I'm so sorry for the long silence, here's why.....I present to you MY LONDON EXPERIENCE

This is going to be fun. OMG this pastry is just heavenly, I lav eet.

'Announcing the arrival of BA 82, Welcome to London'

Yikes, I'm in London

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Sightseeing

At Poundland

Me: Please, how much is this (holding the biggest bottle of coca cola zero)

Attendant: One pound

Me (in my mind): This is freaking cheap. The smallest bottle in 9ja is 250h

At Primark

Omo!!! see cheap things. I'll definitely be visiting

At Argos

Me: (to the attendant) Please I want to buy a duvet

Attendant: (In britico voice) Ma'am you're gonna have to write down your order from the computer

shuo, as a confirmed 9ja babe, no dulling. The way I take do the thing, u go think say I don dey do am tey tey......hehehe

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(Chineke, which kind food be this)....'errrm you know what, I'll just have chips, plain chips please, don't put anything'. As in the food here is just aaaarrgh and I've not found a Nigerian/African market. I found cereals though, on getting home I discovered that I forgot to buy cutleries, so I ate my Maltesers and slept.

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Now I'm in this induction class and I'm bored to death. I can only see 3 dark skinned people. One is VERY VERY dark, I think he is from Burkina Faso and he's trying to make conversation, if only he knows what's in my mind. I was convinced the other chic was Nigerian, until she came to say hi and told me she was from Uganda and the third guy? well, that one was on his own. Coffee time and I was sitting alone, trying to write this piece and this guy walked up to me, he had 'Pakistan' written boldly on his ID. Mehn, I fear o, he said to me ' why aren't you speaking to anyone' and I say 'It because I can't see anyone like me, you guys are everywhere'. He picked up my black pen, coloured a portion of his hand and said 'see, don't be a racist'.....lol, funny dude. I took note of his name 'Norman Taj', I'll probably still run into him again.

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Do you know that the tap in London is either burning hot or freezing cold and its freaking difficult to find a bucket?....mshew

Do you know that you don't need to look left and right to cross the road, just push a button and all cars stop for you? pretty cool huh

Na for London, papa and child go dey share cigarette for road. I never see

Gotta go now, talk to you guys later....toodles

BTW, I finally found garri and groundnut, that's the picture you see