Monday, September 21, 2015

Awaiting the chance to settle in

So we are just finishing the last day of our official homelessness.  We drove away from our house, not to be seen again for 12 months on the 29th of August.  Tomorrow we get keys to our flat, and can finally, after 25 days  of living out of suitcases, and no more than 3 nights in a row in the same bed, have a place we can actually unpack in.
We're both very excited!

It was not a very exciting day, especially when compared next to an11th century castle, but we tackled some bureaucratic hurdles, and made some headway.  Today we started in London, still at our friends house in Ashford, but got an early start out to travel back to Loughborough.  We had our second crack at opening a bank account in the UK, and after a 90 minute meeting, were successful in opening the account.  Twice we had the bank employee calling the lender to ask about specifics of our case.  Who would have thought we were such a complicated case.

Following that we bunkered down and started a couple of hours of calling immigration, insurance, telecom companies and the like, trying to press our case to each of them, and hoping to convince the poor customer service rep we reached to take pity on us.

Some hurdles surmounted, others sprung up in our way.  That's pretty well the day that was.  We get to try more tomorrow, but from our own apartment at last.
it should be exciting as we get to embrace a little bit of normalcy.  Kristin starts work, and I'm going to get settled in for the academic semester to begin.

Hopefully a few pictures to share tomorrow of our apartment.

Cheers,

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