Small Talk...

Nestes últimos, vá dois meses, tenho tido muitas conversas casuais com as pessoas da faculdade, mais do que o normal. Suponho que seja porque a faculdade é bastante pequena e as pessoas ficam curiosas sobre os outros e então metem conversa.
Ou isso ou sentem-se atraidos pelo meu carisma :)
Mas os meus pequenos small talks vão dar sempre no mesmo:

First Talk

Duas raparigas da licenciatura de farmacia, a Susan e acho que era Nishma vieram falar comigo. Depois dos habituais cumprimentos veio:

Susan: Are you from America?
Eu: No, I'm from Portugal why? (ok ok, estava necessitada de um elogio nesse dia)
Susan: Oh you have an American accent.
Nishma: I went to Portugal last summer, I was in Coimbra. Where are you from?
Eu: I'm from Lisbon, did you visit it?
Nishma: No, but I went to the Algarve, it had such nice weather!Why did you decide to come to cold London?
Eu: I guess for the same reasons that everyone comes here!For the adventure of getting to know a new place, the opportunity of a different education, the possibility of getting a good R&D job and, like the girl from Sex and the City who went to NY, I also came in pursuit of a little romance!
Susan: You're out of luck in this Uni (suspirou ela de infelicidade lol)
Nishma: Oh but how about in Portugal? Guys there are cute, I found them really hot!

Eu abstive me de responder mas percebi que as coisas não pareciam muito promissoras....

Second Talk

Um rapaz de MPharm abordou-me:

Manny: Hi! Can I sit here?
Eu: Sure! (Estou a tentar ser mais sociável)
Manny: So what do you think of the Uni?Is it like yours back home?
Eu: It's smaller and the studying conditions aren't great but its ok (tentei não ser muito crítica)
Manny: How big is your Uni?
Eu googlei a bela da FCT-UNL e mostrei a foto do campus ao rapaz
Manny: OMG, that Uni is massive! Why would you come here?

Eu não soube o que responder...a pergunta ficou me na cabeça.

Third Talk

Estava a debater com uma colega de mestrado o ser se capaz de alterar o estilo de vida versus a monotonia (logo eu nestas conversas!)

Eu: You can't just spend your life doing exactly the same thing forever, it's good to change. Or else, where would the fun be in your life?
Ela: Fun is time limited. It just lasts for the time that the change that you created is new, then it's not fun anymore
Eu: Ok, but that doesn't mean you can't try new things. You can't just stay stuck to everything that is familiar.
Ela: So what if I gave you the chance to go back to Lisbon right now, what would you do?

Fiquei sem resposta, ela apanhou me off guard. Estes 6 meses tem estado constantemente a mudar a minha perspectiva sobre a minha estadia em Londres, e suponho que just maybe, estou um pouco , um POUQUITO saudosa de estar em terras lusas...