Also I finally got a call back from a job I applied for… except by another recruitment agency but they want me to go down and meet them. Hopefully, hopefully, something 9 – 5ish will come up soon.

I’ve sorta given up just applying for the same old jobs I usually do and in a fit of frustration, fired off my CV to all sorts of places. Now I have a part time job selling Tequila shots. I start this week, so we’ll see how that goes. It seems like I’m going to actually have to talk and be nice to randoms, which isn’t my strong point.

I’m quietly still nursing my dream of becoming an Underground train driver.

We did a Circle Line pub crawl last week. It was a complete annihilation, good times all round. Many loud drinking games that threatened to get us kicked out of pubs and some that actually did.

I just had some Colombian girls come through to look at our flat. Their English was about as good as my Spanish. They had huge issues with my accent, especially the vowel “e” which tends to be what people here laugh at me the most about. I was trying to tell them about the deposit.

“Ok so it will be ?610
“16?”
“No, six… ten”
“16?”
“six hundred and ten”
“6….. (desperate Spanish followed in the hope that I’d understand. I wished Marcelo was home).
“six…… hundred…….. and…….. ten”
“teeen?
“TEN”
“Oh…” (rapid Spanish)

I am considering changing my pronunciation because this happens all the time. Especially when asking for a pen (“You want a pin? “PEN. PEN. WRITING APPARATUS”.)