London's life - Fourth day

  

    In that fourth day I met whom would be the best friend that I would have there for those two weeks. He was the person with the happiest smile that I have ever seen. Like me, he was ready for anything and happy to be in London. Thanks to those adventurous words shared between us, I met him, an incredible person who I will always remember. Little by little everything became better and better.

    After school, I saw again H and his girlfriend, with whom the family and me went to one of the biggest and most beautiful parks of the south of London, the Dulwich Park. There is not anything that I like more than the lakes which you can find in parks and, of course, in this park there was one. This park was the perfect place to run to nowhere, to just breath and to think about nothing. I remember I felt really good there. However, that was not the most special thing there, what actually caught my attention from this place were all the names written in each different bench of the park. And I say different because they already were, each bench had already its kind of owner. In my opinion, it was about a small tribute, since in each bench there was written the name of someone deceased. Perhaps that person used to go to that park to go for a walk and used to stop there, to have a rest and look around, or maybe not, But it is clear that  it is something which hides a story and it is a way to have a place for him or her, in which later generations will live thousands of stories and of some way, that person will be part of them.

    A bench in a park is usually stage of all kind of situations, both normal and special and, personally I really like them, because when you are at a bench, you actually are there, it is a place which has the power to make you stop, breath, think, feel and definetly, live. Perhaps, these feelings at the same time that you are feeling a loved person near from you, sometimes could be the answer to our doubts, concerns and fears.

    Finally, I started to love London, to feel good there and to be part of what I was living at the same time that I let everyone who was less unknown than the day before, be already part of me.

London's life - Third day

 

     In this third day, I started my adventure in London, I was about to walk around all its corners being guided just by myself. I had never expected what those two weeks and that decision of flying there alone, would bring me. Now I know that London is magic, but it still exists more magic on the unknown, on what we are most afraid of, on that uncertainty which we overcome when we are brave, when we get to be our best version.

     That day school started. I remember that I felt really good, finally I was alone facing everything new: a big city such as London, a new routine and some wonderful unknown people who the wise destiny got in my way at the right moment. As the beginning of anything, it was not easy, nobody said it would be, in fact, that day I felt more alone than ever and I thought that I was not able to do it right. But, in these situations, you cannot choose between some options, because the option of run away was not valid since I knew that I was there to do exactly the opposite.

     In this first day of class, I could not talk with anybody because once the class finished, everybody left, so I did the same. As usually, things happen in the only way that we do not expect them to happen, so I tried to take encouragement from anywhere and look at this day from another perspective. By this way I faced the second day of class, with enthusiasm and strength and knowing that I was in this beautiful city because of and for something and that everything would be welcome since any difficulty is good to grow up as a person, to climb and to get to where we want to be. That is how it went, sometimes things change if we change our way of looking at them.

London's life - Second day - Second part

      After enjoying the London Eye and also the Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, we decided to go to Trafalgar Square, by walking down one of the most popular streets of London. That street was full of white, because all buildings which were there, wore that colour with an elegance unmatched, characteristic elegance of this city. It was a sunny day, probably the hottest day of my stay there and if this city is beautiful even under a cloudy sky, brightened up by the sky, it is incredible. Finally we got to Trafalgar Square. Personally, I love this place. Trafalgar Square never is a silent place, every day there are some artist giving free his or her talent to the ears of tourists who usually are having a walk there. You can spend the whole day in Trafalgar Square sitting on the stairs which are in the middle of the square just looking at the movement of artists, songs, dances, paintings, juggling, monologues and a long etc and live one of the most entertaining days that you will have there. In my opinion, the role of those big artists should be more valued than it is now, because they have become in an important pillar, pillar which holds all the smiles and laughter of tourists and citizens of that big stage in which has become this cosmopolitan city.

What does love mean for you? Answered by children and by adults

      Love is present every day in our lives, but, what does it really mean for people? Does love mean the same for everybody? Last year I did a job about this question and the conclusion was that love is not the same for adults and for children. Firstly, when I asked a child about love, he or she, generally, used to answer that love is what someone feels when he or she makes another person happy. However, when I asked to an adult, the answer used to be related just to her or his couple. On the one hand, the answers of children were related to family, friends and their fathers. On the other hand, answers of adults tend to be more related to their love live, to that person who they love, without talking about family or friends. Children tend to see love as something which they feel for everybody while some adults forget talking about their family or friends because, perhaps, they are really focused on that person who they love. To sum up, it is important to say that there are a lof of different types of love and that it is something with a different meaning for each person, in spite of the differences related to the age and the experiences lived.

London's life - Second day - First part

    From my point of view, sometimes we lose chances and moments because we have not that security which brings us the known. We are usually afraid of the unknown things and that thakes us back of doing something. In this travel which is life, I think that the fact of meeting new people, visiting unknown places for us or travelling to wherever we have never gone before, can make us live experiences which we will never forget. By this way we can meet people that can become the most important people of our lifes, the ones who you most learn from. But it is true that sometimes things do not go as good as we had thought. When this happens, the decision of knowing the unkown gives us her best present: the learning. That is what I felt  on my second day in London. I visited a new place, learnt some about a new costume that I had never imagined to experience, met new people and feelings of them about the situation that we were living. I will always be thankful for letting me to be part of that, of that day, independently if I enjoyed that time or not, because I think that it is more difficult to let others know us than try to know others.

     That day I went to a typical church of the area where we lived. The family with whom I lived used to go there every sunday. Personally, I do not do it in Spain and I had no idea of how was it in London. However, it was interesting, all people there was really concentrated in their own thoughts and feelings, they listened to the prayers and then they talked with each other about their lifes. I just looked at what they were doing and tried to think about and understand why. I could understand that each assistant had found a kind of family there, a support with whom they could count by this way. This day was the birthday of the daughter of a woman so we had lunch there because they used to celebrate all birthdays there. We had typical english food, of which I have not get used yet.

    After that, we went for a walk to the London center, to those streets that I really wanted to see again. Was that the first time that I saw the London Eye, as big as I imagined, next to the river Thames. The London Eye inspires me freedom, freedom that you cannot find in the middle of a crowded city like London. It is a endearing place, protagonist of whatever theme park, always attractive for a child, object of childhood. In my opinion, it is such as special place that you need almost a special chance like it to get up into there.

London's life - First day

     The first visit of my travel was to the freedom, I mean the one which permeates all the London's parks. Those silent and green parks where people stop. Yes, at least for a moment, they do it and they are happy (or maybe not) but they stop and look around. With "just that" I was very happy those days, because it's true that knowing how to look at people and all the things in general, despite of being a small fact, is what brings you the biggest happyness. When I feel that everything seems to be going wrong, perhaps without finding the solution, I always think about what I would like to do in that moment and it would be to run out to anywhere but far away. I believe that any bad moment would have been better if I had done that. And this park was ideal to do it. It was enormous, full of a green which caught you and made you feel like being anywhere and in the most beautiful place of the world at the same time. I was really happy to be there, and I wanted to learn as much as I could from all the people that I knew I would meet. In fact, that day I met the person who, now I know, I really admire. I will call him "H". I didn't know as much english as I would have liked so I didn't understand everything he said that day but, fortunately, there are something universal in this world: a smile. He was one of those persons who always shows one to everyone he is speaking to. One of those persons that I will never be able to define because I can't even describe. Our lifes, by luck or destiny (or whatever thing that you believe in, as H affirmed) touch other lifes and never ever it is in vain. Maybe this first day my lack of knowledge of the language made me believe  that I didn't have to meet this person and that that meeting would be indifferent for me. But at the same time that I was learning the language, I was learning lessons of my life there. Lessons that gave me, although without knowing it, all the people who was appearing little by little and the ones that I was meeting every day when I was in front of all the London's streets and some free atternoons. And that is the main reason why I am writing those lines that I hope one day make someone, although momentarily, smile.