Friday, 26 June 2015

My first impression of United Kingdom

'United Kingdom : the land of Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes' is the first thing that pop-up in my mind before I went to UK.  


Sadly it's not the gate to Hogwarts, neither to enter 221B Baker Street. But let's just take it as an imaginary gate to experience above and beyond what United Kingdom has to offer!

A few years back, I live in Germany for several moths. I really enjoy living there, the weather, the people, the air, the sky, the scenery, but there is this one thing that bothers me, quit a lot, which the language! I even imagine that if everybody speaks English in Germany (and please stop those dubbed movies in the cinema, that's just ridiculous) then my life would be sooooo much easier. And here I am, in the UK where everybody speaks English, does my life so much easier? Yes and no.

Yes because I can communicate better, I can read traffic signs, no dubbed movies into Germany in the cinema, thank God for this one, I can understand someone else's joke, just because Brits jokes just far beyond my leagues, needles to say it is easier. But on the other hand, English accent is just so hard, it's not what you've heard in a movies or during your IELTS preparation, I have an English lecture from Manchester for 4 years and even he doesn't prepare me for what I'm getting here. And to make it worse : Yorkshire accent!! I think they're just too lazy to read the last letter, the middle letter, or any letter to be in fact!



And don't let me start talking about the rain. Sigh. I know for a fact that UK have the highest rain intensity in the Europe, but not this much! One time during my train journey to London, the passenger next to me said that 'It is not the rain, it's liquid sunshine'. Well, if you put it that way...

But without me knowing, UK grow on me. I begin to like it more and more, even the rain and Yorkshire accent. I will talk a lot about my adventure around UK (including Wales and Scotland) in this blog post.



Trivia : did you know that United Kingdom is referring to 4 different countries? It's Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Now you know!

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