Today is a really nice day. 6th of December is Saint Nicholas' Day, which is celebrated in Poland by giving small gifts to your friends and family, usually sweets and little souvenirs. To me this day has always been an official start of Christmas preparations!
Since the morning you can hear the Christmas songs on the radio and chocolate Santa Claus (saint Nicholas) are just everywhere!
Even though we are all old asses already, together with my university classmates we had decided to continue the school tradition for 6th of December.. Yes, we did the invisible friend! ^_^
For our professors to not feel left out and stuff - we gave them chocolate Santas *^^*
Here are the gifts I got this year:
- hello kitty mirror with small comb and gingerbread hand warmer at the university
- chocolates (there's been more but I left them in my secret sweets shelf xD )
- new publication about Barcelona that I've been waiting for!
I swear my dad has a talent to get new releases.. This book has been release yesterday and I've already had had it today at 7am.
It's kind of a tourism guide about Barcelona, but much more emotional. Includes anecdotes and own stories and experiences from many places, it's said to be written with a really nice language.. The author is a General Consul of Poland in Barcelona so surely he is a diligent person and knows the city well.. Can't wait to read it and walk the routes again when I visit barcelona in the end of the year!
I love reading alternative tourist guides and walk the routes seeing the places I know so well in a totally different logjt.. It's as if.. As if I were seeing all of those places for the first time. Reborn. New. Fresh. Same, but so different.
Last weeks were just too busy and crazy to be real.. On Friday 28th of October I went to Warsaw and, after some adventures, such as evacuation of the airport xD, I flew to Barcelona to see my boyfriend and my lovers - JYJ. The weekend was sooo wicked, with meeting friends, going to the concert, meeting friends, all the time wit my boyfriend.. came back on Tuesday night, had 2 days of classes on Thursday and Friday and Friday after class I caught a train and went with my friends to Berlin. Another frends, another parties, and another JYJ concert! Came back yesterday morning and went directly to the class from the train station ^^;
I will prepare a post about the Berlin trip soon, right now I want to show off my cute Halloween Zombie Li to you!
For the Halloween I went with my friends first to the before party at my friends' flat, where we did your make up, and then we went to the Elephant Club Barcelona. Following pictures are form Elephant club webiste!
I'm off to study kanji now, will do another update about Berlin and concerts soon :)
I *NEED* to get myself back to blogging! Last weeks I spent in Barcelona were extremly busy, spending time with my friends, partying, shopping, just hanging out, eating. With my boyfriend, enjoying every second we still had together before the separation. At my workplace, where everything got busy and complicated after the manager left - and I didn't even get my vacation.. I was meant to go for a weekend to Andorra with my boyfriend but in the end I was working till the day I left Catalunya..
When I got back to Poland I had to visit every single member of my family, get my insurance back, get my cellphone contract.. And a new cellphone!
Since few weeks I'm a happy owner of an iPhone 4! (and yes I know I got it right before the 4S got out, I don't really care honestly XD)
I got it in white :)
My straps - David Villa t-shirt / screen cleaner to show off my love for FC Barcelona; omamori which says "yume" that I got at Kinkakuji when I first went to Japan in 2008 to make me believe in my dreams and never give up on them, because this little thing is a proof of one of them coming true; and cute strap ice-cream to sweeten up my lonely life, hahaha.
Picture of my man on the bakcground of the phone, because I just miss him that much ^^;
My Korilakkuma cover! It's the cutest thing ever, haha, but I think I need to get new one in some time, because, as you might notice around the ears area - the drawign is coming off :( but well, can't expect too much from 2.5$ + free shipping cellphone case XD
I LOVE my iPhone for picture editing applications it has got! Well, I love it for many applications (Angry Birds FTW... Lol, but seriously I love Viber and WhatsApp only because of them I haven't gone bankrupt yet and I'm able to chat with my bf and my friends just as if I were with them!).
You take a picture and you can edit it directly on the phone then snap! Facebook. Hhahhah. I love the effects made by Chinese app called 美图秀秀 (Mei Tu Xiu Xiu). The effects are really cute :)
Here are some pictures edited with MTXX:
Looks good, doesn't it? ^^
Ok, what's more.. I guess even more important than my iPhone.. Haha..
I've officialy started the University!
I'm first year student of Japanese Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan..
I'm not sure yet if I'm happy about it or what. I used to REAAALLLYYY want to get into that major. I've been studying for my IB exams like crazy just to get into japanese studies. And then when I did.. Suddenly the satisfaction wasa gone. Like, so, yeah, this is it? No magical booom, no fireworks?..
So I left for a whole year to Barcelona to rethink my life and stuff like that and now I'm back in the sam point that before, because I couldn't find any other way to achieve what I want.
So far my classes are kinda boring and we have to work a lot (like 6 pages homeworks and shit). Hopefully it will just get better as our level advances :)
My study materials, haha..
Today I went with my mum to the countryside to close our summer house and walk around the forest with our dog for some time, getting fresh air and stuff. The weather was really nice today! It's been raining past few days but today it was sunny and just a bit cold.
Although basically I'm a city-lover, once in a while I like to escape away from the noise and pollution and relax closer to the nature. I've spent a lot of time in my childhood in that forest, so going back brings a lot of emotions :)
Talking about memories, I still have a lot of pictures from Barcelona that I will upload once in a while. The Barcelona period of my life is not over and will never be over.. Already making plans of getting me back to that city I love.
I just found today some pictures from a summer day in Barcelona when I went to La Maquinista with Amelia and my boyfriend.
I was tired and my hair was shit after work.. But it was still a very nice day!
First we stayed at UDON though to get some food!
I ate my favourtie Green Rolls, gyoza and edamame <3
Then we took the metro to get to La Maquinista and get into a shopping spree in Forever 21 <3
Please forgive my shoes but those were only flats I had and my feet rebelled against wearing heels after work..
Then we saw Farggi cafe with.. icecreams! God, they were sooo tempting we couldn't resist!
I got raspberry-mango sorbet and dulce de la leche :)
Then I left my boyfriend because I found the love of my life :D
We wanted to get married, but somehow it didn't work out.. I still regret it.
I hope this kinda long post makes up for my long abstence! I promise to post more now. ^^
Lately I've been partying a lot.. But usually I don't take my camara with me, because it's too huge and too expensive XD thus I have very little party pictures. But one day we went to Espit Chupitos! And it's so spectacular I had to carry that heavy brick with me, hahah.
Espir Chupito is probably one of my favourite bars in Barcelona - for how original it is! It's a shot bar, with every shot worth 2 euros, but the selection is.. Unlimited, I swear! At the entrance you have a whoooooooooooooole wall full of random words, that, in fact, are names of them shots :P Like Harry Potter, Monika Levinsky, Amor, Melon, Willy Wonka, Orgasm.. Whatever you want XD It's a good way to put yourself in a nice mood - not only because of the percentage but because of all the fun it comes with XD
Since we originally planned to go to more high-end club, I wore a dress..
.. and left my extensons at home, because they tend to be really uncomfortable while dancing like crazy! XD
Our first stop that night was, as mentiones, ESPIT CHUPITO!
Some shot shots (XD nice word play)
Woohoo, drinks!
Huge thanks to Swiss (if I remember) guy with Puyol's Barca shirt and .. PUYOL WIG! for inviting us for the last shot :D Sorry for disappearing soon after saying we were going to ladies' room, but we didn't search for company :P
We wanted to go to SHOKO, but the queue was too long so we went to Sotavento instead.
On the terrace, before my make-up melted XD
However the party wasn't too cool so.. we went to nearby Vila Olmpica, the best ad ree place to party.. only for corageous people XD There we met my old-time friend who works as a promoter and he told me our frined opened new bar. We went there to see how it looks like and got invited to some shisha and mojitos! Free mojitos, yay!
However, as it normally turns out.. Partying in the middle of the week doesn't go too good with working/studing on the next day XD I needed my dose of caffeine.
I've been a coffee addict during my IB years, but since over a year I drink coffee really occasionally, after partying or before exams etc.
Although Starbucks is so tempting.. But I leave it for the days of necessity!
And when looking for those pics i my photo folder I ound two random pcs with my man that I love <3
I mean, I love the pics. Not him *cough cough*
Bad joke.
