Week 2: Tragic!

I'm into the second week now of my move.
Do not misunderstand, I am incredibly happy to have finally made it, to be here, to be with the person I love and want to spend the rest of my life with. But if an international move with work, language, cultural and financial barriers wasn't enough, 2 weeks of illness has really made this substantially more difficult than I wished it to be. I have one of the worst sinus infections I've ever had, if at least the most excrutiating one. My ears are both infected and feel like they are stuffed with cotton, my throat feels tight and burns everytime I swallow, and I feel like a druggy knocking back painkillers like they were tictacs, eardrops like they are going out of fashion, strepsils like they were mints and lemsips like lemonade. Despite all of this, I'm still awake at 12:15am in terrible pain writing this!

I've found a reasonable amount of time over the past few days to get on with some studying of Polish language, and it's coming along ok! I understand genders within the language now, understand a little better possessives, and my vocabulary is increasing. In an effort for mutual benefit, my girlfriend and I plan on making a list of all the items within each room of the house (with the list being divided by room) with the english name followed by its polish name. Most movies are being watched with polish subs and I'm being exposed to the language most of the day through TV, stores, listening to phonecalls, people outside etc. So I hope that I will pick it up quickly! I feel like I am, I'm reading a few things now, looking at sentences and able to pick some apart and make a guestimate of what it means based on some particles, adjectives and nouns. 

I've sent a C.V / Covering letter to 4-5 schools now or so, hope to send more and hope to hear back from some of them! It felt great to finally get some off after a slow start due to both my loves and my illnesses. I also have a profile up at info-praca, though I've no idea how to use it, or what any of it means (Thanks dear for setting it up though!)

My love is going back to work tommorow(today now?) and so again I will be back to having long days of cleaning, studying, looking for work, and sitting around like a lemon - pity I will be doing all of this while I'm completely ill. it's rather unfortunate I am 90% dependent on someone due to language, knowledge and finance, but to not have that dependent person when I'm the most vulnerable (new transition, terrible illness, etc) So not looking forward to surviving the next few days in pain, alone.

Not much else to report! Oh, all attempts at peaceful negotiation and initiation of mutual friendship with the not-so-domesticated moggy I share my home with has so far failed and resulted in my hands appearing reminiscent of one afflicted with leprosy. Hail!