2 months in London

So how life is busy in London. Even if you're off there's so much to do, so much to see and not so much time indeed. Finally I found a job in London closed to the hostel I live. I'm a waitress finally in a British pub. Basically I should say "I was a waitress" but it was a so rich experience that I can't admit that it's over. So the name of the pub is The Fountains Abbey, on Pread Street. I worked with people from Australia, new Zeland, South Africa and from England. How fun is it to work in a British pub when there's only one English waiter! Whatever, there are a lot of foreigners in London so One is not so bad ^^

During the last year our English teacher introduced us the stereotypes about French people. There was written that we are rude. I told me that it was bullshit. After one month serving French customers I must admit that it's not so wrong. I would say that 75% of French customers spend all their time complaining. They are always criticism England and they say that everything is better in France. Sometimes I'd like to say "Why are you here if it's so rubbish? Go back in your own country" but I can't. Respect the customer even if he doesn't respect the country he visits. Concerning the pub, I think that the problem is cultural. Basicly, the pub is an area for the working class, it's not really a restaurant. I think there are more pubs in England per person than bars in France per person...

Something funny about customers uses, English ladies use to drink pints of beer... I couldn't imagine my grandma drinking 2 or 3 pints of beer! By the way, they call "lager" the blond beer.

Concerning supermarkets, I don't think that English people really take care of Earth. Most of vegetables people may buy are conditioned. So it creates a lot of rubbishes. For berries, I understand but for tomatoes, cucumber, leeks [...] and bananas I don't. There is something very English too (or maybe just different from France) "buy one get one free" or "3 for £xx" or "buy one the second half price". Sometimes it's quite interesting. But I asked to myself: does it explain why most of the time prices are quite high?

Whatever London is... LONDON!!! How interesting is it when you like to meet people. It's an amazing melting pot, a mosaic of cultur! I think that if someone want to live in England to meet true English people, I wouldn't advise London. But if you wanna have a trip around the world and you don't have a lot of money I would advise you London! ^^

An other cultural discrapency, our vision of parks... How surprised I was when I went in Hyde park for the first time! It's so wild! It's very different from our straight parks with flower. I haven't visited every park in London but even a little park like Holland park is quite wild. There are trees everywhere and of course squirrels. That's a true piece of nature in the city. Concerning Holland park I must admit that I love the "nonwild" part called the Kyoto garden, so that's a picture of the lake.

I'm sure I will go back to London. I think I could talk about my experience of London but the best is to make your own!

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