Hello all,
The title says it all really....we have noticed that the floors in our flat are very obviously slanted and crocked in every which way as often as they can be. It starts as soon as you walk through the front door, and into the hallway. There is an obvious slant in the floor and alot of give. Same goes for in my room as well, but the worst of it is in the Kitchen/Living space. We can tell that at one point a wall was taken out because of the hump in the middle of the floor, but that is no excuse for the sag in the floor where the kitchen table lays. The funniest part of it all is that when the kitchen door is open, where it hinges to the wall there is about 1/8th of an inch space between the bottom of the door and the floor, but at the end on the door, where the knob would be, there is about 2 inches of space, haha. Ohwell, its all sturdy so its not a big deal.
On to more important things, I am getting more and more used to the 5 hour time change which I am happy about because I'm getting more sleep at night, and a better sleep at that. Our flat is basically right on the road though (literally 2 feet from the yellow line on the outside of the road) which means its pretty loud at night when drunk people walk by and cars drive by, but I am getting used to that aswell. I'm not picky about my sleeping conditions so I'll be okay.
From our kitchen and bathroom windows we noticed in the distance that we can see a waterfall, so yesterday evening we decided to take a walk to the other side of town and try to find how to get to it, or close enough to take pictures. By the time we found it it was starting to get dark so there are no photo's, but Greg and I have decided we are going to go for a run every night, or every other night to and from the falls. There is also about 200 stone steps up the cliff the falls are on which we hope to run up as well. We will obviously look for other routes in town as well, (like stow hill) but this is a good start.
Tonight we are going to a free dinner put on by the school for the international students which should be good. I'm not sure what they will be serving but im looking forward to mingling with some other students. Speaking of mingling, we met a fellow Canadian today on the shopping trip which was nice, we plan to meet up with him again in the near future, probably for drinks or whatever really.
Thats all for now, I'll upload more photos to facebook soon, but facebook takes so long to upload so it'll take time.
Regards,
Kyle
So glad you arrived safely and got settled into your "unflat" flat. Think of the uneven floors and walls as adding character to your home. Kyle, we really miss you here at home. Even Bailey sits at the top of the stairs and waits for you to come home at dinnertime. Uncle Rob say hello and says he is sorry he missed saying goodbye to you when you left. He rushed home from work that day at 3:30 so we must have just missed him.
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Aunt Gail