peak hour london

Ive had a great couple of days over here, it think my last post went up too saturday, so ill continue on from there, sunday i just chilled and went down to hyde park, where they have this place called speakers corner. its pretty much just an open space where people bring a little step ladder, stand on it and they can talk about whatever they want, although the vast majority usually concern politics and religion. some of it is quite interesting, some is just plain rediculous. so people just gather around the speakers to listen, debate, haggle, yell and in extreme heated cases even a few punches can fly around, was pretty fun. then i cruised over to the 'football fields' section of hyde park, which is pretty much the whole thing as they are crazy bout it. i ended up playing with a mixed bunch of arabs, albanians, turks and 1 aussie ( me), was great fun and met a few cool people at the same time. London is such a multicultural city, its amazing- you think you can pick some people- like hes defintitely a pom, then he starts speaking perfect french (because i know how french sounds, and know when its spoken perfectly.ha.) but you know what i mean. so many people here dont speak english as their 1st language, there people from all corners of the world here. on monday,( bank holiday(public holiday), gav(a guy i met in america) came over from ireland with his drama/arts college class, and they had a bit of spare time, so me and andy hung out with him for a couple of hours, and just chilled. good fun. Tuesday i didnt do a lot, as i had to wait for a few phone calls reguarding job opps. lined up an interview for 11am on wednesday morning. was stoked with that. tuesday night we went out again with gav and his class, had a great night just chillin and kicking back, and as there was 30 drama students there, it was really funny- met some more cool people to visit when i get to ireland as well, but the night kind of got away on me(the sun goes down at 9:30pm, which puts you out a bit) as i was having a ripper time, looked at my watch and it was 3am, thought id better get home and get some rest for my interview, as i got to the bus stop i saw the bus i needed pulling out. i waited 40 mins for the next one. got to sleep at about 4am. woke up at 6:30am and ironed my shirt and pants and that, dressed up a bit for the interview. at 8am was standing on the tube platform, waiting for delayed train. it ended up never coming, with a severe delay warning blaring over loudspeaker. so i headed for the busses, which were now crammed full of people fighting to get to work on time. it ended up taking me just under 2 hours to go 13kms. which is close to the average human walking speed of 6km/hour. how fun is PEAK HOUR LONDON. we were lucky if we could go 100m on the bus without stopping for something, was crazy. ended up working alright i got to the train station near my interview at 10:52am, after a 5 min taxi ride, i was standing in the lobby with 3 mins to spare. easy. had a ripper interview. i start on monday, working in a 4 star hotel as a gym and spa attendant. its a live-in job with free food, so that should be great for saving money. and itll be nice to eat something other than baked beans on white toast. (kidding mum). and its 2 mins away from a church i think ill like, so its all working out pretty well, thank God. so thats about all that happening at the moment, hope all is well where you are. think i might go play football with some randoms. keep smilin:) andyb

ps. happy birthday dad.