I checked my mail this morning, I was expecting a bill I had to pay, and perhaps my travel documents for London. But recieving them, hmm I gave it a 50/50 chance. I was wrong. My mailbox was packed with Christmas flyers and advertisements, but on the bottom there layed the travel documents. What a relief!! I went trough the documents quickly and saw that I have to be ready on the 30th of December at 6:00 am (early bird) on the trainstation in Almelo. (that's a 10 min walk) Finally I can plan my days before the trip, what do I have to take with me? What must I take with me? Most information about the trip is written in the documents. Oh my God, I'm going to London! For real!
Now I'm actualy realizing it more and more, the date of the traveling is becoming so close now, only nine days! The best about the trip is that I just have to be ready with my packed suitcase and hop in the bus, that's it, everything will be taking care off. The only things I have to do is enjoy and take pictures. Maybe I should get a travel travel insurance, I could have ordered that too while booking the trip, but I didn't. I wanted to book the trip as cheap as possible, I sure will consider a insurance these comming days. It's been a while since I checked what we will be doing with these five days in London, just anxious and worried, lol. Like I said the travel documents what I recieved this morning was a relief. Here's some information about the trip....
I thought we would be traveling with the bus and then a boat, but instead of the boat were going with the train trough the Eurotunnel. The Eurotunnel is a 50.5-kilometre (31.4 mi) undersea rail tunnel, eek! Leaving at 6:00 am and we wil be arriving in London in the early evening. Before we will go to our Hotel we will first visit the London eye, I have been 2 times now in London, but never been in the aLondon eye. Scared of heights? Yes! But I'm going on the London eye this time. After the London eye experience were heading of to our hotel, the checking in will be done by our busdriver aka travelhost. On the second day will we travel to Windsor, sightseeings: Windsor castle and the Towerbridge St. George's Chapel. This second day is New Years eve, we are all able to celebrate New Years at the London Eye or the Big Ben, there will be a huge firework.
On the third day there will be a trip around the City in a doubledecker bus, sightseeings: Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, St. Pauls Chatedral, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Downing street, Tower of London In the evening on this third day there will be perhaps a theatre visit. On the fourth day we will be traveling to Hampton Court Palace, just outside of London, sightseeings Covent Garden. On the fifth day it's bye, bye London. We will be heading home again trough the Eurotunnel by train, when we arrive in Hollan there will be a 'goodbye' dinner to end this amazing trip. I will be right back, I need to whipe of my drool of my mouth! I'm so excited to go, after all the work from this year I surely needed this.
Back to this day, it was a bit of a hectic day. My counselor got a tiny bit upset cause I didn't answer my cellphone, he called twice this week. He called me on a Monday, but I never take my cellphone with me to work. I can't hear the phone ringing while working. Ugh, me and cellphones, I just can't handle them. My counselor sent me a email saying that I need to call him. Well, I need to charge my phone first. It was 8:30 this morning when I went to the grocery store to get some groceries and a charge for my phone. Charging a phone is so easy, but not when I'm doing it, lol. Call the free number, choose the 'yeah that thing' what you need and type in the 14 numbered number. (14! Oh dear!) When I was half way typing the number, a voice suddenly came on my phone saying, 'The number is not correct, it is to short, try to go back to the menu.' Well, I wasn't done yet with typing Miss! LOL!
After trying three-four times I succeeded, don't ask me how I did it, lol, I pushed so many buttons. If I could have a chance to throw that cellphone, I would, I almosted ated it, lol. Anyway my phone is charged! My counselor wanted to drop by this afternoon for a quick visit, that was alright. We talked trough a few things and we tried to solve or figure out a bill, but we didn't succeed. While I was in Canada I was getting montly money from the care allowance but I didn't had the right for that allowance. I will have to pay back a sum of money, from April 2010 till December 2010. The care allowance- a income-related allowance, is a personal contribution of the Dutch government to make the premium for health insurance affordable for everyone. From January 2010 till December 2010 while I was in Canada I didn't had a healty insurance.
Such a hectic day, driving back and forth. I delivered half of the the German cake what I got yesterday from my Boss to Humanitas today aswell, they were happy with it. A nice gesture, right? I surely couldn't finnish that enormous cake all by myself, it was huge. There was one more appointment I had to do, the local radio station, I had to be there at 7:30. The adress wasn't easy to find, I had to be at the library, on the side of the library was a door with a huge doorbell, on the doorbell was a sign with the saying 'Local radio Almelo.' I had to go a few stairs up and a guy guided me further. While talking with each I noticed that the guy was a bit nervous and hyper, but further he was friendly. He told me every ins and outs from the radio station, and he guided me around in the studios. This radio station is a 'news' station, news is the most important, music is just a side product the guy told me.
There looking for a technicus, and for someone on the computer. A technicus is someone who helps the DJ to make a program, the DJ fills in the program and a technicus helps him with pushing buttons, find the right music, ect, ect. I'm quit anxcious about this work, but I'm just going to try it, I never done such work. I know alot from music and I have rhythm and I know from timing, but a technicus is new for me. The guy told me that it's quit simple, you have to see it a few times to see how it goes. And that's what I'm gonna do, on the 7th of January I will have a look with a DJ and a technicus how they make a program, just to get a idea. So yeah, I'm eeeking a bit, but aswell I feel a bit excitment, I'm just gonna try it, for the same reason I will roll into this and that would make me happy.
