Southside flat tyre.

Today is my last day off, next week I have to supervise my Au Pair kid full time for the rest of his holidays. This means I wont be able to do any home school work with my brother until Au Pair goes back to school.

So today I took a drive to Alberton to get his new home school books as he only has Afrikaans books left and he cannot work on those by himself. I stopped at a Caltex petrol station on Jan Smuts in Rosebank to fill up my car (PAY DAY TODAY YAAAY) and put air in my tyres and then off to the South I went.

When I got to my destination and climbed out my car, I heard a hissing sound from the front of my car. I checked my tyre and found that the cap was missing from my drivers side tyre.
The guy at the petrol station didn't put the cap back on my tyre when he put air in it and I drove over 50 kms like that! I am very lucky I didn't damage my tyre.

Anyway off to the South again tonight for a bit of a celebration as I passed one of three assignments for my carbon footprint analyst course :)

Au Pair kid cutting himself and taking extra meds!

After my boss gave me the week off work because Au Pair kid decided to spend the week with his mom, I got called in to have a meeting with my boss.

So apparently Au Pair kid (15) has been cutting himself on his wrists (not bled to death kind of cuts) and taking extra medication (he is on a whole bunch on natural stuff)

I think this kid is just playing everyone, he does not want to live with his dad anymore, he wants to go back to his mom so he makes some scratches on his arms and stashes some pills in his room. There was no cuts on his arms last Thursday, the last day I saw him and the day before he went to see his mother. My BF who gives him extra maths lessons, confirmed he had no cuts on his arms on Thursday. So he cuts himself before he goes to visit his mom and then shows it to her and tells her how sad his little life is!

I just dont understand how a kid who has everything can think his life sucks so much. He has the best schooling, everything money can buy, dinner on the table every night. He should thank his lucky stars that he does not have my brothers lives where they are so broke they are re-using teabags!

The conclusion to all of this, is that I now have to supervise him at all times, wake him up in the morning, keep him busy through out the day, boss him around etc etc