En Zimbabwe, Africa, se encuentran las magníficas cataratas Victoria a una altura de 128m. El lugar es conocido como 'La Piscina del Demonio'. Durante los meses de Septiembre y Diciembre, la gente puede nadar lo más cerca posible del final de la catarata sin caerse!!!! Estas cataratas son cada vez más conocidas en la industria del 'turismo radical' ya que cada vez más y más gente anda buscando experiencias límite. Te atreverías???
sorry for not posting lately, but i've had absolutely no time... :( i promise to update soon, i expect (hope!) to have a bit of time for myself next week.
but right now i was just remembering good times from this summer, listening to the chemical brothers' new album... i saw them live this summer at sudoeste festival, and if you haven't seen them it's definitely a must. the music, the images, the effects... you're taken completely to an unreal world. or to your own bubble, as you want to take it! and this album it's like being back there...
i was looking for some video, but i can't find any that really shows what it was so... ill leave this song, that was my happiest moment in my bubble :P and it was followed by "believe", that was the most impressive one, on effects i mean, so for me the best part of the concert! though it was perfect from beggining to end.
well... except for one thing :(
lunes, 22 de septiembre de 2008
today must be architecture student's day... good news and surprises for 2 of my friends :) one can finally go for his final project, and the other got accepted in the ETSAM (though i'm not sure if that's really good news... ahah, joking) so congratulations to both of you!!!
and the rest of my architecture friends there we go, some of them already with the final project, others a bit slower but doing fine... and little by little we're making it, we can actually see the end, impossible as it seemed!
When you try your best but you don't succeed When you get what you want but not what you need When you feel so tired but you can't sleep Stuck in reverse.
And the tears come streaming down your face When you lose something you can't replace When you love someone but it goes to waste Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you
And high up above or down below When you're too in love to let it go But if you never try you'll never know "Just what your worth"
Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you
Tears stream, down on your face When you lose something you cannot replace Tears stream down your face and I...
Tears stream, down on your face I promise you I will learn from my mistakes Tears stream down your face and I...
Lights will guide you home And ignite your bones And I will try to fix you.
i know i have to write things since almost 2 months ago, but last month in stockholm i was always busy, and first month here even more... and this one starting, just crazy!
but now i just want to talk about this weekend...
i started the month, day 1, getting a night bus to barcelona. i arrived at 7, and got a train to segur de calafell, where gerard has a summer house just in front of the beach :D
so i arrived quite early, we helped with some things for the lunch and went (igor, gerard and me) to the beach for a couple of hours. we went up again just before maite, diego and lukas arrived, and then laia a bit later. and we had luch all together, that gerard's parents prepared an amazing paella, and home made icecream, and sangria... we ate so much and so well! and so nice all together again... and then all to the beach!
but not too long because we had to go to vilafranca (laia's town), to see her doing castells! we were lucky that they did it precisely that day, it was incredible to see it there. nothing to do with seeing pictures or a video, i was really impressed...
after that a beer in one place, dinner in another, and then we went to sitges for a walk, a beautiful town quite close, and then to vilanova, another village nearby.
*fotos* (i will put them when i get them!)
btw, i stayed these days in laia's place. so the next day we woke up later than the boys, as usual :P and we catched them already in barcelona. we were sightseeing all day, a really intensive tour!
*fotos*
we were really exhausted at the end of the day, so we decided to go home. but when laia and me arrived to vilafranca we changed our mind and went to have dinner to a very nice place, just the two of us =)
and on monday she had to work, so the guys came to pick me in the morning, and we went to montserrat. and we tried coca! :P
then we went to llinars del valles, to visit andrea, that is working there in a summer camp now. we could only be one hour, but i was so happy to see her at least a bit! :D
we had lunch in granollers, and back to barcelona, to visit the forum and to the centre.
*fotos*
and at 9 we met everyone (all the ones we were on saturday and also belen and david this time!) to have dinner. nice place, nice people, nice dinner :D
and another night bus back to madrid... i just arrived this morning!
short, but intense! it has been so nice to meet again and be together... i really felt exactly the same as in stockholm :)
strange, my last goodbyes were the 29th of june, and since then no more until the 29th of july, with again 2 really difficult ones. i'll miss you... so much :'(
but in 2 days i'll meet many other sundby people, and some others in one week, so it's to be happy too! kind of sweet and sour...
and below all of this there's the fact: we already are meeting around europe. so this definitely can work... :)
just a small post, it's not time for many words now...
i'm back, it's done, it's true, even if i still don't realise it, even if i can't believe it's possible that it's over... i still think i'll go back to my flat, to sundby, with my things, my people... my home, my family... this is just a holiday break, isn't it? it should be...
in fact it kind of is like that, now is the "meeting around europe" phase! or else? :)
so thanks to all for an unforgettable year. i learned a lot, changed a lot, enjoyed a lot... 11 months that seemed like 11 years, so many things happened! but passed by just as 11 days, so quick...
i hope each of you know how important you've been this time, and what you mean to me now...
and remember Sundby is not only a place, it’s a feeling, a way of living. and that hasn’t finished, of course not.
i picked up my parents and we came here to leave everything and have lunch. they stayed at home this time, so it was living in family again for a week... and i spent all the time i could with them, i was happy to have them here!
in the afternoon we went for a walk from fridhemsplan to södermalm, through gamla stan (the tiny statue!), and then just had dinner (typical swedish potato!) and back home. and i then went to igor's, that everyone was there...
on wednesday i woke up early to prepare a great great breakfast at home (i'm so good daughter! ahah. no, seriously, the builders nearby were making so much noise that was impossible to sleep anymore, so i made a good use of that time!). then we went to sigtuna, and then back in stockholm we went to östermalm's market and main campus.
and at night first i went to sidney's, because he called me to organise a goodbye party, and then we went to pedro's, that everyone else was there. i was so tired, but it was funny just because of that :P sidney always cold and with the blanket, like a granny, me pretending to be part of the furniture while gonçalo kept on throwing me the "ball" (paper star)... ahah
on thursday we first went to the tv tower, and then my parents went to växholm while i went to a goodbye meeting in KTH. the meeting was a good excuse to sleep a bit, and then they invited us to juice and princess cake, typical from sweden.
i then went with gonçalo and sidney to a festival, "new made sound", at kth musikhögskolan. it was nice, 3 small stages, with not known groups, but all different and interesting, i liked it... and then i went to pick my parents in södermalm (but going through kungstradgarden a bit, that there was a big concert) and took them to the viewpoint to see the sunset. we had dinner in a really nice swedish restaurant in medborgarplatsen and back to sundby, but in the tunnelbana station i said goodbye to them and hello to the sundby people, to go to cafe bojan!
fun as usual, i talked a lot with some people i hadn't seen for ages... :D but after a "complicated" week in many aspects, a conversation was inevitable and needed. in the bus back home things came about just as normal, and made complete sense later on... (and i stayed until so late, even if my parents were at home :$)
*btw, so many stories have occurred in cafe bojan's night bus! ahah.
so on friday (16th) i woke up early (so tired! in my sleepy bubble :P) to go with my parents to pick a car we rented for the weekend. they went to do the same trip we did in january, to dalarna, and i stayed to work a bit... in fact i just went straight to school.
*and that day the soundtrack came by silence 4: "today you may feel a little sleepy, maybe the morning is too soon..." =)
i came back home, and at night we went to have some drinks in uli's place, and then to medusa rock bar, finally! i liked the place, and the people! nice night... and then straight to sleep!!!
i managed to work a bit on saturday, and my parents arrived in the afternoon, earlier than planned. so the rest of the afternoon i was packing things for them to take back home, having dinner together... family stuff! :) but i missed diego's party because of my stupid mobile phone, again... :(
on monday morning we went for a walk in sundbyberg, so that they saw the lovely place where i live (ahah), and then i took them to the airport (we still had the car one day more!). the way back was great, loud music, driving as i wanted, so happy! and since i had the car all afternoon, i went to do my last "family shopping" in lidl with lukas...
and then, although it was just the afternoon and evening, it seemed a whole day, one of the most perfect ones in stockholm...
we first went to mariefred. by the time we arrived all the shops and cafes where already closed, so the town was kind of empty. but it was so nice to walk around, the castle with the nonsense windows, the tiny funny island, flowers, ducks, nice streets with cute colourful houses...
and then we went to strängnäs, quite near. it was also completely empty and everything closed, and although it's much bigger than mariefred it was also so nice! we visited the centre looking for the "most beautiful street of sweden" (according to some swedish poet), but we only found it when we where leaving! ahah. and we also had a perfect sunset there, beside the water, with the ducks playing to chase each other :P
and then a pizza in the only open place left, and delaying the moment to go back home we explored stockholm's "deep forest", going on a rally along narrow roads and paths, and seeing villages of no more than 10 houses... (btw, stora sundby is so ugly! :P) and a perfect view of the sky reflected over the water at dusk, with the stars starting to appear, and the smell of grass... that must be close to paradise, or at least i felt so...
