Some events are not worth missing. People say they remember where they were when big events happen. Cast your mind back to waking up on Sunday the 31st of August, 1997. Do you remember where you were? How about Thursday the 11th of September, 2001 at about 2 p.m. British time? How about 2200 on Wednesday May the 26th, 1999.
Today is going to go down in that category for me. I did get up about 4 in the morning though for it. I watched the Champions League final and there was right result for me. I didn't mind the early start, as I was going to work after anyway. A couple of large mugs of coffee, and some popcorn for company, I was over the moon, and was dancing around the living room at times, and then cringing in the corner at others. Oh that is what drama of a penalty shootout does!!
The rest of the day went the same way as well. I had a misunderstanding about my health insurance. There is no NHS here, and being a temporary resident, as part of my contract at work, I'm required to have health insurance. When I arrived, the ambulance service got me 1 month of free health insurance, and then I was supposed to talk to someone to organise paying the bill.
As I was new, and didn't know understand how everything worked and was under the impression that St. John had put everything in place with the Insurance Company. It turned out that I didn't pay anything for 2 months. I have been trying to clear up the problem for a while, and got the name of the right person who could deal with it eventually. After explaining the problem, and asking for the outstanding bill, I was told that as I was up front about how I ended up owing them a lot of money, and then as I didn't make any claims during the whole time, they would just say that my insurance was cancelled in February, and not April. Boy did I like that, as it has saved me $500. I couldn't find the overtime day to earn that in my busy calendar.
It was another red letter day all around. Oh and by the way, I had fallen asleep with the TV on in my flat in Hove (recurring theme), and thought I was dreaming when I woke up on that Sunday morning to the news the Princess Diana had been killed. I was driving a car back from Southampton docks for a friend of mine in 2001, and as the radio only had MW, all I could get was Radio 5 Live to listen to, and heard the reports of the planes crashing into the towers in New York and Washington on the drive back to Peacehaven. May the 26th was when Manchester United won the Champions League. I was in a small bar in Hove surrounded by a lot of good friends.
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