation process!!
So you would think that I have good skiing options here, but it's actually a 10 hr drive :( I know this because I was talking to a local ski bunny today, and he was like, "It's only 1000+ km!" And I was like...greeaaat... Perhaps that's better than WI, but apparently Holland still has got nothing on CA!! :)
I only care about your 4 weeks of vacation if you use it to come visit MEEEEE!!! Alternatively, I have a friend doing birth right in June-ish, and T and I plan to go meet up with him when it ends and have him show us around Israel a bit. Any interest in joining??
So on top of T just being gleeful about his new-found deportation power, he's taken to (attempting) to demand 50 Euro per week from me as my monthly bribe to let me stay. I think not!! :) I think people here do live together before marriage, so that has nothing to do with the domestic partnership thing. The only reason we're registering is that highly skilled migrants (which T is) can bring their "partners" with them and those partners are granted the same living and working privileges as the highly skilled migrant worker is, but only as long as we're registered domestic partners! Now I should really tell T he has to start paying ME to stay because so long as I'm not employed by the end of the year (which is unfortunately somewhat likely), he'll be able to file his tax returns the same as if he were married in the US and spread his income across two people, so it will essentially look like he earned half of what he actually did! So really, the dom. partnership is just plain useful for him!! :)
Nope, I don't know a Mrs. Coyner, but perhaps some of my Madison friends do! That's cool that Mike knows her! I didn't even know they were giving out such awards at the White House!!
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