Sunday, October 26, 2008

Continuation....

We rested to release our bodyache throughout the night. Luckily my son easily adapted with the situation. The next day, we started our house hunting. We waited at the said location but the agent did not appear (this was flat leased under university student welfare, quiet frustrating!!!). However, we did not feel to much frustrated because i don't really like the surrounding eventhough the house is really close to the bus stop and just take 5-7 minutes on the bus to the campus. After waiting for an hour (nearly!), we went back home and rested. We searched through the internet for new ones. Other friends also helping us whenever they heard or found new advert on house for rent.

In summary, we did went to some houses but couldn't make when we couldn't find the said address, the agent did not bring the house keys (apedaa!), the landlord was too picky, and also we've been cheated by agency as we were foreigner (whey got kidse've been told the house was taken while we just about to fill in the form!!!). I felt that were valuable experience to share with my friends who wanted to go abroad, just be strong and careful with the locals! One must be easily adapted with the environment or else you will feel lost all the time.

When we just about to reach one week staying over abg jamal's, we feel it is not proper for us to stay on more than that since they got kids and only two beds in their house. We hope for another home to stay over until we find our home. We've been parasit for almost 3 weeks in edinburgh but that's fate we have to accept. Luckily, there a sis wanting to return to Malaysia for Eid and she allow us to stay in her house Thank you very much Kak Yani, you are really our saviour at the time we really need help. Her house is fully equipped since it has been rented by 3 or 4 Malaysian continuously. We celebrated our Eid there with small Malaysian dishes that I know how to cook eventhough there was missing ingredients!!!

At Kak Yani's, we thouroughly hunt for house and nursery. We got some houses but, as my husband went, there was one nearby but small and only 1 room. And it is very far from the bus stop. As for nursery, my husband went to one in Juniper Green and already filled in the form, then, late evening, we received a phonecall from Pinocchio, a nursery in our campus saying there is place for my son. We decided to send him there instead of Juniper Green. When we looked at the price, we were shocked but my husband preferred there since we plan not to buy a car.

We found our home now a week after we stayed in edinburgh.We met the landlord at night after we break fast and I just said we take the house and nego on the rental. We glad to have a very nice landlord so far and not picky. That is why we picked this house although it is smaller than kak yani's and more expensive than kak yani's.When about to move on, my husband refused to ask for help from our friends here, he did but the help did not turn up maybe due to buziness. So we migrated by taxi and carried ourselves the stuffs we can carry. It was very tiring night that I will remember for the rest of my life.

View from our house window...

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