Dont U read Newspaper?

Today is a rainy day, i finally went to nottinghill market. It is a quite nice peace and busy town. All buildings are so different as i saw before. They looks very cute and a kind of countryside style. But it is sunday, most of shops are closed and i only entred some clothes shops and british souvenir shops.

Once i looked around in front of one souvenir shop, the saler said,"arigatou"(thank you in japanese ). I said:"No, im not from Japan." then he said thank you again but in korean, i smilled to him and said:"ah, im not from korean neither, i am from  CHINA."

The saler quicklly said thankyou in Chinese, and turned around his head to speak to another customer in a kind of strange language for me, maybe european language.
That lady also expressed a kind of odd and stared at the saler.

The saler finally used English to say, "China is your friend! You are Greece, she is from China!" I became much incomprehensio as the lady.

"China gave Greece a lot of money! She is your friend!"

I finally understand what his mean, and just smiled at him. But the lady still did not understand what he talked about.

The saler spoke to the lady in a quite loud voice,"don't you read newspaper?"

This sentence shocks my heart, at least make me feel very shame. I read that news from BBC online, but i dont read newspaper at all.

I am a journalist student, a master student, but compare to the saler i feel very shame. Also newspaper is such a huge market in Britain which i did not know before i came here.

In China, we read newspaper but not caring about international news. Or it should be said that our newspaper does not write much about international stories. We read them almost from online and TV if the story is a big news.

To be honest,  i dislike reading newspaper. Not because i hate it, but i do not have the hobby to read words, i only like watching Tv or looking some pictures. I should change my mind, if i really want to be a journalist. But in fact, i am not willing to become a journalist, so why i am here? I feel so missing.

Air France Strike on Halloween Day

Workers at Airfrance strike since 29th due to dissatisfied with employment conditions. On 29th, 20% flights of domestic lines were canceled at Paris-Charles de Gaulle.

Airfrance workers chose Halloween day as their protest's  start. Since 29th october,  a five days strike is going on at Paris Airport. Airfrance states that it will be over at 2th November, and everything goes well from 2th November.

The most influenced airlines are domestic and short distance lines, Airfrance takes messures on only keeping flights which passengers are over 100 to take-off, other passengers need to be changed to other flights.

Airfrance informs all passengers who are planing to take flight during 29th to 2th should change the departure date to after the 2th. Passengers who have already bought tickets, airfrance will free to change flight date or cancel.

Government minister Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet says,"Air France is in a delicate position,"since she need get a plance to go Israel for a business trip.

November is the begining of holiday, also it is the traditional period for airplane's workers to fight for asking a better life. But for passengers, it brings troubles as well. Although airfrance states that they promise most lines will keep in normal, there are still 200 flights were canceled on 29th October base on the date from airfrance. Specila the long distance, such as new york,Miami,tokyo etc all could not take-off during these days.

Another major world airline, Australia's Qantas Airways also strike on these days which led to cancellation of 447 flights on this weekend. The protest in France will cause cancellation of 400 flights at the same period.

horror on the harrow

Harrow Times reported that a man dropped from the 4th floor balcony at the shopping centre of harrow on Tuesday afternoon.

This man around 30s, suddenly fell over the railings at St. George's Shopping Centre and was airlifted to the Royal London Hospital. He is life-threatening injuries and still remaining a critical condition at the hospital.

He landed on the floor near the escalators at the mall, in the St. Ann’s Road, traders and shoppers who are in front of him rushed to help him.

One shopkeeper said, “there was no sound before he fell; no sounds of fighting or shouting”. Other traders also spoke that they did not hear any sound before he fell to the ground.

The centre management cleared the mall and closed the door while the man was treated. But return to business on Wednesday.

“Nobody on the up before the man fell down”, although some witness speculated that it followed an altercation on the fourth floor. But police dismiss this, saying it is an incident but not being treat as suspicious.

A wave of American Football arrived in London.

On last Saturday, National Football League Fans Rally was held at Trafalgar Square. Almost thousands of people gathered at here. As well Head coach and members from Tampa bay buccaneers and Chicago Bear gave a short interview for their fans.

Fans from Europe and America enjoyed the American Football event at London. Music, dance and performance from fans are filled with American style. “It makes me feel like at Florida, although the weather is not nice as Tampa”, an American fan said.

Soccer is the most popular sport in England, how American Football could against with it which is hard to answer, some fans said that if you want to feel the real American football, of course you should go to America.

“But NFL is trying to open European market, British have the best place, wembley stadium to host it and American fans are also easy to come here for travelling and seeing the match.”

On the square, a lot of families wear their favorite team’s uniform that drink beer and chat with other fans. Host also runs some interactive game that let people who are interested in American football to play. American football knowledge is being taught through playing those games.

Yet not everyone is coming for sport, some people expressed that they were coming for the show of cheerleaders. And some people just want to enjoy the event.

The security system of NFL Fans Rally is quite strict, everyone needs to check before entre the square, which also cause complain from fans. “We are coming here for celebrating our favorite sport but we have to queue quite a long time to entre.” It also makes people to think about London Olympic game, if the security system is better than it; nobody needs to worry at all.

Japanese Journalist Died in Lybia

On the day of world people pay attention on the death of Gaddafi, in Libya Japanese Journalist died the same day on the way of attending the ‘died of Gaddafi’s press conference.

On 21th October, one group Japanese Journalist was going to the conference of Gaddafi’s death, and suffered traffic accident. 3 died and one young camera man injured and was sent to local hospital.

Four people are working for ASAHI TV station, on 20^th they received the information of Gaddafi died and back from Egypt to Libya for searching the news. On the day of 21th, they were going to Sirte, after contacted with ASAHI TV in Japan to report the news, and then they suffered traffic accident.

One died journalist named YOSHIHISA NOMURA (37) is the deputy director in Cairo, another female Egyptian named MISA SHAMA (31) who is the assistance of NOMURA, and one local driver. The survivor camera man named DAISUKE RIKISHII (23) injured on his right foot.  

ASAHI TV Station convened press conference on 22th, “RIKISHII could not remember what happened during the accident, once he woke up, and he has already in the hospital”.

Reason of the accident is not clear yet, spokesmen said, the camera man lost memory of accident and he also got the news that 3 teamwork members were died from hospital’s doctor.