Eventful Monday

It was an eventful Monday for us. We went to the Bank of Ireland to open up a bank account only to be told that the letters from our employers were in the wrong format. They wanted the letters to be addressed to us rather than to the bank as a proof of our address. Michael and I had to both call our HRs and ask them to change the formats of the letters and we had to go to both offices and pick up the new letters. This process took almost our entire morning. As we were waiting we went to St. Stephens shopping center and went to Tk Maxx (nope I did not misspell it) to buy Michael a rain and wind proof jacket. We both got our new letters and went back to the bank to set up our accounts. It is much more formal here. I thought it was a lot of trouble for some minor detail and was very tempted to white out the address and change it to the mailing address myself. They did accept the new letters and we will soon have accounts.

We went to the corporate apartment to change as I had a meeting today with people from my new office. I don't start until July 30 but reached out to let them know I was here. I got a tour of the office and met a few people. I'm now excited and nervous at the same time of starting my new job. It is with the same company but a different country and culture to learn. I did find out I would my own desk which is exciting. It is a very bright and airy office. A partner I met with said there was some trouble with my green card and I might need to leave the country for a day and come back in. Not really sure what the problem is. One of the most frustrating things about this process has to be the green card approval process. We'll see what I need to do once I find out more details. Fortunately I am covered to work under Michael's green card but would like to have my own. Such a long drawn out frustrating process. I'm glad at least Michael's was fairly painless or we'd really be in trouble.

I am glad our new place is not in the same area as our corporate apartment. Our corporate apartment building is the gasworks building and while close to the google offices, it's not really close
to anything else. We have had to walk so far every day.

After the meeting, we took Connor to Merrion Square as the sun finally decided to come out today. He was chasing and yelling at all the birds until none of them would come back onto the ground. There was also another toddler that came up to Connor and pushed him but he said he wanted to give Connor a hug. Not sure what kind of hug that was but Connor was not hurt, just confused.

Ate at a Chinese restaurant in the area and that was it for today!

Some pictures from Merrion Square, the figure on the rock is Oscar Wilde, he was born in a house across the street from Merrion Square: