Postby SekoETC » Sat May 07, 2005 5:27 pm
Yeah I didn't mean it in a racistic way. But indeed it looks a bit odd to run into such a coctail of races and nationalities. In the streets I hear more French than English, some German too. When I was a kid, there was just one black family in my town. Now there's a bit more but still I don't run into them so often. Kotka has mostly Russians, some Turks and some Somalians. Helsinki is more multicultural, it's quite like London exept four times less people I think and less Chinese.
I spent about three hours today trying to find my way back from Tate Modern Gallery. My roommate had managed to get to the hotel in about 45 minutes. I think I got to Charing Cross OK but then took the wrong way and ended up in New Oxford Street where I again took the wrong way and only when seeing High Holborn sign I finally admitted to myself that it was the wrong way, then I went the other way until Regent Street and down there. By that time my legs were totally in pain. So if someone asks why I'm just sitting here and not dragging myself farther than Tesco then I'll bite their head off.
Yesterday I was quite tired when logging out, one black guy asked me "are you ok miss, you look a bit odd", and I said "I should go sleeping". I think he asked "do you sleep here?" I don't remember if I replied at all. It's good to have a room with a bed in the hotel, even if it's a cold place. I've seen people sleeping on the street, and there was this one guy sitting in the rain with a blanket over his head and a sign that says Hungry and Homeless. So I gave him some pennies. Ok they're probably just buying booze with it but I don't use the small coins anyway.
I wandered through Chinatown yesterday, didn't stop much. There were many places with roasted birds hanging in the windows. It looks like a totally different world.
Here, a radio playing broken music... Quite loud. I hope they would switch it off. I'm getting distracted.
Not-so-sad panda