Lots of good news!!
(Or the absence / cancellation of bad news... )
First thing in the morning: lady from the Yugoslav embassy called to say that Charlie's passport is ready!! We were waiting only for that to be able to travel to Belgrade, so now we can go, maybe even this week!
Second news, also about Charlie: he has a place in the kindergarden!! Close-by; the one Camiel likes; for 3 days-a-week; starting 8th May!!
There is no place for the after-school-care for Alisa, but we can register friends as "guest-parents" and pay them and get the money back from the government...
After these two, I got a bit scared -- I am not used to the good news any more, and can hardly believe (in) them, and don't know how to take them...
But there was more: Camiel was afraid that our camping-house in Bakkum is going to be blown away by the storm, so he hurried there and secured it to the ground. It was still standing, and now it's less likely it will fly away.
Camiel also had a talk about our problematic landlord with some official helpers (HuurTeam Zuid), and they will write a letter on our behalf and our troubles should disappear...
And he took Alisa to the "Health and Food Clinic" he final examination, and she passed all the tests very good! (however true those results are...). So now she can eat whatever she wants, and not only few things prescribed by that computer...
Camiel also got a new haircut, created by Jasen. Now I will have to get used to it...
Finally, I found my residence permit card that was lost!!
(First I thought I will not find it, so I made an appointment for coming Wednesday with IND to get temporary return visa, and got instructions how to ask for the renewed one (police report, 6-page-form, photos, copies of things, and 2-3 months of waiting, and 40 EUR plus who-knows-how-much-more money). That was a bit too much of trouble, so I got extra inspired to look for the lost card, and found it! Phew! )
To reward myself, I tried to use my IRIS Pen - hand-held OCR scanner. And it worked!! I scanned quotes from two books that I have to return to the library, and it's perfect and fast and without too many corrections that need to be made - great!
Paul also had good news - he got his Canadian work permit!! Bye-bye, ex-room-mate, maybe I'll visit you once on the new continent...