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 :)
thank you family...
ps: tonight another night bus... to portugal!
martes, 5 de agosto de 2008
jueves, 31 de julio de 2008
miércoles, 30 de julio de 2008
feeling again as leaving 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... :)
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... :)
martes, 1 de julio de 2008
vi ses!
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.
it has just started...
ps: i love you people :)
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.
it has just started...
ps: i love you people :)
martes, 24 de junio de 2008
family visit, and family here...
continuing from tuesday 13th may...
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...
mariefred
strängnäs
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...
mariefred
strängnäs
sábado, 24 de mayo de 2008
good... night?
finally, we reached the point where there is no night at all, not complete at least. it always remains a little bit of light... so we'll see how this looks like in the middle of june!
miércoles, 21 de mayo de 2008
next week!
all monday (5th) working, but for a "just a second" (but not really :P) visit. and at night i just felt like watching an o.c... it wasn't the same without andrea, but gerard came to watch it with me, and also igor and victor came for a while...
and in the last minute, as usual, i prepared my next day's presentation. i re-used another project from two years ago, so i got "a lot of work" in quite little time :D
so i still had time to go to play and try these action and reaction laws, and laugh a bit myself, why not, ahah.
and tuesday morning i just had to prepare everything for the evening and then leave to the presentation. the critics were just as expected, and the relation between time-spent and critic-received couldn't have been better, so, happy!
back home, and... let's say 19.30? ok, but to go where? who knows... ah, yes, here it is, the sunset! [happy -late- birthday!] always so nice in södermalm... so get a beer and enjoy =) (but watch out, they grow, ahah)
and back in sundby a visit to victor, but not much more to do, so i made a cake for myself (at 12!) and happily waited in my chill-out corner, with my cake and my series!
on wednesday i spent all day finishing my swedish essays, i sent 5 of them together to my teacher that evening! so nothing but a just a second visit until night, that we organised a dinner at home because lukas returned from germany that day :)
we arranged an intensive studying day, from 9, with gerard, and later alberto joined as well (after singing stupid movie songs for a while, ahah). i then went to kind of say goodbye, before 5, and more swedish until night.
we went to uli's for a pre-party, and then left to kth to the quarnevalen's tent. it wasn't so good, so we moved to cafe bojan. and everything perfect until we came home, that it was as if i had suddently realised or assimilated that andrea was not at home, and i felt i couldn't sleep there... but luckily there are always friends here to help, no matter how late it is, thank you... :)
and friday again studying all day! most day with gerard, and victor coming from time to time, or else talking on messenger about how "amazing" it was that gerard and me logged in always at the same time, or showing us facts such as this (of course the answer by then was yes) :P
it was a nice day, though! even when everyone went to sleep i still stayed until... who knows, but i was on a nice mood!
so saturday (10th) to the swedish exam without sleeping almost anything, but fine. and the exam went quite better than expected! let's wait for the results...
after that i went walking in stockholm looking for some stuff, and making time until i met the others to go to the quarnevalen parade. so funny! we were first laying in a park, enjoying the sun (it was so hot that day!) and then the parade passed by... all the floats were so geek! we laughed a lot, i'll try to get the pictures soon to show... [here is the link to lukas's pictures of the quarnevalen]
many people stayed a bit longer when it finished, but i needed to go back home to try to sleep at least one hour, because at night at my place we had a... superheroes party!
it was just great, so many people desguised, and so funny! and the party itself was 516 style... until security came for second time and told us to leave (and got fined afterwards, 850 kr, no less! not fair, not fair...). and quite a confusing night in many other senses, but always with a good feeling... strange.
and btw, i was sailormoon =)
on sunday we went to stavsnäs by, in the archipielago, to have a barbacue. nice trip there, a place on the top of the rocks, a woman shouting because of the fire, some sausages... but jana and me didn't stay so long. i still had to come to clean all the mess of the party...
but later we went to uli's to see the sunset and play twister, and at night a film in jana's :)
monday (12th) was the unluckiest day in the year, everything went wrong! first kth's mail about being fined, then helsinki tickets sold out, i finally bought my flight back to spain... i decided to go to the laserwar, and unlucky even then, my gun was broken! but at least i found a nice poster [have you smiled at a stranger today? happypill] :P
at night we were playing cards at uli's, and said goodbye to alex (uli's friend, nice guy!). and then, back in my flat, a late conversation made everything look better, seeing at least that this "missing" feeling was not so stupid as i thought... [oh, and the new white t-shirt...! :D]
and on tuesday i just had time to finish tidying before going to pick my parents! family life for a week...
and in the last minute, as usual, i prepared my next day's presentation. i re-used another project from two years ago, so i got "a lot of work" in quite little time :D
so i still had time to go to play and try these action and reaction laws, and laugh a bit myself, why not, ahah.
and tuesday morning i just had to prepare everything for the evening and then leave to the presentation. the critics were just as expected, and the relation between time-spent and critic-received couldn't have been better, so, happy!
back home, and... let's say 19.30? ok, but to go where? who knows... ah, yes, here it is, the sunset! [happy -late- birthday!] always so nice in södermalm... so get a beer and enjoy =) (but watch out, they grow, ahah)
and back in sundby a visit to victor, but not much more to do, so i made a cake for myself (at 12!) and happily waited in my chill-out corner, with my cake and my series!
on wednesday i spent all day finishing my swedish essays, i sent 5 of them together to my teacher that evening! so nothing but a just a second visit until night, that we organised a dinner at home because lukas returned from germany that day :)
we arranged an intensive studying day, from 9, with gerard, and later alberto joined as well (after singing stupid movie songs for a while, ahah). i then went to kind of say goodbye, before 5, and more swedish until night.
we went to uli's for a pre-party, and then left to kth to the quarnevalen's tent. it wasn't so good, so we moved to cafe bojan. and everything perfect until we came home, that it was as if i had suddently realised or assimilated that andrea was not at home, and i felt i couldn't sleep there... but luckily there are always friends here to help, no matter how late it is, thank you... :)
and friday again studying all day! most day with gerard, and victor coming from time to time, or else talking on messenger about how "amazing" it was that gerard and me logged in always at the same time, or showing us facts such as this (of course the answer by then was yes) :P
it was a nice day, though! even when everyone went to sleep i still stayed until... who knows, but i was on a nice mood!
so saturday (10th) to the swedish exam without sleeping almost anything, but fine. and the exam went quite better than expected! let's wait for the results...
after that i went walking in stockholm looking for some stuff, and making time until i met the others to go to the quarnevalen parade. so funny! we were first laying in a park, enjoying the sun (it was so hot that day!) and then the parade passed by... all the floats were so geek! we laughed a lot, i'll try to get the pictures soon to show... [here is the link to lukas's pictures of the quarnevalen]
many people stayed a bit longer when it finished, but i needed to go back home to try to sleep at least one hour, because at night at my place we had a... superheroes party!
it was just great, so many people desguised, and so funny! and the party itself was 516 style... until security came for second time and told us to leave (and got fined afterwards, 850 kr, no less! not fair, not fair...). and quite a confusing night in many other senses, but always with a good feeling... strange.
and btw, i was sailormoon =)
on sunday we went to stavsnäs by, in the archipielago, to have a barbacue. nice trip there, a place on the top of the rocks, a woman shouting because of the fire, some sausages... but jana and me didn't stay so long. i still had to come to clean all the mess of the party...
but later we went to uli's to see the sunset and play twister, and at night a film in jana's :)
monday (12th) was the unluckiest day in the year, everything went wrong! first kth's mail about being fined, then helsinki tickets sold out, i finally bought my flight back to spain... i decided to go to the laserwar, and unlucky even then, my gun was broken! but at least i found a nice poster [have you smiled at a stranger today? happypill] :P
at night we were playing cards at uli's, and said goodbye to alex (uli's friend, nice guy!). and then, back in my flat, a late conversation made everything look better, seeing at least that this "missing" feeling was not so stupid as i thought... [oh, and the new white t-shirt...! :D]
and on tuesday i just had time to finish tidying before going to pick my parents! family life for a week...
martes, 20 de mayo de 2008
tallin 12-14 april
ok people, here you are, pictures... :)
(i do what i can, i have almost no pictures yet!)
arrival and the boat
student meeting
"playing tetris" in the cabin (and we made it even more difficult! :P)
rainy tallin...
entrance to the old town
our group!
old town...
old town...
main square
city hall
old town...
old town...
¿?
old town...
the cake! i mean, the church...
tallin :)
old town...
the nice cosy restaurant :)
(i do what i can, i have almost no pictures yet!)
arrival and the boat
student meeting
"playing tetris" in the cabin (and we made it even more difficult! :P)
rainy tallin...
entrance to the old town
our group!
old town...
old town...
main square
city hall
old town...
old town...
¿?
old town...
the cake! i mean, the church...
tallin :)
old town...
the nice cosy restaurant :)
lunes, 19 de mayo de 2008
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...
...
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.....
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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.....
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