New Apartment
At last somewhere to call home for the next six months at least. Our landlady/landlord are nice, it is a private owned apartment. We are moving in tomorrow so I am going to be busy sortng stuff out. The landlady has gone out of her way to clean it all up I was pleasently surprised. I had gone out and purchased loads of cleaning products but it looks like I'm not going to have to deep clean the place which is good.
The apartment is located in the west about 10 mins from the mall and about 20mins from Neil's work. We both bought snow boots and later got some strap on studs to stop us from slipping about.
We have been buying stuff for the apartment today, bedding, Jamie Oliver Pans (you can't get away from the Brits we are everywhere) and other stuff.
We went to Neil's work do last nght and to be honest it didn't go as I planned it. I thought the people that he works with could have made more of an effort. The party was at the Shaw Conference Centre and another office of his from across the city merged in with theirs. There were 400 people in the one room I couldn't believe it.
I asked Neil to walk around to see if he could see anyone he knew but he couldn't we later found some people. We sat at the table but they were playing music in the background so you couldn't quite hear the people opposite you. (there were eight to one table) In the end it was a bit like going to a friends wedding but you don't know any other person there.
We were both very outgoing last night (even Neil) but they were very reserved, speaking mostly to the people they knew. In the end I just thought I was not going to try and be someone I wasn't and they would have to like the person that I am. I'm not one to pretend my personality.
I also think I shocked them with my outgoing personality as my husband is very much the quite type we are very chalk and cheese.
I decided I was just going to enjoy the night, I got up and started dancing with the other people on the dance floor and by the end of the night I had a very good time.
I woke up this morning feeling like crap, I was so upset that the night didn't go as planned as I was hopng to make some friends out of it. Its all going to take time and I am seeing this as another little hurdle in the emigration process. I need to also look elsewhere for our connections.
Our landlady asked us to go to a play at the local church so we are off to that on Thursday. I just don't want to be roped into attending church on a regular basis. We really arn't Church goers, both Neil and I don't even believe in God. I think our landlady is such a sweet lady and I also think she is missing her daughter as she has moved to England for a few years teaching. I spoke to my mum for the first time in two weeks as I couldn't contact her on her mobile for some reason. I was telling our landlady that I was having a tough day today and she gave me a hug.
So I think I will be off line again, unless I find somewhere with a wireless connection to the internet. I will try to get online at home as soon as I can (you know me by now) until then wish me luck. | 