I’ve arrived!!

Jo Smith
346 Lord Street
346 Lord Street
Our front porch
Our front porch
Our hallway leading to kitchen and dining room
Our hallway leading to kitchen and dining room
This top bunk is mine! The side ladder isn't great so my little legs have to jump up the end ladder!
This top bunk is mine! The side ladder isn’t great so my little legs have to jump up the end ladder!
The fireplace/shelving in between our 2 sets of bunk beds
The fireplace/shelving in between our 2 sets of bunk beds
One set of really high shelves. We get 2 shelves each to keep our stuff on
One set of really high shelves. We get 2 shelves each to keep our stuff on
The second set of really high shelves! Thankfully the bottom 2 will be mine!
The second set of really high shelves! Thankfully the bottom 2 will be mine!
This is how the shelves our connected on our back bedroom wall. Again, thankfully, I get half the rail space on the bottom railing
This is how the shelves our connected on our back bedroom wall. Again, thankfully, I get half the rail space on the bottom railing
This is our back garden
This is our back garden
And part of our back porch...equipped with outside sofa and chairs!! (and oddly...a bookshelf)
And part of our back porch…equipped with outside sofa and chairs!! (and oddly…a bookshelf)

Well I’ve arrived! And this is my new home 🙂 Apologies for the not so great pictures; I forgot to take them earlier in the day and by the time I remembered the light wasn’t so great. But at least you will be able to picture where I live!

I’m slowly starting to settle in now. I’ve been here a few days and feeling pretty jet lagged still, so sleep is still a bit of a problem. Hopefully I will soon start sleeping at the correct time of day! Everything in this house is so big! I feel really quite small as I stand next to the shelves in our bedroom (as you can see!) but I’m hoping that it will soon start to feel like home. I’ve had some ideas already as to how I can make it feel more homey.

Things are a little chaotic at the moment on base with lots of extra people around, so we currently have some people sleeping on the floor in our house. But once things have settled down there will be 8 of us living in this house. I share my room with 3 other ladies, and there are 3 bedrooms in total. We have 2 empty beds in the house, so the potential to go up to 10, but I don’t think we will have anybody else new anytime soon (but watch this space!!) So for now I am the newbie of the house, and thus I have a top bunk which makes life more interesting. My legs are definitely not long enough for the bunk ladder, but I am starting to get a bit of a technique going!!

Right. I am going to sign off for now, but stay tuned for more updates. What I didn’t realise until the other day is that I am joining at one of the busiest times of the year on base, with outreach teams returning, schools preparing to go out on outreach, and new students arriving. Plus our week long missions conference starts tomorrow – if I am honest I have no idea what that is – but I will keep you posted!!

Jo x

 

 

 

Categories: Life's Journey

1 thought on “I’ve arrived!!”

  1. Hi Jo! So nice to be able to picture where you are living, nice too,that you have a back garden to relax in when you have had a long,busy day! It does sound as if you have been thrown in at the deep end & will have to hit the ground running,so to speak. Still, maybe not such a bad thing, you won’t have time to think,just get on with the tasks in hand, you will find your routine & aclimatize quicker I expect!Looking forward to reading more about your new life in due course. In the meantime sending all good wishes from a very warm & sunny Weymouth!! x

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