Our Week

Its hard to imagine that we have already been here for a month. We finally broke down and had cable internet installed yesterday afternoon. The library was getting too annoying. The wait for the computer was okay, but the incredible slowness was irritating. It got to the point that it would take an hour to check email and answer it. Its wonderful to have internet right at our fingertips again. This week I have been working at the Western Infirmary Hospital in their Occupational Health department. I work 4 days a week and 3 of them only half days. I really like the ladies that I work with AND we get a paid tea time! How great is that... every morning (and I imagine in the afternoons as well) we get about a 1/2 hour to sit and have a cup of tea and a snack. Works well with the eating every couple of hours way of life. Mike went on a mini-research trip this past Tuesday and Wednesday to London and Southampton for his end of the year thesis. He went down to their libraries to see what kinds of documents they had and if he would be able to use them. He is researching communication through letters into and out of during pre-World War II Germany. He was able to test his German skills, and of course he did great. He was able to read and understand most of the letters. Luckily for him the library in London had some of the collections all typed out so that he didn't have to decipher people's handwriting and only a handful of the letters had really sloppy handwriting. He didn't have anytime to do any touristy activities though because he spent all day in the library. We are going down for half a day on our way to Plymouth next month to see some friends, so expect pictures then! I am waiting for blogger to fix their bug with uploading pictures, and then I will have more to share.