life under Union Jack

When do you realize a great change, like moving to another country, eg UK, is occurring in your life?? How do you get the implications of such a choice??

There are events in our life that take place suddenly and don’t give us the chance to realize what’s their meaning and how they will influence the course of the rest of it! They could happened while we are all taken by living other experiences and worried about daily routeen, those events totally unexpected blow up and brush off all else!

So it happened to me!! I wish I could convey easily the feelings and moods, the thoughts and ideas such events steam in, bringing to discover myself better!

But here just some funny reflections on:

You feel like you are in UK if...
- you arrive on the Island by plane or driving under a dark airless tunnel for about 2 hours.

- your first contact with a local inhabitant isn't very friendly (but that's because you arrive in London).

- the first thing you buy is an adaptor...

- you are surrounded by italians most of the time in the City and you still feel home somehow...

- you feel awkward in one's car and would prefer to sit back or close your eyes, rather than jerk everytime a car comes from the opposite direction or you are at a turn or at a round-about!

- you change your clothes 2 to 5 times in the same day, since you got wet because of the rain, then sweaty because of the hot sun, then freezing because of the wind and then wet and hot again.... and after few days you give up wearing a t-shirt and flip-flops no matter how's the weather!!

- the small change in your pocket weigh more than their value all together.

- a book costs as much (or even less) than bread, tomato, chicken meat and cheese!!

- you attend a Cream Tea Party and eat 6 scones with clotted cream and raspberry jam... You don't eat anything else for the rest of the day!

....and the list would go on....