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čtvrtek 28. června 2007
Erasmus is over
"the last night, the last time, the last trip"
Erasmus is almost over, many goodbyes have been said, many tears and promises of meeting each other again. It is always sad, everyone knew that things would come to an end, and still its impossible not to be blown away by feelings of sadness, sorrow and already starting to miss things.
We all know that this is the last time we will ever experience anything like this, in this time of our life, and with such group of people.
This is what being an Erasmus is all about, we became something more than a family, we have been through many things in common, and shared many moments together in a country that was not our own, but that eventually became our "Erasmus home".
Even with good things and bad things everyone and everything will remain unforgettable because here our emotions are doubled and our memories will remain strong and will not fade.
Experiences were taken and lessons were learned.
If anyone wants to try Erasmus experience for good grades I don't think it is the best choice.
Erasmus is learning how to live and how to survive on your own, it is a journey that will take you to many places but mostly will make you grow, as a person, as an individual, as a friend, as a family member.
And another step of our life will be over, but with many experiences and open doors for us to take other steps.
"not goodbye as in forever, but goodbye for now, we will keep in touch and we will see each other again"
Břeclav, Vienna, Dresden, Wroclaw
Also I went to Germany, to Dresden, I will also re-edit this post with pictures and stuff.
pondělí 7. května 2007
Czech Flu
i cannot post anything with any sense because im delirious with this high temperature..heheh..so cool!
I'll get back to you as soon as I physically can
Ahoj!
pátek 27. dubna 2007
Big trippin'
Wow I haven’t posted for such a long time… (stupid internet… )
Well I decided to go to
Ok,
So we had a slight change of plans, instead of dorms we would look for information centre and ask for accommodation.
We returned back to the main train station and realized that information centre was right in front on the other side of the street.
Another important news: if you go to
Really important news: ask to see the place first!
What an oddity… the place is quite indescribable so the best way is to view it on www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkDle82xt24
Train Station
Cathedral
Church
Statue in Main Square
Temple in Greece... ok joking...still in Brno
Cow Girl
We tried to find out cool places to visit in
We somehow managed to be awake the whole night and fell asleep on the train. We only had to change train 3 times during the whole trip, so we could rest for a while. The trip was quite tiring and once we got to Karlovy Vary’s train station it felt that we were dropped in the middle of a field, we tried to ask for a map in information centre but all they gave us was a badly copied notebook sized map that didn’t even had the names of streets! So best next thing to do was get a taxi and go to the centre, not very expensive 100 Kcz. Luckily some friends had already been there and recommended and hotel in the centre that cost around 17 euro so we immediately got there to check in and sleep before sightseeing.
The city is really beautiful, one of the most beautiful cities I’ve seen since I’ve got here. From what I have understood after (or DURING) the communistic regime the Russians bought the old buildings from this city and betted on tourism by refurbishing them and turning them into shops and hotels, and that’s the main reason why all the buildings in the city seem very fresh and detailed. I also believe that leaving
Train Station
Giant Absynth Bottle
Riverside
Garden pound
The mythical .... Japanese garden...
Next weekend we visited Zlin and
Zlin is a very small city in the south Moravian province that we happened to visit just because in Easter weekend there is nothing to do anywhere and we booked some laser game play for the Saturday afternoon. It was quite fun but very exhausting, and then on the next day at night we went to some bowling alley in the centre and played for a while. During that night we sat for a while to decide where to go next day and the best choice was
(imitating the friendly creature at the end of the pole)
The rest of the journey to Breclav and Wien on the next weekend I will post up anytime soon, because now that I have managed a wireless connection from the window of my room I can post more times! YAY!!! (Yes, I know it’s ridiculous -_- )
(To everyone that managed to go to SWR Fest back in
(To everyone that is back at the island : i miss you... but not enough to make me go back into that hole!!! :P )
(To everyone who is reading this: are you that bored??)
pondělí 26. března 2007
FF /KAA Studijní agenda UPa
Also went to supermarket and spent 1000 czk on random stuff...woho..!
The most different experience was to eat a meal prepared by a czech - ill take some more time to describe it...ill get on this topic on my next post
But today is a great day to be outside but i have nothing to do im just siting at the computer trying to get into local czech university website......grrrrrrrrrr, emailing teachers etc.
The boys will return from Prague sometime today, i could probably meet them at the hlávni nadraži and go for a walk in the centre...still i dont know...
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středa 21. března 2007
When boredom starts to kick in
Ok, weekend in
I hope I will come back to
Also the train trip was quite exhausting, I was hoping that I could have taken some rest during the trip which was suppose to take 5h30m from Pardubice to Wroclaw but it ended up to be 7h due to strange delays and also crossing the border, and I had no chance to rest because many unexpected things would turn out to happen. Also during the trip I ended up tagging along with 3 Spanish Erasmus students in
The city is very beautiful and the food and nightlife are so nice. Too bad I cannot remember the names of the pubs, only Spiz and Intro, but there was that one under the synagogue and the other one that means “heaven” in Polish. One of the high moments was when Paulo let a glass fall on the floor and the barmaid handed him over the broom to clean up…eheheh. What nice customer service! Also the xenophobic moment with Claudia and a Polish guy in a pub that called her “black woman”.
It was also nice to meet Claudia’s Erasmus Portuguese friends Filipa and André, some interesting conversations would come about and it’s always nice to have some group discussions in Portuguese when things get carried away.
The second day was just to wake up late and still have the taste of that awful Kebab that we had at 6 in the morning, we just rushed to get lunch with Maja and Tomec at Kurna Chata and take them to the station to say goodbye. Then after waiting an hour to buy my return ticket to
The return trip was right on schedule, unfortunately I couldn’t rest much because someone would always come to ask me to put my feet down, or see the ticket, or ask for ID.
When I finally got to
This week was quite a dull one; things are starting to be boring, same places, and same routines. Dydy Baba is becoming a heathen place, but still is the best we can get to relax and distract ourselves without having to walk to the centre. But trips to the Gas Station are becoming strange and funny experiences during the night. Hehe.
I could mention classes, but that’s not a nice subject to talk about while making an Erasmus journal, unless I talk about Czech private lessons…ehehe. But that is something I will reveal with time.
This weekend everyone is travelling out, but I will stay at
André and Pablo went to Pilsen and tomorrow are going to Kralovy Váry, and Rita, Roberto, Sara and Sofia are meeting them there.
The Italians I don’t know where they at, since Stefano lost his mobile I haven’t been able to track them around but I always meet them during night outs and I’m also a bit uncomfortable to call Vera because I don’t want to interrupt anything.
Now I just realized that Romana, Czech girl, has disappeared, I hope everything is alright with her, I haven’t seen her for exactly a week!
Yesterday we celebrated our 1st month here in
So I will just stay home this weekend to save money, try resting a bit and hope that time will not pass by so quickly.
Weekend at home was quite magical, I had time to myself and to do whatever I wanted without having to spend too much, it was pretty much perfect. Lazing and sleeping all day and then with so much time to spend it was pretty nice preparing good and tasty meals at home.
Also the company was perfect.
Then the week began, nothing to do for a change, people have started to get bored of doing nothing so planning weekends are the weeks main concerns.
The choices are going to
What to do?
sobota 3. března 2007
Greek Flu vs Czech night out
So many days since the last time I wrote, so many things have happened.
It all started when my flight from Funchal to
After running from the bus with my entire luggage I ended up reaching the right terminal and right check in desk, but it was already too late.
Still, with short breath, I tried getting another flight to
After thinking for a few seconds that I would have to spend the entire night in Heathrow Terminal 1, waiting for an early flight, and feeling extremely tired from all the running around and getting lost in the airport. Me, and my friends, got booked in a nearby Hotel (Renaissance) with transportation, dinner and breakfast.
Staying at the hotel ended up being the best part of the day, we managed to get a good rest and decent meals. After a very hot shower and several dishes of every food we could see, we went out for a walk and see the vicinity, it was quite pleasant even with the wind and cold. After that we went to the lounge and got ourselves a pint of beer which was followed by a good sleep. Although waking up at 5h30 to go stuff our faces with jam covered croissants and cakes isn’t seen as a normal thing by the local people.
After some incidents on the
To get from
Carrying luggage across
When we got ourselves to
Alena met us at the train station and showed us the way to the University by bus, after helping us to check in on the reception desks at our dormitories she guided us through the campus.
After leaving everything at “home” we went out to get food and ended up having dinner at 6pm, a large pizza and half litre Czech beer (Pilsner Urquel) then we met the other Portuguese ERASMUS that had arrive, Roberto and Rita and also Brazilian exchange student and Peruan regular student, André and Carlos. We went out for a walk to the centre and visit local hang out clubs like Hanybany and …
The next weekend the dormitories were going to close the water and cut of the power for maintenance, so we decided to visit
After that night we got more familiar with the Greeks and ended up hanging out either at my room or at
Then this weekend, everyone was supposed to be going to a ski post but this year the winter was shorter and there is no snow, some of the Portuguese and Greeks went to
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