Things have settled well, even better that we now have broadband wireless in the flat. I am again complete. I have decided to stick out my temping job at the Environment Agency until the end of the contract which is in October, I now have enough to do and it is keeping me busy. I have settled into a PA role, editing, writing reports, organising meeting etc, its not glamorous but it is paying well enough and it is not at all hard/stressful or challenging which gives me time to find other things to do (while not get bored). Although I found the engineering degree both interesting and challenging, I cannot find an application or job in the field which really interests me. So, I am thinking about applying to finance/banking/trading positions as the end of the contract draws nearer. Partly because the pay seems to be good, but also because I am actually interested in the field. I had an interview for an engineering technical sales position this week and found myself screaming on the inside run away, it is good to be narrowing the field. Sales is not even an option now.

So we have done a quick catch up session this evening, the last two posts were backdated to give some close reference to when we went on the trips. I will now tie up some lose ends of things we have done over the last week.

Science Museum
London has a Science Museum, which in short rocks. It is very cool, we spent about 5 hours there and I think we covered about 40% of the museum (keep in mind we are engineers). It is really well laid out and lots of interactive exhibits which keeps you interested. We are going back in a week or two to finish it off. We will give a full post then..

Canary Wharf and Bollywood Dancers
We went for a walk around Canary Wharf, which is the new mini Manhattan of London. It doesn’t fit in with the old, stone history of London at all. It is very nice (and expensive, you get the impression a water might cost £3). Anyhoo… we stumbled across a Bollywood dance exhibit, they were the performers from a recently ended stage production of Bombay Dream. The show was pretty well done and good to watch.

Water Puppets
Finally, last night we went to Greenwich to watch Vietnamese water puppetry. What’s that you ask, as did we, hence why we went. It was a full on production, with lighting, music and choreography. It was done at night, hence the photos didn’t come out to flash (pun intended). First, look at the photos more closely (i.e. click on them and this one). You can see the back drop, in front of that is a pool about 1m deep and 5m from front to the back drop. They control these puppets from behind the drop, though the water, now this in its self does not sound very impressive, but it is once you watch it. The puppets are able to cross over each other, move various limbs, breath fire (dragons), climb on each other… The two pictures there are of three boats with small team of people which actually row. They were having races in that skit. The one pictured (right) is of a group of woman dancing, they were all doing twirls, and line dancing.. it was very impressive, but hard to convey. The commentary was in Vietnamese, which wasn’t annoying but we didn’t get the obvious jokes when half the crowd started to laugh.