Bad times

After about a week and a half of working we landed up getting fired i wont go into the reason for it but we were scared that we were going to get kicked out of the country.. We had been paid twice so we had some money(more then we had arrived with) so we sat around playing games, we did try look for another job but not as hard as we should have been looking.

By this time another friend(Rob) had arrived and we were really enjoying ourselves, but burning money really quickly, rent was the killer.. we couldn't find a job and we started to get worried about not having money. One of our house mate's was working in security and he said he could get us a job, security is a crap job(long hours worse pay) but by this point we couldn't say no cause we didn't have money which was a big problem..

We needed travel cards to be able to do the training course which we didn't expect, there was only one way which we where going to be able to go to the training course, one of us was going to have to phone a parent, after some talking i decided i would call my mom, what you have to remember is that the exchange rate was 13 to 1 so i was asking for quite a bit of money.

My mom said she would give it to me but that was the last time she would do it, as she wanted me to learn a few lesson's which i could understand, that £100 saved 3 lives cause without it none of us would've been able to stay here..

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Friends

A week after i arrived here my friends from South Africa started arriving too, having close friends in a new place really does help. I had found a job by this point it wasn't the best job but it was work(and i sure needed the money).

I managed to get John(my first friend to arrive) a job with me so that he could start getting some money in straight away which i think helped him. Our first pay cheque was bigger then we thought it would be but it was still crap..

The first thing we went and did was get something good to eat(living on toast at that stage) while we were walking home we decided to go into the GAME shop, straight away we bought our first game's console it was a PS1 so it wasn't the best but it got us through our first month of being in London.

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Job Hunting

"Job hunting" i had already worked before but arriving here looking for a job in a big city was an eye opening experience, sales and marketing, tele sales, sales this sales that i thought to myself is that all that they do here is try sell people things. So i thought the best thing to do is go to an agency! Dressed in the best chothes i had with me i went to some interviews. Wow they really helped i had another interview with an employeer the next day!! just as well i had only £200 left at that stage..

The next day dressed in the same best clothes that i had at the agency i went for for it, put on the whole best interview situation that i could(you know how it is with interviews you tell them what they want to hear) the guy said i was perfect for the job, i couldnt be believe i had only been here 4 days i had i job whoop whoop!! i didnt even know what the job was, he said i should go with a fellow named James he would show me what the job was about..

James was a funny guy seemed happy about you he was and what he was doing, so i followed his lead. he said lets get started and on the tube we jumped to another strange part of London, we came to this big apartment block, i was thinking what is going on here. James then started knocking on doors selling insurance for the blind! Great a bloodly sales job!! i followed him around the whole day watching him knock on one door then another...

At the end of the day of me humouring James he said i was perfect for the job, he said i should go back to the office and they would talk to me about pay and hours, i shock his hand said thank you very much see you around soon, THEN WENT STRAIGHT HOME that was not for me.

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First week in London

Living in london what an experince its been so far, i started my journey on the 16th of march 2001(man its seems like yesterday!!)

I was the second one of my friends to move over here. Byron was the first one to arrive in london three months before me, so he was a little bit more street smart so to say..

Leaving south africa in a summer month (where it never gets that cold) to winter in london. My mom arranged a friend of hers to show me a house i could stay in, it was in a place called Stratford talk about scary.. but it was my new home away from home so i made the best of it.

My mom's friend (Angie) then decided that we should go sight seeing. It sounded like a good idea at the time. We went to all the usual places Big Ben, Tower Bridge, St Pauls etc etc. let me tell you when sight seeing in Londons winter, take more then a etines jumper cause that isnt going to help at all, it also started raining while we were walking around, half way though i kindly said to the Angie through chattering teeth that i would really like to go home i was freezing!!

Back in my new strange home i had to meet my new family (house mates) and the landlord! what i strange guy he was, he showed me around and kindly said to me that if ever someone comes around to get a meter reading for the electrity that i must turn them away and say come back another day(he was stealing power from the old lady next door)

The following day i was eager to start looking for a job seen as i only had £400 on me knowing that i had to pay my landlord £50 rent with a £50 deposit that day, and still had to go buy some food for the week ahead, my money was going quickly already!!

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