i'm in london still...
how very waif's... actually, i am in london and i am phenomenally glad to be here. i'm staying with andre at the moment and she and her family have been just absolute god sends. they are warm and have graciously opened their home to me. and let me watch margrita's wedding video 9,000 times (and i still get all mushy every single time).
it's so weird, in a lot of ways it's like i never left, but i wouldn't have missed my six months home for anything. it's also odd being here and knowing that everyone else isn't (except matt, who i'm meeting up with today)... but i keep thinking... "ooh, might just give kat or alex a ring and see if they want to do something". which is fine except one is in sydney and the other new zealand. i do have a new phone number by the way, but i'll forward you all that in a private email... rather than publish my phone number on the internet! i know i'll make more friends, but right now me and andre are hanging out and that's cool and amrina came over last night and it was tops catching up with her (kelly: she and marcus are still together!).
i've done a few kitchy things since i've been here like done the sainsbury and tesco tours (both are supermarkets i particullarly like) and of course the obligatrory stroll down oxford street. but i'm not really a tourist here, i did all that stuff years ago. but i'm certainly enjoying it anyway.
i start work on monday (thank GOD cause i'm broke!), i'm doing two days in bethnal green and one in mile end. they're closer to the city and i chose them because i haven't worked there before. so i'll just have to see how it goes! any work at this juncture is most graciously accepted.
oh there might be a few things you're wondering...
q. how did you get to london?
a. via rio in brazil... stupidist idea ever. cost me way too much and was too much stress. i didn't enjoy it at all.
q. how long are you in london?
a. two months. then andre and i hit asia and new zealand for five months.
q. sooo... do you sound like a pom again yet?
a. yes.
q. going to find yourself a london fella?
a. going to have a look :)
well, that about covers the obvious ones! any more questions feel free to ask them. i do love hearing from you guys. anyway, i'd better check out. meeting matt at 2pm and the way transport is here it means i have to leave andre's at 12.20. so i'd better hurry!
write me hey?
love
simone
posted by Simone @ 7:32 PM
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7 Comments:
Why didn't you like Brazil? Where in Brazil? Would you consider Andre a spare part if I invited you to my Christian commune in Portugal? Did you use Gods name twice in this last blog just as an adjective or with sincerity?
Well you did ask for questions!
Brother Fabian
years ago? didn't you move to London for the first time last year?
If you aren't carefull you'll become one of those snooty traveller types...;)
well... ok, i asked for questions!
1) i didn't not like brazil, i only saw the countryside as i was bussing through it and rio. i couldn't afford rio rooms were starting at AU$40 per night and that is WAY out of my budget so i ended up sleeping in the airport. not fun. rio itself was a pretty cracking town, tropical, with a vaugely wild feel to it, hot and with amazing music. but i think i'd need to be there longer to get the gist of brazil. also it's supposed to be amazing in northern brazil, but that takes a whole stack of cash.
2) andre is not so much a spare part but an extra limb that i am unable to part with. any invitations to christian communes would have to be to both of us i'm afraid, thouigh we are very keen on portugal.
3) i use the term god merely as an adjective and only very rarely say anything sincerely...
4) brother fabian: i thank you and respect you for your witty and thought provoking post. rocks my world.
5) just because i only moved to london last year doesn't mean i'd not been here before. i made my first trip to europe in 1997 when i was 15.
6) travellers really only come in three types, so guess which i am...
a) the trendy traveller; who always seems to look perfect and have stacks of cash to do everything
b) the bohemian; who is stoned ALL the time. it is a miracle they ever get any where!
c) the party animals; who do a relative amount of travelling but always seems to know where the party is and have a beer in hand.
i think a.. the trendy traveller :P sure, i wish!
also, put your bloody names on your blogs you tools :P
love ya,
simone
if i stuck my name on comments everytime you'd think i was a simstalker.
i spose I am in a way, just that I'm a year behind you........
fgh
Good answer. Just please leave the blasphemy out. Better to use the f word than the G word.
Continue the writing and travelling.
Fabiano
Well, just sing along, i know you have it on your cds a million times...
I wonder if you can pick up my accent on the phone
When i call across the country when i call across the world
I can see you in your kitchen
i can picture you now
as you toast to your small town as you drink the happy hour
I'm in london still... I,I'm in
London still.
Took the tube over to camden
to wander around
Bought some funky records with that old motown sound
Im in London still
I,i..'m in London still
And I miss you like my left arm
That's been lost in a war
Today I dream of home and not of London anymore
I'm in London still
I'm in London still
Yeah I'm in London still
You know it’s okay
I’m kinda happy here for now
I -- ( think I've finally grown up
And got myself a lover now
And if I ever come home
And I, I think I will
I hope you're gonna wanna hang at my place on Sunday still
Oh yeah I hope you will
Cause I'm in London still
You know we got it sorted, yeah
We really got it down
To a fine art on Sunday
In a sleepy Sunday town
I wonder what I'm missing
I think of songs I've never heard
I'm dreaming of your voices
And I'm dreaming of your herb
I'm in London still
I'm in London still
I'm in London still
Oh I'm in London still
la-la-la-la-la London still
I'm in London
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