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Hey guys, how's it going? My name is Lily and thank you so much for tuning in today.

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So, I am in London right now. I'm taking a day off just because I've been doing a lot of walking

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and my feet kind of hurt because, you know, as Americans we're not used to walking much, so...

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because everything is so far and in London everything is super close. Like, you just take the tube,

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walk to your next destination, maybe take another tube, maybe take a bus or an Uber and ta-da!

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But yeah, oh my god, London is so big! I did not realize how big it was and that's what she said.

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So, I had a friend meet me at the Heathrow airport. Guys, I was so sleep deprived from the

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plane ride because, well, first of all, I had plenty of leg room, like there was nobody

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next to me, so it's like you would think I get some sleep, right? Nope! No, not at all because

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as much as I... like I had two pillows plus one of my own and I still could not fall asleep. Like,

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I tried, I really tried, but anyways... So, I was sleep deprived. I came to London at like 10 a.m.

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I met my friend, I got a SIM card because like... So, I'm with T-Mobile and my phone is prepaid

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because I pay every month and I had to get a SIM card. I thought I activated SIM card, but apparently

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no, because you had to put in minutes. So, like I bought the SIM card itself, right? But it came

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without the minutes, so I can really text her, you know, anything and let my mom know that,

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hey, I'm fine. I arrived, I came, yay! But, yeah, so my friend also showed me, you know, oyster card,

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which is what they use in London for, you know, to get from one station to another and it's cheaper

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than a cardless card, but I still used it. Used the cardless card just because it was so much better

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for me and I didn't even get to, you know, travel much. Maybe I did take a black cab just to have

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that experience. I did take a few Ubers and I did take the bus and bus was my favorite one so far,

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just because like you could see everything from second story, so... or second floor, I guess you

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guys would say that. Let's see, so, yeah, so on the first day, like my friend showed me around and

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we went to his place and, you know, the apartments in Europe or in London, the... I mean, it's in

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Europe, so like apartments all look kind of similar, whether in America it's more like spread out and

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I don't know. I don't know how to explain it, you just have to go to Europe and check it out for

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yourselves, but, yeah, and, you know, I asked about the rent and it's very similar to United States,

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except it's better in London than where I live now, because... so I like London because it's,

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you know, first of all... first thing I noticed was that they have really colorful money.

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Second of all, they have Kingdom, which is so much better, like the people are treated nice,

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everybody is super polite and nice. I don't know, maybe because I'm nice to people and I'm polite,

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maybe that's why, you know, treat people the way they treat you, but maybe because I'm a

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white pretty girl, I don't know, maybe it could be both, maybe people are nice in general.

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There's so much diversity, I mean, I saw Koreans, Japanese, English, Americans,

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black people, Indian people, Pakistani, you know, there's all kinds of races and, you know,

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I asked one of the Uber drivers, like, are people racist here? And, you know, and he's like, no,

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rarely, like rarely you would meet someone who's a racist. I'm like, thank God. Let's see, yeah,

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diversity, there's always, always, always, like, something going on. Like, I've been to downtown

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a little bit outside of downtown, which is called Central London, I think. I don't... I can't remember,

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but yeah, and there's always... people are always building something, like, every place I went to,

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they were building something, so there's all kinds of places to explore, go see, you know, all kinds

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of food to eat, international food, you know, not just like one type of food or three types of food,

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there's like a lot of food. I think I passed by Persian food place, so yeah. Oh, I asked about

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dating life and basically everybody used the apps, so I'm like, okay, everybody walks, everybody saves

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on gas, everybody, you know, rides a bike or tube. Tubes are really, you know, they're so convenient,

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like, you don't even have to have a car, which, I'm not gonna lie, it would save everybody a lot

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of money. And they actually recycle here, like, they actually put in, you know, there's, you know,

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garbage cans everywhere all over the city, so like, if you have garbage instead of throwing it on the

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street, you would put it in a bin because it's like right there. So, you know, they're keeping

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England very clean. And when I tried the food, and I guess I should start from the beginning, so

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when I checked into Airbnb, it was super, super easy to check in, you know, quiet neighborhood

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outside of London, outside of downtown London, so it took a while to get here, but it's okay.

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And I got to save up so much on food because there was pasta, there were some vegetables,

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pickled mussels and oysters, which I never had, but I kind of liked it. Yeah, it does not sound

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good, but maybe some of you find it good, I don't know. But yeah, you know, so I pretty much had

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pasta every day, or every evening, should I say, and I felt good. Like, if I would have pasta

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at six o'clock in the evening in the United States, I would be bloated, I would wake up feeling

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groggy because my stomach would hurt. I tried pasta here, I was fine the next day, like, I actually

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slept well, my stomach felt fine, even though I had a lot of pasta, I had a lot of food, but

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yes, obviously food is so much better because it does not have any gmea, gmea, oh, gmea, yeah,

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whatever. You get what I'm saying, no chemicals whatsoever. I got a pineapple juice, guess what

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the ingredients were? Pineapple juice instead of, you know, although, e-one, two, three, or, you know.

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Yeah, um, I also, look, I'm trying to say of alcohol, but I bought some just to try it, and it was

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delicious, it was so good, I'm like, this does not taste alcohol, this tastes like sweet water. Well,

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because I did buy ciders and some beer, and the beer is so freaking good here, yeah, um, yeah, so food

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is good, drinks are good, everything is so good here, and yeah, everybody is super helpful, like,

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when I, I accidentally, on my first day, I missed my first station because I went the wrong way,

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so I had to come back, and then on the way back in the evening, I took the wrong one, and I had to

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switch and ask somebody, and everybody is super helpful, and I did not see any pickpockets, even

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though my mom's like, oh, it's syrup, there's pickpockets, I'm like, mom, in New York, there's

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shit-ton of pickpockets, there's massive shootings in America, guess what? There's no shootings in

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London, not that I saw, knock on wood. Like, I walked, I walked around, and I actually felt safe,

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I did not get hassled, um, I did not get, you know, floated with, um, yeah, like, like,

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because like in Savannah, or literally in every American town, they're like, hey babe, ooh, hi,

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hey sexy, and like, black guys, it's mostly black guys, they would like whisper something, I'm like,

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what did you say? You want, you wanna, yeah, anyways, so yeah, it was like, because everybody

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is polite, you know, it's very cultured, America, no, so don't feel, don't get angry guys, if one day

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I'll just move here, because I love it here, it's so amazing, and history, so much history, and I

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am going to end this podcast, and upload some more, because I had quite an adventure in the last week,

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so I will talk to you guys later.