New Place, New Rules

So it's been a couple of days since my last blog and we finally have some Internet working so that we can talk to everyone and find out when we can finally work!!

Not very much has happened over the last couple of days.  We finally left the hotel and moved to our new house!!!  We had our first meal in our new studio and we were lucky enough to try and cook some homemade meatballs with what we had and spaghetti.  I have to say, with the limited amount of ingredients we had, Anthony did a really good job.  He'll have to start being more creative with his recipes because the spices around here are NOT the same as what we have at home.  We are so excited to see that everything is working out and excited to start work hopefully sooner than later.  Anthony and I actually just found out this afternoon that we have our first supply job starting on Wednesday in Seaford, UK which about an hour bus ride from the Marina where we are living.  We were fortunate enough to know in advance and we're both teaching on that day at the same school.  Couldn't have been planned any better than that!!!  We are so excited to finally get working and making some money :)  Lord knows we definitely need it!!  No news for the rest of this week, but we'll just have to keep our chin up and wait to hear if we have any more work.

We are finding it really difficult to get decent Internet over here, but we have something temporary for the moment until we're able to hook up something else, but it may take some time.  We are also trying to hook up a phone but that won't be in until the Internet is put in!  Go figure...they really do move at a snail's pace over here...it's unbelievable!!

The great news is that we are all set up with a Bank Account finally which was proving to be much more difficult than it needed to be.  We were actually quite lucky considering we're not even UK residents yet technically so they went way above and beyond for us which was fantastic!!

Laundry is also one of the surprises that we encountered when checking out the facilities.  They're right underneath our studio at the bottom level of the pier however, they run on tokens.   Now one would think, wow, the tokens are free and I don't have to pay for laundry.....WRONG!  It's about 7.50 pounds to do laundry over here!!!!! That's like almost $13-$15 PER LOAD.  Better hope we don't have that much laundry to do or that we do it more often...oh my goodness, that was definitely a shock but a reality check at the same time.  Some things at the Marina are more expensive considering it is a tourist area so it makes sense, but that's just nonsense!! LOL

The bus is beginning to become much easier to ride day by day.  We are starting to learn all of the bus routes but there are too many to memorize.  Depending on where you're going, you have to take a certain bus.  So knowing that we have work on Wednesday, we have already checked out where we are going and it's far but it's work so I will definitely not complain.

Tomorrow should be a pretty quiet day considering we have no work for tomorrow but will have to get set up for Wednesday.  I think if I'm right, we have to be at the school by no later than 8:15AM which means we have to leave the house at 6:45AM...WHAT??!?!?  I better start getting used to this.  I think we've slept in every day since we've got here...ahahahahahhahaha should be an interesting week!!

Well that's all for now...but stay tuned as we venture out Wednesday for some official teaching.  Wish us luck because we'll definitely need it!!! :)

<3 Steph & Anthony xoxo