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Published: December 21st 2006
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30th Sept Saturday
Met up with Ariane at Piccadilly circus and we walked all around London, had a sushi lunch and a really nice Italian pizza in soho😊 afterward I went to the hostel and hung around with the guys and wished martin a happy birthday. I was kinda there till 3ish in the morning so I found a spare bed in Conor room lol
1st Oct Sunday
Went out and bought some linoleum flooring tiles for the van and installed them😊 it looks 100times better than it did!!
Week 1 - 2nd October 2006
Ok well I started work on Monday 2nd, took the tube into work and got well squished for 30 to 45 min waiting for people to get on and off and finally got to the right station and exited with a throng of suit clad individuals with blank faces lol.
Got to work signed in and got my temporary id, and was introduced to all the guys, the IT department has the whole 15th floor as well as the 3rd! I meet all the guys and remember no ones names;-p Found out one of the guys was leaving for NZ at the end of
the week and was invited to his work going away on Thursday night.
I feel learned all the new systems quite quickly and was taking calls by Wednesday afternoon. The only issue I found was with their call logging system but hey can’t have everything lol
On Thursday nit I went to the going way work drinks it was alright got to meet heaps of other people I the company and I kept on getting given drinks lol.
On Wednesday I got a call from Teleri the girl from ausie, turns out she was having a terrible time in her new place so I offered the couch at mine. On Friday nit after much persuasion she got me to go out to one of the local bars, so we went to a place called Zulu's(local Saffa Bar), has a bar down stairs and a large night club upstairs full of carvings and ethnic art and it sells hunter gold!! Hummm. On the way in we got patted down!! For drugs I think haha
Anyway had a good night there ran into one of my flat mates and a few of his mates? Ended up being a pretty good night.
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big ben Saturday I helped Connor move in and got rather drunk with the new flat mates that had stolen the room Conor and I were going to move into, and were pretty much just talking shit all night with them was good they a couple for aussie as well really nice people.
On Sunday morning I went to church! (the club) lol is a huge club that opens on a Sunday morning at 6am and closes at 4.30pm complete with male and female striper, drinks bought in sets of 3 in a plastic bag you tie to your belt;-p there were so many people to about 1000 or more!! Was like a mini dance party only not. I have to say the first drink at was the most difficult we arrived there at about 1 but had a beer on the way! at around 11, it closed at 4.30 and we stumbled down the road toward the tube station, some how I managed to loose half the group, and two of us ended up getting a roast dinner and another drink, after which I stumbled back to the tube to get home, missed my stop and had to get off and
onto another one heading back lol
I went to bed at about 8 and slept till I had to get up for work!
Week 2 - 9th October 2006
Since Tuesday I have been bicycling 11km into work every morning then back again at night haha it isn't as bad as I thought it was gona be and I'm defiantly gona get fit. it took me 1.5hrs the first time cuz I got really lost, but only took and hr back the next day it took me 45min, so I'm pretty sure I could get it down to 35 or so
The aussie girl moved into her apartment on Tuesday night, which is quite good cuz she was getting a little annoying, there's something about there accent that is just shocking.
I have been taking good advantage of the free internet and downloading some TV show which I’ve been watching in the van😊 has been really cool I could make a really nice little system in there using a laptop and a TV converter(which my parents have been legend enough to send over here for me😊
I’m doing heaps of cleaning in the flat I’m by far the
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Ariane cleanest, and I have fixed about 3 laptops and hooked them to a broad band connection at home so the flatie’s all quite like me now haha even tho Connor and I are only paying for one bed and I'm sleeping in the van. I even got paid £30 by the landlord to help him out haha it was only about 2hrs of work to, his satnav was stolen and he didn’t know how to get around the city so he paid me to take him somewhere and I caught the tube back such a crack up. Works alright I got a really cool laptop bag from work, it looks like a backpack so I can carry it home on the weekends😊 and also has room for all the other things I want to bring with me.
On Friday my 4th day in a row riding 22+ km a day my legs where so sore I could hardly move but after an hour veging on the couch I felt much better.
On Saturday I went for a drive around the area to buy a big piece of wood to finish off the interior of my room… I meant he van;-p
sadly the shop was closed but on the way back I passed a huge skip which had a perfect piece of wood which I spent most of the day cutting to fit the van with my tool(hand saw and a knife) lol but its almost done all I need now is to get some screws and a screw gun=)
On Saturday night it was Naomi’s(Ariane’s best mates) 20th birthday so Conor and I headed over to there flat in Acton Town, we bought a bottle of tequila for her lol
It was quite a good night except for her semi dodgy guy flat mates, Conor and I weren’t very happy when the guy flat mate’s were hinting at taking advantage of Naiomi who had passed out in her room, but it ended up alright and we headed home on the first tube back to Leytonstone at 6.30 in the morning lol I checked on them at around 11 and they were hangover but safe. I spent the whole of Sunday recovering as I had the meanest headache but by 6ish I felt much better. And made a really nice spicy bean burger(there are so many veg options in UK!)
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the globe Week 3 - 16th October 2006
2nd week riding the bicycle into work;-p was a much quicker ride this time I am on the late shift this week starting at 10! Which is quite cool but I do finish at 6 which means its starting to get dark when I drive back but it should end up alright I have ordered in some lights for the bike(ebay) and there is always really good lighting on the streets. Had Ariane and Naomi over on Tue night for some DVD’s we didn’t really get around to watching any cuz we had no idea where to find a rental store we ended up just chatting and drinking tea oh how sad we must be getting old;-p I also received a dvd player with 5 speakers and a sub off ebay for £20! Which I thought was great, I’m gona do some creative installation in the van;-p
Week 4 - 23 October 2006
Spent the whole week working and looking for a new place to move into. Found a few really bad flats but ended up finding a really nice one 1 mile down the road in a totally renovated place with
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the london crest a huge double room only paying 55 a week each which is great! I also went to a work Halloween party dressed up in army cargoes and blood dripping down my face lol. But it was a good night free alc and lots of dancing and teasing girls, that weekend we loaded up the van and moved house then went shopping and ended ups pending almost 100p on food and things we needed but everything is all set up now which I great!!
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