First off, hearty congratulations
to Nassia who has just realized her
dream! After hard work on her CV, undergoing several interviews and then after
a gruelling wait for results to come out, she was selected for training as an air stewardess with Aegean Airlines. This
is the largest Greek airline in terms of number of passengers, destinations
served and fleet size. It has consistently gained the award as Best Regional
Airline in Europe. Understandably, places there are coveted and it is much to
her credit that she procured one just after leaving school. Well done, Nassia,
we are very proud of you and wish you every success in your first career steps!Here she is with her very, very proud grandparents.
Next up: hats off for The
Tartan Epsilon – you’ve heard of them before! Angeliki and I made our first commercial presentation for our Easing into English application (much
more on that later) last Saturday at theTESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Macedonia
Thrace convention. Things
went well – apart from the fact that we had more people than the room had
capacity for – so, not bad for us, not so comfortable for them!
Our niece,
Konstantina, was kind enough to come along as support and technical assistant.
Here she is, looking very sweet, enticing people to attend our session
by offering them Greek delight! Clearly her interpersonal skills and powers of
persuasion are very polished!
After the session, it was time to wind down and celebrate
something else simultaneously – Zissis and I had had our birthdays that week.
Here we are at a local meze restaurant,
Peri Meze in Thermi, which had live
music. Great singers, great company, great food and wine – what more can you
ask for?
Finally, congratulations must go
to Sandy, pictured below. Now in the
title of today’s post when I said “all round’, that would be a very good
description of me after so long at the computer, working on the app materials
and nursing my bound hand.
Ordinarily I would have been
going to a local spa at the Nikopolis
Hotel to swim and to have Pilates classes run by this lovely trainer – doesn’t she strike a pretty pose? Without
regular exercise, however, ‘rotund’ is the appropriate epithet for me. And last
night’s Pilates session showed me just how out of shape I was and how my
stamina level had dropped.
So Sandy, thank you for being so
patient with me and let’s hope together our efforts can show some progress
fairly soon!
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