Home, Work, and Some Shopping

Today's post is just about some everyday things. First, you'll notice some changes to the blog template to help make reading things easier. I still don't love it, but I'm working on it.

As requested, here are some pics of the flat Ed and I are renting in London. It's 2 stories w/ a basement. You'll see pics here of the ground level (living room, conservatory, dining room and kitchen).

Upstairs are 2 bedrooms (one w/ 2 twin beds and one w/ one queen bed) and 2 bathrooms (one w/ a shower in the room w/ the queen and one unattached bath w/ a tub). There is also an office upstairs that now has a functioning Ooma box! So, my Texas number works here now. Yay!!

 

The basement has a washer/dryer. And our street is pretty adorable. So adorable in fact they just finished filming a movie here! Apparently this happens all the time! That would be crazy exciting!!













 We headed to IES today to see where we'd be working. Here's a somewhat decent pic of the classroom I'll be using. It's decent. The "desks" seem small, but that's okay. We'll manage. She did snag 2 whole white boards for me, so that's nice. :)  On the way, Ed got a Diet Coke and there was one right in front of the case w/ my name on it! Exciting!

Then, it was shopping time! We got junky cell phones for students to contact us while we're here and so we have local numbers. Then, I found a phone for the Ooma box. We also went to Primark which has crazy cheap stuff but was too chaotic for me when I was hungry. So, I left w/ nothing. I'll go there early some morning...when I'm not hungry...and maybe when it's slightly less crowded. After dinner, I went to H&M and bought a skirt and dress. I just need something to wear in this heat wave! It's going to be like 86 tomorrow. It's quite warm at night w/o A/C. And walking about town is HOT! So, hopefully these two items (for a total of 8.99 pounds) will help me get through this heat.

On my way home I found this adorable frozen yogurt bus parked next to the Thames. I waited in the queue and got some peanut butter yogurt w/ chocolate sauce and then sat upstairs on the bus and watched the sunset over the Thames. Not a bad way to end the day.

 

Also on my way home, I took a slightly different route than usual and thankfully these awesome bird prints are all over the sidewalk that lead to the street I need to turn on. Perfect. Like a bread trail. Hope they'll stay there for a while. That's about it for today. I did some Scandinavia trip planning this AM and then worked on some math. I know this all isn't very exciting yet, but I do have some work to do and so I'm trying to do a bit of that here at the house each day with a bit of exploring added on.  Note of the day: it's weird to live in a touristy town. I live close to Austin and even when I'm in the city I don't feel like I'm surrounded by tourists. In San Antonio, I feel that way. I've lived in small towns my whole life. And now, I'm really living in a big city and one that people come to as tourists. It's a bit strange and weird that people have cameras out all the time. Fascinating.