Well the day came for the 3am wake up call to catch the 5:55am fight, the only flight, into Derby.
I was wondering how small that plane might be that I would fly on and was rather relieved when walking out onto the tarmac to see, what I would call, a normal sized Virgin plane. Thank god!
All I could think about was how hot the air was going to be that would hit me upon walking off the plane. Would I perhaps be sitting next to one of my new colleagues, also new to the school, who I knew would be on the plane too? How was I to recognise my new boss at the airport as I had never even met him before?!
Was lucky to have an entire 3 seat row to myself on the plane, which provided me with a somewhat uncomfortable area to rest for about 20 minutes... even with that much space it just wasn't possible to get in a decent sleep.
And so the flight landed and out in the hot air I went to make my way into the very small airport.
I met my new colleagues and we made out way to one of the school cars for the 30 minute drive into town. It was rather just a blur of information he was telling us about the school, the town and his recent year off overseas. All I can remember was trees, green and red pindan (red dirt) everywhere!
I also found out I was fortunate enough to be with a mobile phone company who does not provide any coverage whatsoever in Derby! Fun times!!!
Got the house keys, found out where my car was to pick it up and went for a visit to the house.... Not quite what I was expecting, but it will just have to do. The day ended with knowing that my furniture and boxes would be arriving the next day.
When we don't have our things in town or delivered yet then we are placed into a hotel until they are delivered. So spent the rest of the night and the next day using the internet and my new, working, sim card to get in contact with my own phone company and the one that works here to actually get disconnected out of my nearly finishing contract and transferred onto the newer network instead... I am so sick of being kept on hold with these people! Very annoying, but we seemed to get there eventually!
It really is very hot up here! Was so good to get all my stuff delivered... Although the first few hours were spent scrubbing and cleaning floors, shelves and cupboards that should have actually been clean before I moved in! I refused to put out any of my things onto dirty shelves until I knew they were clean. Also made use of the wrapping paper from the boxes as covering for the shelves in the cupboard, so that helps a little.
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