Thoughts from the First Week

Things that have been troubling me:

The heat. It’s much much much too hot here. And humid. I remember thinking, shovel in hand as I was clearing several feet of snow from our driveway in St. John’s, that I wasn’t going to miss shoveling snow. Turns out that I like shoveling snow more than I do being sticky.

The big apartment. It’s about 2.5 times larger than our house, which means that there is a lot more floor to maintain, and my Swiffer isn’t here yet (coming in our sea shipment), and I loathe washing floors. There are five toilets in this place. I don’t know how I am going to do this house-keeping thing.

On a related topic, the floor. It’s laminate, and is imitating walnut-stained hardwood, and by the end of the day, our feet are very dirty from walking on it. It doesn’t appear to be dirt. Maybe it’s walnut stain? Will it ever get better?

We don’t have a computer. We intended to send it in the air shipment, and thought that we had, but I guess this was a miscommunication with the moving company in Calgary. We had many of those, and I’m still frustrated by that. If we’d only had an extra month to get our stuff ready at home, this move would have been a lot more pleasant. Anyway, I’m very sad to be cut off from my friends and family – email has always been a great comfort to me.

Cool Things, to balance it all out:

I’ve seen monarch butterflies, speedy little lizards and geckos, and huge snails. Very cool!

Some grocery items are really inexpensive. I paid about $1.50 for a package of three skinless, boneless chicken breasts. Whee!

The parking lots are very orderly. You get a little pass to be admitted, and then you return it when you leave the lot. None of that invent-your-own parking spot thing that I often saw in Calgary.

My new mobile phone is blue.

Comments

[Sarah]

I miss you!!!!

It is so very, very, very hot here right now too. Over a 100 degrees with ridiculous humidity.

And a pass to the parking lot??? Crazy.

[Ani]

Glad you arrived safely and posting again. Finding it interesting reading about your new country.