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August 22, 2008 |
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My Life in London
FOUND by Simon Vince
in London, UK
One of my recent finds, this time from the streets of Soho. A very sweet and innocent perspective of London and her life there…
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
What a great find!
charming. simple pleasures endear a place.
Wow. After getting up at 7, working at a paid job and then attending school, she has the energy and will to do fine lacework. No wonder she likes the occaisional beer/wine.
I love how short & sweet it is.
Something I found myself noticing as reading her writing was the grammar and style of handwriting she has.
Living in an area with a high Korean population and having formerly had a Korean boyfriend for 2 years, I can at least tell she's Asian, and all of my Korean friends enjoy the same simple joys of life as well. :]
looks like you could use a bit more work on your English while at school.
Actually, I'll bet this was an assignment for school. to practice their english with a short writing assignment, on the topic "my life in London".
I too, enjoy eating and drinking(and now and then being merry as well). in fact, I think I'll go do so now.
Yay, a find from London :)
This is a really sweet note, I hope the person carries on enjoying their life and their food.
Yup, that's the way it is.
My favorite part is "after job and school I start my works". Those priorities are pretty good. Job and school aren't what life is all about. It's the personally satisfying stuff you do on your own.
That, and the drinking.
Exactly what I say, LIBRARIAN!! Your passions in life is what it's all about!!!
I like this FIND...so intriguing, yet simple.
Life is better and easier the more simplistic pleasures are.
Don't be fooled by the "sweetness" of this note. This person is a terrorist. What else could she mean by ...after job and school I start my 'work'...
Of course I could be wrong about this.
Now I have 'London Girl' by The Jam in my head.
La,La,La,La,La,La,La,London girl....
she says she's making "lace work" which I do not see as big terrorist activity...
If we allow lace work then the terrorists have won.
As much as she seems like a nice girl, I bet she just gets really drunk and bitches about everything all the time. And your really not sure what she's saying because of some crappy accent but you know she's still annoying. "Tatting this, tatting that. Lork, lork, lork"
Flat mates...does Flat Stanley live there?
Wake up people!
London
Area
Crime
Enterprise
Never let your guard down!
Doesn't have to be Asian. Could just as easily be from Nigeria or Calcutta.
school, work, party... sounds familiar.
Those tatting needles can stab your eyes out and puncture a jugular. Londonites(?), beware!
Today's Find is the background story for this archived picture Find:
The Black Ace
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/1976
Ofcourse drinking, too.
This so lovely!
I think this is an assignment for a fairly advanced student in a first year English class. It includes the basic functions of first year foreign language: likes, dislikes, negation, daily activities, time. There is some use of more advanced features, such as use of connecting and sequence words.
Actually, MLM, tatting is done with a "shuttle"--rather like a thread spool but oval, not round. My granny's was made of wood. Not too much terrorism involved; the thread is way too fine to strangle anyone with.
I thought her bobbins for lacemaking-on-a-pillow were drumsticks...gee, Granny's a rocker! Not so much...LOL
I think this is adorable and I really applaud her. She's in a new, strange place and making a life for herself. A real go-getter she's working, going to school and being an active member of society. All this while confronting a new language.
That's more than I could accomplish, I'm afraid.
Christina, I think you too could do this. It's amazing what people can do when necessary. And still enjoy life, as this author does.
Alan:
hahahahahah!
London Evening Standard - April 21, 2008
Terrorist Plot Foiled
Police stopped a potential terror attack against the U.K. with an early morning sting operation. Special forces raided a flat in Soho around 3:00am GMT picking up several suspected terrorists including an Asian woman carrying a satchel filled with lace and plastic explosives. The flat was litered with beer and wine bottles as well as tatting equipment. It was the second time this month that...
Disagree with the Calcutta comment - this is definitely someone (East) Asian. I'm even going to go a step further and guess Korean.
Alan and John
Your comments have made me snicker...for the second time this month.
Oh yes, the drinking is what I liked about London. Sod the rest of it.
@Baby Basil--Drat! That's what I get for not googling before I tried to continue Alan's theme. Darn lace-makers and their obscure instruments.... :)
London has a huge Indian population--there is a joke that there are more "Patel"s than "Smith"s in the phone book as of recent. This person could be Pakistani...
Aww thank you for the confidence Clover!
Truth be told, I'm 2nd language deficient. I had a hard enough time balancing school and work in my own country and language. I'm sure if I aboslutely had to- I could. For now, my best friend is au pairing in Holland and I can live vicariously through her!
"Of course, drinking, too." Of course. How silly of us to think otherwise.
I just bought a bottle of sangria and have been enjoying it immensely. Can't remember the last time I drank sangria....
Sammy, who or what is Flat Stanley?
@Fooch: In my experience, Flat Stanley was a children's book in the late 60's or early 70's about a boy who was 2-dimensional. He travelled by post, not air, and was instrumental in catching art theives because he could pose as characters in the paintings. And of course Stanley was like 9 or 10 in the story. I thought it was cool when I was the same age.
Flat Stanley, the children's book Orinoco described, is still big in grammar schools. A popular classroom project is for the students (8 or 9 year olds) to draw their own Flat Stanley on paper, cut him out and mail him to a friend or relative. The recipient then carries Stanley with them wherever they go for a week or so and writes a letter back to the child describing the adventures Flat Stanley went on while in their care. The kids love it.
Nightingale, that's so cool- I've never heard of Flat Stanley, OR his adventures- I'll have to make a point to look him up. (makes me wonder if the arm, leg and hat I found in the shopping store parking lot one day might have belonged to Flat Stanley- but the arm and leg weren't FLAT- they were accordion-folded. Must have been someone else's.. I hope!)
I think the kids do that in second grade around here, if you know any kids that age.
My K's Stanley got a broken arm on his travels, nothing a lil scotch tape couldn't fix. Sounds like the limbs you found belong to Accordian George...heheh.
I wanna hear about that party.
The Flat Stanley Project has its own website; I Googled. There's a good rundown of the book on Wikipedia.
there's a short story i read for class that's a lot like this.
the main character in the story had the same grammar,
she sews, embroiders, and has a job doing so,
she also drinks a lot.
it's weird, she has a parallel life almost.
well that's nice that she's trying to learn english =]