It will be great experience for me...

Walking to work on my first day was a wonderful 15 mins, it was warm and the sun was shining. I even had breakfast in a little park opposite to the mall where I am working.

I really enjoyed my first day at the shop, although I kept saying £ instead of $ that’s going to take me a while to get that straight in my head, and the coins look like USA coins but have the queens face on one side this makes it very confusing, and the 10 cents is the same size as the UK 5p and the 5 cents is the same size as the UK 10p but I am sure I will get the hang of it.

It will take me a while to adjust to this new way of life, but it will be great experience for me in so many different ways, both in business and personally.

The grand tour...

Waiting to be picked up by my new employer, I sat and wrote postcards on the veranda of where I am staying, just taking in the landscape around me. I am renting a room in a wonderful old house with lots of character, in a place called Pembroke.

I was picked up at 9am after rush hour, the main town in Bermuda (Hamilton) has only really got two main roads going through it, so it can get very congested in the morning and afternoon.

Lisa my new boss gave me the grand tour of all the shops and design studio of Designer Flowers, the company I am now working for. It was great to meet everyone who works there, they are from places all round the world, so this means there is such a range of floral designs and styles from each of us.

I was then shown the shop that I will be the manager of, I was very excited and looking forward to getting started. At the moment I still feels like I am on holiday, so it will be strange to start working.

My first day in Bermuda...

I woke the next morning and really had to think we’re I was, realising I was still in Bermuda I planned my day. I decided to go from one side of the island to the other and the best way to do this is by ferry. This might be an everyday activity for the local people but I was very excited to see the island from a boat, you could really get an idea of the shape and scale of the place.

I also had my very first experience on a scooter a friend of mine over here has one and offered to take me around. It was great with the wind in your face as you travel along the very small roads of Bermuda, and most of the time you have the sea at one side of you. It is so beautiful, the turquoise water and bright blue skies and fantastic palm trees, oh and even pink sand.

I had such a fantastic first day in Bermuda and I have even got red arms to prove it.

I have arrived...

I had a very relaxed smooth flight to Bermuda with British Airways, lots of in flight entertainment to keep me busy. After 7 hours of looking down at the Atlantic, I was so excited to see land. Even when the screen in front of me said 1 mile till destination there was still water below us, and the runway stretched the whole width of the east side of the island

The humidity really hit me when existing the plane and this was at 6:30pm. They had a large sign saying welcome to Bermuda with a logo of some Bermuda shorts above it.

I then went through immigration and had to be interviewed about my reasons for entering Bermuda. Thankfully my new employers had left my working visa with them so all was well and they happily let me in to their country.

There was a lady waiting for me when I walked through the gates holding a sign with my name on it, that’s never happen to me before I felt very important. I was then taken to my new home away from home and met my land lady who made me feel very welcome and couldn’t do enough for me.

I was a little jet lagged and ready for bed at his point but I was lying there being serenaded by tree frogs making high pitched noises, I’m sure I will get used to them.

Bermuda here I come...

Three months ago I got a job as a Florist Manager, in Bermuda!

After lots of preparation, dentist trips and goodbyes, my bags are packed and I’m now ready to leave England and set off on my new adventure.

Bermuda here I come...