Settling In

Day 3 (plus 1 and 2 recapped) 
Blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog blog. say that out loud. Blog is a very funny sounding word. And so begins my adventures in blogging. Honestly, I'm writing this more as a journal so I can look back on it later and remember what I did and how I felt...but if you like me enough to sift through my random thoughts and pointless stories, I hope you'll find something worth while here. 
I've been back in England for about 41 hours...and it hasn't been the smoothest 41 hours of my life. First I didn't realize that I had landed in the wrong terminal at the airport, so I almost got left. Well actually, I did get left for about 15 minutes, but luckily that's right about the time I called a Camp A person back in the States and she got ahold my the driver (who's cell phone I was unable to call from a pay phone. annoying.) , so they turned around and came back for me. I landed at Heathrow at about 7 a.m. and didn't meet up with Hillary and the driver (Keith, a nice semi-retired British man) until about 2...so it was a stressful morning. Once we got to base, Hillary and I unpacked our suitcases and set up our rooms. Housing here is really nice, partly because they recently remodeled our rooms so everything is relatively new. We each have our own bedroom, complete with a sink/vanity, walk-in closet, and 2 nice dresses...and of course a bed. We share a bathroom and kitchen, and both are nice. The kitchen has a dishwasher, but from the looks of the dishes, it doesn't really work. The bathroom has a towel warming rack, and by the way my towel was nice and warm this morning, it DOES work. :) Really the only downfall is the walls are pretty thin and the internet situation absolutely sucks. Sometimes we can get it in our rooms, but you have to pay for it, and it's rather expensive, especially considering it only works half the time. I bought it yesterday to let everyone know I made it home and was unable to find a signal for about 4 hours. Not so cool. But it's nice to know that should I need to get on at night, it's more of an option then it was in Baumholder.
After settling in, the girl next door came over and introduced herself. Her name is Tiffany, and she seems really nice. She told me a little about base, places to shop, things to do around here, what to expect with the weather...the "welcome to your new home" basics. It's always a good feeling when you know there are people around who can help you if you need it when you get to a new place, so that was lovely.
Hillary took a nap while the previous paragraph was happening...after she woke up, we ate some cereal for dinner and talked about watching a movie, but that never happened. We called it an early night, but I ended up talking to Paul on skype for half and hour or so, so I went to bed around 11:30...about 33 hours after I woke up Sunday morning, and got maybe an hour or tow of sleep on the plane. Needless to say, I was pretty tired. I dreamt I was still in Colorado this morning, and it took me about 10 seconds for me to realize where I was this morning. 
We started work today. The Center has about 24 kids currently enrolled, but not all of them come everyday, I'd say there were about 18 today. There is a preschool room, a 2 year old room, and a 1 year old room. Since it is such a small center, there aren't a lot of staff, and they are actually slightly understaffed... there are about 6 teachers we know about so far. Everyone there seems nice, it should be a good place to work. The building itself is wonderful. The hallways are decorated with old fashion toys and the rooms are open and spacious. No more annoying room layouts with unnecessary walls and places for kids to hide. Today we observed for a little while in each room, read training material and spent about 4 hours getting our base passes. Unlike Baumholder, we have access to everything on base, including the shopping centers and things like book rentals at the library! 
AFter work, we went to the commissary and stocked up on food. After that we went home, cleaned out a bag of gross, moldy, sprouting potatoes and the fridge, and reorganized the kitchen ( I just typed chicken instead of kitchen...that's odd). Next we went to find internet...turns out the library closes at 6, except Thursday when it closes at 8. I think Sunday was open pretty late too. But everything else closes just as early, so it looks like we'll be sitting outside the library if we want to use internet for more then an hour and fifteen minutes everyday. It's not TOO bad to do that yet, there is a picnic table under a little roof right outside, so as long as it isn't too rainy and windy, we should be alright. But even tonight, it was pretty chilly after the sun went down. We walked back sometime after 8:30 and it was like a ghost town, there was no one around. It was odd. We made some pasta for dinner and watched the first 45 minutes of The Holiday in honor of being in England. Then we sat around and complained how much we miss our boyfriends and how long distance relationships suck. But we can't complain too much, we're the ones who wanted to come here, and once we get into a routine and start to go do things, it should get better. But this time is definitely gonna be a lot harder than last time was.
And to top off the not so smooth 41 hours...the toilets here don't really have a lever you push down to flush, they have buttons you push...well guess who's toilet decided to break when she pushed the button tonight? If you guessed me, you're correct! All I did was push the button like normal...and now we have no toilet. Hopefully they get that fixed tomorrow or we could be in trouble. 
If you are curious about how to contact me...cuz you probably are if you are taking the time to read this...hopefully we can get a box at the post office tomorrow...they don't have one set up for us like in Germany, let's hope there aren't any problems with it. And they don't seem to sell phones here, but as soon as i find either a charger for my old one or just buy a new one, I'll let you know!
Well, I think that's enough info for one night. 
Loves and misses