yikes - we're at the end of week 1 and all is well! not complaining or anything - apartments are comfortable and modern but here's what's missing: hangers, tissue, salt/pepper, airfreshner, slippers, robes, clothes detergent, dish soap, hand soap, spounge, wash clothes (yes donna, you're right - no wash clothes), top sheets omitted - just the bottom sheet & the duvet&cover, and pressure for the shower/sinks (apparentely - this is only an issue on the 7th floor and the rest of the building has plenty of pressure!) it takes me 15 minutes to brush my teeth cuz there's no pressure...and sometimes there's no water! how uncivilized!
weather - we've been so lucky to just head out for work and back to the apartment - timed just so, that miraculously we've missed the torrential rains and down pour that drown everything for 10-15 minutes and just as quickly - clear up! yes, the other night we looked out and raised our pints-o-beers as we saw all the water outside! after one early morning of violent rain, pam called to tell me to look out my southwest facing window to check out the beautiful morning rainbow over the city! and just like a movie, the clouds pushed out and the sun came out for a beautiful walk to work! we also discovered that the brits will walk on both sides of the sidewalk; however, unconsciously, they are definitely more comfortable walking on the left side, while we gravitate to the right side...who would have thunk it! next time i'm going to scream at them - blimey brits! walk on the other side please! cheers!
yes - cheers is basically said after any and everything! 'oi mate - thanks for that memo, cheers!' 'cheers everyone! (entering the office), 'aye did you see the game last night, cheers!' 'did you want crisps with that? cheers! i'm sure the show did well over here! right now they are into showing all the reruns of friends and - yep - two and a half men! cheers!
unable to eavesdrop on co-workers - unable to determine what they are saying unless i focus and look at them! so all the discussions around me are just foreign! deb pointed out that one of our brit co-worker is a near replica of philip seymoure hoffman....i'm convinced that the brits must think all americans are hard of hearing as we keep asking them to repeat themselves...we have no idea what they are saying and hope the second time around we'll understand it any better!
this weekend we're exploring leeds! more to come! cheers all ya' all!
-carole
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