Sitting and waiting and a little bit of shopping

I spent this week sitting around. As mentioned previously, there’s not much I can do, so I figure I may as well just stay indoors. I still haven’t caught up on my sleep — that’s a job for next week.
The weather was beautiful up until Wednesday, but silly me didn’t get around to taking any [...]

Weather gloating

I thought I’d take this opportunity to gloat about the weather, seeing as last week was freezing.

Melbourne, 02:00am: 15.8
Eindhoven, 06:00pm: 17.4

Fair comparison? I don’t really care.
If it’s still sunny tomorrow, I’ll get out and about and take some pictures.

A bit quiet

I realise I was a bit quiet last week. There are two reasons for that: one is tiredness and the other is minor boredom. I’ve been cleaning and washing and going to the supermarket etc.
I’ve also been sitting up late on GTalk/MSN chatting to people back in Melbourne, which has cheered me up, but I’ve [...]

Some vaguely interesting things

The first is that this blog is now listed in the Expat Blog directory.
The second is that there is a steady stream of people walking past my apartment windows (and banging on them as well). This can only mean that the football is over. I would have liked to get tickets but I think it’s [...]

Trains and paperwork

Yesterday I had to visit Immigration to hand in my residency application. Immigration is located in Rijswijk, just near The Hague. It takes around 1.5 hours from Eindhoven on the train.
Rather annoyingly, NS stations don’t take Visa, only Mastercard. That’s the first time ever my Visa has been refused.
I had an appointment at 9:15, which [...]

Photos

I spent most of yesterday wandering about looking for someone to take my photo for my residency card.
I asked at the housing office and they thought there was a photographers just around the corner, but I couldn’t find it. I then went to the uni and my HR contact told me there’s plenty of photo [...]

At last!

I’m been rather busy the last few weeks preparing for my move. Finally, I’m here in Eindhoven.
It turned out the apartment is a two-person apartment — it’s huge. It has a small kitchen (no oven, no space for a microwave either, no cupboard space for food) and a small bathroom (no towel racks and a [...]