Cry Me a River

So, lately, we've been depressed.

For the most part it's been because of work. We have been finishing students left and right, but unfortunately the school we work for hasn't been able to provide any new hours for us! We have been waiting and waiting for these few new contracts to get settled, but there has been some bureacratic stuff going on that has prevented the finalization of the contracts. So basically we've been feeling like horses with carrots tied just above our heads that we keep walking towards but can't seem to reach.

To give you an idea of what we're dealing with, our income from school last month was 920 euro, and our rent was 1000 euro! So, that leaves us with only a credit card to buy food and whatever else we may need. And fun? Uh, what's that? Not to mention we are stressing out because we have several friends lined up to come visit us, and we are flat stinkin' broke! How can we be expected to show them a good time in the city without any spending cash?

And to top it all off, we got emails today telling us that although we were great applicants, there are new EU rules that are preventing us from getting the summer camp jobs in Austria! What more could go wrong?

So, what do we plan to do about it, you ask? Well, first of all, we have noticed that our apartment building has many young children living in it, and so we are advertising for private lessons (let's hope we get some calls). We are also printing up some more resumes to take out to other schools in hopes of at least a few more hours per week. We have decided that we can't wait any longer for these promised hours to come from our current job, and we have to take some action if we don't want to be coming home in a month.

Already Allie has received an interview at a school (which ironically is 50km outside of Rome), so we will see if the commute turns out to be worth it, but at least it's something, right? We don't plan to give up easily, so be rootin' for us! There are still too many things we haven't done over here to pack it in and head for home.