I'm quickly grabbing my breakfast before the day starts, now that I don't feel like death anymore.
I was granted 2 days to rest while feeling horrid. That means that today should be hell. Putting things off just means more work later.
The Carpenter already told me we have to go shopping after my breakfast.
Or rather, in his words, "After coffee!"
True. It's mostly about the coffee.
Yesterday, I was sick and wasn't moving much, and the house looked empty despite the dogs running around like the lunatics they are.
Yet, there were children SCREAMING my name outside the gate. When they didn't get a reaction, because I was lying like a lump in bed, they even tried Papi.
"Andréa!!!!" and a two second break between trying my name again, then, "Hector!!" ad infinitum. Then there would be quiet for 30 minutes, only to hear it all over again for 20 more minutes.
We had to hide in our bedroom, shutters closed, so dark that when my mother skyped, she asked me if it was already night time.
No mom, we're just in our prison tower, hiding. Just call me Rapunzel. Not short of the hair hanging out the window. That usually gives me away too. So the shutters were definitely locked closed.
When the time comes that I teach them choir in July, I will teach it on Saturday and drill it into their heads that Sunday, we are to have no visitors.
I'm even going to get a HUGE sheet of material and cover up the wooden slats so they can't just try to be passive aggressive about it and stare at us until we respond.
I will train them yet.
The signs didn't work, but there will be signs on Sunday anyway.
Signs.
A sheet.
Verbal instruction.
If the children don't get it by then, well, I'll have to send in the reinforcement.
Papi will have to put on his cranky pants and be angry with them enough to keep them away.
We moved here for peace and tranquility to heal from so much that has happened in our lives.
There hasn't been any for the almost 5 months we've been here.
When it comes to this problem, we would have been better off in a miserable gated community with stuck up bastards who came to this country, not to be with it's people, but just to use it.
At this point, I'd even weather out being with those snotty people who have nothing better to do than tell me how may dogs I'm allowed to have.
However, if I can train the kids that Sunday is off limits, Papi and I might have a fighting chance.
We might feel like we get to have ONE day a week where the time is just for us.
We deserve one day for fucks sakes, don't we?!?!
Or will this trigger a whole bunch of uber political in Vancouver to call me racist again. I don't give a shit anymore.
I love these kids, regardless of their class or their colour, so everyone sitting behind their books and computers in their privacy of cushy Vancouver can fuck off before you open your mouths.
You've already ostracized me enough that you couldn't possibly do any worse, so I'm done with all of you.
The point is, I also love my alone time.
It would be the same in Canada.
I like to be alone.
I'm giving them 6 days a week at the Hector-Brown Amusement Park.
Even the locals get one day a week off.
Why not the expats too?
Are we not deserving of that?
I think we are.
They have a month to get it and then Pissy Face comes out.
I was granted 2 days to rest while feeling horrid. That means that today should be hell. Putting things off just means more work later.
The Carpenter already told me we have to go shopping after my breakfast.
Or rather, in his words, "After coffee!"
True. It's mostly about the coffee.
Yesterday, I was sick and wasn't moving much, and the house looked empty despite the dogs running around like the lunatics they are.
Yet, there were children SCREAMING my name outside the gate. When they didn't get a reaction, because I was lying like a lump in bed, they even tried Papi.
"Andréa!!!!" and a two second break between trying my name again, then, "Hector!!" ad infinitum. Then there would be quiet for 30 minutes, only to hear it all over again for 20 more minutes.
We had to hide in our bedroom, shutters closed, so dark that when my mother skyped, she asked me if it was already night time.
No mom, we're just in our prison tower, hiding. Just call me Rapunzel. Not short of the hair hanging out the window. That usually gives me away too. So the shutters were definitely locked closed.
When the time comes that I teach them choir in July, I will teach it on Saturday and drill it into their heads that Sunday, we are to have no visitors.
I'm even going to get a HUGE sheet of material and cover up the wooden slats so they can't just try to be passive aggressive about it and stare at us until we respond.
I will train them yet.
The signs didn't work, but there will be signs on Sunday anyway.
Signs.
A sheet.
Verbal instruction.
If the children don't get it by then, well, I'll have to send in the reinforcement.
Papi will have to put on his cranky pants and be angry with them enough to keep them away.
We moved here for peace and tranquility to heal from so much that has happened in our lives.
There hasn't been any for the almost 5 months we've been here.
When it comes to this problem, we would have been better off in a miserable gated community with stuck up bastards who came to this country, not to be with it's people, but just to use it.
At this point, I'd even weather out being with those snotty people who have nothing better to do than tell me how may dogs I'm allowed to have.
However, if I can train the kids that Sunday is off limits, Papi and I might have a fighting chance.
We might feel like we get to have ONE day a week where the time is just for us.
We deserve one day for fucks sakes, don't we?!?!
Or will this trigger a whole bunch of uber political in Vancouver to call me racist again. I don't give a shit anymore.
I love these kids, regardless of their class or their colour, so everyone sitting behind their books and computers in their privacy of cushy Vancouver can fuck off before you open your mouths.
You've already ostracized me enough that you couldn't possibly do any worse, so I'm done with all of you.
The point is, I also love my alone time.
It would be the same in Canada.
I like to be alone.
I'm giving them 6 days a week at the Hector-Brown Amusement Park.
Even the locals get one day a week off.
Why not the expats too?
Are we not deserving of that?
I think we are.
They have a month to get it and then Pissy Face comes out.
i take pleasure in my own solitude
You have a heart a mile wide. Let no one tell you otherwise. <3
ReplyDeletegwenneth, thank you so much for your love. i need to hear that i'm not a bad person for wanting what i need. not want. need.
Deleteneed time.
a xo
I'm thinking 2 days a week of the amusement park! I want my alone time!
ReplyDeletegod. wouldn't 2 days be nice? don't hold your breath baby.
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