Finally, free time to post something!!!
It seems like I arrived yesterday. It's amazing how time flies! I haven't seen the guys of the apartment where I am staying for 3 or 4 days! Always waking up at 7.30am and going to bed at 1am, after having a few more pints than I should.
Days have been completely spent on flathunting between 9am and 7pm, eating something and checking emails until 8pm, and then joining other MBA students at the pub. In the mean time, I still had to find some time to open an account at HSBC, get a locker at school, take care of the loan from the portuguese bank (more on that later), configuring my laptop and PDA to access the school's wireless network (now I can use Skype from my PDA, which is quite cool!!), and meeting loads of new people!!! BTW, I met another fellow blogger. I can perfectly imagine him walking around and surfing on sunny California (KV, thanks for the compliment! ;-) )
Finally, after a week full of exhausting days walking all over London, I have found a place to live!!!! It's quite nice, close to school (the distance is walkable) and very cheap. For London standards, obviously. But since I was expecting to spend a bit more on rent, I guess I'll have some extra money to use on travelling and parties. It's still twice the price of a beautiful apartment I rented last year on the most expensive area of Portugal, though...
Also, things with the loan seem to be working great (fingers crossed!). I talked with a friend who's managing a branch of a portuguese bank and it seems that they will give me a loan for the MBA. They don't even have this kind of products, but since I'm such a nice fellow.... And the beautiful part of it is that the interest rate will be lower than the one offered by HSBC!! I love when things work out this way! I feel like a should write HSBC a letter...
Oh, and the weather has been the usual british style: miserable! One day it's raining like crazy, the other it's sunny. I've already bought two umbrellas. Lost my first one on the same day I bought it. I'm not used to carry one of those goddam things!!!!
Days have been completely spent on flathunting between 9am and 7pm, eating something and checking emails until 8pm, and then joining other MBA students at the pub. In the mean time, I still had to find some time to open an account at HSBC, get a locker at school, take care of the loan from the portuguese bank (more on that later), configuring my laptop and PDA to access the school's wireless network (now I can use Skype from my PDA, which is quite cool!!), and meeting loads of new people!!! BTW, I met another fellow blogger. I can perfectly imagine him walking around and surfing on sunny California (KV, thanks for the compliment! ;-) )
Finally, after a week full of exhausting days walking all over London, I have found a place to live!!!! It's quite nice, close to school (the distance is walkable) and very cheap. For London standards, obviously. But since I was expecting to spend a bit more on rent, I guess I'll have some extra money to use on travelling and parties. It's still twice the price of a beautiful apartment I rented last year on the most expensive area of Portugal, though...
Also, things with the loan seem to be working great (fingers crossed!). I talked with a friend who's managing a branch of a portuguese bank and it seems that they will give me a loan for the MBA. They don't even have this kind of products, but since I'm such a nice fellow.... And the beautiful part of it is that the interest rate will be lower than the one offered by HSBC!! I love when things work out this way! I feel like a should write HSBC a letter...
Oh, and the weather has been the usual british style: miserable! One day it's raining like crazy, the other it's sunny. I've already bought two umbrellas. Lost my first one on the same day I bought it. I'm not used to carry one of those goddam things!!!!
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