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I recently moved to the UK. London specifically and although it sounds wonderful and everything what people don't realize is how difficult it is to go through culture shock. Yes, I will be exploring one the greatest cities in the world, but living in it is so much different than if you were to just to visit. I've been fortunate to have have gone through such a big change once before in my lifetime when my family decided to move from Mexico City to the US. Mainly for the reasons everyone comes to a new country: for new opportunities and better quality of life (also due to health problems related to pollution). I was young then and I could adapt more easily, but the language and culture barrier was a bit traumatizing to me. English was never my strong point in school, but I did great in mathematics, chemistry and even French. I pretty much excelled in everything except for English (oh well). Now that I'm halfway to being an adult, I can halfway take care of myself. The other half I leave to Toby, whom I really admire for putting up with my lack of touch of reality (among other things). Well this was the moment I waited for so long and it finally arrived a few weeks short of Christmas 07. Musicmobs, after 4 years of hard work and dedication, has gone offline (with a great exit see Last.fm), I'm no longer working over 60 hour weeks and I have finally left a tiny part of me in Seattle, which sadly was not very nice to us. Now that I'm in London I'm finally ready to start my own work. I'm very excited to see what the next few years hold for us!
