Another Autumn Begins

This autumn is bringing some new things over. We are living in the countryside, which seems to suit me quite well since i am a kindda loner. We are expecting a few visitors to come over, my aunt from Mexico (who does not know a word of English, truly); Nygard's bro to celebrate his 40 at a footy match; and my parents-in-law who have time to do anything they can because they are retired. That's cool I guess.

My aunt is coming only for a week, and she is arriving this weekend. She has never travelled outside her home country, so i cannot begin to imagine how she actually feels about going all the way across the pond just to come to an island. Well, she does not see it this way, that's a fact. She is coming to Europe, to London. Hum, we begin there with some misunderstandings, in a way she is coming to Europe, but not really. On the other hand, she will be visiting London, but she is not 'coming to London' solely.

I don't know if you have had any relatives from abroad with little understanding of places, who enjoy misplacing the setting where you actually live. Yes, I know i am being silly and rigid by giving attention to this, but when I have actually gone home and met friends of my relatives and they had asked me 'how is your life in London', i said that I don't live in London and then they asked 'where then?', and the interest is lost. It is like meeting someone who confuse you with a famous person and then realises you are just not the person and drops the attention off you. Well, not that it matters, but it happens. It's an ackward gain and loss of unwanted attention.

Yes, many lay people do only equalise England to London. Unless the person knows about football or history or music, which can make a conversation slightly better and they can be able to recognise that there are a couple of other places of interest in this country. Really, through the years it has been a process of learning that there is no need to bother oneself with explaining to people that England as well as London are more than just the Big Ben and the deceased princess Di. There are pubs, pop music, fish&chips, the controversial countryside, chavs, pop culture, TK Maxx, terrible junk food culture, celebrities, Misters Blair and Brown, Ales, did I mention pop culture? Better skip this for the average tourist. They don't want to know about England, they want to visit England and take as many pictures as possible to show that they had been in 'the sightseeings and tourist attractions you must visit'.

This means that with my aunt I will be going for the first time ever to the Buckingham and Kesington Palaces and will take a london tourist bus. Gosh, oh gosh. Hahahahahaha, that's all i think about me and this adventure. I wanted to top it up with a quick visit to Stonehenge, but Nygard looked at me weirdly and told me off that idea with "it's just a bunch of rocks". I agree with him, but well, everybody who travels to England gets to go to bloody Stonehenge, but not my aunt. She is gonna go to the East Anglian countryside, which we like quite a lot.

Other thing that is finally coming up for me is the feedback over my thesis draft!!! This week i'll learn about what needs to be done and will get my hands on it as soon as 'humanly' possible.