Rebekah's Insights

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The funny thing here is that I have yet to go to my office which I will be working in during my first week here. The first few days were primarily for in-processing paperwork and then we have been searching for a place to Let. Thursday morning I came down with a fever of 101 and was less useful than usual. My fever lasted until sometime late on Friday. So, I called my boss and told him that I wasn't coming in. I think he understands. If he doesn't, then it will take him more than 6 months to find a replacement:) I was able to bring down my fever with some Ibroprofin that we had and went out for a couple of hours on Thursday to look at more houses for Let/rent. We found a place that, in principle, we agreed to let from the owners. The contract was drawn up by our housing office on Friday and I will have the owners sign the lease on Monday. It is a great place with 5 bedrooms and four baths. It is a little too big for us (without a few more children), but it is in a great location and two of the bedrooms are on a third floor, which we can quarantine off for heating purposes. It gives us a great place for guest to come and stay. It will be like a little guest suite.

We have to pay some money out of pocket for the utilities, but it was designed toward Americans in mind. Uk homes remind me of the old farm houses back home, with small bedrooms (big enough for a bed and dresser) and New York City sized kitchens. The place where we are going to let has American sized rooms with a great sized kitchen. Bekah loved it when we went through and I didn't see any problem with paying a little more, since the house will be essentially free. She will be there all day and will make life better while in this country if she loves her home:)

The place is in a converted barn. Around here, a lot of farmers change their barns, which are solid stone buildings (I think the walls are about two feet thick), into living quarters for people. They primarily rent out to Americans, since there are so many wanting to rent places and design the features with that in mind. The only downside to the converted barn is that there are a bunch of units in a little farming area. In ours, there are about 6 units. The great thing is that there are not any more housing around for quite a ways. The rest is a beautiful reservoir (I would call it a lake) and pastures with mostly sheep. I will try to put up some photographs when we are in, which should be the week of July 23rd.