Finding a place to live

My first day in Slough ended well: I went to the city center with X and I met my future housemates, who are also going to work as Foreign Language assistants at Slough Grammar School: K, the German assistant, and E, the Italian assistant. They were both so so nice! E has been in Slough since the first of September whereas K arrived on Tuesday. We decided to find a house to live in together with also M, the Spanish assistant, who was arriving only the next day. I hope it will be a bit like l’Auberge Espagnole (the Spanish Apartment)… for those who don’t know what I’m talking about, go rent the movie NOW!
Anyway, we went to the Slough library where I got a card for free. We looked for ads on the internet, called a few landlords and estate agents, visited a house (nice, but not enough room for 4 people) then after this hard work we went to the local pub to share our first impressions about the city and the school around burgers, chips and pints :-p

My second day in Slough was quite busy! X and I went to the centre again to meet K and E at the pub, because it said that they had wi-fi… But when I tried to go online with my laptop to look for ads about houses to rent, it didn’t work, and the staff was not helpful at all. So we did it old school and went knocking on an agency’s door, asking them if it was possible to visit a house we had seen in a newspaper ad. The agent said sure, go there directly to check out the house, the people are still there packing their things.
So, we took the bus to this lovely little area of Slough, called Langley (very close to X’s place, and about 30 mins walk from the school) and found the house. And what a house!!! So big, with 4 bedrooms upstairs (all very big, except one which is smaller), with cupboards included in the walls, a big lounge downstairs, a kitchen with enough space to put a table and chairs to have dinner in, a garage (for parties!!!! hehe), a back garden and a small front garden, toilets downstairs, 2 bathrooms upstairs (one of them is connected to a room)... It was very bright with lots of windows, and brand new! So very clean and pretty. Plus, the beds were included, as well as a washing machine, a drier, an oven, a microwave, a fridge and a dishwasher! We LOVED it! The rent was a bit more expensive than what we were expecting to pay but we figured that if it’s too much, we’ll get a fifth person to live with us!
We were so excited about the house that we called the agent to tell them we were interested. So we’re going back on Monday to sign the papers. Yay!
After these good news, I went to do a bit of shopping at the huge local supermarket called Tesco. They had so many things, including my favourite beer in the whole world (Coopers Pale Ale, from South Australia) and curiously, they had more Australian wines than French wines :-D I bought an organic baguette which was quite expensive but deliciousssss :-)
Tonight I just stayed in, I tried to watch a movie on TV but there were just sooo many ads, every 10 mins! It’s crazy!!!! Tomorrow I’m off to London to see some friends, I can’t wait!