Holy moly there are a lot of people in London. I'd thought I'd been in crowded places before, but I didn't know what I was missing! Thankfully, they all speak with English accents which fills me with an uncontrollable joy. I actually have a hard time suppressing my grin when surrounded by their lovely speech.
I find the tube (subway) a very exciting, and simultaneously frightening place. For one, the tube is actually shaped like a tube! The tunnels, and the trains! I feel like I am boarding a vessel pioneering scientific research of the unexplored underground. While this is quite titillating, descending into the tube, then traveling on it, then coming out of it, leave me feeling... smushed. I literally have had to push people out of my way to get off. They don't even try to get out of your way! Even once out of the tube and on the streets, I have felt like a worker bee, crawling over and under my fellow workers, all of us trying to make our way to the Queen. It is hard to maintain a straight line, and thus maintain sight of one's desired destination, leaving one quite confused and disoriented once free of the mob. I have never been in a physical fight, but during my first encounter with this prolonged human-thumping - which came right after a 24 hour voyage with little sleep - I came close to testing my unused (and probably quite poor) fighting skills on whoever was unfortunate enough to be next to me when I broke. :P I have since then gotten some sleep, and learned how to flow with the mass, and now find navigating the tube kind of fun - like a spatial analysis game, which is just my cup of tea. ;)
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