First impressions from London

• Third day in London, before yesterday evening I reached here, before landing off we had an interesting view of the city, all around was full of fireworks exploding in the sky. They were celebrating Guy Fawkes Night. I met Mary, an Irish friend from Galway I didn't meet since two years, She is as hippie as she used to be (she is becoming 24 y.o.), maybe a bit more down to the Earth, but just a bit... We were catching up with each other lives, the next day she was going to visit her boyfriend that at the moment lives in Poland. She is very much into the so called "against globalization" movement. On her squatter home were I spent the night (it seems they are going to be evicted in the next weeks) you could find plenty of anarchist and ecology books. Before reaching her place I came to leave my bags in the Teacher's accommodation here in Dagenham. So I met Ines, Maria and Ana. The place is comfortable enough, what I find a bit odd is that some areas of the building, mainly the ones near the kitchens smell not really that nice, the last place that I know that had that smell it was the homeless center in Cork.
• Travelling by bus late at night was a interesting experience, I feel sorry for the bus drivers because they get lot of shit from a small number of loud and weird passengers, there is lots anger in some of the youth. Being there with a friend gave me a feeling of security, so I even was having a entertaining time seeing all the quarrels around.
  We didn't start our teacher training yet, they got today our C.V., so probably based on that information they may decide which school and stage fits us better, I presume that tomorrow we will know something. The other students from UB, specially the morning shift girls, seems to have a busy time (and enough money to spend), for the last two days you can see them going to the pub and disco or to Nothing Hill.
• Money is going to be another issue for me in the next few weeks, being here everything cost money. I am trying to find the cheaper and /or free options around (e.g. Internet access from the Library). Let's see if I can get a bike or finally I need the Oyster Travel Card to move around.

See you soon!