London Sweet London

Four weeks left before I go back to Brazil. And I already miss all of this. I already miss all of the good things I've had here. And the bad things too. I already miss walking on the bridge, admiring the landscape. I already miss Big Ben, London Eye, Greenwich, Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus, Tottenham Court Road, Charing Cross, Embankment. I already miss the museums. Natural History, Science, British. I already miss the parks too. The grass. The picnic. The k(n)ip. I already miss the friends I made here. I already miss the same songs playing non-stop on the radio. I already miss the dusk. I already miss the end of the afternoon in a pub, after class. I already miss the night bus (not really). I already miss the Tube strikes (not really too). I already miss my girls at work (for the first time in my life I was the "peligrosso"). I already miss Taro. I already miss the "I can't understand what you are saying". I already miss the buskers I've never paid attention to at the Tube stations. I already miss my oyster card and the cute voice on the Jubilee line going "this train terminates at Stratford". And the imperative "mind the gap" too. I already miss the long conversations through the night with my flatmates. I already miss the queen (does she miss me too? Probably not.) I already miss English breakfast, including the traditional English breakfast tea with milk. I already miss hot chocolate. Flakes, Galaxy, Kit Kat and Ben and Jerry's dinossaurs too. I already miss the lunch time in the park near the school. I already miss the school, by the way. The reception where I used to spend time with my friends. I already miss my best friend. I already miss my best teacher. I already miss the Waterloo station. I already miss Trafalgar Square. I already miss Road House, Border's, Starbucks and, most of all, Misato. I already miss my every day company. My half a brain. And our children. And our story. I already miss the Acropolis and Berlin. I already miss Christmas dinner. New year's eve. I already miss the sleepy good night calls. The good night kiss. And the good morning strawberry flavored kiss too. I already miss sheep, wool, needles, cashmere and a scarf with five little ducks plus their mama. I already miss the scarf's smell. I already miss striped things, pirates, Spider-Man, Jedi, Indiana Jones, Susan Calvin. I already miss foxes. I already miss tcham. BUT (index finger), most of all, I already miss her. And her craziness. Just not quite sure if she already misses me too. However, even though having a lot of things to miss seems to be sad, actually it's not. It just means that I have a lot of things to remember later. Things I did, I had, I tried, I learnt, I liked, I hated, I cried, I loved, I lived. But the really sad part of this post comes now: I wish this list were longer. Cos I already miss everything I haven't done. And four weeks before I'm going home, it seems that I have only seven hours left. And I just wish these seven hours could last forever. It's the end. No hope anymore. It's too late. And it's time to go home.

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*sniffle*
17/02/2008
That's so sad... Kind of... It's very beautiful. I think there's only one thing to change - the plural of sheep is sheep :D Oh, and 'striped' = ///// 'stripped' = no clothes! Q saudades meu... bjinhus
A constructive critic
17/02/2008
Actually... what you need is to let us see the photos bigger. Like this is all very well for a general nosying around, but your photos are so gorgeous (especially the ones of London! haha) that we should be able to click on them and see them bigger. Ne? You can watermark them if you have to, but we need a zoom function.
The First
17/02/2008
Yay! Ebaa!!! I'm the first! ... Porra! I'm only third ... :.(
A friend who is looking it for the first time!!!
22/03/2008
My dear!!! You can bet London and you friends you left here and everywhere in the world are missing you as much as you miss it! Your pictures are gorgeous!!! Good luck in Brazil!!!