Our Flat!

Hey everyone! i just snapped a few pictures of our flat and wanted to post them real quick!





1. This picture is taken while standing with my back against the front door. straight ahead you see amanda and my room, directly to the left (not really visible) is the door to the kitchen, and the staircase.


















2. The picture below is after i took one step into the flat and turned left, looking straight into the kitchen. you can see our little fridge under the counter, and the washing machine on the left. the sink, stove, and oven are hidden on the left. there is a window across the wall on the left over the sink too
























3. this picture is taken by taking another step into the flat while facing away from the front door. our desk is directly in front, with beautiful amanda sitting in one of our sofa chairs on the other side. you can see the edge of the window/curtains on the far wall.





















4. This photo is taking a step further into our room and turning left to face into the room. you can see the edge of our little coffee table in the middle, and then our beds. mine is the cream and red one on the right. we have another little desk you can kind of see there on the left, and past that along the left wall is another wardrobe type thing where our clothes are folded and hanging.
















well that's about the extent of the flat, there is a shower room and a toilet closet upstairs alng with camila and flavio's rooms.


so, i had my first day at harrod's today and it was pretty fun. it was the first day of a four day induction for a bunch of different people. there were about 50 of us i would say, ranging from temp staff to managers. i am not going to be completing the rest of the induction at this point in time as they need us in the christmas department to start helping out. so i go in tomorrow to help take apart the garden living department and start setting up the christms world. i get to wear jeans a sneakers for the next two weeks since we won't be interacting with customers at all, but just stocking shelves and unloading pallets! sweeeet haha.


anyway, that's all for now. off to enjoy the rest of the evening.



p.s.--- it was REALLY nice to come home from work and NOT smell like a horse!!

Good Bye Hyde Park

Good afternoon everyone! amanda and i just got back from strolling around in the beautiful saturday evening weather and we are about to go to primrose hill to enjoy it some more.

I thought today was going to be my last day at Hyde Park but when i got there this morning katherine (the manager) said she didn't have me on the schedule, so i got to go home and go back to sleep! it's been fun just having a day off with amanda. so i'll go in tomorrow for my last day and then i start at harrods on monday! i have four days of training and then i think i'll be helping stock shelves and stuff like that to get ready for the department to open on august first. i have enjoyed working at hyde park and have made friends with the other girls there but i'm looking forward to having a job with more varied hours and not such long days. and also not smelling like horse poop when i come home haha!

last night amanda and i decided that we couldn't eat pasta again -- i have had a bowl of pasta every night for dinner for about a week and a half now -- so we looked up some recommended restaurants and picked a little burmese place. we found our way there and it was SO good. we split some sweet and sour chicken (very spicy) and some chicken and veggie noodles. it was really fun to go somewhere and try something different and new.

the past few weeks have mostly consisted of working and then coming home and showering, making dinner (pasta) and then hanging out either here or going for a pint at one of our pubs. amanda and i have been having a great time together and i'm really excited to get even closer over the next few months.

overall the past few weeks of my life have kind of been a dream and i am so stinking excited for the next six months.

off to the park! love you all!

Summer Monsoon

Hey everyone! well here i am sitting in my room in the flat getting ready for bed and feeling pretty at home. who would believe that so much has happened in one week! hard to imagine that i have found a job (well two actually... more details below), a great flat, and fallen more in love with the city!?

This week has been pretty gloomy as far as the weather is concerned. we got a months worth of rain today, and the paper has been calling it a "summer monsoon" haha. there's a paper called thelondonpaper that guys hand out all over the city for free, daily. everyone reads it on the tube or bus on the way home. there are little blurbs about major news stories, pop culture bits, tv listings, lovelinks, and listings for what's going on around town, etc. amanda and i have been picking them up and reading them while we eat dinner at home. we love reading thelondonlove section where people can write in and try to recover a missed connection. here is an example of one from today's:
"To the gorgeous man in tan on the Hammersmith to Richmond tube on Monday at 10:30pm. We smiled. I should have given you my numbr! I was the girl in black with a pink bg. Drink?" ANON

you can then get in touch with the paper if the person is you and they will link you up with whoever wrote it. hilarious right? love it.

in other news... i had an assesment/interview with harrods yesterday to be a full time employee in their christmas world department which opns in August. I was asked to stay for me second interview straight away and talked with one of the floor managers. they called me today and said i got the part! so i will start there on july 21 as long as everything works out correctly. i do need to specify with them what the pay is, just to be sure, but other than that i think everything is good to go!

alright, that's all for now. cheers!

Cheers!

Well helo everyone! greeting from London. It is a beautiful saturday afternoon here and we are enjoying being lazy around the flat. Amanda and i went on a BUNAC party boat last night to celebrate the 4th of July with other bunacers. it was a lot of fun and we met some new people which is always nice.

THis week has been quite a whirlwind. it feels like i've been here for so long already! we are finding our way around and becoming more settled in. i've only had one day of work, thursday, and had yesterday and today off. i go in tomorrow morning at 7:15. Everyone at work was very nice and i hope that i'll fit right in. the horses are all pretty gentle and well looked after. i am still going to continue looking for other options, because it never hurts to have options!

Amanda is still looking for a job. She has applied a few places and been in for one interview so far. She is mostly looking for something more in her field; she is an english lit major and enjoys editing and writing. So hopefully she will hear back from some of these other places early this week and she can get something set up.

We don't have television in the flat so i'm going to have lots of reading time i think! i suppose i can also watch things on my computer/online if i want to. i'm just really looking forward to feeling completely at home, and having a bit of a routine down.

Oh and by the way, i now know my address and telephone number so if you want it just let me know and i'll email it to you. looking forward to hearing from everyone soon!

Lucy

London!!

Hey everyone! this is going to just be a quick update. i had a minute and decided i would check in and let everyone know what i have been up to.

yesterday was a big day, amanda arrived in the morning and i helped her get settled in the hostel and we went out and about for the day.  we went and i showed her the flat that i had already gone to see on sunday.  we really like the two others that live there and the flat itself is nice too, in a good location.  it's not right in the middle of the city so it's quieter and more residential.  we are packing up our stuff now at the hostel to move in!!! 

i also had a "try out" with the hyde park riding stables yesterday afternoon and they were very nice.  I START WORK ON THURSDAY!!! woohoo.  i think that was a lot easier than it's supossed to be haha.

alright... more soon!

Lucy