As many of you already know (and I do hope more are still praying) I have been in the country for four months now, working parttime for a nursing agency and hoping and praying for a job at the local government hospital, actually only five minutes walk away! Well...to present to you already a partial answer to prayer, I was offered a permanent position in the surgical unit two, no almost three weeks ago...Praise the Lord! But before we all go out and celebrate maybe I should inform you that I haven't even started yet due to a list of red tape that is taking quite a long time to hack through....prayer still welcome, hopefully I can start before December!
Well, as summer has made it's way to the other side of the world (how are the beaches in the 'Land downunder'?) the winter is approaching fast on this island. Having being terribly spoilt by the great food feasts of my future in laws the words excersise and triim down keep popping up in my mind. So I decided to look around at what the local inhabitants of this area do....some don't, some pay money and join a club ( not a bad suggestion if you can afford the money AND extra time it takes getting there, changing, showering and getting back (approx. 1hour if I were to do it and that's without including the excersise time!)).....and some just go jogging in the cooolllllddd rain!Well I'll try to old fashioned version then for a while....drinking lots of water instead of teas and juices, stairs instead of lifts or escalators and the good old (German) 'Friss die Haelfte' method! Comments and further ideas welcome.....
Friday, October 31, 2003
Friday, October 17, 2003
A cold, some pills and a meal
Well...Today is the day! Six more months until Jonney and I tie the knot!
The day started out with a striking headache that woke me at 2:30am...ahhhh the beautiful reminder of the sinusitis that has been raging a nasty war on my body for the past few days....a cold as some say...and cold was definitely what I felt, though I had three blankets, a cardigan, a knitted quilt and a hot water bottle snuggled around me.
Pills. More pills...and even more pills! Yes, they come in various forms, sizes and colours. Today the red ones, tomorrow the white ones. One does wonder if it all actually does help or just provide expensive .....human waste? After all, an old German proverb states....A cold takes a week to heal with medicine and only seven days on it's own.
Two friends came over for a meal. My love suggested we do Mexican. Well....I have come to assume that British people do not do Mexican very often as it took three major grocery stores and the weekly market to provide the necessary ingredients! It is interesting though how different Countries cater to different international foods....Take for example Germany: home to the Turkish fastfood cuisine and great Greek restaurants. The USA: we'd have Mexican food at least once a week and Italian food is almost as common as a hamburger! Britain: famous for their Indian curries and love Chinese food. How difficult it is though to get Mexican food in Britain...or Indian food in Germany...or...well I guess you can get nearly anything in the USA as long as the nutritional value and calories is posted on the side of the box.
Anyway...I do hope you all are able to find satisfactory food where you are living. I would probably do the same if I would n't change countries and the taste buds linked to them so frequently. Well Britain, whether you like it or not, I'm here to stay for a few more years so put out the salsa and lets see some more tortillas and sour cream on the shelves...I'm not going to change my taste just yet! Thank you Lord for making us all so different and wonderfully unique!
The day started out with a striking headache that woke me at 2:30am...ahhhh the beautiful reminder of the sinusitis that has been raging a nasty war on my body for the past few days....a cold as some say...and cold was definitely what I felt, though I had three blankets, a cardigan, a knitted quilt and a hot water bottle snuggled around me.
Pills. More pills...and even more pills! Yes, they come in various forms, sizes and colours. Today the red ones, tomorrow the white ones. One does wonder if it all actually does help or just provide expensive .....human waste? After all, an old German proverb states....A cold takes a week to heal with medicine and only seven days on it's own.
Two friends came over for a meal. My love suggested we do Mexican. Well....I have come to assume that British people do not do Mexican very often as it took three major grocery stores and the weekly market to provide the necessary ingredients! It is interesting though how different Countries cater to different international foods....Take for example Germany: home to the Turkish fastfood cuisine and great Greek restaurants. The USA: we'd have Mexican food at least once a week and Italian food is almost as common as a hamburger! Britain: famous for their Indian curries and love Chinese food. How difficult it is though to get Mexican food in Britain...or Indian food in Germany...or...well I guess you can get nearly anything in the USA as long as the nutritional value and calories is posted on the side of the box.
Anyway...I do hope you all are able to find satisfactory food where you are living. I would probably do the same if I would n't change countries and the taste buds linked to them so frequently. Well Britain, whether you like it or not, I'm here to stay for a few more years so put out the salsa and lets see some more tortillas and sour cream on the shelves...I'm not going to change my taste just yet! Thank you Lord for making us all so different and wonderfully unique!
Buenos Dias! Welcome to the daily observations from Monalisahus! Some of you readers might be family...or family-to-be (well, you know who you are), friends or just interested viewers....I do hope you all will gain some insight into the world and life as I am living it and possibly learn something....like how not to do the same silly mistakes as I make and hopefully not get as depressed about life as I do!
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