Greetings friends & family
This is my first blog entry for my London adventure. As you may know, I’ve previously blogged as part of my round the world trip last yr. That blog was filled with hilarity partly due to my sidekick, Ela and her tremendous writing skills. Don’t expect the same laughs from this blog!! However, I will attempt to keep you all informed of the love/hate relationship I have with London while I’m living here.
I left Canberra on the morning on Wednesday 15 June. Mum and Dad kindly drove me to Sydney and I flew out that evening. I was meant to be keeping my arrival date a secret from Chris because I had intended on surprising him. While I was waiting at the airport, he called me…and….well…I gave in and told him that I was leaving early and that I’d see him tomorrow. We were both very excited, although I will mention that he was a little peeved that he wouldn’t be able to meet me at the airport with flowers. Aww. I out-foxed him!!
It’s safe to say that the flight over was rather eventful. All was going well on the Sydney-Dubai leg of the flight until a crew member came on the loudspeaker during the night and asked if there was a doctor on board. I was kinda use to some sort of medical emergency on my travels. On my Tokyo-Sydney flight, some lady had a epileptic fit. On our cruise of the Caribbean, one of the cabin staff got really sick and had to be flown off the ship. Anyways, I drifted back off to sleep. 20 minutes later, the captain came on the loudspeaker and told everyone that we would be landing very shortly in HYDERABAD, INDIA as a passenger had a severe medical emergency.
At this time, I was standing in the line for the toilet. Once the announcement came through, the flight attendants were telling everyone to quickly go back to their seats. BUT…I was busting. Sigh. So I toddled back to my seat…still busting to pee. 30 minutes later. I couldn’t hold on any longer. As soon as the plane touched down, I jumped out of my seat and made a bolt for the toilets. As I reached out to open the door, one of the flight attendants jumped up, slapped my arm away from the toilet door and yelled “Ma’am…GO BACK TO YOUR SEAT RIGHT NOW!” Righto Mum. How embarrassing. She obviously didn’t understand how flippin busting I was. I wasn’t even sitting in a aisle seat so it was very inconvenient to go to the toilet. Long story short, I was finally allowed to pee and it was a-mazing! Ahhhhhhh…
We eventually left India and continued our journey to Dubai. The diversion made us 3 hours behind schedule so I missed my connecting flight to London. Sigh. Emirates were pretty good about it and put me on the next flight and all was well.
27hours later, I arrived in London and I was stinky. I collected my bags and proceeded through the non-existent UK Customs. Paulina was there to meet me - we jumped in a cab and headed to Osterley. I was very relieved to shower and sh*t! Yippeee…happy days! Later that afternoon, Paulina and I headed down to the tube station to pick up Chris. Yippeee…happy days! We all went out for dinner that night to the local pub - it was delicious!
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I had a big sleep in till 12pm. I am very good at sleeping and pride myself on my ability to sleep! Didn’t get my hands too dirty today. Paulina and I went to Tesco and bought some things. I topped up my Oyster card and got a sim card for my phone. Cold weather. Lame.
I had the flu before I left for London and wasn’t feeling the best. I’m on anti-biotics from back home but they don’t seem to be doing the trick. There were heaps of kids on the plane so I probably caught something from them. Nasty.
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Today is Saturday so Chris and Mike are both at home. I woke up during the night with a terrible high temperature so we decided that I probably should see a doctor just to make sure I don’t have pneumonia or anything. We went into Clapham Junction Walk-In Medical Centre. Didn’t have to wait too long before I could see a doctor. The Dr said I have a some sort of virus and that I should rest. Awesome.
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The rest of the weekend was spent resting. In fact, I haven’t really done anything exciting since I’ve been here!! Ha. I’ve met up with a couple of recruitment agencies and that’s about it.
The rest of the house is now also sick with the bug so I’m not very popular! Bad start to my time in London.
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What’s coming up?
I’m so glad you asked! Chris and I are going to watch Wimbledon this weekend. We’ll get a day pass and cram as much tennis in as we can. Hopefully we can see some good games. We are also having dinner/beers with Red on Saturday night so that will be fun.
Mike & Pau are off to Paris this weekend to see the Black Eyed Peas concert. I’m slightly jealous and as such am trying to make my weekend as awesome as possible!
Now for my epic sign-off….
Love the energy, hate the vibe.
Kate xx
