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Changing: Part II
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It resulted to be one of my neighbours in the town where I spent my first eighteen years of my life.
We talked to each other about ourselves through I took my bus to the city centre.
I was in London at last, waiting my friend’s flatmates. She was working that day and two of her nice flatmates came to pick me up.
After half an hour waiting for them, I started thinking I was in a meeting point or something similar. Suddenly, I thought that I had to have a look around and I went to one of the nearest bus stop. I dared to ask a couple women if they were who had to be…XD…
There were over five people there and I listened to them speaking Spanish. It wasn't a really good clue because, for example, in my bus trip I heard a lot of people talking in Spanish. Fortunately, I was right.
Then, we went to surprise my friend to her work place. She was very glad and happy to see me there. I drank my first pint of beer in London (not the last one…duh!!... ;-)) in a good company, and finally I got to my friend’s flat to have a shower and to be able to get some rest and energy for my first days in that huge city.
A new life was coming…
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Changing: Part I
September 2013,
The first half of this month was really stressing. I had to decide what I was going to do with my near future.
After a depressing August month, I had both talked with my American friends (Devon, Laura and David) and studied the different possibilities to spend a long time in the US.
My dream started falling away. Legally it was almost “impossible” to stay there after the three months like a tourist.
At that moment, I realized that I could ask my friend who had been living in London for over six months.
She showed me how the things are there and it could be a good choice for me.
I spent nearly a week analysing the pros and cons for both of them, and finally I decide to buy a one way ticket to London.
The difficult thing was coming: I had to see the way I was going to start there, do all of my stuff before the trip, study what I should do if it weren't as good as I expected, and not less important issue, say bye to everyone.
Since the beginning of my idea of going abroad, I had decided that the best thing was to go alone to London, try to survive there a couple months and stay longer only in the case everything were alright. If not, I would change of city or even of country in Europe.
Therefore I needed to bring with me as less things as possible. I packed only a hand luggage (ten kilograms maximum) including a small netbook (one kilogram) to look for jobs and be able to keep in touch with all my family, especially with my “wife” Mar.
A lot of people told me that I was “crazy” to go with only nine kilograms of my stuff, and I was going to regret that decision. I’m very proud to say it was a great idea. I haven’t missed anything and I haven’t needed to buy many things. Indeed, I have had to get more home stuff than for myself.
Twenty fourth September 2013, “bye to Spain and welcome to London”. After my third flight in my life (the two ones before were in a travel to London as well.. :-)), I arrived at the Stansted airport of London. Anecdotally, the weather in my departure from San Javier (Murcia, Spain) was windy and rainy and the one in my arrival to London was really sunny and pretty hot (the world upside down? :-O).
As a curiosity, when I was getting off the plane, I saw a person who seemed familiar for me. I haven’t seen him for fifteen years or even more time. He kept looking at me and me to him, both of us asking ourselves the same question: “Is it him?”…XD.
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