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General update for those who have prayed for me and supported me:
I have a new job with more hours and more money in a different city. My wife’s going to be making less money - the number of Russians in our town is shrinking, as they either move onto Western Europe or return to Russia, but I’ll be making more than before. A huge part of the question is, will my body be able to hold up under the increased workload at my age? Our younger daughter will be attending the new school I work at; the old school was a disaster, with only a few kids, her age who formed a clique and shut her out, leading to the catastrophe this last spring. That’ll suck some of my payback (€350-400), but at least we have an option for her.
I’m trying to hold on to my other online students, both so as not to have all my eggs in one basket, and to be able to make online payments both here and in Russia. but it’s liable to have me working full-time six days a week.
We still don’t have a path back to Russia, and my family wants to live there, I’m not at all sure that I do anymore, though I do have a few friends there. It seems like the sense of betrayal and break up of what had been a vibrant parish life is something I’d rather not deal with. And there’s the issue of ongoing sanctions, blocking me from taking my Russian registered car back.
I survived the summer, I’m still alone for another week or so, it’s been almost 3 months of complete loneliness and isolation. My family is returning soon. The new school HAS to work out for my daughter; if it doesn’t, we are basically agreeing that the women folk will return to Russia after the new year, leaving me alone again.
I have a 45-50 minute commute, I’m afraid of things like falling asleep at the wheel. I have trouble sleeping at night, and generally wake up in the middle of the night for 2 to 3 hours, and then desperately desire a nap in the afternoon, something I’m mostly not going to be able to get.
However, so far the new school is very welcoming and I’ve quickly become very popular among the middle school kids grades five, six, and seven that I’m teaching. Alas, I have a couple of children that look like girls that everyone affirms are boys, the influence of the Russian leftist community that fled Russia. Most of the kids are Russian, several Ukrainians, one local Montenegrin boy, and a girl from Turkey. I have to help them all develop academic skills, including things like translating, so I have to keep working on my Serbian and Turkish.
So we hope that things will be OK with cash here, my main problem is going to be getting money to convert into euros to send to my children in Germany. i’m going to try to squeeze in a couple of adult students I worked with this summer, but it won’t be enough. But at the moment, for now, we have enough to get by. Continued prayers appreciated, living in exile is no fun, and I can’t really recommend it.
Thank you all very much for your prayers and help!
I have a new job with more hours and more money in a different city. My wife’s going to be making less money - the number of Russians in our town is shrinking, as they either move onto Western Europe or return to Russia, but I’ll be making more than before. A huge part of the question is, will my body be able to hold up under the increased workload at my age? Our younger daughter will be attending the new school I work at; the old school was a disaster, with only a few kids, her age who formed a clique and shut her out, leading to the catastrophe this last spring. That’ll suck some of my payback (€350-400), but at least we have an option for her.
I’m trying to hold on to my other online students, both so as not to have all my eggs in one basket, and to be able to make online payments both here and in Russia. but it’s liable to have me working full-time six days a week.
We still don’t have a path back to Russia, and my family wants to live there, I’m not at all sure that I do anymore, though I do have a few friends there. It seems like the sense of betrayal and break up of what had been a vibrant parish life is something I’d rather not deal with. And there’s the issue of ongoing sanctions, blocking me from taking my Russian registered car back.
I survived the summer, I’m still alone for another week or so, it’s been almost 3 months of complete loneliness and isolation. My family is returning soon. The new school HAS to work out for my daughter; if it doesn’t, we are basically agreeing that the women folk will return to Russia after the new year, leaving me alone again.
I have a 45-50 minute commute, I’m afraid of things like falling asleep at the wheel. I have trouble sleeping at night, and generally wake up in the middle of the night for 2 to 3 hours, and then desperately desire a nap in the afternoon, something I’m mostly not going to be able to get.
However, so far the new school is very welcoming and I’ve quickly become very popular among the middle school kids grades five, six, and seven that I’m teaching. Alas, I have a couple of children that look like girls that everyone affirms are boys, the influence of the Russian leftist community that fled Russia. Most of the kids are Russian, several Ukrainians, one local Montenegrin boy, and a girl from Turkey. I have to help them all develop academic skills, including things like translating, so I have to keep working on my Serbian and Turkish.
So we hope that things will be OK with cash here, my main problem is going to be getting money to convert into euros to send to my children in Germany. i’m going to try to squeeze in a couple of adult students I worked with this summer, but it won’t be enough. But at the moment, for now, we have enough to get by. Continued prayers appreciated, living in exile is no fun, and I can’t really recommend it.
Thank you all very much for your prayers and help!
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Through the intercessions of the Theotokos, visit and heal O Lord, and have mercy upon RileyG and his siblings.
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TMJ problems sound unpleasant.
Gospodi Pomuli! Kyrie Eleison! Lord Have Mercy!
Through the intercession of the Theotokos and Saints Panteleimon, Cosimas and Damian and all the Unmercenary Healers, Basil the Great of Caesarea and Luke the Evangelist, Visit and Heal O Lord thy Pious Servant RileyG and relieve him from pain we beseech thee!
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Pray for me to be able to pray today, as I'm struggling and unidentified demons are distracting me from my attempts to pray, my ineptitude will not allow me to pray other than surely by intercession of the Lord
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Kyrie eleison.
O Lord, who art everywhere present and fillest all things, we ask that, through the intercession of the Theotokos, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Anthony the Great, St. Ignatius Brianchaninov, St. Seraphim of Sarov and all the saints, Thou would vouchsafe to protect Thy servant Seraphim from demonic interference in his prayer, that He may worship our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who reigns with Thee, our Helper and Paraclete, in the unity of the unoriginate Father, ever one God, amen. +
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Demons don’t like us praying. Please talk to your priest, be sure to make the sign of the Cross as demons really dislike that, and please be at liturgy tomorrow for the Exaltation of the Cross or the beginning of the Ecclesiastical Year depending on your jurisdiction, and if you can, if its not too late where you live, get to Vespers or Vigils tonight as well..
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