Lyndsay's World

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Contemplation

Hey everyone,

Well I promised more blog entries and I really wanted to post more but the small connection I had in my bedroom has completely disappeared and I cannot seem to get a connection in the boys’ room anymore. This has left me very frustrated and annoyed because I have pictures and blogs to post and I also have lost touch with all things online. You really do not think about how dependent we are on internet until it is gone. I was going to check the weather for my sister and Alyse so I can tell them what to wear but …nope cannot do it! I wanted to send an email to my friend for his birthday…can’t do that either. I can’t even watch any of the shows I miss so I am made to watch the snooker championship because the boys have taken over the t.v. Oh internet why have you forsaken me!!! (so dramatic)

Andrea and Alyse are coming in a few days and I hope they have a good time and the weather clears up. It is a bank holiday this weekend and of course true to London weather whenever there is a long weekend the weather is completely crap. The girls want to go to Dublin and Andrea wants to go to Paris but I am not sure I will be able to do both which is a shame.

Well I finally did it. I told my boss I will stick around for a few more weeks (well almost a month really) so I really have to find another job! Unfortunately I cannot join Kay and Ang in Spain because I completely forgot that my Visa is only good in the U.K. I guess I can find out if I can get a temporary working visa because I really want to leave London for a bit. Also it looks like I will be coming home in September! My visa runs out soon and although it is a long way away yet I feel like it will go by really quickly. I have some hard choices to make about my future and we all know how great I am about making hard choices (ahem ahem). I am going to be 26 really soon (sooner than I would like) and I think that being on the older side of 25 will really affect me and drive me to do something finally in terms of a career. One question I pose to myself : Do I really want to go back into the film business making hardly any money and working crazy hours again??

Before I came to London I had a set plan in my life and except for a few bumps along the way it was going ok. Since coming here though I met new people, had new experiences found myself and lost myself a hundred times over and now I feel I am spun around and upside down. Gotta love being 20 something!

Despite everything I think this summer will be a turning point in my life and no matter what happens I know it will be great!

Andrea and Alyse arrived safe and sound and are loving London even though the weather has been crap. What is it with everyone from Canada bringing bad weather with them? jk! They are booking their flight to Dublin as I type this. This connection is costing me a fortune so I will bid you adieu!

Love ya!

Barcelona Baby

Barcelona Barcelona! We had such a good time there just walking around and discovering all the little side streets (and there are many!). There is the main street called Las Rambas where all the freaks in the city come and perform in front of the tourists. It was madness the different characters these people came up with and I wish I brought my video camera but I was scared it would get knicked (I heard Barcelona is the prime spot for criminals to steal from tourists). Anyways I went with the flat-mates Ang and Kay so they took pictures of us so I will try to post them a bit later. I tried to get them to take photos of the crazy people but they were not into it as much. We went to the main market there every day and the food there was soooo good and fresh and if you din’t mind the full feather-less chickens or the pig and cow’s heads staring at you (oh yes they still had there eyes in the skull) it was cool to look around. It is so strange to see what differences there are in cultures and feelings on food. In North America we eat meat but we do not want it to look like the animal it once was but over in the European countries it would be seen as non-fresh if it wasn’t all out there to see. I have some pics of funny dead animals (I know I am morbid).

So the weather was more kind then we predicted so we did get to lay out on the beach though it was still to cold to swim. A little disappointed but it was supposed to rain the whole time so I guess beggars can’t be choosers! Kay and I have been talking about possibly moving down there for a few months to live and work and soak up more of the culture. It would be hard because we don’t know the language but we noticed there were a few places that were all tourist areas (or tourists traps – however you want to look at it) where everyone was speaking English. Any way I think my time in London might come to an end soon. I might go to another country or I might come home. NO IDEA- big surprise!

So the last day we were soo tired and went to lie on the beach one more time (fully clothed mind you - hard core I know) but it was so windy and cold we had to leave. We walked around for ages looking for a place to eat. It was around 4:30 and every where was closing for siesta time – yes, they take a break in the middle of the day – so cool. We finally went to this small place where only one woman was working and we all ordered crepes but little did we know it would take an hour for our food! We were getting a little nervous because we had to catch our plane and haven’t gone back to get our stuff yet. It was a good thing it was the best food we had there by far otherwise we would have been a little angry. Finally we get all the way back to the apartment grab our stuff and try to hail a taxi. No luck for the longest time and we were getting a bit nervous. We kept seeing the taxis but they were all occupied - this being rush hour. Miracously I saw a taxi in the distance and ran like the wind -luggage in tow. He said he was waiting for a customer but maybe we was enchanted by our beauty (haha) and decided to take us instead. We finally got into London at 3:30 in the morning without any sleep the night before and we all had work in the morning. Well we all somehow made it through Saturday and had the best sleep ever that night.