So I've been in London for a little over a month and a half now.
Yeah, I know...
The truth of the matter is I've started a zillionth blog posts since I arrived here on the 1st of September, but somehow they never made it to the "publish" stage and I can't tell you why...
Was it because I felt a little overwhelmed by all the sudden changes?
Was it because it was too much and too fast and too different that my typing fingers and slow mind couldn't keep up?
Was it because we didn't have a working internet connection for weeks and writing blogs posts on an iPhone still connected to a french payment plan is probably not a good idea?
I think it was a combination of all of the above, but mainly I think it was just because I was just not ready to jump back into the blogging circuit.... yet again. So my apologies for the long absence and if you're still reading this please know that I am very grateful and very humbled that you are still interested in the not too interesting life of this half-Mexican, half-American gal married to a half-French, half-Roumanian monsieur and living in Par.... wait a sec..... actually, that's living in London now.
London.
London!
Jeez!!! LONDON!!!
I remember my first time around when I arrived in France. In retrospect, you couldn't really call me an Expatriate that time because in all fairness, I sort of built my life in Paris. I arrived as a young, naive and inexperienced twenty-something and over the following almost 9 years I got a husband, a degree, an apartment, a career...a life in Paris. You could fairly say my adult life began in France and it is now that Hubby and I have left that security cushion we built during that time behind us and leaped into the unknown world that is Great Britain, it is now that I finally begin to comprehend what really being an Expat is...
The fact is that I am now an Expatriated Expat.
You may think I'm exagerating... after all, this is an English speaking country and it's only a 2hr train ride away from the place I've called home for most of my adult life, so really... how different can it be?
Very.
And that's what's scary.
And exciting.
And scary.
And it's what this expatriated expat is looking to blog about in the future.
Fned.
7 comments:
So glad you're ready to blog again, love hearing about your adventures!
Yay! Blogging from London....I'll be joining you in a few months when I move there. For me it's a move back home, but still...I'll have the expat feeling for a while I suspect, having been so long in DF.
I got irrationally excited when I saw a blog post from you. I cannot wait to hear more about your new life in London!
You made it! I'm eager to hear some stories about your adventures. We leave too in a few months *gulp*
I'm so happy you've posted again! I've been wondering if we'd ever hear from you again. I'm very interested to hear on what's been happening and how your adjustment to London has come along. Don't leave us hanging!
Good luck getting your head screwed on-- just remember that everything's backwards up there. When you're ready I challenge you to figure out the complicated ownership arrangements between breweries and pubs, how this controls prices, how this kills pubs. Because I don't actually understand it but maybe you could.
Yay! I'm so glad you are back.
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