Livin' the life

I started work on Monday wearin' my bottle green outfit from the 5'10" woman. It was about a foot too long so i had to roll up the pants from both ends to keep it from looking ridiculous, other wise it wasn't so bad since i was surrounded by about 7 others in the same uniform. I was so busy on Monday learning the different wards and the charts, paper work, where to go for our coffee/tea break at about 10 every day and about OT equipment and all of that. There is so much to learn, but once i really get my feet wet i think i'll be fine. The documentation is SOO different. its a lot easier and a lot less. We are responsible for a whole lot more though. We do all the wheelchair fittings, all the equipment orders even if its nursing stuff like mattresses or IV stuff. We do a lot of contact with community OTs and nurses which is good and we see people in EVERY part of the hospital (ICU to the emergency room, to oncology patients to the geriatric population) . The tricky part is that most of these patients are not organized in a certain ward so we just go all over the hospital to see what ever area we're 'specialized' in. I'm supposed to be medical/ surgical. Anyway, so far so good. Oh and the people i work with are so lovely!

Mike and i got bikes yesterday and we're ridin' fools. we had our first event in the rain today going to get ourselves registered with immigration which wasn't as bad as we thought. The next task we had today was to go to get our Irish Social Security numbers which is much more of a hassle. We thought we had everything but we need something a bit different which hopefully won't take long to get. But the bikes are a blessing cause its really cutting down on travel time (which is great when its raining) even though our butts are really sore already.

Please pray for us about getting accomodation. We will be getting a long list of postings for 'lettings' tomorrow and will be searching for the right one for the right price. its my biggest source of anxiety right now! It would be ideal for us to have our own place but we're getting ourselves ready for sharing a room somewhere if we have to. We just hope we find something by Sunday since that is when our 'lease' is up at this place, even though we think we can extend it a bit. We're just ready to know where we'll be staying for a year so we can finally unpack and 'move in'.

We got cell phones and it has been very helpful to have them although we didnt really seem to miss not having them when we didn't... oh well. We'll post our numbers later if anyone is so ambitious to call us.

We love you!!