Repatriate Me!

I’m in Canada.

After a 13 hour flight, plus 75 minutes delay due to fog I’ve arrived. No problem with immigration or customs. Picked up my car quickly enough, but for some reason when I put in the address for my basement suite in scarborough the GPS took me to the CN tower and told me I had arrived. Umm… wrong. in any case the second time around I found the place fine and it’s okay – for $32 a night I’m actually quite impressed.

I then went out for lunch (around3pm) and stopped by a TD Canada Trust where I had a very informative and helpful discussion with the branch manager and another employee. Got a number of things ironed out and am pre-approved for a credit card which I can pick up in 6-10 days. Gotta love the long delay on that.

I then went to Rogers to talk about cell phones and tablets. Turns out I need two peices of id, one of which can be a print out from my bank account. No problem, I am going back to the bank tomorrow morning as I needed a local address to give them for administrative reasons and now have it thanks to facebook.

Tomorrow, back to the bank, rogers, and then calling a few house listings. The friend who is letting me use his address as a mailing address is putting me in touch with his brother who is a used car salesmen (sounds cheesy, but I’m sure it’s not). Hoepfully I can get a good deal – already have an idea of price range and what I want from searching kijiji.ca for the past few weeks.

Doing my best right now to stay awake until 9pm, which will mean I will have been away for close to 36 hours by the time I go to bed. Hopefully by doing this I’ll keep jet lag to a minimum.

Jun 23, 2011 Comments(2) Tweet

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