THE EAGLE HAS LANDED

Another day, another drawing.

 The weekend is one more time gone, and a new week kicked off. I had the pleasure of meeting new nice people again. We made the second round around Westfield shopping center, had some dinner, went to get ready for going out and finally hit the streets and ended up in Club bond ; a glamorous and poshy place in the center of London. Coctails for 15 £... entrance 20 £.... We were lucky to be on the guestlist. London nights can be great laughs and a loads of fun, but it can also be extremely expensive.

I'm sad to say I missed the London Art Fair which was planned for sunday, simply because I didnt have the power to go after that night out... 

It's easy to meet new people here when you are new, I think... Like today for example, I was in the playground with the kids, n met a sweet girl who lives just two blocks from me; we started talking n got along - now we are heading to Bromley together some of the next matching free days. I didn't go there yet, so I'm glad to get company to go with!

Somehow I'm starting to get used to the idea of living here. Life can be good, we better enjoy it while it lasts, right? The eagle has landed.

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BRITONS

Words to remember when visiting the UK

• Thank you
• Excuse me
• Please
• Sorry
• Cheers
• Pardon

...do remember to put atleast one of them into every sentence, and you will be alright. If you manage to combine them all in one, you might even make a good impression.

Brits are extremely polite in their speech, which I do find kinda nice. I'm doing my best to keep up! Except for when I'm exhausted and the true Finnish way of not speaking to anyone shines threw. Like the other day... I was walking along the sideway minding my own business far away in the world of my own thoughts. I didn't even notice one woman giving me way, and she did give me a reminder of that a thank you would have been good. M-hm! L&L - Look and Learn. I go along with the motto; Treat people the way they treat you.

 

Now off for new inspiration from London's saturday cityrush. The nicest thing is you never know what the day might bring you! Laters, near n dear ones!

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BITE ME. PLS.

Bite me. Illustrated.

My dear sister warned me about opening a bank account in the UK. I usually don't care enough and go with the "it'll work out somehow"-attitude. Well today I went to 4 different banks n still don't have an account. Some of them wanted to wait for me to have a national insurance... I'm just saying..... COME ON? What has that got to do with the bank. F-ing Nada. Talk about overprotected. What do they think I'll do? Jesus.

So, now I'm waiting one week for them to check threw my papers and information, to see if they might be in a good mood of giving me an account?

Cross your fingers, n wish me luck.

RAUTAROUVA AND HEVOSVOIMAA

Rautarouva!

 I happened to see the movie Iron Lady in the cinema in Westfield (thanks, it was really a nice place, but the movie? Not worth the 105 min of our precious time alive). I just checked it out on IMDb and saw the Finnish translation -> RAUTAROUVA!  Hahaa, Finland, without irony, I'm loving it. It's all in the details!

Westfield is one of the biggest shoppingcenters in Europe (second biggest?), I was too tired to enjoy at the time being, but will be heading there soonest, again.



Today we made a fieldtrip to Sevenoaks to see a dear friend of the family, which also happens to be... a horse!; a beautiful and calm one.
All n all, it's been a great week and I can't believe it's already friday again tomorrow!

Btw, we were back to +12 degrees again today, there goes the winterjacket!

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DAYS FLY BY

Since I arrived two weeks ago (2? Gosh... days fly by) the temperature has been about 8 to 11 degrees, but now it's sinking - Oh no! Minus degrees today, I guess I will be needing my winterjacket after all. We went to the park today, me and the boys, and discovered RIMFROST! They were amazed indeed, since I suppose it's not that often you get that in London (?).

The marvellous weekend passed n a new week's here. I still feel inspired; I actually did since I arrived here. Inspired to create. There's something about the enviroment and the people around me. Though the decision to move here was one of the hardest so far, I still didn't have even one moment of regreting it.

I do appreciate the food I get here too, God... Look n learn, look n learn. Life's good, brothers n sisters!

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LA FAMILIA

"Guard", J and my sister. 

The guard seems to be distracted by....something?

Cool Britannia; Sir Jackson and Mr. Britannia. 

Thursday came along. Though I got into the holidaymood after wednesday's toursitround, I woke up for work in the morning, had a short day n got the chance to head back to the center to spend some last hours with La familia.  Boy-iltavilli did a good job spending his last energy checking out things n places like Cool Britannia at Piccadilly circus, with America's got talent's Jackson imitator, I'll add a video of him later on.

Boy Iltavilli and me in the tube

 This boy never stops to amaze me with his good heart n great spirit. We figured out that they DO have good food in London, n it is eatable.  After some walking around here n there we decided to go back to La familia's hotell, since the boys were getting tired. Boy-iltavilli was nice enough to invite me to join him and the others on the tube. http://charlottasophia.blogspot.com/2011/12/five-dos-and-donts.html Fifth DO-rule, Let others good actions give you energy.

I'll add our music videos later on too. Brilliant, I'm telling you. Unfortunatly we had to say our goodbyes later on, since they left earlier today. I told them to start expecting my Finland-visit when they r brave enough to swim in the sea at Moffa's cottage this incoming summer... <3

Snusmumriken saknar mumintrollet minst lika mycket som mumintrollet saknar snusmumriken, men när första vårdagen är här kommer han tillbaka, för Snusmumriken kommer alltid tillbaka.

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BEEN THERE

Wednesday for sure was a blast! Spent the whole day walking around with Sis' avec the greatest family, til all of our feet were aching enough to call it a day. I'm blessed to have these people in my life.

I took a morningwalk along the Mall street, passing places like Buckingham palace, moving towards Natural History Museum where I finally found these guys on the photos. We spent some time checkin out Dinosaurs, skeletons n all the rest, checked out some birdiebirdies n had a snack. Later on we took a walk threw Hyde Park. By chance we also passed the Finnish Embassy, where I should show up for the Finish President election tomorrow, saturday.

After this we did some shopping in cute boutiques in Notting Hill which made us hungry enough to enjoy some mexican tex-mex food! I'm happy to say I did find the art supplies I was looking for at a shop in Notting hill, called The Art! Cheers n a great thank you for that. Started on filling my first page in the train back later on. Yay!