Well Ladies and Gents, the countdown is officially on! Three weeks and counting! This last week has been absolutely insane.
I had my last day at work on Thursday. It was to put it lightly bittersweet. As excited as I am for this adventure it all got real knowing that I won't be returning to Windsor anytime soon! The girls who worked for me there are hands down one of the best teams I could have imagined building.
My girls and I went to dinner tonight as a farewell at Buca Di Bepo (YUM!!) We decided it would be fitting, family style dining for our little Windsor family.
This week Nick had a two hour cultural training phone call that I sat in on. We learned A LOT of information, an absolutely overwhelming amount. We spoke with the guy a lot about slang and what to expect as far as social activities. We're both looking forward and nervous at the same time to get there and really dive in to the new culture and language. While they do still speak English of course, there's lots of little differences between the two countries.
We learned about the cockney rhyming slang, one of the things I'm honestly looking forward to experiencing in person, but feeling slightly overwhelmed by at the same time. The slang started with criminals in South London selling items on the street. To hide what they were selling from the police they would use a rhyme and it has adapted since then. Our trainer was telling us about his first experience with the rhyming slang and told us that he went to the market and heard a gentleman selling "Teddies" for a pence, meaning pears. The way the rhyming slang works is they take the word they want to say "pear" and use a rhyming phrase "Teddy bear" and they usually just drop the rhyming word so "teddies" mean pears. Crazy right?!
The trainer left us with a thought that really stuck with both of us. "When you arrive overseas, the first person you'll meet is yourself."
This trip has already started to help me realize how much I've missed out over the last two years, and I'm so excited to spend the next six months really just focusing on myself, and finally getting the chance to define myself by something other than my job.
I think at this point Nick and I are both ready to just get over there and get this whole adventure started. I'm going to start packing tomorrow and try to get everything ready so that we can just relax and enjoy seeing our friends and families that last week we will be in town!
How crazy is it that in literally just 3 weeks we will be in a different country?! ahhh!!!!
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