First week

Down to buisness...
Gem started the 3 week overseas nurses programme. An increadibly expensive and boring way to get started in London. The course cost 670 pounds and covered topics such as the structure of the NHS, basic life support. One session started with "How do you tell if your patient's sick... You look, listen and feel... Looking: what do we look for? ...etc
Sara started the painstaking process of geting bank accounts, tax file numbers, registering with employment agencies.
We had a lot of fun catching big red busses, tubes and trains. The public transport is amazing here. You don't have to wait longer than a couple of minutes to catch anything. I started running for my busses when I saw them coming, but now I just watch them go by and catch the next one in two minutes.
Also dealing with stuff like shopping (no beef sausages anywhere -all pork-yuck!), they sell beer (even home brand) in the supermarkets, and doing laundry (no clothes lines).