1st Month over already

Nath and I are into our 5th week in London. Time has gone by so quickly.
Since our last blog we have been keeping a fairly low profile in London. We have:

• been to the Museum of Natural History
• caught up with my friend Sara from Uni
• been to the British Museum
• caught up with Nick and Alicia who we often ski with
• had a day trip Norwich where Nath had an interview
• moved house (twice!) and still not in our final destination. Still looking for a room somewhere, staying with friends at the moment (Boz - you know them. We are staying with Philippa Brown who worked at EY with you)
• caught up with Helen and Chris (yay). Had an afternoon at the pub followed by a rugby match at Twickenham. The stadium is amazing and I was super excited to be at such a big venue. Helen is hopefully sourcing tickets for England v All Blacks in November. Go the ABs (All Whites are still my number 1 team though xxx)
• crossed off a few more London landmarks - covent garden, trafalgar square, leicester square, hyde park, royal albert theatre, kensington gardens

At the moment I am working for a week at the same school doing PE relief. Its an ok school but does take 90min to commute each way :( Next week I start a 4wk block with a school in South London, Cator Park, so that should be all good. I have started applying for permanent jobs for the start of the school year. A family has emailed wanting me to live with them in Rome and speak English to their 2 girls over the summer break. Im looking into it.

Nath's job hunt continues. He has a few interviews each week which is promising.

We randomly booked flights to Venice with a group of 8 friends. We are going in 3wks and its just for the weekend. Totally bizzarre that we can go to another country just for the night!! Awesome. Nath reckons if the canal ride is too expensive he will row (?) the gondolar himself!!!

Thats all folks.

If you want to get in contact or leave a comment but aren't sure how to do it via the blog, email me on hey_mich@lycos.com or nathan at nathan.andrews@yahoo.co.nz

Brighton

My Uncle's church - built in 1795

The main st in Brighton, heading down towards the sea

At dinner in a curry house down Brick Lane. I put this photo up to prove we have friends in London!

The rear end view of St Pauls Cathedral

Nath and I went to Brighton over Easter weekend to catch up with my Uncle and to see a bit more of the mother land.

Brighton is cool - I liked the vibrancy of the people. A lot more colourful than Londoners! We went to Brighton Pier which is totally tacky and the 2nd most visited tourist attraction in all of England!! We also went to church!! I only went because my Uncle is the priest and he said I would get easter eggs if I went. So you know that I'd do anything for chocolate. Poor Nath was a little out of his depth and didn't enjoy the experience at all (not even the easter egg hunt at the end of the service!).

Thursday before easter we had a dinner in Brick Lane with Bhavik, Emma, Fraser and a few others. Brick Lane is a road that is totally covered in Indian restaurants and you can bargain with restaurants for meal deals before going in. It was fun and reminded me of South America where we would negotiate free drinks before entering restaurants. We then hit a kareoke bar to send Anu back to NZ in style.

It is school holidays over here so no work for me for 2wks, and unlike in NZ, no pay either :(

Nathan is busy with job interviews this week, he has at least 3 lined up already. Bought himself a nice snazzy suit so hopefully that will help the job prospects.

Obviously now we are not travelling and settling into 'normal' life again the blog wont get updated as much. I dont want to bore you with everyday life stories.

Still keep checking back though cause I will keep you posted with anything exciting that we have done.

For now though,

Over and out.