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Good Afternoon everyone :o)
As you all have probably heard, I am still alive :o) thanks to everybody who was concerned - especailly to Ady who called the consular hotline twice! It's nice to know that even though I'm abroad I still have friends and family thinking about me *big smile*
Well it has been a hectic week! Last weekend I was lucky enough to be near Hyde Park for Live 8 (although not lucky enough to get tickets to the main event!), then on Wednesday I got to experience the nail biting countdown, in Trafalgar Square, to find out the would would be the host city of the 2012 Olympics (yay for London), and then.. as you all would have surely heard by now, there were the bombings in the underground and on a bus on Thursday. So from exaltation to bewilderment, everyone in London has had a lovely roller coaster of emotions.
First, a little bit on live 8. After spending weeks trying to aquire tickets to the big event (sms lottery), I settled for taking a seat, with friends, over the road from Hyde Park and then later in Kensington Gardens (next to Hyde Park), where we could hear all the tunes and also glance at the big screens from a distance. I almost.. almost.. got admission ticket(s) to be up close to the screens, twice(!), however due to a slow reaction time and competition from collegues, neither resulted ( first instance: Lucy, a lovely (slightly crazy - in a good way) girl that I work with, told myself and another collegue of mine, Claire, that her friend had a spare ticket, and wanted to take one of us. After much deliberation - Claire and I trying to out do each other in the meantime - he decided to take a friend of his :o( second instance: Aleyse (a uni friend from back home, who just happened to drop by on live 8 weekend) and I were walking along the road and a guy stopped his car and waved some tickets out of the window, that he was trying to give away (for free!), unfortunately because we were so stunned and confussed, another guy grabbed them before we had a chance.)
Alas, no tickets. However we still had a wonderful time; spending the day sipping wine (I mixed mine with orange juice which everybody - no aussies among us - found very odd), listening to a wide variety of artists and chatting away. And yes.. we did try to get in. We were amoung the hordes of people standing by fences looking for ways to slip past security to be closer to the music. However, after watching the invein attempts of fellow excluded festival goers attempting to jump over the 3 meter high fences (only to jump back over again when they relised there was heavy security awaiting them on the otherside), we decided to settle for standing on anything high to get glimpses and simply relaxing in the sun :o)
After Live 8, there was the Olympic countdown in Trafalgar Sqaure. For those of you who don't know, I work in a building next to trafalgar sqaure, thus it would have been a travesty if I didn't see at least some of the festivities held on the day.....
*to be continued
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
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