Last night I stayed over in sutton with an old and very close friend of mine from high school, who moved to London a few months before me. It's weird and strangely refreshing to be around someone familiar in a very new and strange situation. I guess over all it's refreshing seeing someone I know (apart from mum and gran) before I return to Norfolk at Christmas and start socialising with other freshers come Friday night.
The outskirts of London are very beautiful, it doesn't really feel like London at all. There are hills and fields everywhere, and very quiet. You can hear the wind and the birds. It's a strange feeling because it feels like home, but it's not, and it makes me realise that when I get back to southwark later ill be so far away again, back to re-adjustment and increasingly familiar noises of the city.
It's nice to know that there are rolling fields and open spaces 45 minutes away. It's vast, a different sort of vast from the city, London is beautiful and charming in its own way, and I know that for this part of my life at least, I'm meant to be here, but part of me, as much as I'd hate to admit it, will always want to come back to the tranquility of Norfolk, at least from time to time.
I guess this post has helped me collet my thoughts again, it's always nice to know there's a good friend close by to unwind with, sometimes, even newbies need to escape from the city.
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