YTuesday, 22 May 2007
I finally got a taste of summer in london today....it was soooo terribly hot and the sun was out for the whole day..totally loved it! I think i've become a little bit tanner now...Went shopping again and i feel like i'm re-discovering london..guess i've been cooped up in my room for too long mugging..today i discovered a few fantastic streets off regent st with a lot of cool coffeeshops and little boutique stores..But now that exams are all done and over with, i've got a 4 month break ahead and its looking pretty.......blank. hahaha. No internships, nothing..maybe i'll go back and do relief teaching or get some other job. But before that, its a month here before going home and a week in portugal and spain!! woohoo~~~ Even though my mediterranean summer dream is no longer...portugal and spain are equally good! cheap and good seafood, portugese eggtarts, fantastic beaches, far away from london...how good can life get..hahaha.
And for now, its Oxfam all the way..somehow i really love working there even though i don't get paid and some ppl say its a waste of time. but i've made so many friends there like yamara, nelly, alex, rex, lily. libeth plus all the regular customers i've come to know..and today was like the 5th or 6th time nelly asked me to go back with alex to the domenican republic in july coz they have a house there...but awww shucks..although i sooooooo badly want to go to the caribbean, i'm going back homeeeeee. :( But they've asked me to go with them in dec..coz then nelly would be going back too and i'll only need to pay for the tic..yay! hopefully that will work out.. And i kind of forgot about the cuban festival on the 17th that i promised to go with yamara..crap..coz i changed my ticket again but now its for the 16th. One day short. Anyway, i think i've learnt a lot from oxfam and from all the ppl i've met...like a few days ago, there was this woman who bought a wedding dress from us..kind of got me thinking..i mean maybe maybe she juz needed a wedding dress for a costume or something..but what if she's really getting married?...and then there was that man who tried to steal some cds under his coat..i gave him such a fierce scolding, i scared off a few customers..but i was super pissed k. Coz we're a charity and all our money goes to help ppl in africa and this man actually wanted to steal from us! Shame on him! ...hmmm...and my druggie friend who's trying to quit..sometimes ppl aren't always what they seem to be...and even if u have a record, who's to judge who you are inside?ppl deserve 2nd chances..and of coz nelly..it wouldn't be the same without her..i've learnt so much about customer management from her and how to handle difficult ppl better...coolstuff.
Actually come to think of it...i don't really feel like going back home. Of coz i wanna see my family and friends..but somehow, london now has so much to hold me back. When i went back in easter, i felt like i was really straddling 2 diff worlds and trying to tie things together and feel like i belong at home and then come back to london and try to feel like i belong here. And now i've become so adjusted to life here that i don't feel like uprooting myself and go back and start over trying to fit my life back to how it was. Somehow things won't always remain the same. Friends will find new friends in uni and wherever and somehow, one way or other, we start to drift apart..and treasure even more those who remain behind. I guess this is part and parcel of life..and when we all start working, it'll be even worse. :( But then we meet new ppl, make new friends, new connections, new networks..and life goes on. And its also strange how i'm actually missing the most unexpected of ppl..I dunno why i'm in such a pensieve mood all of a sudden...maybe its coz sch is now offically over for me and life at lse has come to a close for now until oct. Suddenly reflecting on my uni life which hasn't been that satisfactory..and i feel like i've grown up so much so fast and i'll be 20 in july..omg..the big 2-0. Now i know why ell and ken always say once u hit 20, life changes.......... :( argh. okok. i must stop thinking negatively. i need more positive energy!
Now i just wanna take a long bath with the new soap i bought from lush..my current fav store. Always end up buying stuff everytime i enter it..bah. And after that, i shall start on some other drama..feeling terribly lazy after being out for the whole day...need to make a list of things to buy for my trip too...like sunblock, bikini(dunno y i left all at home! so stupid..pablo me), more sundresses blah blah blah. haha. I am so excited just thinking about portugal and spain..been wanting to go to these 2 places for ages. And this time its gonna be perfect. Perfect company, perfect weather, perfect everything :) :) :).