The children left yesterday afternoon to go to stay with my parents; we'll join them on Saturday, after we've loaded up the car with our remaining things. It has been extremely stressful, packing things up, because we are trying to figure out what we will need for the next month-and-a-half, in several different environments. After Saturday we have to plan for:
- eight days canoeing/cottaging
- seven days working from my parent's home office
- six days with my parents, after finishing work
- flying to Brussels
- 17 days in a beautiful country loft in Glons, near Liege
- and then finally moving into the house at 122 rue des archives on the 7th of September
So as you can imagine, it can be exhausting to try to think ahead that much. For example, I need to consider what I will be taking from a work perspective, but also need to think ahead about sample recordings, photographs, CVs and Bios, etc. As well, we are trying to get a number of administrative things done before we leave the house. It would appear that some of them, at least (the certification by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of my medical certificate, for example) will have to wait until I come back to Toronto in early August.
We've found the social schedule very enjoyable but also very exhausting; the personal pressures to connect with friends and family, and the pressure to complete certain tasks prior to leaving, are to some extent in competition with each other. I can't imagine how we will feel when we arrive in Glons for two weeks of relaxing!
This evening we have to:
- prepare for a meeting tomorrow with the accountant
- continue the last bits of packing of our personal and professional items
- complete our Schengen Visa applications
- arrange and assemble my promotional materials
as well as a host of other tasks. This post is therefore ending here; I'll post again after we're in Belleville and out of the house.
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