The London Experience

Jetting off to London will be well worth the trip in every way and especially if you’re looking to develop your professional organizational skills attitude and confidence. It will help you a great deal to communicate with others at work and would be an excellent way for you to improve your English Language skills. Hence, this will open up massive opportunities to work in European countries including England, America and Australia. We interviewed a total of six Indian Torux Software Pvt Ltd employees who visited London. Jasvinder Sing Bhatia, a business analyst for Torux Software, expressed that, “from a professional point of view, I feel that I have improved the quickness in response and professionalism at work. From a personal point of view, I feel I can co-operate better with American and Europeans now than before.” Every person employed by the company generally found that they had acquired similar benefits whilst working in London. Vaibhav Arti a project manager/business analyst, found that in London, “people are more professional at the work place, they know their job properly and try to be in Business all the time. People are punctual. They communicate in a very specific and professional way.” All Torux Software employees had a good experience mixing with locals and working with others in London, and found people to be friendly and helpful. They also discovered many entertainment/tourist places and things to do when out and about in London.

The top 5 things the Torux Software employees from India liked the most about London were:

• The multi-cultural nature of the city

• The opportunity to improve on professionalism at work and general environment within the workplace

• The various festivities and lively atmosphere of London

• Helpful nature of people who reside in the country’s capital

• Having a great opportunity to learn about other cultures and historical features of the city

The top 5 things they did not like about London:

• Relationships between employees and companies

• The  stress and fast-paced life in the city

• The long work hours particularly on the weekends and the pressure of work

• The difficulty in adapting to the London culture and lifestyle

• Difficulty in purchasing due to high costs

Some recommendations made by the Torux Software Indian employees, before coming to London:

• You should take your own from India, if you’re a vegetarian

• Take enough adequate warm clothing and medicine in advance

• Familiarize yourself with the maps prior to travelling in order to get to your residence in London and workplace location.

• Bring enough money taking into account the higher costs and standard of living in London, and for visiting the various tourist sites of the city.

Some Indian Torux employees felt a bit estranged as part of their experience of staying in London. “Living alone is difficult in a new place”, one of them told us. To help alleviate this problem, there are various ways to feel more at home in London. London is a very multi-cultural city in itself, so there are many Indian/Asian social and networking events and festivities frequently taking place in the country’s capital.
E.g. there are many Melas, like the East London Mela which takes place every summer in various areas around London. Tickets are very cheap for both adults and children. It offers various forms of activities and entertainment for the whole family. For a list of all the festivals taking place in London and around the UK, you can visit this website:
http://www.melafestival.com/whatson/ukmelas.php
 
Additionally, for all the latest Asian movies, festivities and events occurring in London, you can check out the following website:
http://www.indianevents.co.uk/Entertainment/EventsList.asp?EventTypeID=5

        If you’re a post-grad university student, there are many interesting social clubs and societies that you can get involved with such as the Asian society, various sports societies or whatever suits your preferences. As London is one of the most multi-cultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world, there are Asians everywhere you go, usually where you work, where you study etc. Asian culture is particularly dominant in certain areas of London including Southall and Green street. Another name for Southall is ‘little India’. Here you will experience the colourful and lively surroundings of the Brit-Asian culture, with all the busy roads, and loud music pumping out from many cars and nearly every single stall on the Broadway. You will be able to smell the thick sweet scent of Jalebee’s in the air from Jalebee central in Southall, which are freshly made on the streets just as they are in India. You would see all the Asian girls cheerfully coming out of one Indian clothes boutique to another.
London is an excellent place to explore and learn about new cultures. For example, on Edgware road, where there is a large population of Arabs, you would find a wide array of the exotic Arabic and Turkish restaurants.
        There are numerous tourist sites in London, including various museums that contain many interesting exhibits from all over the world (e.g. the British Museum). If you’re more of the daring type and want to discover the adventurous things that London has to offer, then the super thrills and excitement of roller-coaster rides in theme parks like ‘Chessington’ are made for you!
        Shopping would definitely be one of the things on a girl’s agenda, and there is surely no limitation in variety here. In fact it would be any shopaholic’s dream to visit places like Oxford Street (one of the busiest shopping streets in the whole of Europe), where shoppers come to from all over the globe.
        There are many cheap hotel rooms to rent at reasonable, discounted prices and rooms that people would like to share in their flat or house. Check the following websites:

http://www.intolondon.com/

http://www.holidaycity.com/londonhotels/

        There is so much else to be experienced in London, all of which cannot be put into the space of one article. It is highly likely that your London experience will have a very impressionable impact on you and encourage you to come over again and visit many times more!

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