The road to Coventry
I took a Virgin fast train from London to Coventry. http://www.virgintrains.co.uk/travelling_with_us/our_trains/default.aspx It went so fast that I couldn't see almost anything outside... because the train was going too fast.
So I arrived in Coventry... at the train station nobody expected me. I was thinking... "what should be the correct reaction to this?" "what did I asked and what did I expect from the candidates for the Exchange program in an situation like this... :) Waw! I was living one! I had absolutely no stress and use my last coin to call from a public phone my landlord to come. He arrived after half of hour, telling me that all the traffic in the town was blocked because of a bomb from 2WW discovered in the center. Because I was out of credit I couldn't be even called on my Portuguese number, so I had no contact with AIESECers. I imagined that they were delayed by the blocking in the center so they couldn't arrive on time at the train station.
I went with my landlord to the house, (that one from the previous post) and I had a small surprise, the room wasn't available anymore, he rented meanwhile to someone else... a Polish lady. I had an agreement with him to stay in another room in another house for 3 weeks, until I will find something else... at least that, otherwise I had to stay in a hotel room which would cost me much more! I checked my house mates, 3 Chinese, one girl from Ghana and one British-Indian origin girl from Leeds. They looked OK, the only problem was the cleaning in the house which was a total disaster, I can tell you that in that bathroom Diana would never enter! :D ... and the hall was absolutely full of dust, the landlord had to threaten them to clean the house. My box room wasn't cleaned as well, I had to do that.
So, I was happy that I have a temporary place to stay, also the landlord provided me a PC with Internet access which was just great for me. After I checked my email I saw several desperate emails from the AIESECers trying to tell me how sorry they were that they didn't arrived and asking me if I'm OK and what happened to me. I could almost saw tears in that emails! :) After I chilled them up we set up a meeting for the next day.
So I arrived in Coventry... at the train station nobody expected me. I was thinking... "what should be the correct reaction to this?" "what did I asked and what did I expect from the candidates for the Exchange program in an situation like this... :) Waw! I was living one! I had absolutely no stress and use my last coin to call from a public phone my landlord to come. He arrived after half of hour, telling me that all the traffic in the town was blocked because of a bomb from 2WW discovered in the center. Because I was out of credit I couldn't be even called on my Portuguese number, so I had no contact with AIESECers. I imagined that they were delayed by the blocking in the center so they couldn't arrive on time at the train station.
I went with my landlord to the house, (that one from the previous post) and I had a small surprise, the room wasn't available anymore, he rented meanwhile to someone else... a Polish lady. I had an agreement with him to stay in another room in another house for 3 weeks, until I will find something else... at least that, otherwise I had to stay in a hotel room which would cost me much more! I checked my house mates, 3 Chinese, one girl from Ghana and one British-Indian origin girl from Leeds. They looked OK, the only problem was the cleaning in the house which was a total disaster, I can tell you that in that bathroom Diana would never enter! :D ... and the hall was absolutely full of dust, the landlord had to threaten them to clean the house. My box room wasn't cleaned as well, I had to do that.
So, I was happy that I have a temporary place to stay, also the landlord provided me a PC with Internet access which was just great for me. After I checked my email I saw several desperate emails from the AIESECers trying to tell me how sorry they were that they didn't arrived and asking me if I'm OK and what happened to me. I could almost saw tears in that emails! :) After I chilled them up we set up a meeting for the next day.
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