Sara's Adventures Abroad: Moved In!

We are finally moved out of the Travelodge (thank goodness) and into our beautiful home in Wanstead, London. It was quite stressful as there were other people interested in the house and was hard trying to figure out how to get a large amount of cash out from our Canadian banks in such a short amount of time as we had to pay for our first and last months rent. We ended up doing a money transfer through Western Union, which seemed to be the easiest way. Luckily the Western Union in Wanstead had just enough money for all of us. We signed our 12 month contracts and got the keys on October 1st - definitely the first 'big girl' thing to happen in my life so far. Our place is about a 10 minute walk away from the tube station and the main strip of restaurants/stores which is nice. So happy to finally unpack and get organized.

Our place is furnished, but we needed to get things such as plates, utensils, bedding, cleaning supplies, towels, etc. which meant we had to take a few trips to the mall in Stratford as we couldn't carry all of the things to our house. Primark and Wilko are the best places for cheap stuff, as well as Poundland and the 99p store.

We were supposed to start teaching Thursday, but only Kylie got called in so hopefully Friday will be my first day of teaching. Overall, this week has been very successful - we all got bank accounts set up, we all have cellphones now and have a place to live!