Girl on phone:
"I'll have to get off this one[...] Problem at[...] S is annoyed, but there's nothing I can do about it[...] So I've emailed R, so hopefully that's alright."
Argument on steps on the bus:
"I don't cover my face with my scarf[...] I don't know why you had to bring my scarf into it[...] need to see my head to say excuse me?"
Two guys at the back of the bus:
"Whatever he snorts, I can snort him under the table[...] I was in Doncaster recently[...] Hour-and-a-half drive and hour-and-a-half train ride[...] Your friend still lives in Cambridge, right? It's a lovely place[...] If you've not got anything planned[...] I've got to go. Right, I'll see you tomorrow."
Friday, February 27, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Manchester bus
Two girls:
"I'd take it with a pinch of salt[...] It rings a vague bell[...] I've heard that[...] like the time he said that all those drug dealers were after him. He says things that are true, but massively exaggerated[...] It's quite easy to try and empathise and then get carried away[...]"
"I'd take it with a pinch of salt[...] It rings a vague bell[...] I've heard that[...] like the time he said that all those drug dealers were after him. He says things that are true, but massively exaggerated[...] It's quite easy to try and empathise and then get carried away[...]"
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Cromar, Norfolk - Factory work
Samuel León, 28, Manchester:
"In Spanish I would be more precise because Spanish comes from my heart and I could find a precise word for every feeling I felt when I was 19.
"They used to get us up every morning at 6.30 and take us to the factory. All of us were foreigners; Polish, Spanish, Portuguese. We had to put on these horrible suits because it was minus five degrees. I used to work in this big room. It was like minus ten. What I did was I took the meat out of the crabs, and that was really, really disgusting.
"I came to England with mt ex-girlfriend and three friends of mine. It was not a very good time but at the same time I realised when I finished work my life could not be so simple. The working conditions were not very good so that made me think about my life and made me grow up. I think that factory is a turning point in my life."
"In Spanish I would be more precise because Spanish comes from my heart and I could find a precise word for every feeling I felt when I was 19.
"They used to get us up every morning at 6.30 and take us to the factory. All of us were foreigners; Polish, Spanish, Portuguese. We had to put on these horrible suits because it was minus five degrees. I used to work in this big room. It was like minus ten. What I did was I took the meat out of the crabs, and that was really, really disgusting.
"I came to England with mt ex-girlfriend and three friends of mine. It was not a very good time but at the same time I realised when I finished work my life could not be so simple. The working conditions were not very good so that made me think about my life and made me grow up. I think that factory is a turning point in my life."
Monday, February 23, 2009
Manchester
Snippets of conversation on the bus:
"Tell her on facebook [...] She just needs a job where she gets paid [...] One of them usd to be manager at Gucci in Selfriges [...] If you have the motivation [...] But, like, if that, like [...] I wouldn't mind it but you would get bored after a while [...] Why did the worst girl get it? [...] I like the blonde one [...]"
Friend I am staying with:
"I think music - ok I'll give you a quote - most people say that language of music is defined by the composer, but I think that music is about sound. If you want to give it musical names call it pitch, or scientific call it frequency, [...] rhythm [...] duration. Therefore there is a common ground between all composers because all music is about those things."
"Tell her on facebook [...] She just needs a job where she gets paid [...] One of them usd to be manager at Gucci in Selfriges [...] If you have the motivation [...] But, like, if that, like [...] I wouldn't mind it but you would get bored after a while [...] Why did the worst girl get it? [...] I like the blonde one [...]"
Friend I am staying with:
"I think music - ok I'll give you a quote - most people say that language of music is defined by the composer, but I think that music is about sound. If you want to give it musical names call it pitch, or scientific call it frequency, [...] rhythm [...] duration. Therefore there is a common ground between all composers because all music is about those things."
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