Half time: Time to summarise

 

What have you thought about London? Did you had any prejudice? I did.
What I knew, or I thought to knew, was that in London nobody cares how you look. It’s a giant city(more people live in London than in Switzerland), there’re red busses everywhere, you have to be very polite otherwise the people would be upset. It would rain a lot(and if it doesn’t it’s foggy), and all the rest of it.

Let’s start to prove and disprove these jaundices.
When I arrived here, I didn’t really understand what I should think about the appearance of people. Some of them wore suits and very good looking clothes and others were really bad clothed. I won’t tell you more because some of the stuff was really disgusting. But all in all i think London people care less about how they look then people in Switzerland or at least people in Chur.
The city itself is much bigger then I excepted. By car it takes more than one hour to cross it. To get you a better picture of the size. The distance between Chur and Zürich is similar.

Something you CAN’T miss are the busses here in London. And they really are all red.  You may think they still look the same as in the older pictures. Like that:

Some of these are still used. But they mostly replaced the old ones with new busses. And some of them are nearly brand new and have a hybrid engine. And they look now like this:

 

What did you thought about the politeness of British people? I was disappointed how impolite some of the Londoners are. They seam very cold and not very interested in your problems, even if you nearly force them to help you. BUT some of them are really good-mannered and open-minded. For example if you ask for the way, they are really keen on helping you. But still some of the people are even worse then I was used to. I won’t tell you details but what they do is very disrespectful.

The thing with the rain isn’t that easy to answer. It rains less then in Switzerland but it’s mostly cloudy and the weather can change any minute. There was never a day which you haven’t seen any cloud all day. But all in all I don’t like the weather here. It’s very annoying to think about rain every minute. And sometimes it’s down poring. Yesterday for example I went out the house and I haven’t even reached the house next to me, but I felt like somebody threw me into a lake.

You see, London is different than you thought. Maybe it’s still not the same than other countries but it’s not what we think about it.

Liverpool Street & Tower Bridge

Liverpool Street is a  famous train station here in London. It’s very old and stuff, but that’s not the purpose of my post. We were at Liverpool Street to go bowling. It’s called All Star Brick Lane around Holborn.

It’s quite small but the staff is very friendly and it was great fun to play there. It’s more like a local bowling place instead of these huge ones in Switzerland. But we still have a lot to learn about bowling. At the end it was almost a tie and at the last game, since I didn’t knew that you have the possibility to play three games, I’ve played the 3rd game for my friend and unfortunately, for me, it was almost a strike.

We haven't just played there. As I was hungry the other ones where forced to come eating with me. Luckily there is a restaurant in this building. They serve traditional American food. Like burgers or wraps and stuff. But it was definitely worth it’s price. For 9 £ you could eat a enormous plate, after it you won’t touch any food.

 

After out bowling trip we actually wanted to go home. But as we saw the bus to London Bridge, we just decided to go there, and it wasn’t a wrong one. It was so beautiful to walk along the Thames and looking at the wonderful lights. We took amounts of photos, but I still can’t copy them on my computer because you see just pictures from the internet. But it’s still wonderful

That’s enough for today. hope you enjoyed reading my posts. See you next time.

Visit at Nando’s–Sorry for my long absence

This time I really have an excuse for not writing for almost four weeks. I had to move due the old flat was just to expensive. That's the short version of the story. But I had a lot of trouble in the new one so it took some time until I got familiar with my homestay

However, that’s what I did the last four weeks.

We discovered a marvellous chicken-steakhouse(it’s calling itself like this but actually they just sell chicken), it’s called Nando’s. I’ve made a few pictures, but I’m not able to put them online so I just show you pictures of other people.

I don’t know why, but here in London there are so many restaurants and take-aways which are selling chicken. But nowhere it is as good as at Nandos. The chicken is just made after you ordered it. Nothing artificial and nothing is frozen. With each meal you can choose two sides or one “Fino Side”. That means just something special, I’ve never tried it. And best of all. On every meal you order, you can choose the spice. If you want it rather mild or extremely hot. it’s just up to you. The sides are also awesome. I have tried the creamy mash and the chips yet. But I’m sure I won’t be disappointed by the rest. Even the stuff I usually don’t like I’d like to try there.

If you managed to eat your meal and you still have space in your stomach, you can get some deserts. And this is the icing on the cake. There are either bottomless frozen yoghurt, which means that you get a mug and you just can eat as much as you want, or you order a cake. I won’t tell you what they’re like but it is the best cake you’ve ever tried.

That’s the end of my short post, you’ll get more to read soon. At least tomorrow.

Living in “The Big Smoke”

First of all, sorry for not-writing anything last week. It was really busy. Because we have to search a new accommodation. We realized that we are paying too much. But the only thing we have not thought about was, that in London most of the contracts are made by a minimum of six months. That means, we would have to stay here for six months. That’s definitely not what we wanted and we can’t stay here so long anyway. We must go to school etc.

But I won’t bother you with my problems. I have made a new “experience”, i went to Oxford Street.

For those who don’t know what’s this street like, it is a really long shopping area, with very much sorts of stores especially clothes. The paradise for every woman. I went there with my friend and we went to Primark. It was the biggest clothes store I’ve ever seen. It was as big as one gym and it had two floors. And there where many many people. And it was even a weekday around three o’clock.

 

But we weren’t just at Primark. We were also at some other shops, like a super drug store, it’s a little bit like a pharmacy but it has some cosmetic stuff too. And, my friend said, everything is so cheap. It’s not comparable to Switzerland.

At the ending I went to Burger King, what else, and I had the most delicious burger I've ever had. A Bacon Double Cheeseburger. It was really the best burger that exists.

First View–Hampstead

Today I was in Hampstead for some reasons. More precisely I walked down Finchley Road. One of the reasons was to have a look at the O2 Centre. I excepted a Mall like Stratford Centre(which I mentioned a few days before). But when i entered the building I was very surprised. At my right was a “Nando’s” on my left was a furniture store and some frozen yoghurt stuff. I walked ahead on the same floor and soon I came to some moving stairs. Downstairs was only a Sainsbury so I walked back. I went to the second floor and there where just a cinema and some restaurants. I was a little bit disappointed. So I went outside. Then I continued to walk down the road.

But this day I almost did nothing. Yesterday we bought some Pizza’s. Actually there were three of them. I knew that Pizza’s in the UK are made different than Italian Pizzas, but i didn’t knew that they first make some bread and then put the cheese and tomato’s on it. Of Corse this description is carried to far. It is no bread. But it’s thick like half an inch. But now I have to eat two 15’’ Pizza’s and I can’t eat more than a half of it at once. So it’s calculable when I have eaten the last piece of it. I hope the pizza is good till then. 15’’(inch) is like a medium laptop screen by the way. I’m sure that I won’t eat Pizza for a long time until then.
I can’t write ahead because I have loads of homework to do. Until next time. Wish you a nice rest of the day.