London is one of the most populated places in the world, more than ten million people walk daily through the cold Londoners’ streets making the city so stressful and annoying, but it is something that we have to put up with if really we want to live here.

The more the people, the more the demand for products, transport, food and so on, translating it in economical terms, when the demand is bigger than the offer, the prices of everything go up, plus a credit crunch crisis and a bit of bullshit, it makes of London also one of the most expensive cities in the universe!!

I´m not lying when I say that for getting a good quality of life in here being just a student it is necessary to work as hard as a donkey because for good food, good accommodation and to put money by, it is needed to earn a little bit more than 900 pounds per month. But if you are lucky you can take the easier way, that your parents send you money from your country, it’d be a quite expensive, but if they can do it, good for you.

My intention in writing to you is not scare you. What I really want is just to tell you what I’m feeling and how life really is here. In my opinion if you want something and the way to get it is hard, the final prize will be better and you’re gonna feel really proud of yourself!!! My advice is again “take up your own experience and don’t think it’s gonna be difficult because all the obstacles are in your mind and knocking them out is very easy.

Luis Felipe Salazar/Colombia

This entry was posted on Friday, October 31st, 2008 at 5:41 pm and is filed under The English Studio news. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.