Country girl in a big city

IW: Need proper rest
EW: Sometimes cold, sometimes just windy

After 2 hectic days, I am finally back in my little countryside. How I miss the comfort of my own room, the privacy of my own space, the peacefulness of the surrounding, the walk without human traffic. What happened, you ask? Well, I need to do a little rewinding.

It began with an innocent plan to surprise a friend on her birthday. It was also a good excuse to see London for the first time. So, I got my bus tickets online, boarded the bus on friday, arrived after 2 1/2 hours. The first view I got from the city was TRAFFIC JAM. Why am I not surprised? The traffic was not only cars but human too! At first, the roads we went into was rather empty (but still not as empty as my university). And then we discovered where the crowd went. They were swamping the shopping area i.e. Oxford Street!

The next human crowd to meet me was in the tube station. It was terrifying. People walking from all directions, left, right, up, down, diagonal...I felt like a sardine. After much pushing, we managed to board the train. Phew! My next horror began when the train was not stopping at the stop I wanted to. It was after going through the trip again that it dawned upon me the train will not stop at that particular station. Luckily, my friend still managed to find me or else I will be lost...sob, sob.

After dining at China China in chinatown, I followed my friend to her hostel (very kind of her to accommodate me. Special thanks!). Given my very busy schedule, I had no choice but to work in her room. At that moment, I felt like being in a movie set in New York. I can hear people talking 9-storeys below us, police sirens were everywhere. It was quite adventurous working in this kind of environment.

The next day was spent on surprising my another friend, wriggling our ways among the shoppers in Primark (these people have too much purchasing power), trying to avoid knocking people on the road. It was tiring. Didn't manage to do much tourist thingy but bought new clothes :)