Next Step: Abode

The next step in this journey is… to find my own place.

I’ve already signed and passed in my contract to the hospital, so technically I’m already employed but not starting until the first week of February. Even attended orientation and had a uniform fitting.

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Little requirements for the next visa are in progress, such as a private health insurance and a superannuation account. I won’t be able to put in my application until the hospital gives me the nomination number, so that won’t be for awhile.

So that leads me to looking for an apartment to rent for the year/s to come.

Something by miracle did happen though.

The educational agent (helped me through the process of getting into the university) gave my e-mail address to one of his new clients. She later realized that I was a good friend of her younger sister! We’ve started to communicate via Facebook and have agreed that it would be a great opportunity to share an accommodation together. We would feel comfortable knowing we are from the same little island and understand each other’s culture; we both graduated from the same college; and we’re both girls! It was funny too, because a couple of days before this, I was telling a friend that I wished I knew someone whom I could share a place with instead of having to live with strangers.

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Here comes the difficult part: money.

To pay for the bond, rent, start-up appliances, equipments, and necessities of a house. It is clearly obvious that there will be a lot of spending and that is the biggest stressor of my life at the moment. My finance is still not at a level I could describe to be ‘comfortable’ (far from it actually). For now, the best thing I could do is look for bargains and free things (if possible) to put into the apartment. I am only interested in the basic things; no need for the comforts of modern life at this stage.

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I have seen a couple of apartments so far and with a budget like mine; a couple of them aren’t the greatest looking places. It’s quite humorous actually. Another thing that adds to the comedy: when I call in or sending in my application for a decent looking place and the person would tell me “Oh. I’m sorry, that property has just been leased yesterday/this morning.”

Yes. Apartment-hunting is frustrating.

But the search must go on…

Wish me luck and pray for me.

Side-note: I’ve been doing a lot of ‘hunts’, haven’t I? From job-hunting to apartment-hunting. What next?