Hey guys, how's it going? My name is Lily and thank you so much for tuning in today.
So, I am in London right now. I'm taking a day off just because I've been doing a lot of walking
and my feet kind of hurt because, you know, as Americans we're not used to walking much, so...
because everything is so far and in London everything is super close. Like, you just take the tube,
walk to your next destination, maybe take another tube, maybe take a bus or an Uber and ta-da!
But yeah, oh my god, London is so big! I did not realize how big it was and that's what she said.
So, I had a friend meet me at the Heathrow airport. Guys, I was so sleep deprived from the
plane ride because, well, first of all, I had plenty of leg room, like there was nobody
next to me, so it's like you would think I get some sleep, right? Nope! No, not at all because
as much as I... like I had two pillows plus one of my own and I still could not fall asleep. Like,
I tried, I really tried, but anyways... So, I was sleep deprived. I came to London at like 10 a.m.
I met my friend, I got a SIM card because like... So, I'm with T-Mobile and my phone is prepaid
because I pay every month and I had to get a SIM card. I thought I activated SIM card, but apparently
no, because you had to put in minutes. So, like I bought the SIM card itself, right? But it came
without the minutes, so I can really text her, you know, anything and let my mom know that,
hey, I'm fine. I arrived, I came, yay! But, yeah, so my friend also showed me, you know, oyster card,
which is what they use in London for, you know, to get from one station to another and it's cheaper
than a cardless card, but I still used it. Used the cardless card just because it was so much better
for me and I didn't even get to, you know, travel much. Maybe I did take a black cab just to have
that experience. I did take a few Ubers and I did take the bus and bus was my favorite one so far,
just because like you could see everything from second story, so... or second floor, I guess you
guys would say that. Let's see, so, yeah, so on the first day, like my friend showed me around and
we went to his place and, you know, the apartments in Europe or in London, the... I mean, it's in
Europe, so like apartments all look kind of similar, whether in America it's more like spread out and
I don't know. I don't know how to explain it, you just have to go to Europe and check it out for
yourselves, but, yeah, and, you know, I asked about the rent and it's very similar to United States,
except it's better in London than where I live now, because... so I like London because it's,
you know, first of all... first thing I noticed was that they have really colorful money.
Second of all, they have Kingdom, which is so much better, like the people are treated nice,
everybody is super polite and nice. I don't know, maybe because I'm nice to people and I'm polite,
maybe that's why, you know, treat people the way they treat you, but maybe because I'm a
white pretty girl, I don't know, maybe it could be both, maybe people are nice in general.
There's so much diversity, I mean, I saw Koreans, Japanese, English, Americans,
black people, Indian people, Pakistani, you know, there's all kinds of races and, you know,
I asked one of the Uber drivers, like, are people racist here? And, you know, and he's like, no,
rarely, like rarely you would meet someone who's a racist. I'm like, thank God. Let's see, yeah,
diversity, there's always, always, always, like, something going on. Like, I've been to downtown
a little bit outside of downtown, which is called Central London, I think. I don't... I can't remember,
but yeah, and there's always... people are always building something, like, every place I went to,
they were building something, so there's all kinds of places to explore, go see, you know, all kinds
of food to eat, international food, you know, not just like one type of food or three types of food,
there's like a lot of food. I think I passed by Persian food place, so yeah. Oh, I asked about
dating life and basically everybody used the apps, so I'm like, okay, everybody walks, everybody saves
on gas, everybody, you know, rides a bike or tube. Tubes are really, you know, they're so convenient,
like, you don't even have to have a car, which, I'm not gonna lie, it would save everybody a lot
of money. And they actually recycle here, like, they actually put in, you know, there's, you know,
garbage cans everywhere all over the city, so like, if you have garbage instead of throwing it on the
street, you would put it in a bin because it's like right there. So, you know, they're keeping
England very clean. And when I tried the food, and I guess I should start from the beginning, so
when I checked into Airbnb, it was super, super easy to check in, you know, quiet neighborhood
outside of London, outside of downtown London, so it took a while to get here, but it's okay.
And I got to save up so much on food because there was pasta, there were some vegetables,
pickled mussels and oysters, which I never had, but I kind of liked it. Yeah, it does not sound
good, but maybe some of you find it good, I don't know. But yeah, you know, so I pretty much had
pasta every day, or every evening, should I say, and I felt good. Like, if I would have pasta
at six o'clock in the evening in the United States, I would be bloated, I would wake up feeling
groggy because my stomach would hurt. I tried pasta here, I was fine the next day, like, I actually
slept well, my stomach felt fine, even though I had a lot of pasta, I had a lot of food, but
yes, obviously food is so much better because it does not have any gmea, gmea, oh, gmea, yeah,
whatever. You get what I'm saying, no chemicals whatsoever. I got a pineapple juice, guess what
the ingredients were? Pineapple juice instead of, you know, although, e-one, two, three, or, you know.
Yeah, um, I also, look, I'm trying to say of alcohol, but I bought some just to try it, and it was
delicious, it was so good, I'm like, this does not taste alcohol, this tastes like sweet water. Well,
because I did buy ciders and some beer, and the beer is so freaking good here, yeah, um, yeah, so food
is good, drinks are good, everything is so good here, and yeah, everybody is super helpful, like,
when I, I accidentally, on my first day, I missed my first station because I went the wrong way,
so I had to come back, and then on the way back in the evening, I took the wrong one, and I had to
switch and ask somebody, and everybody is super helpful, and I did not see any pickpockets, even
though my mom's like, oh, it's syrup, there's pickpockets, I'm like, mom, in New York, there's
shit-ton of pickpockets, there's massive shootings in America, guess what? There's no shootings in
London, not that I saw, knock on wood. Like, I walked, I walked around, and I actually felt safe,
I did not get hassled, um, I did not get, you know, floated with, um, yeah, like, like,
because like in Savannah, or literally in every American town, they're like, hey babe, ooh, hi,
hey sexy, and like, black guys, it's mostly black guys, they would like whisper something, I'm like,
what did you say? You want, you wanna, yeah, anyways, so yeah, it was like, because everybody
is polite, you know, it's very cultured, America, no, so don't feel, don't get angry guys, if one day
I'll just move here, because I love it here, it's so amazing, and history, so much history, and I
am going to end this podcast, and upload some more, because I had quite an adventure in the last week,
so I will talk to you guys later.