OFF TO
I Jumped out of bed early in the morning! Now what should I wear?
Travelling with dresses or pencil skirts not quite my thing for a journey …jeans
is the way to go…with a simple ‘T’. However, its usually quite ordinary!
Useful
information.. he tells me how clean
Heathrow Changing cash
Heathrow Romance
feel me on
this. I bet this happens to anyone... I head towards terminal 2 there is a SEC check! Haven’t being away this
year work.. work..work…so had no idea how tough SEC has been…
Any
liquids?
What? Yes I
have liquids, body cream, face, hands, perfume, water and much more that i cant mention here...
No madam you can’t have that liquid its too
much!
What? I just parked it for this trip…
no madam
you have to throw it away!
What???
No-no I aint doing dat… I was ready to
send it by post to my home! (And that’s true)
Then one of the SECguys.. said: you could buy an empty container 4rm boots…
that was a better idea at least I could still have my body cream… thankfully
my perf was in small 100ml.
Damn it the
freaking container was £1.69 each watdahell!
SECguy: ok
here is a plastic bag you have to put the containers in pbag! To checked
separately!
Kai my eye don see oba! I did and moved on to calm down at the Caviar House & prunier (favourite when getting out!)
But not without the usual top hand luggage
search SEC
I could see people taking off their shoes…and
being searched from head to toe it seemed a romantic fettish nawaooo
I was a bit worried about the ‘sexual/security/romance
though in a funny way as such serious issues make me laugh! Note: if you haven’t been torched for a long
while go to Heathrow airport its free
Take of your shoes!
Erhmm ok
Errhmm ok
It got to
my turn for the ‘sexual/security/romance… I was planning on pulling a fast one
on the woman whom had her gloves on ready for this ordeal… I will just poke my lemons
on her face, lol just for fun!
Guess what?
She said go past madam that’s fine!
Its either you are scared, intimidated by my black face,
worried about my smile, or I smell…yeah worever!
Yeah UK is
like that at times you have to cope with it… the conversation then moves on to
the usual what do you do?
Boarding gate!
The
boarding gate is full how come so many peeps are going to
As I approached
my seat I saw a woman about 60/70 seated on her husbands legs not sure what was
going on but took a seat next to them there was third person in between us so I
was fine…just b4 take off the air hostess comes over and the woman kisses her
hussy bye bye and makes a move towards a back seat… it dawned on me that they
were booked on different seats…I was travelling alone so I stopped the woman.
I am
travelling alone you can seat next to your husband I don’t mind taking the
single seat! It’s absolutely fine by me(Every one turned to look at moi… una
nor sabi respect old people?)
She was
embarrassed but very happy
Funny
enough I ended up in seat very next to an even older woman about 80 and all I
did through out my flight was pass her some sand witch, water and juice…I had fun doing this haven’t seen grand ma
for over 2 years lol
As I got
off the flight the couple I gave up my seat for took me by the arm and dragged
me to a corner of the airline:
Was I
stunned? Her husband added his 2cents by giving me some advice for my love
life!
Amen!
I hurried off shy and nicely embarrased like a
smally!
My initial thought and expectation of the
Good
morning=
Good
afternoon=
Hello=
Goodbye=
Please=
Thank you=dankushien this all i remember... how nice..
And of
course feck off=
The later
is very useful!
Language
The
language is filled with your---- or ----urooorrr! yeah worever...
They don’t necessarily smile at you but they seat quite close appreciating that you are human…or better stated they are human!
NOTE: you do not need a wrist watch in Switzerland there are clocks hanging everywhere! on the streets roads airport trainstation name it massive clock.... the churches also look the same with clocks too! and bang! bang! bang! every hour!
makes me are the Swiss very time concious?
The floors
are very clean! Reminds of my cab driver! But I decided to blot him outta my memory kia kia!
There is an
attendant here to help you with ticket purchase and a ticket is valid for one
year! Thankfully he spoke English! Although not perfect, it really helps… haven't seen any English attendant speaking any other language to a foreigners! I made
a quick chit chat & joke with him as I always do…(at times I sound silly
but who cares!) he asked me to validate my ticket before I could get on the
train… well I found some one else and asked where I should do that!
I am very
good at asking questions and I can ask 10 people questions in 20 minutes! Call me
dumb???(na you sabi) as far as I am
concerned I need to understand what I am doing and where I am going and until I
find out I will keep asking. Ain't gonna
do anything stupid!
you find them right outside the airport or train station they are all lined up to take turns..some Benz,
some not… but they accept credit cards! They are not quite as expensive as London cabs
but again the exchange rate comes into play…my cab driver was the most kolo,
non English speaking, never travelled out of Switz person, I ever encountered.
But then again what do you say about naija taxi drivers! So it’s ok!
As as we started communicating I knew we were going to use hands, face, head, whatever…
I showed
him my hotel address. He told me he wanted francs, I wanted to save my cash I wasn’t
giving it away just yet. Anyway I pulled my first stunt I leaned across his cab
and saw the visa sign, so I gave him my luggage and got in the taxi, half way to my hotel I pointed the visa sign
to him! He shook his head left and right and I nodded ! A minute before we
arrived, I pulled out my card and said a
very loud English thank you…. He had no choice!
Hotel
When I arrived
the maid look me up to down... na only she know wetin she dey think I didn’t give
a hoot! I asked for the hotelier whom I have been speaking to for the past couple
of days. Her face was like wetin dis
blacky dey do for here? me I was like na God go punish your face!
A minute or two the guy that wants to spend my money comes with a wide smile and almost a warm hand shake shouting out my name like a long lost friend.
My room was
shown to me and I was impressed…cleanliness is truly next to godliness!
In my head I began to think... is it true that some naija money was hidden away in this country?
So naija cash had at some point boosted this economy?
What is it about
What is it about this place that is so safe?
Food
Break fast was good.. but my dinner was confused with 4 course meal! lack of the ability to understand the waitress! I ended up eating more than I could have... am not a big eater but my mum thought me to alwyas finish my meal so the cook doesn't feel insulted! I only wanted a meal not 4 course meal but I ended up having 4 ! I almost cried while ate.....
the desert pic was deleted! too much food!
Media
i could hardly understand a word of what was said in any channel but thank god for CNN MTV and BBC world... but I was tired of hearing same news over and over again! OH shit language could actually be a fat , massive barrier! besides the news was about Bush saying that there ain't no fire burning in da bush ...oooh God!
I managed to follow a wife swap programme with a head ache..of course i understood NADA!
People and Shopping..
There are different things to go look for, watches, cheese and the almighty chocolates. The clothes are pretty much same but they are good with embroidery! i managed to catch a museum of embroidery history... which was very liberating!
They also had open market places like camden where you could actually see the swiss culture! there was wine tasting loads of meat and cheese... when i made a movet to taste the cheese the guys selling started laughing they dont believe a
black girl with fat sun glasses eats cheese? well i laughed back a s usall and as for loads to take home. the is ot amusingly sold them to me( na you sabi).
This picture here is a chololate shop i was facinated of the design... all for chocolate?.
and yes i went to the shop below!
aThere are also different places to shop. people are dressed well I caught myself doing what i do best! checking out denims so my eyes goes str8 to da bum... nice bums as well, i noticed! i mean the guys just like a nice looking naija guys bum in denim if you know whara i mean.....
I felt quite uncomfortable with eyes staring at me....yes because I looked different... so its ok..the shop windows are nicely designed they remind me of Tokyo but not as good! sowwy Swiss. I remember wearing Bata to primary school and they used to laugh at me in naija then! na una sabi! bata is still alive and kicking in switzerlandi also found a shop called CHRIST! it amazed me yeah, becos in naija you are not allowed to do that! abi you dey craze!
Nature in Switzerland is amazing from the country side to the city mountains valleys water fields.. animals etc...
