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London: the Beginning of the End
The Past
I come from the Soviet Union block. On March 11th in 1990 Lithuania declared independence, the first in the Soviet Union block to do so. Now it’s an independent republic. I was 7 years old then. I didn’t understand what was really going on. The consequences of fighting the suppression were felt for quite a few years.
Lithuania did suffer. I do remember bleak and sad faces. There was little money, food, clothes and everything we have in abundance today. After school, I had to queue up at the shop to get a tiny bit of anything that was left. The currency was some kind of printed paper. I don’t even remember what it was called. A few years later it was changed to litas and now euro.
However, I do remember it all coming to life when at school we could wear anything we wanted. No uniforms! We could buy bananas in the shops. Those were the days… The aftermath of the Russians is deeply felt in Lithuania, some cultural behaviour comes from there too. After all Lithuania was under the Russians since 1936! Many generations is needed for people to change their mentality and attitude but that’s another blog post.
London
When I first came to London I loved it. I spent 15 years of my life in the UK. I got a University degree in English Literature and studied MA in Marketing at a…
