Month: July 2008

Diary, Life in London, Travel

Winsor Castle! (Day3)

It’s the 3rd day. I started to feel like I wanted to go out for sight-seeing. For some reasons I had to stay at the Park Inn, so I decided to go to Winsor Castle, which I heard it was close to Heathrow. I knew nothing about it other than “it’s the Queen’s residence”. No map. No internet means no information. I went to Heathrow anyway expecting trains from there. At first I went to the central bus station near to Terminal 1/2/3, but was told to go to Terminal 5. And at Terminal 5, I finally found out that […]

Diary, Life in London

Still feeling bad

The second day. Although I started to feel enthusiastic a bit, now I suffer from jet lag. Waking up at 3:00am, (this is like I sleep over until 11:00 in Japan) having a breakfast around 7 (which is like late breakfast in Japan), having a lunch around 13:00 (dinner), and I feel sleepy around late afternoon. Perhaps as I am tensed a bit as well, I couldn’t get out from this loop for the first few days. But I need to move anyway! The place I went first was Heathrow. 0.3 miles is not far to take buses, so I […]

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Arrival (The 1st day)

So, it’s just a few hours to arrive at the UK, and I need to switch my brain to English-mode completely, but I’m still stupidly laughing watching Japanese comedians. Am I really alright!?!? …thinking like that, still laughing, I arrived at the Heathrow. It was 16:00 in the UK but 24:00 in Japan… As I couldn’t sleep on the flight at all, I was extremely sleepy. Also I immediately experienced the UK style. While lots and lots of people were queuing, there was few immigration officer! It took 1 hours to get through this. umm… Carrying a 20kg suitcase and […]

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Departure

So. Departure. Although I was thinking of studying English much before I leave, I ended up just drinking with friends. I swear I didn’t have time for study at all. Now, I would like to start writing about the life in London, as well as preparation I have done. Of course I will write about usual topics such as music or football. I even haven’t given up writing about Korea! Well, it’s been over three months already…but I will do it. So, what is tough about going to the UK is 12 hours-long-flight. How can I kill the time? Today […]

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Resigning and Departure

Having worked for nearly 6years, I resigned from the job. And now it’s only three days to go to the UK. I really appreciate that such a lot of friends and colleagues had parties for me. Starting in the middle of June, drink and drink and drink… I smiled a lot and saw smiles a lot. Thank you! And I’m so sorry that I couldn’t manage the time to see some of you who said they wanted to see me. By the way, I got lots of presents. I’m always so impressed by the people who have such nice senses […]