Isaiah 41: 10

This week has been very difficult. Alex left on Monday which has made me very lonely. Just being in a different place surrounded by completely different things doesn't so much bug me, I guess I am just really homesick right now. It has been very difficult for me to meet people. My French class is made up of me a girl from Turkey who comes in late and leaves early, and about 10 middle-aged Spanish ladies who talk very loudly in Spanish to each other. I was sort of hoping I would meet some people in my class. My flatmates have all been very nice but the girls are very busy and hardly around and the guys are fine but not really people I would necessarily feel comfortable with. As I am typing this I feel a little ridiculous because I knew all of this before I left it is just harder to deal with it now that I am here. I am just having a pity party this weekend :/

E and S left for Cape Town for 10 days and that has been very tense with the girls. They are so used to a strict routine that this is throwing them off quite a bit. The grandparents and I have to rely on the girls to translate for us but they haven't been very helpful at all. Mostly not translating anything and ignoring us. The girls are supposed to do homework every night and they have either been telling me they don't have any or not doing it and telling me they are finished. Today D came home with a bad spelling grade and yelled at me for not making her do her homework. Granted I should have made her do it and I would have if I had known she had any. That's the thing I guess with watching kids that aren't your own; discipline has to be carefully discussed but the parents aren't here so I don't know if D should be in a timeout, go to her room, do chores I don't know. Ir just starts crying when she doesn't get her way which isn't exactly abnormal but rather irritating.
Both girls are pretty darned spoiled. They NEVER have to pick up anything because X comes twice a week and they just expect me to clean up their messes after them. These are all things that can be worked out, it's just been a trying week and I am ready for it to be over.

Isaiah 41:10 Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.