A new home away from home
Coming to you live, via wireless broadband from our new flat in london, the lauren-and-cameron-round-the world-saga continues...
This week's episode has seen us gather all of the stuff that we have collected and accumulated since leaving Sydney, (almost 7 months ago now) somehow cram it into our backpacks and drag it on one overland and three tube trains here to our new home, Willesden Green. (Can you believe Cam's shoe collection has grown from three pairs to EIGHT!!! and they say women are bad!)
We have managed to land ourselves right smack-bang-in-the-middle of London's largest Aussie/Kiwi community - without even trying! We even have an Australian shop here that sells all the comforts of home - cherry ripe, vegemite, tim tams etc etc.
Speaking of food... our week seems to have been mostly filled with eating typical London fare. Our first night here we had our first (of many to come I am sure) Indian takeaway. It was quite a novelty for me - I've never eaten much Indian before and it was truly awesome! (did you know that the Indian fast food industry in Britain is bigger than British steel???)
We've also hit China town with my Australian work mates, where the hilarious waiter kept calling us "you Kiwis", and on Saturday night Cam and I had the traditional on-the-way-home-from-a-night-out kebab from the local turkish takeaway. But this wasn't your average shaved meat with hummus job, it was the real deal shawarama chunks of meat with proper cooked onions, mmm garlic sauce.
By and by the way I have also managed to get some retail temp work. Which means I am now no longer a bum and can afford to do things, like eat and pay rent. I am working for Burberry in their stockroom, preparing for a big sample sale that they are having - and this week I have an interview for a permanent position supervising at the Disney Store in Oxford street.
So life seems to be working itself out. So much so that I am half considering taking another year of leave from uni, and staying on here to truly experience all the amazing things this country has to offer. Calm down mum, I did say half, after all I've had my thermals on for 2 weeks now, and winter has not yet even begun!
So that is it for this week's installment. Life here is chaotic, fun, busy, crazy, and at times trying. I miss home and everyone who is there, but I'm still not ready to come home.
But that's nothing that the coldest predicted English winter in 100 years can't fix, I'm sure.
Everyone take care!
Lauren xoxo
This week's episode has seen us gather all of the stuff that we have collected and accumulated since leaving Sydney, (almost 7 months ago now) somehow cram it into our backpacks and drag it on one overland and three tube trains here to our new home, Willesden Green. (Can you believe Cam's shoe collection has grown from three pairs to EIGHT!!! and they say women are bad!)
We have managed to land ourselves right smack-bang-in-the-middle of London's largest Aussie/Kiwi community - without even trying! We even have an Australian shop here that sells all the comforts of home - cherry ripe, vegemite, tim tams etc etc.
Speaking of food... our week seems to have been mostly filled with eating typical London fare. Our first night here we had our first (of many to come I am sure) Indian takeaway. It was quite a novelty for me - I've never eaten much Indian before and it was truly awesome! (did you know that the Indian fast food industry in Britain is bigger than British steel???)
We've also hit China town with my Australian work mates, where the hilarious waiter kept calling us "you Kiwis", and on Saturday night Cam and I had the traditional on-the-way-home-from-a-night-out kebab from the local turkish takeaway. But this wasn't your average shaved meat with hummus job, it was the real deal shawarama chunks of meat with proper cooked onions, mmm garlic sauce.
By and by the way I have also managed to get some retail temp work. Which means I am now no longer a bum and can afford to do things, like eat and pay rent. I am working for Burberry in their stockroom, preparing for a big sample sale that they are having - and this week I have an interview for a permanent position supervising at the Disney Store in Oxford street.
So life seems to be working itself out. So much so that I am half considering taking another year of leave from uni, and staying on here to truly experience all the amazing things this country has to offer. Calm down mum, I did say half, after all I've had my thermals on for 2 weeks now, and winter has not yet even begun!
So that is it for this week's installment. Life here is chaotic, fun, busy, crazy, and at times trying. I miss home and everyone who is there, but I'm still not ready to come home.
But that's nothing that the coldest predicted English winter in 100 years can't fix, I'm sure.
Everyone take care!
Lauren xoxo
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