Ich arbeite heute von zuhause. Waer eigentlich nicht unbedingt notwendig gewesen weil die Busse schon wieder ganz normal fahren aber die Sapient Chefs hatten das gestern per Mail empfohlen und ich fands irgendwie auch angebracht. Gestern bin ich zu Fuss von Sapient nach Bethnal Green gelaufen. Ging eigentlich ganz gut, ich hab ne gute Stunde gebraucht. Es war ziemliches Verkehrschaos und einige Leute waren zu Fuss unterwegs. Sehr viele haben versucht von Canary Wharf mit den Themsefaehren Richtung Westen zu kommen.
Hab grad einen guten Artikel im Guardian gelesen und so eine Passage ueber Hackney (wo Sonja ganz am Anfang gewohnt hat) ist mir haengen geblieben:
London buses, particularly the buses between Hackney and the centre, are also filled with immigrants, and it is very possible that if a bomb exploded in any one of them, it would kill and maim at least one person from every continent and of every major faith. On any busy Hackney bus you’ll hear a dozen different languages besides English: Albanian, Turkish, Polish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Arabic, Urdu, French or Yoruba.
I liked to think one of the reasons the Olympics was coming to east London was that every member of every national Olympics committee knew someone who lived there. Sitting at a cafe in Hackney not far from the No 30 route a few days ago, just back from the religious strictness of Iran, I watched the different religions pass by: a young girl in a school playground version of the hijab - jeans, T-shirt and a black wimple - and a woman in another, a black chadoor which only showed her eyes; an Orthodox Jew from Stamford Hill, with his long black coat and black broad-brimmed hat; and all the secular post-Christians with their bare heads and hipster jeans. It seemed an idyll of live and let live.