broomball.

hey team, it feels as though i havent written for ages, because i have dont so much stuff the last week, been mega busy, but im finally on the computer so ill try and update you with as much accuracy as possible. here we go. so i caught the overlander train from waterloo, london to bracknell, which is a small little town about 1 hours west of london which offers very little other than headquarters for multinational companies and other industrial buildings etc. not much doing there (but it is pretty close to windsor castle and legoland. can't lose.), so got to the train station and was stoked that is was closed, as i happened to not have ticket and therefore could just walk round the station rather than going thru the turnstiles-which you need a valid travel pass for. sweet. so there was 4 random people who got off the train and we were all standing there waiting for a taxi- i was first in line- a taxi pulled up and i asked the others where they were going- it turned out one of the girls lived around the corner from the hotel-so we split the cab- she was pretty cool, ended up getting along quite well. sweet. so i got to the hotel and was shown to my room, which is pretty decent, but its kind of a loft with a slanted roof on one side, so i cant really stand up straight on one side of my bed, theres 50 staff rooms, and i live in the main section, like the bit that joins all the corridors together, and i also live right under the bell tower- the bell rings every 15mins - which has its pros and cons- good because you dont need a watch and get quarterly time updates...bad because you can only sleep in 15 minute intervals. ha. yeah so monday was my first day at work, i met the crew, all pretty cool workmates- so should have a bit of fun there, and also the waves department(the leisure dept-where i work), is the most laidback in the whole hotel- everyone else has to wear suits and look professional 24/7 - we just chill, and its cool cause you can just sit around and talk to customers and have a joke and that so its cool as...but at the same time its not very stimulating...it can get a bit boring during the day. see how we go..think ill give it 3 months, then might look to move to a different part of england. ive met some really cool people here as well, heaps of internationals, and most of them live up in the staff area as well, so its cool just chilling up there, listening to music and that-and listening to the bell. the guy who owns the hotel, also owns about another 15 companies...apparently he's the 36th richest guy in britain. right behind the hotel is the ice-skating rink and a dry ski slope*, which is cool because you can walk to them, and you get a tidy staff discount. woohoo. * the ski slope is probably about 100m high, and its like this plastic grass like stuff...like astro turf...and you can ski and snowboard on it..like theres chairlifts, ramps and stuff...its actually really cool, id never seen anything like it...so ill have a go on that as much as i can, cause its good to get the basics on a snowboard, so i cant get that sorted so i dont waste 3 days learning when i arrive in austria or switzerland (take your pick, ha)...cool cool.

was at work on wednesday and the girl from the taxi dropped in, had a chat and she goes, ' so do you wanna hook up?' and i must have given her a weird/startled expression, after explaining that she meant hang out, i was like yeah cool, so we ended up chillin out that night(nothing in it-just mates) and just played a bit of pool and that. i suck at pool, i already knew that, but i just reinforced the fact by sinking the 8 ball on my very first shot. unlucky. so that was cool just chilling and seeing a bit of bracknell and reading, its cool knowing someone who owns a car- so fun times. thursday night i saw a poster that advertised a game of broomball at the ice rink- didnt have a clue what it was so went down to the rink with a mate from south africa and had a social game of broomball...it was great fun. pretty much its ice hockey, but without skates on, and the ball is like a size 1 soccerball but rubber and really light. so it was awesome just running around on the ice and sliding around. you can actually run pretty quick, you just cant stop for about 5 metres. so i loved it-as most of you will know i like any kind of sport and i also like random stuff, so if you add them both together broomball fits in perfectly. got asked to permantly join one of the teams, so if i can get the time off, ill be running around on the ice every thursday night. woohoo.

this is a giant post, im even using paragraphs. hardcore. on saturday i went to church at newbold college, which is a college run by the seventh day adventist church, so that was really cool, met some more really top people, and college is out at the moment, so most of them arnt there, so im really looking forward to going there and getting to know a few more people. on sunday we had what is called communications day, when all the companies that old mate owns get together pretty much for team building activities such as: jumping castle volleyball, archery, learning the haka, playing tribal hippie drums and heaps of stuff...was a good laugh, then everyone came back to our hotel and had a bbq and went to the nightclub and chilled and that- pretty fun, heaps of people, i had an early one cause i had to work at 6 this morning, still had fun, anyways i think thats about it for now, my fingers are starting to cramp and you are probably bored to the max so ill wind it up...hope your enjoying life...keep smilin :) andyb