Off The Road

Off The Road

The First Year is The Hardest. Part 1 - The Teaching Assistant

 PREFACE
 
Inevitably, at this time of the year, I start looking back at what’s happened in my life since the last time January 1st happened. Time is a strange beast, divided into neat and strange segments of itself. A year is an important segment. The full turn of the season wheel, the ending and the beginning. 
 
I moved to London on December 31st, 2023. I arrived at 6am at Heathrow…
Off The Road

The Other Side of the Counter

 
There’s a guy who frequents the café I now make coffee in in central London. I work for a company that provides the catering and hospitality for some of the biggest businesses in the city, including for an internationally renowned structural engineering firm which has offices all over the world, including in Australia. The café I work in is situated on the ground floor of a six-story building in Soho and…