09.14.07
Posted in Amsterdam, ApartmentSaga at 17:39 by Jeff
This is part 3 of Team McLennan and the Journey to a New Land. If you’re just joining us, check out Part 1: This Isn’t Heaven, This Sucks and Part 2: Team McLennan Strikes Back.
So at this point in the story, we’ve been in The Netherlands 5 days. In that time, we’ve moved into and out of one apartment and moved into a second. We don’t have a bank account, cable or internet access. We do have a pre-paid mobile phone thanks to Jon, and there’s an open wireless internet connection in the neighborhood that we’ve been leeching from (thanks neighbor,) so we’re not totally out of contact, but it sure feels like it.
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09.13.07
Posted in Amsterdam, ApartmentSaga at 16:46 by Jeff
This is part 2 of Team McLennan and the Journey to a New Land. If you’re just joining us, check out Part 1: This Isn’t Heaven, This Sucks.
So after we took ~30min to let the shock of the university-supplied apartment wear off, then we decided to try and find a new apartment. The 5 of us (Staci, Christine, Marcus, Jon & I) went up to an internet cafe near an apartment Jon’s work had put him up at for a few weeks when he was working on a project in Amsterdam and began scouring the listings we could find online for anything that was available. We sent some emails and wrote down contact information so we could call the next morning.
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09.12.07
Posted in Amsterdam, ApartmentSaga at 17:27 by Jeff
So it’s been a while since Team McLennan last let the world know about their little adventure in Amsterdam. Well, I hope you’re comfortable, because this is going to be a long post. In fact, it’s going to be a few long posts. Today, we’ll start with a tour or the apartment the university assigned us.
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