My weekend in London
This weekend I have spend in London, visiting one of my old friends - Jovin, we haven't seen each other for about 2 years. It was amazing to meet again and to share our life stories. Jovin is from Mauritius, we have met in Latvia, while he was having his internship there, after that he was living in Singapore and now London. That is just fabulous how many stories one can share.
For the time being Jovin is staying in nothing Hill, so I had a change to visit this lovely and extremely expensive region of London. The price of the apartments in this area has gone up after the famous movie has been shot.
The more time the I spend in London the more I like it, which I find quite strange, as I am not a big fan of huge cities, I prefer small cozy ones, being closer to nature.
London has everything a heart may desire - crazy night life, it is a paradise for shopping lovers, variety of food, mixture of cultures, fun, lots of action at the same time might be peaceful and quiet. Amazing parks in the very centre of town, famous red busses, fancy looking taxis, which are ok to look at though not so tempting to use, if you know what I mean.
Notting Hill
The red red bus :)
The Tower of London
My new life
I am terrible with updating my blog, sorry about that. Can't promise anything, though I will try to improve in this area.
It is almost 3 months as I have been living and working in UK, in the cosy Chentenham town.
Work is great, the more I get to know the more I like it, I think I will stick in finance area for a while.
When I just came to UK it was a bit hard to get used to the new life style - as my dad would say the normal one, when you finish your job at about 5pm, go home have dinner and relax, you do not have any other commitments after working hours. Which is so different from what I was used to, while being in AIESEC you are always on duty it might be a midnight, or a Sunday afternoon, the duty I really liked, I do miss that sometimes. I had to learn how to utilize the free time, and how to really enjoy it. I have signed in for the gym, started to play netball in Kraft ladies team, signed in for the gym, read more.. I do like it, you have more time think. :)
I have settled down in a really nice house, which is about 10 min walk from work, and about 15min from centre, which is great, no need to use public transport. I am sharing a house with 3 other people, Sara (she is Swedish), Andy and Dan (both guys are local), we get on really well, which I am very happy about.
Winter is coming here very fast, we do have about minus 6 degrees during the night, and about 3 plus during the day. I don't mind if it is cold as long as it is dry. And we do have a central heating, oh it is amazing how much you can miss these things (this is remembering cold nights with the hot watter bottle in NZ).
See few pictures below from the trip to London when my sister Laura was vising me.
Me and my sister Laura
