012 Some People Look At The Stars, I Just Walk Around Piccadilly With The Tourists - AJ CULLEN talks about The London Pull

AMANDA (known as AJ) CULLEN is from a small town near Buffalo, USA. While studying in Edinburgh, she fell in love with an Englishman. Four years of visa restrictions and complications, she is now living, working and married in London. This is a story of a small town millennial girl leaving that world behind her, travelling to the East and China, finding happiness and a whole load of new challenges that come along with living far from family including dealing with bereavement from a distance. But she believes “growth comes from movement” and walking around Piccadilly in London amongst a swarm of people she realises that her problems are “just like a little tiny thing, in the big sea of humanity.”

 

THIS IS AJ’s UNIQUE STORY ABOUT LONDON, THE WORLD AND LIFE.

 

I really enjoy walking around Piccadilly and China Town.

Just that feeling like you’re a small portion of humanity,

It’s just very appealing to me,

You feel very small, in a swarm of people,

I’ve got my headphones in,

And I kind of know where everything is now,

I live here, and maybe none of these people suspect it,

I’m actually kind of a Londoner,

And there’s a part of it that makes you feel very small

And a part of it that makes you feel quite big in yourself.

My problems are just like a little tiny thing, in the big sea of humanity.

Some people look at the stars,

I just walk around Piccadilly with the tourists!

 

AJ’s  CONTACT DETAILS...

AJ helps facilitate the Waterloo Philosophy Café, details can be found here: https://www.meetup.com/Waterloo-Philosophy-Cafe/

 

ABOUT THE PODCAST...

 

Information on Travelling Through… with Emma can be found at: https://www.travellingthrough.co.uk/

 

The Travelling Through Jingle was written and produced by Mariska Martina https://www.mariskamartina.com/

 

Show notes 012 AMANDA J CULLEN Show Notes can be found at this link https://travellingthrough.podbean.com

 

Thanks to AJ for the cuppa tea and for hosting this podcast recording on 08.03.2020.