We FINALLY have wifi set up in our flat!!! So now you get all the dirty deets you've been waiting for...with bated breath I'm sure.
Pics from our trip over and first few weeks.
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| YVR |
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| On a plane... |
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| Going to London!!! |
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| We're back!!! |
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| Welcome to London Town |
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| Day 1 searching for flats |
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| Day 2 searching for flats |
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| Day 3 searching for flats... |
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| Not impressed |
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| After finding the stupid scam. |
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| Girls' Night with Laura |
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| MMM. Great food on Girls' Night |
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| Run with Laura along the Thames |
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| "Our flat" (the scam) |
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| Mmm popcorn and movies at Ben and Laura's |
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| Thai Food in an English Pub |
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| So amazing! |
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| Me cooking at Ben and Laura's...still barely tall enough. |
So, quick update on our scam...it's moved forward finally. Got a call yesterday with information about where it's going. Apparently it's bigger than originally thought. They are following leads.
We are feeling settled in the flat. Our flatmate, Antonio, has had to go back to Italy for a time (family matter, he's back early next week), so we've had the place to ourselves. We have all our household stuff after trips to Asda (Wal-mart), different pound stores, Primark, and Ikea. We've put pictures up around our rooms and have everything hung and put away, so we're definitely more settled in.
Tour of our house in pictures:
Keys
Front Door
Living room/dining room
Harry Potter cupboard
Kitchen
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| Door to our back garden/yard |
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| Weird toilet room |
Worst shower in the world
Stairs and door to Antonio's closet...I mean room
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| Antonio's closet and door to Sam's room |
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| Our doors on the top floor |
Sam's Room
Tooting
Continuing with update...
I got really really sick Thursday night of our first week back to work. I ended up taking Friday off, was feeling a bit better Saturday, but still not great. Tried to go to the doctor but had to be registered, so I registered then met Sam at Nero Coffee to use the wifi, then we grocery shopped. We had Ben and Laura over for dinner then Meghan, Marina, and Cierra came down and we all chatted and played Cards Against Humanity. Sunday I still wasn't feeling great so Sam and I had a great lazy day. We watched movies ALL day...6 of them. I woke up feeling the worst I had on the Monday, so I took the day off again and got a doctor's appt for that evening. The doctor was really nice and she gave me a prescription. Prescriptions here all cost 8 pounds, it's kind of cool. They worked really well. I was feeling much better Tuesday but still not 100% and decided to take the extra day to really get better. My voice/throat were still causing me some trouble by the end of the day on Wed and Thurs, I was definitely better and feeling better.
Meghan, Marina, Cierra and Alex are wonderful and let us stay with them until moving day.
Sunday before we started work Meg, Mar, Sam and I headed on an adventure to get poutine and chicken wings.
Tuesday after work we met the landlady and agents and our future roommate for the first time at the agency.
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| Going to sign our contract...hopefully |
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| Contract signed. This is Antonio |
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| Got our keys. |
We've now worked for 3 weeks, and are at the first half-term break (1 week).
Week 1 (Jan 26-30)
Sam:
Monday-Worked at a great school with Meghan in a nice reception class.
Tuesday- Crappy day at a horrible school in Year 4.
Wednesday and Thursday- Trial days in Year 5 and Reception...didn't go well. Horrible classes and staff were not helpful at all.
Friday- Back at the great school for Year 2. Good day.
Lisa
Monday- Nice, but chatty Year 6 class at a pretty good school.
Tuesday- Perfect day. Year 6 at my favourite school from last year. This class is one of the best from last year too. Everyone, including kids in the class, remembered me. It was great.
Wednesday- Back at the same school. Year 4. Pretty good day. Talked with some teachers at lunch. it was nice.
Thursday- Trial day. Was offered a full time Year 4 position for the rest of the year. It was an amazing day. The perfect class, lovely school. I just don't want something full-time.
Friday- Sick
Week 2 (Feb 2-6)
Sam:
Monday- Back at the great school...Year 6 (Sam's favourite class so far)
Tuesday- New school, Year 6, she had a fist fight in PE. Good times.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday- At a nice school doing Float coverage (covering meetings). All years.
Lisa
Monday- Sick
Tuesday-Sick
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday- Another trial. A PPA cover teacher (covering teacher's preps). I was in almost every class in the school. Some wonderful classes, some crazy classes. It was a pretty decent few days. The first few were tough as my throat and voice were still recovering.
Week 3 (Feb 8-13)
Sam:
Monday- Back at the same school as Wed, Thurs, Fri covering Year 1.
Tuesday- Sam had to take the day off so that the guy could come and set up our Wifi.
Wednesday- Great school again...Year 6
Thursday and Friday- Same school...Year 5
Lisa
Monday-Friday- All week at the same school. I was in Year 5/6 all week. Worked with different Math groups in the mornings, taught the same Y5 Literacy group all week, and then had some interesting afternoons. The literacy group was amazing. We did a poetry unit all week and then had a Poetry Slam on Thursday afternoon. It was amazing, was so impressed with them. Friday afternoon we had free-time.
We had a couple light snowfalls...one that stuck a bit which was fun.
Week before break, not work:
Saturday we went down to Ikea and then met Meghan and Marina at Primark for a bit. After we all came back here and had tea and snacks and chatted.
I went for my first run around Tooting (where we're living) on Sunday. It felt so nice to be out running and I was surprisingly not really off where I was before I got sick either, so that was nice. I did a nice 10 km around the Tooting Common Park, up into Streatham, and then back through the park again. It was a nice run.
Looking forward to more.
We had to use WiFi at Nero again Monday to deal with pay and all that after work.
Sam took Tuesday off because the guy who was setting up our WiFi was booked to come sometime between 1-6. Saw a fox!
So we finally got it set up and then Sam and I went and got our gym passes and did a great 1.5 hour workout. Because it was our first day we had to do an orientation (girl who set us up with our passes said we could workout first and do the orientation after...the guy running the orientation was SO unimpressed). It was the biggest waste of 15 minutes ever. This is how you use a treadmill, who wants to try? This is how you use an elliptical, who wants to try? This continued on for a couple of weight machines as well. He figured out pretty quick that none of us were really keen on being there and knew what we were doing.
After that Sam and I decided to use the showers at the gym so that we didn't have to use our crappy shower...so we put on our bathing suits and had a full-out shower in the change rooms. Pretty sweet to have someone to wash your back...just sayin.
Wednesday, we did a big grocery shop for the rest of the week and then made gnocchi with a veggie pasta sauce for dinner and did 8-minute abs.
Thursday, Sam was meeting her cousin for dinner, so I went to the gym and had an awesome workout then came back for a relaxing evening. Sam and her cousin, Taylor, met up at a pub for a drink with his girlfriend (outside because he'd never done it). They the two of them went for dinner at the Hawaiian burger place we found around Oxford Circus last year while his gf met up with friends. And then they went back down to the pub to get another drink with his gf and her friends.
Friday was the start of break...so that will be in blog #2.
So that's it for our update blog!
We out.
Sam and Lisa
PS. WAY too excited for the new Pitch Perfect movie... http://time.com/3703352/pitch-perfect-2-trailer-2/
And...Fast and Furious 7 comes out in early April!!! :D
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