Well, we've been here five days now and I'm starting to feel a tad at home.
I must admit to having felt a little deflated for the first couple of days. We were so excited about finally getting here but, after visiting the Gold Coast and Sydney, the place looked small and a bit behind the times.
Albury initially reminded me of Marty McFly's hometown in Back To The Future - when the Doc and him go back in time. That's not being insulting to the place, it's just like nowhere I've ever visited before and the only physical similarity I can see is to old-time American towns from the movies.
So, as you may be able to imagine, it was a bit of a culture shock to say the least. Five days in though, we're warming to the place.
We've joined a couple of social clubs in town and have made our first friends, Dave and Karen. Dave is ex-REME, same as me, and has transferred to the Aussie army. We'd been in contact by email via the British Expats website before we left the U.K., but on Sunday we met up with them at the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen's Club in Albury. As I expected of an ex- British squaddie and his wife, they're earthy, funny and excellent company. Dave knows quite a few lads that I served with and it was great to hear how they've progressed in life. We enjoyed our day with them very much.
The wife had her second interview with the city council yesterday. It must have gone well because they asked her to go for a functionality test that afternoon.
She went along and was thoroughly checked over by a physio. Following that they had her moving chairs around, doing some shoulder press reps with a PC monitor and then, and this is the funny bit, crawling under desks! Ten times they made her crawl under this desk, stand up at the other end, get back down and crawl back to the other side! I personally think she's been secretly filmed and will be appearing on Australia's Funniest Home Videos in the next series.
She's never been much of a crawler, but they liked what they saw because she's been offered the job.
3 comments:
Did Pauline have her high heals and a short skirt on when she was climbing under the desks? No wonder she got the bloody job, oh my lord what a laugh i would have paid good money to watch that.
nice!..behind the times...never!!
There's a cinema you know!! .joke
I used to work at the internet cafe around the corner from the cinema.
Pauline has crawled under many a desk in Liverpool. She'd have passed the test if they'd have asked her to lift the desks! I've never worked with a girl with her strength or ability to shove us big lads out of the way and lift a heavy server into a rack! Pansy Potter we used to call her! - Chief
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