what have I been upto?
This last weekend was Easter (obviously) and I was a little worried about being homesick like last year as it's so much more of a friend/family orientate thing in Australia than the UK, and both of my flatmates were out of town.
No need to worry though, I was lucky enough to be working both Friday and Monday, the later of these being my last day and handover at Barco just to keep me busy.
I also had the pleasant surprise of a visit from my London friend Jess. She came up on Thursday with around 24 hours notice and kept me company throughout the weekend. It turned out to be a very relaxing weekend - bumming around doing girlie stuff, shopping, going to the pub and out to a cool Turkish restaurant with friends. Jess left on Sunday and I went out for a walk with Tom from work and a couple of his friends. We walked 10 miles along the coast west of Edinburgh, starting at Queensferry and finishing at Bo'ness. We stopped at an Earl's house and a castle, and enjoyed the unpredictability of the weather in the region. Every day in the last two weeks I swear there has been four seasons in one day. We were in the castle for half an hour and I think we went through 3 of them.
Anyway as I mentioned, yesterday was my last day at Barco (the medical imaging software engineering company where I've been the last 2 months.)Today I started a job with a council east of Edinburgh in the community care / social worker's department. I'm really enjoying it so far - I spent all of today taking calls from clients of the social workers and occupational therapists. It looks like the work will be challenging but possibly very interesting. It's on a week-by-week basis which suits me well at the moment. Oh yeah and I almost forgot - one of the Occupational therapists that I met today was from Australia...I asked where she went to uni as her name and hometown sounded familiar...and what do you know...she went to uni with my cousin Cherry. Considering these are pretty much the only 2 OTs I've ever known, this was quite bizarre. An example of 'oh you two are from Australia - you must know each other' being close to correct.
Other news...I'm going on a girl's weekend to the Isle of Arran shortly with my friend Michelle - very much looking forward to going away after such a long time working!
That's pretty much it from me. Going of to the weekly pub quiz now. Have a good one!
Becky
P.S. I forbid Adelle to post on my blog until she stops being a hypocrite and emails me :p
No need to worry though, I was lucky enough to be working both Friday and Monday, the later of these being my last day and handover at Barco just to keep me busy.
I also had the pleasant surprise of a visit from my London friend Jess. She came up on Thursday with around 24 hours notice and kept me company throughout the weekend. It turned out to be a very relaxing weekend - bumming around doing girlie stuff, shopping, going to the pub and out to a cool Turkish restaurant with friends. Jess left on Sunday and I went out for a walk with Tom from work and a couple of his friends. We walked 10 miles along the coast west of Edinburgh, starting at Queensferry and finishing at Bo'ness. We stopped at an Earl's house and a castle, and enjoyed the unpredictability of the weather in the region. Every day in the last two weeks I swear there has been four seasons in one day. We were in the castle for half an hour and I think we went through 3 of them.
Anyway as I mentioned, yesterday was my last day at Barco (the medical imaging software engineering company where I've been the last 2 months.)Today I started a job with a council east of Edinburgh in the community care / social worker's department. I'm really enjoying it so far - I spent all of today taking calls from clients of the social workers and occupational therapists. It looks like the work will be challenging but possibly very interesting. It's on a week-by-week basis which suits me well at the moment. Oh yeah and I almost forgot - one of the Occupational therapists that I met today was from Australia...I asked where she went to uni as her name and hometown sounded familiar...and what do you know...she went to uni with my cousin Cherry. Considering these are pretty much the only 2 OTs I've ever known, this was quite bizarre. An example of 'oh you two are from Australia - you must know each other' being close to correct.
Other news...I'm going on a girl's weekend to the Isle of Arran shortly with my friend Michelle - very much looking forward to going away after such a long time working!
That's pretty much it from me. Going of to the weekly pub quiz now. Have a good one!
Becky
P.S. I forbid Adelle to post on my blog until she stops being a hypocrite and emails me :p
6 Comments:
heya. glad to hear that things are going well. i have to tell you, whenever i read your posts i get homesick for edinburgh. i loved it there! and i was only there for a weekend... oh well, alice and i are pumped as to head overseas again, so that will keep us going.
Hope u enjoyed urself in the beautiful wee toon of Bo'ness.
For the full picture see http://theboysofoldboness.blogspot.com/
Becky,
who is DaveM, you've got a link to his blog?
hey becksta,
glad to see your putting stuff on your blog again, i must admit i stopped checking for a while, oopsy! you look great in that photo of you too!!!!
love lauren
hey lauren...good to hear from you slacker! :p
hi mum, how are you? dave is a guy from barco who is working in sydney this week (no thanks to me - i didn't get his work visa sorted out properly and he got taken off the plane in edinburgh) he said he was going to update his blog soon, so he'd better do it now!
hey jaanie bannanie...wish you were here... i think you and alice need to get your priorities straight and come to edinburgh for the festival. how 'bout it?
i emailed you!!!!!!!!!!
why didn't you get it????? waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
i swear i emailed you!!! i swear! i hate the internet in this country!
aduh!
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