Dear Followers,
All three of you.... Internet has yet to be installed in the new flat. Therefore I am now at a local pub applying for jobs over a glass of rose. Had to make a purchase to use their internet, and it is happy hour on wine, perfect. Oh, and yes it is past noon.
What I am really trying to say is that you will have to wait about another week for my much anticipated next post. Sorry. Shame isn't it?
Love
22 September 2009
14 September 2009
moving house
The English say "moving house" and that is how I spent my weekend, moving house to a new flat in Hove. Hove is adjacent to Brighton and in 1997 the two areas were combined into one big city. Hove is generally regarded as the better area with more spacious homes.
For more info on the area check out these websites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton
http://tourism.brighton.co.uk/
I was very pleased when I explored the neighborhood. The flat is on a main street above a nuts and bolts shop, but the shop next door is an organic health foods store... just my style. There is a green grocers diagonally across the street that sells a wide variety of fresh fruit and produce. A couple of blocks in the other direction is an acupuncture clinic that hosts yoga and pilates classes every day of the week... perfect!
My new place is lovely! Spacious with wood floors, dishwasher, clothes washing machine, dining room table, living room... the works. Still chaos at the moment though. It took over four hours last night to put together a bedside table from Ikea, it was a 20 step process with a billion little parts! I am very pleased that two of the walls in my room are painted a deep purple, one of my fav colours.
That's it for now. Unpacking to do.
love
For more info on the area check out these websites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton
http://tourism.brighton.co.uk/
I was very pleased when I explored the neighborhood. The flat is on a main street above a nuts and bolts shop, but the shop next door is an organic health foods store... just my style. There is a green grocers diagonally across the street that sells a wide variety of fresh fruit and produce. A couple of blocks in the other direction is an acupuncture clinic that hosts yoga and pilates classes every day of the week... perfect!
My new place is lovely! Spacious with wood floors, dishwasher, clothes washing machine, dining room table, living room... the works. Still chaos at the moment though. It took over four hours last night to put together a bedside table from Ikea, it was a 20 step process with a billion little parts! I am very pleased that two of the walls in my room are painted a deep purple, one of my fav colours.
That's it for now. Unpacking to do.
love
10 September 2009
hello again england
I love airports. Really LOVE airports. I have since I was a child. I know to some the entire experience is just stress and chaos. But there is something about them that enchants me. Thousands of people, each individual coming from one place, going to another, each with their own story to tell. To me it creates an atmosphere of mystery and adventure. I love it!
I became very excited as I got near SeaTac on Tuesday evening. Giddy to be at an airport, anxious to return to England, but at the same time sad to be leaving my family and friends. I had an incredible summer. So much quality time and fun with my parents, grandparents and great friends, I am truely grateful. So many fun weddings!! As much as I will miss everyone, I know for now I am happy to be in England. I am a 23 year old American girl with little money and no job at the moment, who wants to see the world and wants more adventure before she settles down, who also happens to have fallen for an English bloke. So my boots came off, my computer came out of the bag, everything in trays and through security I went.
Best flight of my life! I boarded just before 10:00 pm, fell asleep and woke up half an hour before landing in London. Plus, I was seated by the window with no one right next to me.
I woke up this morning (Thursday) about 3:00 am I think, (seriously it was pitch black and I saw the sun rise, thank you jet leg!) and thought to myself how crazy it is that I grew up in little Selah, went to UW (go dawgs!), and now I am waking up in an old farmhouse in the English countryside with people I really care about. I actually do have friends across the globe now. I often wish I could split myself in two and be in America and England at the same time. That's unfortunately not possible so after my amazing summer in the States I am now starting my job hunt in Brighton, England. Wish me luck!
love
I became very excited as I got near SeaTac on Tuesday evening. Giddy to be at an airport, anxious to return to England, but at the same time sad to be leaving my family and friends. I had an incredible summer. So much quality time and fun with my parents, grandparents and great friends, I am truely grateful. So many fun weddings!! As much as I will miss everyone, I know for now I am happy to be in England. I am a 23 year old American girl with little money and no job at the moment, who wants to see the world and wants more adventure before she settles down, who also happens to have fallen for an English bloke. So my boots came off, my computer came out of the bag, everything in trays and through security I went.
Best flight of my life! I boarded just before 10:00 pm, fell asleep and woke up half an hour before landing in London. Plus, I was seated by the window with no one right next to me.
I woke up this morning (Thursday) about 3:00 am I think, (seriously it was pitch black and I saw the sun rise, thank you jet leg!) and thought to myself how crazy it is that I grew up in little Selah, went to UW (go dawgs!), and now I am waking up in an old farmhouse in the English countryside with people I really care about. I actually do have friends across the globe now. I often wish I could split myself in two and be in America and England at the same time. That's unfortunately not possible so after my amazing summer in the States I am now starting my job hunt in Brighton, England. Wish me luck!
love
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