Estonian xmas party

As I had to spend my first Christmas away from home :( I decided to submerge myself into Estoniannes even only for just one night. Hence the official Estonian Christmas party in London.

When we got there half an hour later than the official start, but there was still half an hour left for the entertainment program to begin, the main room was already full! :O So we were forced to go into the second, brightly lit room where the buffet and kids santa corner was. The only real downside to that was the fact that we kind of missed the whole entertainment all together... We could see the stage through the wide open doors but couldn't really hear what was going on...

As soon as we sat down we went to grab some (proper) food, yum :) to me at least :D Mr. Special whined about nearly every single thing on the plate :D Therefore the bigger my surprise later at the food shop stall where he went full loco and bought two carrier bags full of stuff (brown lemonade?!?!). But hey I got to eat my moose sausage sandwiches for the next week so I was great. He also partook in a little raffle and won a home styling magazine that was 3 years old? Pointless...

And that was about it... I'm not disappointed with the night (omg I even saw someone there from Aber!) but I wish we could've been sat in the main room with the stage to be able to enjoy the night even more plus maybe had someone else to talk to as well...

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

B-day

I've kind of wanted to make a tradition of writing down what happened on my birthday every year. So this year I didn't really pay much attention to world news and when I tried to look back I couldn't really find anything so nothing important :D

But what did I do?

Mr. Special woke me up by singing happy birthday and bringing me breakfast in bed (potato pancakes yum). Then I went to swimming in the pool, like I promised myself I would every Sunday from now on. It's freaking expensive though :D £3.50 for a go. When you're a member it's only a pound though :( But the membership is like a yearlong commitment... Not a fan. If it was monthly or even three monthly I would be on it like a bonnet. 

Then we went to the first Sunday Lunch Nick's has offered. A bit pricey but good. I love they're little posh twist on traditional food :) Just what we need in this little town. Then cocktail time at libertine. My fave is the banana cocktail that smokes. Since we started a bit early, khm 6 o'clock. We needed food on a Sunday night, in a little Welsh town that has been abandoned by students for the easter break... Needless to say most places were closed. But Little Italy wasn't (although I'm not their biggest fan).

We were quite lucky though since we got their last table. Yay. They even had people sitting downstairs :O never seen that ever. Food was alright. I convinced Ruby to try mussels, which she liked :) and we ended the meal with Limoncello shots. I managed to spill half of mine on the table...

AAAAAnd then all of a sudden the couple at the back corner stood up and started hugging each other. OMG we just witnessed a proposal!!! Did we? Sure? Yeah she's crying!! Omg!!! :D

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Visitors

Two of my friends from Aber came over to see me for a couple of days :) Went to Ajaccio to see them, took my time getting ready and had to hurry to catch the train. Obviously I'm a moron and decided not to remember my pin to buy tickets or anything for that matter -.- great start... luckily I had my french card with me that should've had about 10 euros on it so got my return ticket bought, not a major disaster but still wthell am I going to do now????????????? I use my card practically every day and now for the life of me can't remember my pin - I was planning to do some clothes shopping while in a bigger town... :( Luckily for me I didn't throw the paper with the pin that needs to be destroyed away but kept it and on Friday went to the bank and got my card unlocked - if you didn't know then you can insert your pin 3 times, then the card will be blocked but after that if you go to an atm it'll give you another chance to enter your pin and if you're right that 4th time (only in an atm) the card will work again :) Major disaster averted this time :)

In Ajaccio we spent most of the day on the beach, could've gone swimming but the water was a tad cold, we regretted not swimming afterwards. Nevertheless, got a nice tan now and didn't burn :) well my skin was a bit red but that's normal. Went to Napoleons Birth House - was a horrible guide-translator :D I just can't translate for my life :D haha :D I can understand what it means but ask me to say it in a different language oh no! Can't do it :D (And I have 2 translation exams ahead of me....) Got the last train back (half 4 -.-) to Corte (Körr had trouble getting a discount train ticket, I had given her my student card to get it and she managed to give it to the ticket officer as a method of payment so both of them were like wtf this doesn't work etc - i usually just flash it in front of them and only say where I want to go all the talk done, she managed to get herself into a conversation in a language she doesn't speak :D)

At the evening they wanted to see the nightlife. And it was a great night out (I'm not a huge party animal if you haven't noticed before). We found a lounge that I've never been to before (like that's hard to do ;)) with seating outside and blue lights club vibe inside. At first we sat outside just talking and catching up and then it got a bit chilly so we went inside and danced a bit and watched the frenchies dance and enjoy themselves.

We came to a conclusion that it's more laid-back here than in the UK. In the UK it's all about finding yourself a one night stand and kissing each other etc... Here everyone just wants to have a good time, guys were fooling around, dancing with girls and each other all in good fun, we were invited to dance too and guess what no one touched our buts or wanted to rub themselves against us or anything else that is so common when going out in the UK. One guy made a pass to my friend asking if she wanted to try the french kiss :D but as soon as she said no, he backed off and danced on with the group (didn't strop off and didn't pursue on aggressively either). When we started leaving jokingly he tried his luck again, another no, poor lad :D but he didn't feel like he failed or something. It was all in good fun and everyone were enjoying themselves and no one was creepy or pushing themselves onto girls to make them feel awkward or uncomfortable. Everyone parted as friends and without kissing anyone :D

The day after I took them to the mountains. I'm not fit at all :D but I wasn't too bad I hope :D After a couple of hours it started raining :( so we took refuge under a tree. The rain didn't last long luckily and we went on for a bit. Walking was the activity of the day.

On the third and last day we went by the river, sunbathed a bit, one crazy went swimming - the water was freezing cold!!!!!!! and then strolled around the town a bit. Tried a cake that was baked on a leaf - you don't eat the leaf!!! the lady told us. Something new for me too :) And it was time for the to go with the last train (6 PM) to catch their flight 10 AM the next morning. This is where the public transport in Corsica is absolutely horrible!!!! :(((( They spent their night walking to the airport from the closest train station to it because the airport closes for the night and students can't really afford hotels 50 euros a night minimum. They made it though :) Although I must say I was a bit worried and thought to myself where they were now throughout the night. A bit extreme to my liking but there were two of them.

Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...

The Dam

Second year in a row I've spent New Years Eve away from home. Last time in London with Ruby ( I never got around to write about it though :( ) and this time Amsterdam with Mr. Special :) 

We got there on the 31st and were welcomed by the hotel administrators warning: Beware of the fireworks that people blow up randomly on the streets and she wasn't exaggerating: every now and again you could hear a big boom somewhere. The culmination obviusly came at midnight. Before that we went to have our last meal at an Italian ristorante close to our hotel, it had been recommended. Ummm... not so good though :D At first they wanted us to sit right next to the door that didn't close properly... well no, do you have any other tables? Upstairs they did, so we could sit next to the window which was better. Now my favourite food is pasta carbonara probably but if not made properly it can be awful so I'm always too afraid to order it and this time probably with good reason. My next usual meal is lasagne which is always alright, so I ordered that. Lets just say I wasn't fond of it this time :( To be fair it wasn't a proper Italian restaurant: the people running it weren't Italians - just some frauds :D

It was raining and initially we had planned to start going to the main official event around 9o'clock. In an unknown city you just can't expect how many people would turn up and how early. I think in London we were at our place waiting at least 2 hours, probably more but it wasn't raining... So I was hesitant to go there that early. The journey should''ve taken us about half an hour or so... I think we started walking then about quarter to eleven... Everyone was out on the streets and now you could hear loud bangs and booms more often obviously.What was confusing though was that people went in every direction, usually you can follow a mass of people to a big event but not in Amsterdam since mini firework shows are all around town made by normal people so when we asked someone who was helping people and traffic etc, where do we have to go he just looked at us stupidly like stay here if you want (we were on some square), doesn't matter. We were persistant though and made our way to the main spot where luckily for us weren't a huge mass of people so you couldn't move or see anything but a nice crowd :) We got a spot were we could see a panorama of fireworks: the official city's show on the water, behind and around us fireworks by normal people. And the latter didn't stop until about 3 o'clock in the night and it was constant wow.... I've never heard anything like that before so a good experience.

Getting back to our hotel was an adventure in itself and yes we are the boring people who don't go clubbing and drinking our arses off :D There was practically no room on the streets to walk and every now and then someone in front of us would stop suddenly: someone just lit another firework right on the street where hundreds of people are walking! We will die this evening :D and soon enough we heard a loud bang next to us and a minor explosion under a row of motorcycles... no fire though so I guess it wasn't too bad but the initial reaction was like omg!!!!omg!!!

The three days we were there weren't enough surprisingly. I felt that there was so much more to see and do. We obviously did all the main tourist attractions: Anne Frank's house - well worth a visit! But be sure to book a ticket online because the queue outside the door is enourmous, about 1,5 hours... The Heineken Experience from what I kinda expected more, don't even know what but more like a factory sort of thing but it is made for masses and therefore doesn't have that educational factor that much as a wine celler would have I guess. Although I'm glad I've been :) The Tulip museum - didn't know tulips had that much history!!! For example that they are actually imported from Asia and once were very and I mean VERY expensive. Of course multiple cheese stores/museums :P That was our lunch because in every shop you could try the cheeses: free food yay ;) üüüüüü and we visited a sex museum :D when in Amsterdam...

Didn't go to any coffee shops or tried special brownies, because neither me nor Mr. Special are particularly fussed about that notorius side of Amsterdam, we did buy chocolate though that had a tiny tiny portion (probs just flavour though) of cannabis. I didn't even try that :D For some reason whenever I'm with him I don't want to eat chocolates or sweets really :D Oh boy how he was nervous of bringing it back to the UK with him in hand luggage: he now calls himself a drug smuggler -.- Dude relax... It's just chocolate... But a new thing he tried - I don't experiment with food because I'm picky - was a bacon and banana pancake... he liked it... Weirdo.

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Early Christmas

A sad one actuallyL. Almost everyone’s leaving!!! Next year only I and most of the Spanish people will be left and the other Aber girl until April because her German uni semester starts then and since she has a boyfriend here, she decided to stay here and not go home for those couple of months. Hopefully there will be a couple of new Erasmus students coming for the second semester. You might think why haven’t I found any French friends, but it’s not so easy you know! :D Especially as practically in every lecture I am with different people – my own fault. Don’t get me wrong I’ve found a couple of French friends :D yay but they’re doing a course that consists of one week of lectures, the next week working somewhere (internship at an hotel etc) then a week here etc and most of the students go home Friday evening and come back Monday so the town is almost empty on a weekend :D So the poor Erasmus students who are constantly here have bonded J I’m not even going to mention the language barrier that paralyzes me when I try to talk to someone for a long time :D I can cope with small talk and answering questions but holding up a long conversation is too much for me. Even now after spending 3 months here lol. Next semester I will make more of an effort to speak French, I promise!

Back to why it’s an early Christmas though: Because everyone’s leaving their stuff that they can’t take with them to me :D Like pots and pans and plates and bowls. Coffee, salt, broom etc. :D My room is once again filled with stuff that I most likely have to throw away with a hardened heart, but it’s all good right now :D

And yesterday was a Christmas Party with free food and small gifts for everyone! Organise by some student Society and unlike Societies in Aber, here you do not have to be a paid member of any society to take part of their parties or activities J Sooo yay free food, and good food not just some snack you’d imagine, but pasta with vegetables, ham and cheese baguettes, baguettes with their Corsican sausage figatellu, little toasties with pate or salmon etc, crisps, mandarins, fruit salad for dessert and probably something else I forgot, oh yeah beer :D yeap... The good life in one of the richest unies in France apparently J Me likey. They played good club music unlike the crap you can usually hear at the clubs in Aber so I just mostly sat there listening to the music, it wasn’t a club atmosphere so no one danced and that would’ve been weird. At one point Father Christmas showed up and gave little gifts and Christmas hats for everyone. The little gift included candy and a small lighter :D You know you’rein France when a lighter is part of a gift for EVERYONE lol :D No complaining though free stuff is free stuff.

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Epic Reunion!

Today is our only free day (omg it was over a month ago! So to be clear I am talking about Sunday, 24th March :D). Obviously everyone is sleeping when I get up at 9.30, because I have an awesome mission to fullfill! Two of my good friends decided to move to Malta in February and it would have been a huge mistake not to meet up - especially when most of my close friends live in different countries (UK, Germany, Malta and now one who I haven't really been in contact to, but still hold dear is in Iceland - I promise tomorrow I will write to everyone :D). It is actually kind of sad to think that when I go back to Estonia to visit my family I  basically only have one good friend left there and even she lives in a different city now :D Sorry if I forgot someone... I still love you! Maybe... depends on who you are ;)

Anyway back to my story. I was nervous, I had looked what time the bus is supposed to leave and how to get to the bus station but as a typical me just hung around in my room thinking if I need to bring something else with me or not and whether or not I have weather appropriate clothes on... So finally managed to get a move on, obviously missed the bus, but wasn't too worried about it since I thought another one would come along soon. In freaking 40 minutes!!!! Why do I do this to myself. While waiting for the next bus Jane managed to call me already and freak me out about the bus stop, if the bus is really stopping there or not, since the plan in the station only showed like 6 major stops, but google maps showed that mine is the 5th stop out of like 10 or so. Luckily it was sunny and I got to sunbathe :D while waiting. When the bus arrived I decided to ask the driver if the bus stop does exist... He didn't understand a word I said -.- FFFFawesome..  thanks for your help and that you do not even know which bus stops are on your route! So sat down and started counting the stops right away, though I knew my journey would last for about 35 minutes or so. When I got to the 15th stop in like 15 minutes it was clear that even google maps didn't show all the bus stops and I stopped counting stops and kept looking at the board that says what stop is next... And I still managed to half freak out when I saw mine on the board - pushed the stop button nervously and made my way to the front door - they only have a front door on the buses (+ no one wanted to sit next to me although the bus was full and people were standing... forever alone...). And when I got out no one was there! The hell are you??? It is the right stop, right? Right? Wait there had to be a skatepark nearby... Where the hell? I can't see any skatepark!!??

Oh wait it's across the road. phew, I am at the right stop, calling Jane then to demand where she is :D Me is here! :D She came in a matter of minutes since their apartment is right around the corner. Their flat is soooooooo nice!!! Really wow, can't even compare to the ones in Aber, and its just 400 euros per month (divided by two since two persons are living there). We had breakfast and then just hung out for 4 hours... How did the time fly by so quickly???????????? Good company that's why ;) Then we managed to get out of the flat too :) Went to a place that had a lovely view over Sliema and then to a restaurant to eat something - salmon and philadelphia cheese pizza - it was delicious + cake! Cake! Jane had a weird relationship with hers but oh well... Talking to it and really, and I mean really enjoying it :D ;) Then we took some pics and they drove me back to the hotel... The day went by so quickly, I wanted to spend more time with them! 

I had to be back at 7 o'clock since our lecturers had arranged a last group meal. Free food yay! :D Although since there were two tables it wasn't really a group meal :( Our Eastern-European group sat at the smaller table and all the others at another table. So yeah... we did that yesterday, would've wanted to talk to the lecturers or something too :D On the plus side though since we had less people at our table we got more wine overall :D 2 carafes to us and 2 to them :D Evil laugh when we realised that :D :D And some of us said a heartfelt toasts :D I'm definitely going to miss them next year :D

We went there!

The view from the tower

A mini castle :)

Can't believe I almost forgot the party after the dinner! Most of us went to the local pubs (except for the Asians and Rebecca and on Polish girl who went to the hotel to do their presentation). And at an Irish pub (we were two groups again, as usual, the brits and us, the lecturers were with the brits, playing pool) the girls started flirting with the bartender. We had had three tequila shots by then (one round bought by you-know-who) and some cocktail. Woo-woo? Yep, then we decided to order another pitcher, this time Fat frog - the green drink you can see on the photo and then the bartender decided to bring us free shots - Baby Guinness - they're sweet :) The night ended with only our party at the pub and he let us dance on the counter :D The Italian guys who tried to hit on us were creepy though :D 

All in all was a good night! :)

Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...

77th with a bang!

Day 3 of my trip:

Today is the day we visit the capital of Malta which is ...? Oh come on you must know this! ;) Yeah, tatatadaaa Valletta :D Btw it's my birthday :) Yay, happy birthday to me! :D Rebecca even gave me a gift - liqueur chocolate candies from Estonia :) mmmm... liqueur.... :D ;)

Anyway... the first stop was the Research Unit, Malta Tourism Authority, where we were given a presentation about tourism in Malta. Did you know that:

• The average tourist who visits Malta is a 58 year old retired Brit who travels with their partner? And on in every three tourists have been in Malta before. Well my boss, who exclaimed "Why on earth would you go to Malta - it's for old people!?", makes more sense now :D He said it prior to my departure, obviously. 
• 2012 was a record year for inbound tourism, mainly because of multiple air routes becoming available and a lot of them by low-cost airlines. In total, 81 routes between Malta and the world. Low-cost airlines generated 36,4% of tourists
• The average stay was 8,7 nights. I think it's a long stay, don't you agree?
• Foreign tourists visit Gozo for a day but the Maltese stay for longer.
• They are still looking for their brand image that would make them stand out from the competitors: Italy, Greece, Egypt etc.
• During the summer high season there are about three tourists per a resident

After that we went to explore Valletta and the first attraction were the Barrakka gardens where we saw a breathtaking view of the three cities and a demonstration of cannon firing was held. It was actually better than I had expected since besides the loud bang you could also see the flame and smoke coming out of the cannon. WoW :) 

While in Valletta you must see the Malta Experience which is a film that tells the story of Malta. Did you know that during World War 2 Valletta was heavily bombed and people had to basically live underground and without any external help (food, supplies etc) because the ships that were sent to help them got raided on the sea and never made it to Malta. And because they were so brave and did not surrender, King George VI awarded the entire Maltese population with the George Cross - the first (of only two) given as a collective award and not to just one person. 

The Malta Experience is a film showed in an underground cinema, cool! :) You have your own set of headphones and you can choose from about 20 different languages to best comprehend and understand the story :) Unfortunately Estonian wasn't amongst them :( Finnish was though...

2 hours of free time to spend in Valletta now :) Our main mission was to find somewhere to eat :D and we did, eventually. But!... it was kinda crap and expensive! :( no one liked their food (mostly we ordered different pasta dishes). Though a polish girl was very content with her glass of wine! ( ;) liqueur ;) ). Then we spent some time just walking on the streets and it is a really nice and interesting city with it's levels. I really liked it. Though I wouldn't say I fell in love with it because I think I didn't really have time to fully explore and appreciate it - the downside of being in a group: you can't decide where to go and how long to stay in one place...

Then we got back on the mini-buses and were driven through the area where illegal immigrants live. Beforehand the lecturers told us not to worry no harm is going to come to us and no one will attack the mini buses and so on. I was like the heck?! Are they murdering people on the street or what? When we got there (there is always the morale issue: is it actually respectable to drive in that area and look out the windows like oooh and aaah, but it's for educational purposes) it didn't actually look that bad, I was expecting something much worse. Shabby looking houses, because no one renovated them obviously, men just hanging around the street, waiting for any job opportunities. I would say that it did not look much worse than a certain part of a certain city if I remember it correctly... By the way there are more male immigrants than female because it is easier for men to find some job and send money home than women.

In the evening there was a de-briefing and at some point I drifted off, writing some notes and suddenly heard silence... Oh snap, he asked a question... Fudge, I know he's going to ask me... Oh no, please no, I didn't hear the question "Jaanika?" WHY? WHY? WHY? why now? just my freaking murphy law luck... So asked sorry, what was the question and Rebecca started laughing out loud! The heck - be supportive!!!! It's embarrassing enough! Later she told me that the reason behind her laughter was the fact that she hadn't heard the question either :D

After being divide into the same groups as we had the day before and having to come up with a research question ( the presentation of the research is almost half of our mark for that module) and answer all the explanatory questions like why and what and who, and just before we could go back to our rooms and do whatever, the lights went off and everyone started singing Happy Birthday to me :) I think I had the biggest smile on my face :D They had bought a cake and candles ( that said 77 because apparently they were the only numbered-candles left in the shop OR he just did not know how old I am and bought those to hide it while being funny :D and it was fun :) )

Later the (polish) girls came down to the basement that is our room to celebrate with me :) I haven't laughed so hard in ages. It truly was fun :) Then all of a sudden a weird noise: like someone banging on the glass windows or heavy rain pouring straight on them, was behind our kitchen door to the terrace and since it was pitch dark outside we didn't see anything and one girl reaction was priceless: she really freaked out - she was sitting closest to the door. And she started screaming that loud and running away that everyone else started screaming and panicked as well though no one knew what was happening. Oh my god!!! I can't even describe it: it was so terrifying but funny at the same time. Btw I ran away from the door as well and when it stopped was hiding behind other girls who were sitting on the other side of the table (away from the door), and saw THE girl basically on top of Rebecca with Rebecca grasping her legs, both terrified and screaming. I was shaking for hours after that :D Although we all had a good laugh about it later and we suspect the boys, who shared a terrace with us and had the room next door and we saw one of the brit girls on the stairs with a suspicious smirk on her face! I hate them even more now! :D But since I really can't just shake those things off, I even had a mini-nightmare about it and woke up half screaming with my hands up punching the air. Woke Rebecca up :D Oops :D Funny times :D

Oops, I forgot pictures at first :D

Our hotel entrance

There is a huge cruise ship next to us!

The streets of Valletta (levels and ending with the sea)

Hunks of fun in Malta ;)

Balconies :)

Fire!!!!

Buckingham Palace?! Where are we again? :D

Going to see the Malta experience

Outside of the Ministry of Tourism

Liqueur ;)

Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...

I'm done! YAY

With the exams that is :) 

To be honest it wasn't a particularly stressful exam period as I wrote about my first exam, I started studying for it what two days before, and note studying not revising, because I skipped half of the lecture and the other half, the ones you had to sign your name to prove attendance, read a book or just stared blankly at the screen or something... And I am a bit worried about that result... Oh god please do not let me fail! No I won't fail and that's the main thing right now, not to fail, although I don't know what kind of an education will I get with these studying habits.

I had my second, and last exam Tuesday early morning, thought that as I'm working Monday evening I'll start my studying Sunday and I did! But... I looked at the revision questions and was like... hmmm... this seems to be really easy, you only need to know a couple of facts or definitions about each topic and elaborate on those topics... Easy right? So naturally I spent my time on tumblr, 9gag, facebook etc. Practically didn't study at all, I literally had less than an a4 paper of notes for a freaking university exam that's supposed to be hard and whatever else. So as I always do in good faith, put my alarm clock at 7am (the exam was 9.30) in order to wake up and do some last minute revision yeah well, I Finally got up at 8am and still had time to play cards on the computer for about half an hour, instead of revising... Great... Good job.

All in all I think and am totally confident that the last exam went well :) I had so much to write about and even answered a question that I hadn't prepared for since it was mostly logical explanations and common knowledge stuff, so naturally was in a really good mood after. Later even my boss at work noticed and asked what happened, why am I smiling?? :D I do smile... sometimes... I'm not that grumpy am I? :D Haha, well I'm trying to be happier and to smile at people but I can't help the fact that I'm the kind of person who needs a reason to happy and not the other way round.

Later that night we went out with the tourism lot and it was so much fun that everyone was saying we should do this more often! :) PS! whenever the rare occasion is that they decide to do something together, I usually working -.- and everyone were yet again surprised that I'm not working that evening. Well I was supposed to be, yeah Murphy's Laws in action again, but thankfully got to swap my shift to a day one :) So we went to the Rummers pub. I haven't really been there before and don't know why??? It was such a nice pub, cheap drinks (vodka shot for 95p or something, though tequila was expensive), maybe it was just because of Tuesday night promotions but yeah, I have to go there more often! Not that I really know what's happening at other pubs but I think I've been to quite a few of them at least once and none have left a good impression that I'd like to return, except for Rummers of course ;) And another first: each and every one of us bought rounds of shots to everyone, I've never done that before. It felt gooooooood :D

Tuesday was a good day :)
Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...

Double-Dinner

Our lovely Emma is now 21 years old :) Happy Birthday again and again and again :) In order to celebrate that joyous fact, me, Emma and Scarlet went to dine in Little Italy restaurant. Mmmmmm... omg they can cook :D At last a meal that you'll remember. The atmosphere of the restaurant was very nice, darkly lit with christmas decorations tastefully put up, not too much :) I finally got to eat an amazing lasagne in this country (tip for traveller's who are not familiar with cafés/pubs/restaurants in Britain: Wetherspoons, which should be in every town and city here, is horrible with food quality, basically they do not have a proper kitchen - they warm up pre-made food and then simply put it on your plate, they could at least mix it a bit so that I wouldn't see the box edges on the food, but if you like that sort of thing go ahead :) - I think it is too expensive for that kind of food). Emma and Scarlet both ordered pasta, I was so amazed by my meal that I don't even recall what they said about their food, but I am 100% sure, it wasn't anything negative ;)

Our waitress was lovely and funny, cudos for her :) But the other one, who cleaned up our table and gave us the bill wasn't that awesome... Nothing particularly negative, but she kinda made it obvious that she wanted us gone (sounds nastier in writing than it was in real life). We were just sitting there and enjoying the house wine - sorry, I can't down a glass of wine, yeah I'm still an amateur at drinking huge amounts of alcohol quickly, my bad and it wasn't like other customers had to wait for our table to open up or anything, there were a couple of free tables in the restaurant, so why not let us enjoy our first time there? We have to go back sometimes though :D Decent foooooooood! :D After that we went to Emma's and Scarlet's flat to indulge in the delicious cake they made earlier :) Thank You for that!

Our second big dinner experience was the very next day, when our Christmas meal with our work colleauges took place in Pier Brasserie, another decent restaurant in our little town (we do have a lot of pubs and cafés to be honest, and we must go to everyone of them at least once in our time here!). This was a proper three course meal. I started off with fish paté mmmm... I've forgotten how much I actually love fish. Then for the main course I had a pheasant - something new - so new that I actually had to translate it to know what it is :D It was quite alright, though the knife they gave us should've been more sharper 'cause my hand actually got tired from trying to cut the meat off the bones. But overall, I loved it. Dessert time: chocolate Yule log with cream. Mmmmm... chocolate... need I say more? Didn't think so.

After the meal the restaurant turned into a nightclub. Most of the people there were middle-aged women (a lot of the local shops had their christmas meals there too). I quess we were one of the few, if not only party with students, so a bit awkward, but hey, could've been worse. It was fun to see our bosses, who are 40/50 something men on the dance floor :D Overall a pretty decent night :)

Home soon!
Jazzz...

Gangnam style

Was working on Wednesday, wasn't feeling very good and in addition to that, had loads of reading to do for Thursday's seminars. But my love le bf had a friend coming down and he wanted me to meet him. Didn't want to be rude, so I thought I'll go for like an hour, so I have seen him, but haven't wasted my whole night. Arrived to the club, met his friend, who was really nice, but then there was a couple dressed like Mexicans, heard sth about that they are le bf's ex's friends, but thought that why would they hang out together, so forgot it right away. But oh boy, this girl was nosy, 'where are you from, how's it to be with le bf, what are you studying, and so on and on and on, I felt like I have commited a crime and now I'm being interrogated. But then teh comment that 'how old are you, you look so young?' And to my answer that I'll be turning 21 in two weeks time she replied that she is 22 and 21 was the best year in her life. But bitch please, 22 is not so much older than 21. Oh and then the next pearl, 'Did le bf tell you that he has a child?' That's a shame that at that time it didn't come into my mind to say: 'No way, he didn't' or sth like that, I would loved to see her face :D But our night continued with her dancing gangnam style in front of me and asking me to join her, hell to the no. Le bf told that he hasn't seen me so scared in his life. I guess I was surprised, for a start all the questions, then the dancing and I found it all very weird, talking to a girl who has a huge black moustache, I just wanted someone to save me, turned to le bf for a moment and the girl managed to poke me in the face, luckily didn't poke me in the eye. My overall feeling was like a zoo animal, people watching me,  hopefully I don't have to meet any friends any time soon :D Then our night continued with dancing, I'm not even going there, me alone with two guys on the dancefloor, le bf managed to disappear occasionally, so I was there with the friend, both feeling awkward. At some point the song 'Rockin' all over the world' was on and le bf went crazy with his friend, I just stood there watching them dancing. Apparently this song was played when some club won....can't really remember, because we went out so that he could explain it, but it was cold and my only thougtht was getting back in, sorry. And as we were there, a girl asked us for a fag, le bf had, cause he used to smoke. I went back in, but as they didn't fallow I went back after a few minutes waiting and there they were all smoking, but as le bf knows that I don't like smoking at all he tried to hide it, lol. Not very successfully, so he throw it away after I told that whats the point hiding it, I saw it right away :D But just to let you know, I'm not controlling or sth, I didn't ask him to stop, I only said that I don't like smoking. And that's about it, was there obviously more than an hour, but still did my reading :)

Ems

Halloween!

Here, Halloween is a week long theme and I'm not talking about just shop decorations etc. Different events on different days, people dressing up every day. Actually they do the last thing pretty often anyway, so I can't blame the commercialization of Halloween on it :( crap... but still, the last week the costumes have been zombified! :D

Starting with Monday then: Fright Night at the Union a.k.a. horror movies for freeeeeeee - I just love free stuff :D who wouldn't? So we went to see the Exorcist, funnily enough a couple of weeks ago, me and Rebecca had just watched friday the 13th and after that shitloads of horror movie trailers, including the exorcist. Oh the scene where the little girl came down the stairs omfg. Highlight of the movie according to the two of us :D Imagine our disappointment, and arguments during the movie that the scene might have been in a different movie, when that scene was cut out :( It was the re-released version or whatever. But it's the second time I've gotten a totally western movie-experience. Meaning that when the first freaky scene, where the child (sorry, can't remember her name) was in her bed while it was shaking etc. Suddenly the lights were turned on. I was like, jeesh it isn't that scary you know. Then I noticed staff running around and talking into their earpieces. There was some commotion at the back and whispers were that someone had passed out. Was the movie really that scary? There were those moments when everyone was quietly staring at the screen and after that horrific tense scene had ended, everyone just relaxed and a general smalltalk began. I was staring around and screaming in my head STFU STFU! :D I miss cinemas at home, where most people can keep their emotions to themselves during the movie :D

Wednesday night was the actual Halloween night and oh was it busy at work. I loved it! :D I haven't ran around in the shop thinking I need to do this and this and that in a long time... Ems already said a bit about age checking people in costumes. Well my first customer who needed to be id-d was a ghost. He had a sheet on his head with only eyes cut out and all I could think about was: "please, have clothes on under there, because I'm going to have to ask you to take the sheet off! just please!!" Luckily it was him who made the first move (:D) and reassured me: "don't worry I'll take the sheet off" and he got his cigarets or alcohol ( I'm not a stalker and don't usually remember what people buy ok?) The second pearl of the day: :D There is one guy, who comes to our store regularly and is pretty hot to say the least :D I got the honour of serving him on Halloween. He was dressed as the Hulk, so no shirt :D yeah, nice abs dude :D His friend was a bit drunk and said he loved him (as a friend! :D ) etc and at some point asked me if he (the hottie) was a beautiful man. Awkward ;D Didn't blush though so win! :D

Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...

"Crap" music that I just LOVE! ;)

So, a full week has almost gone by since the last post,  and I'm so embarrased to say this, but my life has been pretty boring atm :D I'm so broke, I can't even go out. What day is it? Ah yeah Friday, so yesterday was the remarkable Latin Party, that everyone just loves and this year it was actually in a decent place, up in the Union. Last year it was held in a little shabby looking wannabe club that we have, that basically stinks and is just yucky :D But for some reason they play good music - and that's why I hate it so much - because of the music I want to go there, but because of the club itself I just want to run away screaming. I think I've been there in total 4-5 times.
Anyway I have to finish this post now quickly because the nice sunny weather we had this morning (that I, as always, slept through) is slowly disappearing and dark dark clouds are reclaiming their usual place above our heads. Awsum -.- So I need to get out of the flat for at least a bit before it starts pouring down. Yay let's take a trip to Morrisons :P with no money... woop woop - that's how bored I am on a Friday :P
Anyway some good music I've found recently pour vous:

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

This is how we roll...

It's 3 o'clock in the morning, conversation got boring... so we decided to play cards. After playing 2 hours the same game over and over again (one game lasts about 5 minutes max) we decided to make it even more fun. And what is more fun than drinking Balileys with milk in the middle of the night. We start drinking when normal people are finishing.

PS! I have drunk quarter of the glass and I don't want it anymore :D

So yeah, this is how we roll.

Emma