new workmates, friends, beer, film and my OWN ROOM!!!
I hate to say it (don't want to jinx it) but things are going remarkably well with my move to Edinburgh. I've been at my job for over two weeks now and have settled in pretty well, although it's a temp job so it probably won't last too long. As I mentioned earlier I'm HR Assistant / Receptionist, apparently 30% of me is reception (my right arm picks up the phone and my head speaks) and the other 70% is HR...hmm...we'll see how that goes.
Thanks everyone for the lovely messages for my birthday, it was excellent to get texts and emails from across the world. I was a bit lazy this year when it came to my birthday - I moved into my new flat on Wednesday night and my birthday was Thursday, and I'd only just settled in at work so I didn't tell anyone it was my birthday. Of course not surprisingly even though I was determined to have a non-birthday I did get in a bit of a crappy mood when work was horribly busy and I didn't get any gifts and stuff...so I ended up going out with a girl from work for a slap-dash birthday drink. We met up with a lovely Canadian/Scottish girl that I used to work with in London and ended up meeting a lot of new people and having an excellent time. Everyone I met gave me hints on how to get work during the Festival so I'm really excited about that.
Anyway it turns out my crazy supervisor Val found out it was a special day for me and decided I was needing a bit of a celebration on Friday! She announced on the public noticeboard at work that we were all going out to the pub afterwork and half of the office came out which was really excellent. The average age of staff at my work is around 25 - the company develops medical imaging software so it mainly employs software engineers etc. Anyway as anyone who's been to uni would know - engineers like to drink. So it's a very social/fun atmosphere at work which is great since I'm so new and don't know many people! (Oh yeah and Jaan you'll be amused to know that one of the engineers here is an alpha member) Friday was also excellent because it snowed! Edinburgh hasn't been that cold up until late last week, then on friday morning it snowed and snowed and made this gorgeous white carpet all over everything - I threw my first snowball and slipped and slided, and of course since I paid no attention to the weather broadcast I was wearing very unsuitable shoes and froze my poor toes walking home.
I've just realised this post is a little bit messy and rambling- sorry I must be tired.
Second section - my house - OK so yeah I'm living on Marchmont Road which is exactly where I wanted to be, and yes I'm right next to the gothic church, in fact I'm across the road from it right now! Haven't seen Tamara around yet though. Marchmont is really cool, right next to the meadows/parklands, 5 minutes walk from the old town, and there are little fruit shops, art & craft shops and fantastic restaurants all around my house. Stright across the road is Alphabet Video(!), supposedly one of the better video stores in Edinburgh. I don't have a membership there yet but I have met and got along really well with it's manager at a party so I'm hoping I may be able to force a bit of part-time work out of him!
I have hardly been home the last few days so I can't say a huge amount about my housemates yet, but I can happily say that after a year of sharing I've finally got my own room!!!!! It's gorgeous, got old floorboards, edwardian furniture and a huge window with a view of the communal garden and a queen size bed all for myself! I've taken photos with my SLR so I'll try to get them onto disk and put them on my blog some time soon. The house is excellent, very large and very messy, the kitchen is sunny and cosy and the housemates are chilled. My first night in the house the boys and I played a board game together which I thought was a pretty cool thing - I now haven't watched TV for around a month and it's great! But yeah I'm just happy to get out of the hostel after 2 weeks.
Have to go now cos the internet cafe is closing...lots of love to everyone.
xxx
Thanks everyone for the lovely messages for my birthday, it was excellent to get texts and emails from across the world. I was a bit lazy this year when it came to my birthday - I moved into my new flat on Wednesday night and my birthday was Thursday, and I'd only just settled in at work so I didn't tell anyone it was my birthday. Of course not surprisingly even though I was determined to have a non-birthday I did get in a bit of a crappy mood when work was horribly busy and I didn't get any gifts and stuff...so I ended up going out with a girl from work for a slap-dash birthday drink. We met up with a lovely Canadian/Scottish girl that I used to work with in London and ended up meeting a lot of new people and having an excellent time. Everyone I met gave me hints on how to get work during the Festival so I'm really excited about that.
Anyway it turns out my crazy supervisor Val found out it was a special day for me and decided I was needing a bit of a celebration on Friday! She announced on the public noticeboard at work that we were all going out to the pub afterwork and half of the office came out which was really excellent. The average age of staff at my work is around 25 - the company develops medical imaging software so it mainly employs software engineers etc. Anyway as anyone who's been to uni would know - engineers like to drink. So it's a very social/fun atmosphere at work which is great since I'm so new and don't know many people! (Oh yeah and Jaan you'll be amused to know that one of the engineers here is an alpha member) Friday was also excellent because it snowed! Edinburgh hasn't been that cold up until late last week, then on friday morning it snowed and snowed and made this gorgeous white carpet all over everything - I threw my first snowball and slipped and slided, and of course since I paid no attention to the weather broadcast I was wearing very unsuitable shoes and froze my poor toes walking home.
I've just realised this post is a little bit messy and rambling- sorry I must be tired.
Second section - my house - OK so yeah I'm living on Marchmont Road which is exactly where I wanted to be, and yes I'm right next to the gothic church, in fact I'm across the road from it right now! Haven't seen Tamara around yet though. Marchmont is really cool, right next to the meadows/parklands, 5 minutes walk from the old town, and there are little fruit shops, art & craft shops and fantastic restaurants all around my house. Stright across the road is Alphabet Video(!), supposedly one of the better video stores in Edinburgh. I don't have a membership there yet but I have met and got along really well with it's manager at a party so I'm hoping I may be able to force a bit of part-time work out of him!
I have hardly been home the last few days so I can't say a huge amount about my housemates yet, but I can happily say that after a year of sharing I've finally got my own room!!!!! It's gorgeous, got old floorboards, edwardian furniture and a huge window with a view of the communal garden and a queen size bed all for myself! I've taken photos with my SLR so I'll try to get them onto disk and put them on my blog some time soon. The house is excellent, very large and very messy, the kitchen is sunny and cosy and the housemates are chilled. My first night in the house the boys and I played a board game together which I thought was a pretty cool thing - I now haven't watched TV for around a month and it's great! But yeah I'm just happy to get out of the hostel after 2 weeks.
Have to go now cos the internet cafe is closing...lots of love to everyone.
xxx
5 Comments:
so glad to hear things are going well for you. im so jealous! i can't wait to get back there... please try to get those pics up. :)
yeah, I wanna see some photos!!! Can't imagine all that snow you're talking about since I'm mostly at the beach, chillin' at 35 degrees...:)
And keep in touch with that video store manager, even if you don't end up working there....he might give you some god deals for a cool DVD, eh?! hehehe...
But seriously, good to hear that things are going the right way for you! And make sure you post some pics of your male flatmates....:)
hi, long time reader, first time poster.. :)
well becky you asked me to post so you feel popular. i've posted so i hope you feel better now..
Thanks for that Lucky, you're so sweet.
that was so patronising. i'm never posting on here again. i hate you all with your fancy internet gadgets and blogs and whatever.
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