2 apparently equals 8

Although we are Math teachers, Søren and I recently learned that when you are talking about the number 2 it really means the number 8. Confused??... continue reading....

I may not have told everybody this before, but in order to work and live in Denmark I need to have a work visa. Anyway, the past 2 years it hasn't been much of a problem but for some reason this year has been crazy. I applied for an extension of the visa back in June and although I was supposed to hear from them by the time my old visa expired on July 31st I have been waiting an waiting. We have called the Immigrations office many times asking when it was coming but always the same answer. "We are working on it!" The good thing is that as long as the application is in the process I can stay and work in Denmark, but there is the risk that I could get a letter one day saying that I didn't get the extension and have a month to leave the country. Well I did recieve a letter the other day from the Immigration office....only a mere 8 months later..... and it said I was approved!!! So I can stay!!!! Its nice to have that reassurance.

On the same note we applied just a few weeks ago for the Marriage Reunification "visa" which gives me permanent permission to stay in Denmark as long as Søren and I are married. This "visa" gives me a lot more freedom to switch jobs, study or have babies, none of which are in the near future but again options are always nice to have. So I guess you could say we are very excited about this, now we just need to wait again to hear about this Marriage Reunification. They say max. 4 months, but for that last visa they said max 2 months and it took 8 so we aren't getting our hopes up yet.

Anyway, that is the big new from here. We've had a nice relaxing weekend. We visited one of our American/Dane couples and it was great to see them again. (Josh was with us on Watermark and sang for our wedding). They moved to Denmark just before Christmas and we hadn't seen them yet so it was great. We played American board games and spoke English the whole time, it was so fantastic! They are going to have a baby in a month so we figured we better see them now before their lives suddenly become very very busy.

All in all a great weekend before a crazy busy week.