Silly British People!

Written while on the plane from London to DC on Thursday, September 8th. Sorry I haven't been able yet to put anything US related!

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Hmm I’m still in the mood to blog plus I have nothing else to do since it is too late to start a movie (less than 90 minutes until touchdown!) So while I was in London I always typed down little observations that really stood out to me. Well, here they are!

Where are the Latinos? My mother claims she saw some, but I feel like I didn’t see a single Hispanic in London! Sure there were people speaking Spanish but naturally they were from Spain. I actually got mistaken as Italian several times because apparently they “have never seen someone my color before” (he meant it in a nice way though…I think?) There seriously were no “brown” people. The population was either white or black.

Redheads! Were very abundant! They were constantly popping out with their fiery hair.

Butt chins must be hard to shave…not sure why I typed this down but if I think about it, it’s true…

A berth of languages was always being spoken! Enlish may have been the official language but I definitely heard a lot of Italian, French and Spanish (in that order) as well as other Slavic sounding languages.

Street Lights turn yellow…twice. I know the British do a fair amount of reckless driving (probably because they’re driving on the wrong side of the street…) but even their street lights are different! They go from Green to Yellow to Red…to Yellow and then Green again! The purpose of the yellow light from red to green really confuses me and seems quite pointless…

But then again, British people are horrible drivers! I was always nervous when I got into one of the red double decker buses because the driving there was scary! Everyone drove extremelo close to each other, sometimes the lanes would dissappear, the roads were too narrow and people would also switch lanes in the middle of an intersection without putting on their turn lights!

I learned many new words! Ok so apparently “to let” means to rent for building space and “for hire” is renting out cars. Bathrooms don’t exist but Toilets do. Leicester is pronounced “ley-ster” not “ley-ses-tur”. Mono = cute (In Spanish) and curioso = interesting (in Spanish) and jersey (pronounced “hair-si” in Spanish) = crew/v-neck sweater.

Yay! The pilot has just announced that we must put on our seat belts to begin our descent into Washington DC!

UYL,

Andre