Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Update
Alright... it's been a while since i've written, i appologize because i actually have some fun stuff to write about, including a fun weekend off of work! i am not going to write it all out now because i am getting ready to go to bed, but i will in the next day or two. i miss you all and love hearing from everyone! talk to you soon!
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Long Week
Well hello there everyone. I am sitting on my bed on this lovely sunday afternoon relaxing after a long week. I have been pretty stressed out this week, and am ready for some relax time, which i am having today!
it all started last thursday night when our water heater stopped working.... which did not get fixed until THIS friday... yes, that is a full week without hot water. meaning minimal showers, and washing of hair in freezing water. needless to say we were overflowing with joy when the repair man showed up on friday morning and fixed it. so we've all had a few showers and it has been wonderful... UNTIL this morning when amanda went to take a shower, and guess what... no hot water AGAIN. i have the number of the agency who came and fixed it and he wanted me to call on monday to let them know if it was still working or not, so i'll be calling them first thing in the morning to see if he can get out here tomorrow.
i had topped up my phone at the beginning of the week, which normally lasts about 10 days or so... but after spending so much time calling our landlord trying to sort out the water heater thing i ran out of credit in 2 days. ten pounds out the window.
also, i was really looking forward to friday because it was the first time i was going to see money from harrods, thinking i would get three weeks pay. but we found out during the week we were just being paid one weeks wages and we would get the rest later. so whatever, that's fine, i just need something! friday afternoon roles around, no money in my account, so i call the pay office and we figure out that there was a number wrong in the sort code they had for me, soooo my money is out in cyber space somewhere, which hopeffuly we'll be able to sort out on monday and i can get my money!
in good news, i finally got my bank cards for my account here and recieved the pin numbers in the post so i can start using my british bank account! there was a little bit of money in that account that i had to deposit when i opened it, so that can hold me for a few days till i get payed.
so overall i was pretty wiped out all week from being stressed and dirty, but we still had some fun too. amanda's friend vanessa was here for he week visiting which was fun. she did her own thing during the day when we were at work, but we did fun things in the evenings. one night we went up to hampstead heath and hung out at a cute pub that amanda and i have been to before. one night after work i met up with them for dinner at wagamamas (which was perfect because it was raining and cold and i got some good ramen!), another night we went to the british library. we also went to camden a few nights which is chalk full of interesting people. there is a really cool market that is in an old horse hospital, the old stalls used for vendors. at night they turn it into a club where you can reserve stalls for you and your friends to hang out in. it's really cool.
work has been pretty good, i'm feeling like i am getting in the swing of things. and everone is starting to get to know eachother and be friends which is good. and my feet are slowly getting used to being in not sneakers all day!
alright well amanda and i are going up to the cafe to sit and read over some cappucinos. love you all!
it all started last thursday night when our water heater stopped working.... which did not get fixed until THIS friday... yes, that is a full week without hot water. meaning minimal showers, and washing of hair in freezing water. needless to say we were overflowing with joy when the repair man showed up on friday morning and fixed it. so we've all had a few showers and it has been wonderful... UNTIL this morning when amanda went to take a shower, and guess what... no hot water AGAIN. i have the number of the agency who came and fixed it and he wanted me to call on monday to let them know if it was still working or not, so i'll be calling them first thing in the morning to see if he can get out here tomorrow.
i had topped up my phone at the beginning of the week, which normally lasts about 10 days or so... but after spending so much time calling our landlord trying to sort out the water heater thing i ran out of credit in 2 days. ten pounds out the window.
also, i was really looking forward to friday because it was the first time i was going to see money from harrods, thinking i would get three weeks pay. but we found out during the week we were just being paid one weeks wages and we would get the rest later. so whatever, that's fine, i just need something! friday afternoon roles around, no money in my account, so i call the pay office and we figure out that there was a number wrong in the sort code they had for me, soooo my money is out in cyber space somewhere, which hopeffuly we'll be able to sort out on monday and i can get my money!
in good news, i finally got my bank cards for my account here and recieved the pin numbers in the post so i can start using my british bank account! there was a little bit of money in that account that i had to deposit when i opened it, so that can hold me for a few days till i get payed.
so overall i was pretty wiped out all week from being stressed and dirty, but we still had some fun too. amanda's friend vanessa was here for he week visiting which was fun. she did her own thing during the day when we were at work, but we did fun things in the evenings. one night we went up to hampstead heath and hung out at a cute pub that amanda and i have been to before. one night after work i met up with them for dinner at wagamamas (which was perfect because it was raining and cold and i got some good ramen!), another night we went to the british library. we also went to camden a few nights which is chalk full of interesting people. there is a really cool market that is in an old horse hospital, the old stalls used for vendors. at night they turn it into a club where you can reserve stalls for you and your friends to hang out in. it's really cool.
work has been pretty good, i'm feeling like i am getting in the swing of things. and everone is starting to get to know eachother and be friends which is good. and my feet are slowly getting used to being in not sneakers all day!
alright well amanda and i are going up to the cafe to sit and read over some cappucinos. love you all!
Friday, August 1, 2008
It's a Christmas World!
Hey everyone, update time! woohoo! haha
I hope that everyone is doing well and enjoying the summer time months. the weather has finally cheered up here after being gloomy for a solid few weeks. the past week or so has been beautiful, even a little on the hot side. today has been great -- a nice cool breeze, sunshine, with some clouds blowing over every once in a while keeping it nice and cool. absolutely lovely!
i have been working like crazy for the past two weeks which has been great. starting last monday when i went to the first day of harrod's four day induction program from 9 to 5 and then they grabbed me out of induction to start helping right away in th christmas department starting tuesday, so i worked all week from 9-6 with the rest of the christmas people unwrapping ornaments (what they like to call baubles) and hanging them on the walls. i had sunday off which was a good break. then this week i went to the rest of the induction program tuesday-thursday. i got off yesterday at 5 and had today off (we get two days off a week, and the week starts on sunday so even though it feels like a lot of work i technically had two days off since i got sunday too) and i don't have to go in tomorrow till 12:30. i think this is the longest consecutive amount of time i've had off since i started working here!
and i've definitely had a great day!! i got an extra hour or so of sleep and then spent some time cleaning up our room and kitchen, just tidying up and everything. then i went to the bank and picked up my debit cards and stuff. this has pretty much been my first opportunity to do so because the banks here cloe during the week normally by 4:30 and aren't always open on saturdays... how are working people suposed to get to the bank? i don't know... anyway, then i went to madison house (the JMU house where i lived when i studied here) and met up with the director of the study in london program who is here for the summer. he is making a new promo video for the program and asked if he could interview me for it. so we did that then he took me to lunch around the corner and great little italian cafe. i'm still full... that's the most i've had to eat at one meal in a long time!! haha. then i hopped on the tube back toward my neck of the woods and walked down to the camden town market and walked around for the afternoon. i was looking for a black shirt and shoes for work, which i found! now i'm back at the house enjoying a nice cold coke.
in other exciting (or not so exciting) news... our water heater started making some crazy demonic noises last night while amanda and i were hanging out in our room. so i went to investigate and found that the pressure gauge was reading zero and the flame failure light blinking... soooo we don't have any hot water as of right now. i mean it's been warm... but not warm enough to be excited about taking cold showers. so hopefully we can get a repair man here fairly quickly. one thing i can bet is that our water bill will be lower if we don' thave hot water for a while! haha.
alright amanda just got home from work so i'm off to hang out and get ready for our friday night pub! love you all
I hope that everyone is doing well and enjoying the summer time months. the weather has finally cheered up here after being gloomy for a solid few weeks. the past week or so has been beautiful, even a little on the hot side. today has been great -- a nice cool breeze, sunshine, with some clouds blowing over every once in a while keeping it nice and cool. absolutely lovely!
i have been working like crazy for the past two weeks which has been great. starting last monday when i went to the first day of harrod's four day induction program from 9 to 5 and then they grabbed me out of induction to start helping right away in th christmas department starting tuesday, so i worked all week from 9-6 with the rest of the christmas people unwrapping ornaments (what they like to call baubles) and hanging them on the walls. i had sunday off which was a good break. then this week i went to the rest of the induction program tuesday-thursday. i got off yesterday at 5 and had today off (we get two days off a week, and the week starts on sunday so even though it feels like a lot of work i technically had two days off since i got sunday too) and i don't have to go in tomorrow till 12:30. i think this is the longest consecutive amount of time i've had off since i started working here!
and i've definitely had a great day!! i got an extra hour or so of sleep and then spent some time cleaning up our room and kitchen, just tidying up and everything. then i went to the bank and picked up my debit cards and stuff. this has pretty much been my first opportunity to do so because the banks here cloe during the week normally by 4:30 and aren't always open on saturdays... how are working people suposed to get to the bank? i don't know... anyway, then i went to madison house (the JMU house where i lived when i studied here) and met up with the director of the study in london program who is here for the summer. he is making a new promo video for the program and asked if he could interview me for it. so we did that then he took me to lunch around the corner and great little italian cafe. i'm still full... that's the most i've had to eat at one meal in a long time!! haha. then i hopped on the tube back toward my neck of the woods and walked down to the camden town market and walked around for the afternoon. i was looking for a black shirt and shoes for work, which i found! now i'm back at the house enjoying a nice cold coke.
in other exciting (or not so exciting) news... our water heater started making some crazy demonic noises last night while amanda and i were hanging out in our room. so i went to investigate and found that the pressure gauge was reading zero and the flame failure light blinking... soooo we don't have any hot water as of right now. i mean it's been warm... but not warm enough to be excited about taking cold showers. so hopefully we can get a repair man here fairly quickly. one thing i can bet is that our water bill will be lower if we don' thave hot water for a while! haha.
alright amanda just got home from work so i'm off to hang out and get ready for our friday night pub! love you all
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