Quiz Night, Expat Edition

Not the cool pub kind. Even cooler.

I thought it might be useful to have some Q & A from real-life expats living here in Britland. I'm hoping to make a set list of questions and post answers from a different expat each month.

I've got a lot of questions I remember staying up at night thinking about before our move, and I think I broke the internet with all my millions of Britishy searches. I'll add my own questions to the list, but also want to hear from you!

So, here's the pre-quiz quiz:

What have you potential expats been Googling in hopes of insider information? What worries about your move have been keeping you up at night? What do you need to know to help you make all those life-changing decisions about your future in a country you might not have even been to yet?

Leave your questions in the comments for this post, and I'll try to include them in the quiz. If no-one has any real questions, I'll try my best to make a Q & A list of actual, useful questions, but I can't promise it won't just end up as a random list of insanity. That's just how my brain works, people!

If The Queen Only Knew!

I bet she'd be pretty pissed at the people delivering the post in her good name. (At least those sending it overseas, our own postman is delightful...)

January 12th we finally got our end-o-the year DVDs sent on their way to US friends and family. We do a DVD instead of a letter every year. Well, ok, not every year, I mean- you've all seen just how consistent I am with communication. But still... all the more reason this was a special delivery! After a few weeks, we were worried that the "5 business days" had come and gone.. and come and gone again... with no deliveries. After another week, 2 of the DVDs (out of 11 total) arrived.... to ALASKA and HAWAII!! At least if things had to go wrong, it was hilariously wrong. Of course our friends in Alaska and Hawaii get theirs before anyone else! Over a month since sending them off into the unknown, we decided a lonely/creepy postal worker along the way must have decided to keep the DVDs (one for watching, 8 for backup), so we sent them again, but this time in the luggage of a co-worker who was a good enough sport to start carrying our mail. Yes, you guessed it, before he even made it home, everyone else got the originals.

I guess, if I am to be honest and impartial, this could have happened after the DVDs made it to America. They could have been sitting in a USPS office for a month. However, we all know what happens when you disgruntle a postal worker in the US, so we'll place the blame on the friendlier of the two varieties of Post Office employees.

Now, the point of this story is not to complain. It is to warn The Queen about the false promises being made right in her own Royal Mail service. Also, it is to give me a place to post the pictures of a very important present before I send it, in case this is the last I see of it. So, Agelsfy, here are the birds I made for your wedding cake toppers! We'll send them expedited and super-protected and whatever else we can, with tracking, and if you could just hang out in Alaska or Hawaii for a week or so, I'm sure you'll get them before your wedding. Here are a few pictures of what you're looking for:

feathery hairclip to match Agelsfy's

...aaand yes, that's an unpainted gnome behind them. Gnome not included.