London weekend
I am pretty excited because I'm going to London this weekend!
I've lived in London for half a year when I was just 18 (wow, six years ago now - times passes quick!) and I didn't have a good time. I was just too young to do things on my own and bad stuff happened.
But still, the city holds my heart. I go there usually twice a year for shopping and just having that feeling again. It's a beautiful city to get lost in. And getting lost is sometimes a thing I like.
When I went in August, I made friends with someone (a very interesting, pretty male someone) who works at my favourite record store. Two weeks later I was able to see him again when he accompanied a band he's friends with to the Netherlands because they played a gig there. They do hardcore music, which is so not my thing, but I had such a great time and we were able to get to know each other more. I also made friends with another guy from the band and simply had an amazing time.
After that, my friend repeatedly told me I should come visit him, and so that's what I am doing now. I am so nervous. I am over my initial crush on him (I'm still a little girl at heart!) but I am giddy all the same. I don't usually go an visit people I've seen only a few times and since his computer broke we only talked online a little. So I am there from friday till monday and I have no idea what he has actually planned for us to do.
I'm such a bubbly person, and then in the worst moments my tongue gets stuck to the roof of my mouth and I'm just not my witty self. Of course, it's also tricky to be witty in another language - I may speak English really well, occasionally dream in the language and study it, but to spontaniously do jokes and puns is something entirely different. Let's hope it works.
When you feel akward, it suddenly becomes so hard to be yourself! But I'll try to have a grand time - if his friends are as nice as him and the people from his friend's band, I have nothing to fear. Being from another country always helps as you soon become the well-loved curiousity!