2014-01-19 Sunny
After one night good sleep, I am in Taiwan now but I still couldn't believe it.
On 16 Jan. 2014, I rushed from Sheffield to London and stayed one night there. I have to say that I am really a discount professional that my coach from Sheffield to London was only 50p (for booking fee, which means the price itself was free!). On the next day, I went to the Heathrow Airport Terminal 3 at around 13:00 and did tax refund. I planned to meet Crystal there, unfortunately her flight was at the Terminal 4. I tried to make every moment before I left UK so I walked around the shops and was looking for anything special with London style that I can bring back to Taiwan. Then, I made a phone call to Smiley, who I wanted to contact but was unable to. I really wanted to meet her as she is one of my good friends in Sheffield. It was a surprise that she was also in the Heathrow Airport. Sadly, she was outside of the board and waiting for a long queue for the tax refund and I was about to go on board so I was waiting in the boarding room. Anyway, we couldn't meet each other and could only say goodbye on the phone.
After the goodbye phone call, I then was directed to go on the flight. I was really reluctant to go on board but I had to. There were mixed feeling I suffered. I knew very well that UK actually won't be my home, however, I still love to stay there and I did have a good time during the past 1.5 years. I love the atmosphere, the freedom and the living conditions in UK. I couldn't remember how many times I had traveled back and forth between London and Sheffield. I couldn't forget the rail station and the streets in Sheffield. I couldn't tell the countless visits they I had paid to TKMaxx, as well as IC. The most important of all, I couldn't forget the happy times I had with my good friends in Sheffield, who enlightened my days there. Even some day they might forget me or they might not regard the times we had as valuable anymore, I will still remember them and the things we had been though. Especially my time with Crystal, Alex and Ilkin.
There were too much happy times in UK that they were so different from what I had experienced in Taiwan. For the sake of sadness, I couldn't help myself but dropped out tears while the flight was starting to leave the land. All the memories, all the good times and my youth, they were all gone with at that moment when the flight departures.
On 17 Jan. 2014, I arrived Taiwan. I was so sad. Everything changes.
The people on the streets are not as good looking as those in UK. The public toilets are so dirty. People wear out of fashioned clothes. The street views are ugly. The advertises on Youtube are automatically changed into Taiwanese. The power suckers are different from what I used to know in UK. The air is humidity. The past 1.5 years in UK is just like a dream and it seems to be so far from me. I was still in London yesterday and now I am in Tainan, in my room. My breakfast today cost me 70p which was unbelievable cheap and delicious. I soon adjusted myself into the living pattern in Taiwan. But everything happened to me in UK keeps lingering in my head. Are they real? I feel like I am dropped down from heaven to the normal life. The days in UK are never come back again.
Oh, I had the same feeling when I came home from UK. Sheffield is not a big city full of entertaining activities, but it is so peacefull that I couldn't forget afternoons of hanging around with my sweetheart. When I arrived in Vietnam looking at my country from the sky, I thought it was a village of 20 years ago; the development gap is so big. I missed UK with most of things in order. But, you're right to say that we have to adjust ourselves to the new living conditions. I, then, made myself occuppied with work, so I can have enough money to come back to UK and visit my love. Sunny, don't be sad. The new page of life just opened. In that new world, you still have good friends standing by you and taking new chances. UK is still waiting :) Best wishes!
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