So it’s been a couple of weeks now that I have been in Amsterdam. Things are going ok, I am still looking for somewhere to live, although think I have found a solution till around March, but that should give me time to find something a bit more permanent. If I’m definitely staying after that I will look at getting an unfurnished 
place and get a few bits and pieces to go in it, there is allot of people moving about here so you can always find a house sale of someone getting rid of almost everything. The place I am looking at is about 2mins walk from an indoor ski slope as well… how good is that!?
So what else has been happening? Well not allot really, I have had a few things to sort out, boring stuff (although actually quite exciting) like getting a sofi/BSN number, kind of like NI number, without it I couldn’t open a bank account or get paid. We had a guy meet us who sorted it all out, was very good, taken in a car to the tax office, in a different town as they had appointments, then to the bank and with the details they had I could open an account and apply for a credit card (no spending except in emergency’s I promise mum & dad!). So that’s all done in a morning and I emailed the HR girl, so I get paid this month! Woohoo!
Also in Holland we had ‘The Feast of Sinterklaas’ a festival that celebrates 
Sinterklaas coming to Holland and giving presents to good children and whips bad children with willow branches. Well I say he does it, its actually his helpers, Zwarte Piet. That’s black Peter…..
To give a little back round Sinterklaas lives in Spain (of course) and comes to Holland on a steam boat with his 2 helpers. Also all the children get a chocolate letter of their name and sweets and also presents, meant to be wrapped to camouflage what they are and with an individual poem.
Also this week I have lost both my hat and gloves, punctured a tire of a bike I borrowed and caught the wrong bus and ended up without public transport an hours walk from the next tram home 
Here are a few other pics.
