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Job Update:
Well I didn't talk about it in my last blog, but on Monday I got a call from this agency I applied with right before I came to NY. It is called TeacherCare, and they provide nannies/in-home teachers to families in NY. The pay is good and it would be a great way to get on my feet, plus I really like that it incorporates a teaching aspect working one on one with the kids, taking them on field trips and planning curriculum for them rather than just a babysitting nanny gig. I had sort of a pre-screening quasi-interview over the phone and they asked me to come in for an actual interview next Tuesday and I am very excited. I think it will be a rewarding and fun job to have until I am ready to go back to school, so I really hope they like me and decide to hire me. Once they hire you, they give you profiles of different families looking to hire a teacher-caregiver and then you get to pick which families you want to interview with depending on what kind of circumstances you are looking for! So everyone wish me luck for next Tuesday please!!! :)

Bad News....We did not get that apartment we wanted :( the landlord called this morning and APPARENTLY he was also showing it through a broker and they gave a lease to someone else this morning! GEE, thanks for not letting us know that you already had someone ahead of us before we busted our asses to get all of the ridiculous paper work to you!!! UUUHHH FRUSTRATION!!! But Blythe from my old job at work told me that it just means that it was not meant to be and there is something better out there for us! which was a something I really needed to hear because while we were in the process I prayed to God that He would let us get the apartment if it was what He wanted for us, and that if we didn't get it I would know that it was just not what He wanted and that He had something better for us, so I really think the He was reminding me of that through Blythe!
SO the apartment hunt continues!!!!

On the subway today.....
The subway is a funny place, it is it's own little world. Most people sit on the subway pretty straight faced, making no eye contact, no attempts at conversation with those around you, just waiting to get the heck off at their stop! Laura and I are not really this way all the time...we people watch, make comments, giggle incessantly, basically stick out as major non-New Yorkers!
Well, today while we were waiting for our train Lo smiles to someone behind us and I turn to see three Latino gentlemen sitting with their guitarras, and oh man the excitement within me just begins to build! SO the train comes and they get on to the same car as us and just start playing and singing mariachi music....oh my goodness I was SO excited, and Lo and I are just giggling away, so enjoying our subway entertainment, while all the other New Yorkers just stared into space, not excited at all, making no eye contact or showing any appreciation of the musical treat. AHH, I love mariachi!!! We gave them three dollars, it was definitely my BEST subway experience so far!