London - Week 2 -

Ten days have passed since I last posted something on this page. A lot and not a lot has been on and this is the reason why I did not keep my promise to write something every day, but I am back!

In the last past ten days I have been looking through pretty much everything to find a job. I came to the conclusion that now I will have to apply to second choice jobs… Stiff upper lip as they say. It became pretty urgent to find something in order to just be able to concentrate on other rather more important things like writing my essay for university.

Other than that, nothing really stroked my mind. I just need to seriously talk about supermarket in the UK. I go to one of the biggest food provider in the country, Tesco, and I have been to others as well but it is always quite fun to see the difference between the French ones… Bread: being French surely will bias my opinion on British bread. Can we really call it bread? I mean; this is the equivalent of soft bread for sandwich in France… They have a thousand brands and pretty much the same amount of bread in the whole bread area… I was going to be mean concerning their cheese area, but then I found Camembert and other kind of French cheeses. It made my day to find Reblochon in the middle of a thousand Cheddars!

I also have to talk about the dodgy “cleanness” of London. When walking around it often stinks like bin, you can see garbage pretty much everywhere on the street and no one cleans. No wonder there are foxes in London, it’s like a giant free food area for foxes…

We had snow this week. London under the snow: even though I did not really put the tip of my nose outside because I did not want to be cold. I saw enough to say it is pretty, but everything under snow looks pretty! I was quite amazed to see that British do not remove the snow from the sidewalk, so they leave it, it gets worse, icy and it is extremely complicated to walk. You really need to be careful not to fall because every step is sport and risky… so British and snow is definitely not a good mix!

On a more funny note. I noticed for a while already, that in England people are not too keen on dogs, or pets in general. They almost run away from them and go crazy and shout. Funny... My room mate had to put this at the entrance door so people don't freak out too much when seeing Fry!

They are... of anything! :)

When I said they are scared ...

That was my weekly report of my second week. Nothing really fancy and crunchy so to say for the moment but I hope things will move a little more this week! I hope I did not hurt any feelings in this report, if so keep calm and mind the gap, the cultural gap… Write to you next week!

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