the first countdown

the last time i wrote i said "the last normal days", because since andrea said she was leaving there was a feeling of countdown all around. and that was just the first one, because just after that it seems that everyone started to realise this is eventually coming to an end, so i think this feeling is going to remain here all the time left...

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on wednesday (23rd) it was st. jordi, a very important day in catalunya, with a tradition of giving a rose to girls and a book to boys. so gerard (he was in barcelona) told igor to get some roses for the girls, and he came to our flat with 3 roses (for maite, andrea and me) and a paper that read "estoy espiritu de gerard y yo traigo flores para vos" :P
oh, and were really beautiful roses...

i had swedish class in the afternoon, and after that we went to jordi's place to greet him, and then some o.c. with andrea :)

on thursday (24th) we organised a big family dinner in our place, and almost everyone came, it was so nice! and afterwards we went to cafe bojan, always fun! again half sundbyberg was there, we went the ones from the dinner on our own, but the others arrived just as the same time. and also the lappis people from the gipsy wedding were there! (they celebrated a gipsy wedding from wednesday to saturday, and went desguised to these parties and so... :P) btw, it was funny to establish a protocol that after that wasn't used even once!

so on friday i didn't go to class, i just joined the others there to have lunch together! (the last time...) and in the afternoon instead of staying there we decided to go to kungstradgarden to have an icecream lying on the grass, with the sun... :D it seems like swedish people don't go to work with nice weather, or something like that, because since those good days started the city is so full of people everywhere!

so after some coincidences there and a short walk to skeppsholmen, we came back to sundbyberg to prepare something for the international dinner we had in the terrace... not like the first one of course, but quite a lot of people! and everything so tasty...
afterwards we were supposed to go to a party in dkv, but we decided to stay "the family" in our place, playing uno, mafia, burro... and it was a great decision, we had such a good time!

the most interesting thing we did on saturday morning was make jokes about ogame, both andrea and me... :P

*we are 11 of us now playing, in an alliance (sundby), and it's worth since the two days we spent looking for funny names for all, and then everyday we have something to say/joke about it...

so, on saturday afternoon we made up a plan ("out of the blue", eh andrea? ahah) we went to the city (though i went a bit later, but for good reasons!), a coffee in a terrace, a walk to gamla stan, meeting sundby people at every step! back to södermalm, nice views, nice weather, dinner in cafe art, t-centralen... and when they went back to sundby i stayed because the portuguese and other sundby people were coming to go to some club. we didn't enter any club finally, but we tried in several, just as the first days in august! :P but, as always (or that day even more), nice to walk in stockholm at night...
so we came back to sundby and went to julien's, an improvised party! some drinks, badly-rolled cigarettes in the terrace, trying "new trousers", pedro in a fancy skirt :P, a bit of robbie williams...

and the next day (27th) picnic/barbacue all day! we went to haninge, in the south of stockholm, to a very nice park with lakes, forest... so we ate there and played a lot of games, just like kids!
so we came back all sunburned, and tired, so the others didn't go to joao's birthday, but i did... (well, first a nice dinner and o.c. with andrea... =) those are the best moments!) we were in the terrace, not so long, but nice time! btw, funny to find out that portuguese happy birthday is the only one with a bit more lyrics than just one or two same sentences like in other languages!!!

the next days i had to study a bit, mainly during the day, but not much!

and on monday maurice came back to visit! :D:D:D so we all met in the terrace, and then went to play some games in victor's, again until so late! (all waiting with victor's and joao's friends that had to get the 3am bus)

and tuesday just swedish class (the last!) and a small dinner at home. we had to rest a bit for the next day...

valborg! (30th april) the biggest student party in sweden, just in two cities: lund and uppsala, and this second one happens to be less than one hour away from stockholm, so...

we went quite early (8:55 bus!) because at 10 started a race of self-made boats, so funny! and then we went to a big park with concerts. it was all full of people! and it was funny to see uppsala students bringing all their stuff there, even sofas! so well prepared... and everyone drinking so much, since early in the morning and the whole day...

we stayed in this park most part of the day, it was sunny, and really nice to be there all together. we were quite a big group, and all of us either with the sundby-shirt or a black one instead (it reminded me of cantalejo!) :D

some people left along the afternoon, but most of us stayed, and after the park we went to max to have dinner, in the centre, and then to a corridor party (to behave like teenagers, ahah).
we came back by train, just like half of stockholm students, i met a lot of known people there! and it was also a nice way back, with a nice and sweet nap...
there was an after-party when we arrived to sundby, but after 15 hours partying i needed to go straight to bed...

april didn't start so well, andrea finally started packing. and it was then when i definitely realised she was leaving, when taking away the [f***ing] flower... but we made a cute moment of it after all.
she then had to leave all afternoon, but at night we had dinner together, with o.c., just as so many other times but for the fact of knowing this was the last one...
and later we went to say happy birthday to alberto, but he wasn't there so we left the candles and a picture of us with the candles at his door, quite funny!

friday (2nd) turned out to be a long long day! we went out quite early to handle in some papers in SEB office, and then some shopping until it was time to go to the spanish embassy. we were invited there to have lunch: buffet, drinks... nice :)

and then we came back to prepare alberto's birthday, we organised an italian dinner for him! (btw, nice time preparing everything with andrea, maite and belen) but it was also constance's birthday, so we first went all to the terrace, had some drinks together, and then i took alberto home with a quite bad excuse while the others prepared everything for the dinner and then surprise him when we came back. and the french girls had also planned another dinner in constance's but they decided to join us in the terrace, so we were so many people!
we were there a couple of hours, and then some people had to go to study, and the rest we went to constance's flat to continue the party. i wasn't exactly in the mood at the beginning, but i pushed myself a bit (though i know that it doesn't usually work so well, but...). it was fun, anyway, and we have quite many silly pictures with wigs and cooking utensils :P

andrea woke me up on saturday because we had received a "formal invitation" to a lunch in victor's, hosted by himself and diego :D it was everything delicious, and so cosy! thank you guys!
then back home to continue packing (in 516 we have turned out to be experts in tetris, not only in fridges but also with luggage!), and at 5 i had a "hard time" trying to make andrea believe me when i said we had to leave... but we managed. running, but we arrived on time... maite, belen, neus, mar and jordi were waiting for us to go to the kungliga opera! we went to see the swan's lake, just amazing, breathtaking. and even just the building itself was worth going...

and back to sundby, where everyone was waiting in my room... a very big goodbye dinner, all the family there! it was really nice, every moment... the meatballs, the best tyresö brownie ever, sasha's dance with andrea, vodka shots to empty a whole bottle and andrea "fulfilling belen's wish" just the last day in stockholm, our moment in the room, party in my room (with saturday night and other usual 516 hits!), the big table breaking and us falling to the floor...

when everyone left i just stayed tidying, because 1 hour later andrea had to wake up. so she did, picked up everything while some people arrived to say goodbye, then everyone downstairs to the taxi, and that was it.....