3/19/2011

The Buddy Holly Tribute, Red Nose Day, Teele in Weston

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So. This week has been pretty busy for me.
During the daytime I do the observations and assist the residents during mealtimes, help in activities and IT. And also do some escorting. On Thursday I did another escorting in the evening because the person who was supposed to go as an escort originally, fell ill during the day. So... I went to Bristol Hippodrome with two residents to see Buddy Holly Tribute. The Hippodrome is a very old theatre from Victorian-age. And it's very beautiful from the inside- victorian decorations are everywhere and the ceiling is just marvellous. The event itself was different from what we had expected- we thought there's a tribute band going to perform but instead we saw a play that was made about the tribute of Buddy Holly. The play was in the beginning a bit boring and didn't have much energy in it for me. But as the end got closer I started to like it more, because the actors involved audience a lot. The play was made almost the same way as the movie. There were only very small differences compared to movie.
Friday was the Red Nose Day. It's a very big charity event where famous people perform and collect money for Africa and also people in need. The organizer of it is Comic Relief. So during that day and actually before and after, too, there were a lot of people wearing red clown noses, t-shirts with the logo, even cars had small red noses in their frontal area. I also took part in one RND event- in the fitness centre there was Zumba yesterday evening which I had booked for myself. This time it was specifically for RND so the trainer did it for free and people got a chance to donate some money. As I am a member of the gold club, I didn't have to pay anything to go to Zumba but I still decided to give about 5 pounds for charity. I've done it once before also for RND. It was some years ago when McFly released their charity single that I bought. Anyway. There were RND events going on all over the country. And the TV was also full of it. Pretty nice thing, though.
Today I had again a free day and went to Weston again. To see Teele. It was a nice day- I got to speak Estonian in the UK, which I don't have possibility to do very often. It was a very beautiful sunny day and it was very warm outside so we walked around in the beach, watched the water coming back because the tide was getting high again. We also went to Wetherspoons for dinner and had some ice cream. Seeing Teele was very good because we got to share our news and talk about our lives. Teele is doing care work right now in the UK, so she moves around a lot. But her main residence is in Birmingham. Who knows, maybe one day I will go to there, too. It should cost about 25 pounds as return ticket with the 16-25 railcard that I have now. It gives me 1/3 of discount from all the train tickets that I buy. Seeing Teele today was also useful- she gave me advice on my Vodafone cell number and also told me about different banks in the UK and about registering to doctor and life in UK as common. Well, she has had similar beginning to mine in here, so she knows about things I need to know more, than local people sometimes do. Thanks Teele, I'm very happy that I got to see you today. We'll have to repeat that. Definetely.

Right now I wil go back to my room to watch Dr. Who, which I have now started to like a bit more than I did in the beginning.
Oh, and great news- Gaye will hopefully come on Monday! Or if not on Monday, then definetely some time during the following week. Finally! I've got company now!

1 comments:

Kerttu said...

See oli päris naljakas, mida sa viimati Doctor Who kohta rääkisid :D

Äge, et ta juba tuleb!!