A busy day with lots of people...

A busy day with lots of people... 

Thursday, working day. It was a nice day at work but I had slightly a headache. I knew where it came from though, it's still a bit the cold that I have. The coughing is over, but my head and nose are full of slime what has to come out. A steam bath seems a good plan and some paracetamol will help too, it has been more then ten day now, and so far I used only nose spray. They say when you use nose spray to long the sympthons might return, and even worser. I'm using it less now, I use it only in the evening for the breathing at night. I just took a paracetamol and will try the steam bath tomorrow, let's see what it does. It's comming loose but it's not enough.

Today I finally had the meeting with a second lady from Gak, (the company who gives me my monthly money) As you maybe know this meeting was about re- intergration, to see what options there are for me for re-intergration. Now I'm already in the middle of  a re-intergration project with Reha, (the factory where I work) The funny thing about this re-intergration project is that I'm doing this project aswell with a lady from Gak, she leads me trough this project and tries to find proper jobs for me. And now this other lady from Gak wanted to invite me too see what options there are for me for re-intergration. Do these ladies not work with each other at the same company? Is there a missunderstanding? I don't know. But okay, today I had the meeting, first I didn't wanna go, I rather had the meeting trough the phone. My head hurted and it was quit  a ride with the bike.

I asked my Boss if I should go or not, just before I had to go to the meeting, " Let me call her and see what she says," the Boss told me. At the end of the phonecall my Boss told me that it was better to go to the meeting the lady was telling her, so I went. I arrived five minutes to soon, I was on time. The lady who wanted to speak to me was nice and wanted to know everything about Reha and the project, she knew already a bit about what I was doing, and it suprised me. The lady spoke already with my project leader before the meeting. She only wanted to confirm with me about Reha, if I liked it there, and how far the project was. Plus she wanted to know what I wanted after Reha, and how I was doing and feeling at the moment. It was a nice conversation and I was happy the way the conversation went.

I told her about what I would like and that I have a good time at Reha, there helping me well. I told her aswell what I'm able of at the moment with work, the three days in the week at work are fine at the moment, but I need my rest aswell, I rest alot in the weekend cause it's needed. My body is asking for it, I can feel that very well. I told her that in the end of this re-intergration project I would like to have a proper job, a job where I can stay, and earn money. Not a job where I will work a few days or a few weeks and then exit. I liked the way I talked, I was clear with things I was assertive and friendly. Gak is not Reha, Reha takes his time, Gak is hasty with things, re-intergration, and then work right away, time is money. Gak would rather see you work then being sick, no matter how sick or what kinda disease you have.

If your in a wheel chair for example you can do sitting work or perhaps an office job. You can say Gak is tough, but that can be good aswell in some kinda situations. But not always, there is a line, Gak doesn't see that line sometimes, Gak can be a pain. I thanked the lady for the conversation, and she tanked me. And back to work I went, I felt good. At work I had a phonecall from Paula, she asked me how the meeting went, nice of her. I told her about how it went, in the end of the conversation she wished me good luck these three weeks. Paula is going on vacation for three weeks, I will have another counselor while Paula is having her vacation. There's not much to do though, it's waiting for mail and e-mails. Waiting for the money what will be send to me, and waiting for the e-mails from Enschede and Hengelo (The city corporations) 

I lost my pass word for the sites these corporations have, so I can look online for houses. Yeah, I really need to start with searching for houses. It would be nice when Paula comes back from her three week vacation that I have found something, fingers crossed, I believe in myself! Today I had again the free dinner, Yum!! When I got back there was no Ricardo waiting for me, I had a little rest and took a shower. Then on the laptop with a nice coffee. Today aswell I had a short 'Canada thought' moment, I thought about how Saf and I did things together, a good example was going to karaoke, or do go out with the family. Kids in the backseat, food and toys packed, and there we went. The thought of that made me kinda miss these outs what we had, even going together to the store. Ah! I will treasure these moments. Even with the meeting with the Gak lady, I had a quiet moment, while she asked me about being in Canada. They were good times, and I wont forget them, even if it hurts a bit.