Christmas is officially over (sniff, sniff) and we have to embrace bleak, dark, depressing January. I returned to England on Thursday and was welcomed with rainy weather (I immediately felt welcomed by England, I must say...) and springy weather (not that the weather jumped up and down, it was just like spring). The funniest thing was that all the British people complained about how cold it was and I could only smirk at that because - forgive me - I don't think you can call twelve degrees in January really cold...
Anyway, let's talk about the New Year's slide from 2015 to 2016: I have to say that as much as I love Christmas as much I despise New Year's Eve. And here are the reasons why: 1) Everyone thinks there's a compulsory need to get seriously wasted on New Year's Eve. 2) Everyone thinks it's ok to behave like an idiot, go out until the wee morning hours and get seriously wasted. 3) People want to drag you into the city "because it's New Year's Eve and we HAVE to get wasted", although going out is ok on 364 days a year but JUST NOT at New Year's Eve because clubs suddenly ask for horrendous entry fees for their shitty, crammed clubs and a beer costs about 30 Euros. Furthermore, everyone has this compulsory need to get seriously wasted... 4) You realise that you have wasted another year of your life achieving nothing and getting no inch closer to your goals, you've gained another five kilos (or more) and people ask you to celebrate your year, which makes you depressed and frustrated so you actually want to seriously get wasted. 5) Everyone shoots fireworks and you feel like in war but when you cover your ears with your hands, you get laughed at. 6) You have to stay up until twelve although you start yawning at about seven o'clock. 7) You start all these new New Year's promises to yourself and then get frustrated because the second of January finds you sitting in front of the TV with a fat piece of cake in one hand and a bottle of coke in the other... Enough reasons to despise this special day in the year. This year I fled to my parents' house and we had a lovely family party with relatives, so it was ok. Three years ago I spent NYE in London, which was kind of cool, but crammed as hell. In London, there is only this one firework around the London Eye and you can only watch it if you're interested in getting squeezed between drunk tourists and drunk British (whereas the latter are admittedly worse). I spent this NYE in London with A. and we had quite a nice time except for embarrassing ourselves to the bones assuming that no one on the crowd would speak English. We had to wait around quite a lot before it was midnight and so we started a game in which everyone had to contribute a sentence to the previous sentence said by the other. Two girls in front of us started turning around and soon I began guessing the worst. After summoning enough courage, I eventually asked them whether they spoke German and they admitted they did (though, at first - to spare us the embarrassment - I had a feeling they wanted to say no, just to be polite). They were actually from Germany and we ended up celebrating the New Year with them before we finally went to bed. Anyway, this year I decided to not make any promises to myself and spare me the disappointment. Accordingly, I am going to post a feature called a "perception of beauty", so probably you can agree that beauty is as diverse as un-achievable. But before you read that, I have another piece of information for you. Today I went to Kingston and visited the "Montezuma's" which claims to have "award-winning British Hot Chocolate". It is a lovely shop in the lower floor and upstairs is a nice café and they have many different types of Hot Chocolate. I, for instance, had "Spiced Orange Hot Chocolate", which had a fantastic taste and I am looking forward to going back there and try out different variations. The café is in Kingston in 4 Fife Road just one side street of Clarence Street. For fans of Hot Chocolate and curious people, this is definitely a nice place to visit...and for the others, they also have a nice selection of cold beverages such as berry juices or the traditional ones like orange- or apple juice.
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AuthorIn September 2015 I started a new chapter of my life by moving (temporarily or permanently, not yet decided) to England where I work and socialise now. Archives
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