…a brief glance…

At 1:30 early this morning, we were rudely awakened by an LOUD, ANNOYING alarm. For a moment I thought I was back home and I had set my alarm for an ungodly hour wake up call to finish deadline, or assignment. Despite how along ago I had graduated. The noise was constant, and irritating. I reluctantly ducked my head out of my door to find Christina and Isabel’s head hanging out to with the same confused and dumbfounded expression as I had on mine. As other doors flew open in annoyance, we glanced at each other and decided to head downstairs. There could be a fire. As we headed down however people were headed up, so we went back to the rooms only to be advised to leave the building immediately. I looked down at my flattering attire of 3/4 pyjama pants and old T-shirt, shrugged followed with a sigh. I picked up my jacket and headed down the stairs with the girls. As soon as we got outside I felt the breeze and realised I was somewhat under dressed for the summer evening. WELCOME to LONDON!!! Grrr!!! Of course when one is dressed ever so daggy, with her hair standing up in so many directions, she runs into good looking tenants of the dorm, whom she never runs into when she’s dressed and looking somewhat presentable. *sigh* Isn’t that always the case. So we stood around for a little while, socialised with neighbours we have never met, nor known existed. If we weren’t so tired and in shock, the three fire trucks waiting outside the building would have been alarming. But it seems all it was, was a FALSE ALARM…well that’s what they said last night, but today we found out that someone had accidently set fire (a small one) on the fifth floor. Comforting isn’t it? After the dramas we were able to go back upstairs, and needless to say, I could no longer sleep. GRRR!!!

Today was a pretty laid back day. I headed for the Job Centre again, and though the systems were up and running, it was packed and they had no staff to assist. So I left, dropped off applications and headed for the dorm. Upon arriving I made my lunch, read and had it. Now I’m here, in yet another Internet Cafe, surfing for accomodation and Jobs. After over an hour my eyes are becoming blurry so I thought I’d post last night’s festivities.

Tonight shall be a quiet night. As usual Christina, Isabel and I will be making our low budget meals for dinner, and having it in the communal kitchen.

Hopefully tomorrow I will hear back from some of these people I keep e-mailing. Tomorrow I’ll be spending the day in the phone booth ringing around for accomodation. What fun! Anyways…hope todays post brought a chuckle. It certainly was an interesting night last night.

PEACE OUT!