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Hey there you x
What a couple of weeks this has been.
So UP and DOWN.
Not just for me...but for everyone in london and beyond. The Olympic news had me jumping around on the pavement when a friend rang me and told me we'd got it! I am sooo happy about that! I can't friggin' wait! I'm not too into sport but i do really love the Olympics. Even at school learning about it's history fascinated me.

I almost feel bad for having all this good luck with my stuff at the moment with the London attack last thursday. Like everyone i was emailing, texting and calling friends and family, checking everyone was ok. Which i feel very grateful to say they were. I did an interview today and the interviewer told me one of his old work mates has gone missing and he'd seen a "have you seen this girl?" poster in london with his friends face on it. How awful. I felt heavy and got shivers all down me. It brings it all back. That it IS real. It really did happen. Right here in my town. Our beautiful city. It still hasn't sunk in how HUGE this is. I don't know what to say. My thoughts are still very much for the families and friends of people who have been caught up in this. Today it was very moving to see London come to a halt in remembrance and in solidarity for two minutes. (everyone that is apart from the guy at Waterloo East station who quite obviously hadn’t heard about the 2 mins silence and was blaring out on the station tannoy about how some train was late throughout!)

I was in Israel on holiday with my mum and sis when i was 16. On one of the days we were in a building that's entrance was off from a market place in Jerusalem when a suicide bomb attack happened outside. it was horrible and though i didn't see anything I really FELT it. Heavy and shaken. Even though we weren't really sure what the noise was because we were told there was a ceasefire. Everyone was on their mobiles ringing loved ones. I couldn't get my head around how people could get to that state of mind. To do something like that. I don't remember leaving the building. I remember playing a piano that was in the room we were in. I needed to do make something. Fill the air with the sound of something i love. The next day people were going about there business in their beautiful city. It had become a part of the everyday. Still after all that we did have a wonderful time out there and felt very welcome.

It doesn't feel right to put these good immi happenings i want to tell you about within the same blog...so i'm going to write another x

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