I'm driving home for Christmas
Oh, I can't wait to see those faces
I'm driving home for Christmas, yea
Well I'm moving down that line
And it's been so long
But I will be there
I sing this song
To pass the time away
Driving in my car
Driving home for Christmas
It's gonna take some time
But I'll get there
Top to toe in tailbacks
Oh, I got red lights all around
But soon there'll be a freeway
Get my feet on holy ground
So I sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When I get through
Oh and feel you near me
Driving in my car
I am driving home for Christmas
Driving home for Christmas
With a thousand memories
I take look at the driver next to me
He's just the same
Just the same
Top to toe in tailbacks
Oh, I got red lights all around.
I'm driving home for Christmas, yea
Get my feet on holy ground
So I sing for you
Though you can't hear me
When I get through
Oh and feel you near me
Driving in my car
Driving home for Christmas
Driving home for Christmas
With a thousand memories...
/Chris Rea/
piektdiena, 2007. gada 14. decembris
pirmdiena, 2007. gada 10. decembris
piektdiena, 2007. gada 23. novembris
Out of Reach!
Yes, indeed - tomorrow starts my so far longest trip: Elche-Valencia-Barcelona-Austria-Hungary-Madrid-Elche.... hoping to be back by 5th of December... uff..... :)
Besides that, my mother is visiting me so I have been rather busy with entertaining her!
And, yeah, that's it!
Peace,
Ilziii...
Besides that, my mother is visiting me so I have been rather busy with entertaining her!
And, yeah, that's it!
Peace,
Ilziii...
pirmdiena, 2007. gada 19. novembris
18.novembris
Lai dzivo Latvija! :)
Although in Spain, I still managed to celebrate the 18th of November a bit. I had invited all Erasmus to the Latvian dinner, which means - I was cooking! :D Wanted to make something traditional from potatoes and meat, as the options are very limited here due to the unavailability of raw materials. Anyway, everything started very well, but during the process I faced some problems and changed the initial idea completely, so what came out in the end was Patatas'a'la'Ilze instead of cepeliini... But they said they liked! :D The evening turned out great as the dinner and chatting lasted for 5 hours! :)
Basically being in Spain is super cool - as I do not have many lectures, I usually go to sleep at 2am and wake up at midday; the only subject in which I have to do some more or less important home works I can do it in English and it is still 20 degrees during the day! :)
The weekend was relatively calm as we are still a bit sick, but it still means that we went out on Friday and Saturday, but returned rather early - 5am. And we have reached the point where Elche just seems too small for partying so we see our night'life future in Alicante! :D
Buchas!
Ilziii
Although in Spain, I still managed to celebrate the 18th of November a bit. I had invited all Erasmus to the Latvian dinner, which means - I was cooking! :D Wanted to make something traditional from potatoes and meat, as the options are very limited here due to the unavailability of raw materials. Anyway, everything started very well, but during the process I faced some problems and changed the initial idea completely, so what came out in the end was Patatas'a'la'Ilze instead of cepeliini... But they said they liked! :D The evening turned out great as the dinner and chatting lasted for 5 hours! :)
Basically being in Spain is super cool - as I do not have many lectures, I usually go to sleep at 2am and wake up at midday; the only subject in which I have to do some more or less important home works I can do it in English and it is still 20 degrees during the day! :)
The weekend was relatively calm as we are still a bit sick, but it still means that we went out on Friday and Saturday, but returned rather early - 5am. And we have reached the point where Elche just seems too small for partying so we see our night'life future in Alicante! :D
Buchas!
Ilziii
ceturtdiena, 2007. gada 15. novembris
Rrrr....
Sick! Not of Spain but in Spain! Have no idea how is it possible (still 22 degrees during day...), but here we are - me and Emilie, feeling tired all day long and breaking our fantastic weekend plans... Rrrr.... But no worries - I have lots of tea, garlic and willingness to fight with the sickness! :)
Apart from that, I had 2 more tests this week - in Financial Planning, which was very easy, basically only basics of forecasting but still for 5th year students; and in International Trade which was very funny, as almost all exercises demanded written explanation but taking into account that my written spanish is not in a very advanced level, I think professor will laugh quite a bit while correcting! :D
And I think there are no more news from my side so I shall keep trying to find smth interesting to watch!
Peace and health!
Apart from that, I had 2 more tests this week - in Financial Planning, which was very easy, basically only basics of forecasting but still for 5th year students; and in International Trade which was very funny, as almost all exercises demanded written explanation but taking into account that my written spanish is not in a very advanced level, I think professor will laugh quite a bit while correcting! :D
And I think there are no more news from my side so I shall keep trying to find smth interesting to watch!
Peace and health!
pirmdiena, 2007. gada 12. novembris
ceturtdiena, 2007. gada 8. novembris
Top Scoring and Cheating!
Yes, it really happened - I got my first...
and it was in Finance, so no kidding! ;) Actually it is quite funny, because my score was only 55% (due to the fact that professor is being very tough and I have totally forgotten derivatives) but it was still way better than the average result (I think around 30%)... yes, Finance is tough even in Spain!
And now the cheating part... Actually we had a very entertaining lecture of International Trade yesterday. It started with professor returning us our assignments - it turned out that mine was exactly the same as the one of Zakari! :D Professor had noticed that, but - Ou well, it is Spain... Zakari talked a bit with him, but no problem! :) and then he returned another assignment... for this one he said that ALL people (around 30) have the same mistakes... O'ouuuu, you might think, but, again, it is Spain, so professor came up with a very interesting solution: Not giving home works anymore! :D But that was not it - as he wanted to see how much we know of what we had to do for yesterday's lecture (we just had to search for information about some contracts in internet), he collected our home works and asked us to briefly write what were those contracts about. As NOONE knew anything, the discussion started: "But professor, you asked to search for information, not read or understand it!" - that was my favorite sentence! :D After that everyone just started laughing, including professor! And again: Ok, forget it, let's move on!
This is how cheating problems are solved in Spain, pretty hard to imagine smth like that in SSER, but I guess that is why I am here - to get different experience! ;)
and it was in Finance, so no kidding! ;) Actually it is quite funny, because my score was only 55% (due to the fact that professor is being very tough and I have totally forgotten derivatives) but it was still way better than the average result (I think around 30%)... yes, Finance is tough even in Spain!And now the cheating part... Actually we had a very entertaining lecture of International Trade yesterday. It started with professor returning us our assignments - it turned out that mine was exactly the same as the one of Zakari! :D Professor had noticed that, but - Ou well, it is Spain... Zakari talked a bit with him, but no problem! :) and then he returned another assignment... for this one he said that ALL people (around 30) have the same mistakes... O'ouuuu, you might think, but, again, it is Spain, so professor came up with a very interesting solution: Not giving home works anymore! :D But that was not it - as he wanted to see how much we know of what we had to do for yesterday's lecture (we just had to search for information about some contracts in internet), he collected our home works and asked us to briefly write what were those contracts about. As NOONE knew anything, the discussion started: "But professor, you asked to search for information, not read or understand it!" - that was my favorite sentence! :D After that everyone just started laughing, including professor! And again: Ok, forget it, let's move on!
This is how cheating problems are solved in Spain, pretty hard to imagine smth like that in SSER, but I guess that is why I am here - to get different experience! ;)
trešdiena, 2007. gada 7. novembris
Erasmus Traditions
Lately there have been some Erasmus traditions developed here:
Tuesday Eve = eating time! Every week there is one person making traditional dinner for all 5 of us. Last week Emilie made us pasta with some meat sauce which was more like Italian food, but taking into account her cooking skills VERY good. Yesterday Lizzie prepared us Peru traditional food - rice, meat, tomato and a lot of garlic and onions. And again, extremely tasty! Next week is Zakari's turn with foor from Belgium and I have booked November 18th! :) Any suggestions regarding what I should prepare are more than welcome! :p
Wednesday Eve = movie time! I already wrote how amazing movie we saw last week. Today we knew it will not be that good but we hoped for smth normal at least... well - not so much! :D I thought it will be in English with Spanish subtitles. Or at least in Spanish. But oh no, after 5min of watching and thinking that it is some short moment of Germans speaking, we discovered that the movie is actually in Valencian (local dialect of Spanish. Connection is smth like between Latvian and Lithuanian). And the movie was called "Copying Beethoven", so I think that not really my taste anyway. So after 15min of not understanding anything we decided to leave. So hoping for better luck next time! :D
Apart from that, today started my extensive Spanish course - a bit late (it was supposed to start in the beginning of October) but as it is Spain... Take it easy! ;) Out of all 5 Erasmus only I and Emilie wanted to take it, so we have more like private lessons. The professor seems very into Spanish language and reading, but explains everything very well, so my Spanish level is expected to improve! :) The only problem is that he likes visualizations so today he wanted us to make a little some-kind-of-theatre about any topic... not my favorite thing to do, but... we imitated a usual Friday Eve discussion in our apartment on the topic "Where shall we go out today?" :D
Ok, Take it easy!
Tuesday Eve = eating time! Every week there is one person making traditional dinner for all 5 of us. Last week Emilie made us pasta with some meat sauce which was more like Italian food, but taking into account her cooking skills VERY good. Yesterday Lizzie prepared us Peru traditional food - rice, meat, tomato and a lot of garlic and onions. And again, extremely tasty! Next week is Zakari's turn with foor from Belgium and I have booked November 18th! :) Any suggestions regarding what I should prepare are more than welcome! :p
Wednesday Eve = movie time! I already wrote how amazing movie we saw last week. Today we knew it will not be that good but we hoped for smth normal at least... well - not so much! :D I thought it will be in English with Spanish subtitles. Or at least in Spanish. But oh no, after 5min of watching and thinking that it is some short moment of Germans speaking, we discovered that the movie is actually in Valencian (local dialect of Spanish. Connection is smth like between Latvian and Lithuanian). And the movie was called "Copying Beethoven", so I think that not really my taste anyway. So after 15min of not understanding anything we decided to leave. So hoping for better luck next time! :D
Apart from that, today started my extensive Spanish course - a bit late (it was supposed to start in the beginning of October) but as it is Spain... Take it easy! ;) Out of all 5 Erasmus only I and Emilie wanted to take it, so we have more like private lessons. The professor seems very into Spanish language and reading, but explains everything very well, so my Spanish level is expected to improve! :) The only problem is that he likes visualizations so today he wanted us to make a little some-kind-of-theatre about any topic... not my favorite thing to do, but... we imitated a usual Friday Eve discussion in our apartment on the topic "Where shall we go out today?" :D
Ok, Take it easy!
otrdiena, 2007. gada 6. novembris
Hey Yaa...!
Hey hey, I am back and have good news - I have got different photos, so this promises to be an interesting entry in my blog! ;)
So, as we had a long long weekend (from Thursday till Sunday) we wanted to explore Spain a bit. Due to different reasons :p the trip to Granada was postponed but instead to went to Murcia, which is reasonably close - one hour train ride. And it is actually a very beautiful city... and even a bit warmer than Elche! :)
We:
And a bit of architecture:
And a bit of olives:
What is more... Photo from Beginning-of-the-Year-Fiesta with one of the professors:
And in the Mexican restaurant afterwards:
And my hands in the middle of the night... and these were not all the stamps... :p
And some pre-party on our roof:
Striving to be equally tall:
As to everything else - everything is going great! :) Have some test coming up, so shall start studying a bit... Still attending swimming pool and have even started jogging sometimes. And bought my ticket to Riga - December 15th (will happen to miss one week in university :D). And also bought my tickets for visiting Lelde, Kalvi, Kristiine and Eiko (will happen to miss another week in university :D). And weather is still warm during day - around 22, but getting cold during nights - around 14, so as we don't have any heating system, kind a freezing in the mornings... And I have decided to change my daily rhythm - don't like waking up at 2pm and seeing sun only for couple of hours anymore!
Greetings to all and special greetings to Princese & Bubis! ;)
Pokjeens...
So, as we had a long long weekend (from Thursday till Sunday) we wanted to explore Spain a bit. Due to different reasons :p the trip to Granada was postponed but instead to went to Murcia, which is reasonably close - one hour train ride. And it is actually a very beautiful city... and even a bit warmer than Elche! :)
We:
And a bit of architecture:
And a bit of olives:
What is more... Photo from Beginning-of-the-Year-Fiesta with one of the professors:
And in the Mexican restaurant afterwards:
And my hands in the middle of the night... and these were not all the stamps... :p
And some pre-party on our roof:
Striving to be equally tall:
As to everything else - everything is going great! :) Have some test coming up, so shall start studying a bit... Still attending swimming pool and have even started jogging sometimes. And bought my ticket to Riga - December 15th (will happen to miss one week in university :D). And also bought my tickets for visiting Lelde, Kalvi, Kristiine and Eiko (will happen to miss another week in university :D). And weather is still warm during day - around 22, but getting cold during nights - around 14, so as we don't have any heating system, kind a freezing in the mornings... And I have decided to change my daily rhythm - don't like waking up at 2pm and seeing sun only for couple of hours anymore!Greetings to all and special greetings to Princese & Bubis! ;)
Pokjeens...
ceturtdiena, 2007. gada 1. novembris
HALLOWEEN
It all started with and idea to visit cinema on Wednesday evening as every Wednesday the entrance is free for students. So we went there. After passing the entrance, 2 women-witches wanted to persuade us to choose Halloween movie instead of the usual. As I am not a fan of scary movies and nor where my mates, we entered the normal movie hall... however, Lizzie was left behind and was persuaded to choose the other one - ok, let's try... We enter the hall and it seems like a big party is about to begin - people dressed up as Halloween monsters, screaming, jumping and having fun! Looks fun! So we take some of the last free seats and wait for the movie... Scene 1: Wedding. Married couple comes out of the church and guests are throwing rice on them. Suddenly we feel like rice is coming on our heads as well! :o So we decide to check the paper about the movie... Turns out that when coming to movie you should be equipped with rice, water, birthday hats, toilet paper, newspaper, confetti and other things used to create the movie atmosphere! :D Next scene: 2 people driving in the car... car breaks, so they decide to go looking for help... unfortunately it is raining... :D Yes, we got wet as well... so all the movie is basically one great party with different attractions, screaming and even dancing in between! As I am not much of a Halloween 'celebrater', can truly say that there where the BEST Halloween EVER! :) and the movie wasn't scary actually, it was more like funny old movie about homosexual guy and his servants living in an old castle, where those 2 people went for help when it was raining.
And the evening ending with enjoying ice-cream cocktails in my beloved Cafe Paris! What more can I want! :)
And the evening ending with enjoying ice-cream cocktails in my beloved Cafe Paris! What more can I want! :)
trešdiena, 2007. gada 31. oktobris
Bienvenidas a España!
Yesterday my first two guest left the paradise of palm trees... Week well spent I would say! :) We managed to check all the shops in Elche (as another reason for coming here was a need for shopping and prices are a lot better here), admire the beautiful buildings and endless parks of palm trees, socialize with my Erasmus friends, enjoy the nightlife (...and sleeping till 3.30pm afterwards :D ), visit Alicante in order to see the Mediterranean sea and... visit Valencia... wow, that's a beautiful city! Unfortunately we were rather tired (because of lack of sleep and very fulfilling lunch in chinese restaurant), but still saw the beautiful white buildings, huge parks and old town. I think I still prefer Barcelona, but just because of Gaudi, cause Valencia is also a very, very beautiful city!
Besides that, in Elche there was a Medieval Festival which included a great, great market which lasted for 2 weeks and was full of delicious food and cute other things - way better than markets in Latvia!
One thing that my visitors were surprised about was the attention that I get here! :D I am not paying attention anymore to guys beeping in cars or calling Rubia! (Blonde!) on the street, but they felt distracted! :D That's what you get for being the only real blond in Southern country!
As you might imagine, we made lots of photos, I think around 1000, but for whatever reason my computer resisted accepting them, so I am waiting for photos from Riga.
Apart from that, we are working on our thesis topic and finally have a reasonable idea with reasonable methodology! :) and school is still easy, but I will have 3 exams in 2 weeks. and I have a short study week again, basically the weekend starts today, cause Thursday and Friday are free. and we were planning to explore Southern Spain by renting a car, but it seems that no one is old enough to do it...
Ok, I guess I have delayed my Thesis meeting enough. Hopefully my partner will some cool ideas by now!
Love,
Ilziii
Besides that, in Elche there was a Medieval Festival which included a great, great market which lasted for 2 weeks and was full of delicious food and cute other things - way better than markets in Latvia!
One thing that my visitors were surprised about was the attention that I get here! :D I am not paying attention anymore to guys beeping in cars or calling Rubia! (Blonde!) on the street, but they felt distracted! :D That's what you get for being the only real blond in Southern country!
As you might imagine, we made lots of photos, I think around 1000, but for whatever reason my computer resisted accepting them, so I am waiting for photos from Riga.
Apart from that, we are working on our thesis topic and finally have a reasonable idea with reasonable methodology! :) and school is still easy, but I will have 3 exams in 2 weeks. and I have a short study week again, basically the weekend starts today, cause Thursday and Friday are free. and we were planning to explore Southern Spain by renting a car, but it seems that no one is old enough to do it...
Ok, I guess I have delayed my Thesis meeting enough. Hopefully my partner will some cool ideas by now!
Love,
Ilziii
otrdiena, 2007. gada 23. oktobris
Advertising kills!
No worries, no one has been killed, it is just a topic that I have chosen for my 2 page essay for one of the courses that I am taking. Luckily the teacher is from Ireland, so she was delighted when I offered to write in English - although my Spanish is improving every day, do not feel capable of writing something in Spanish, and even more, making sense...
Despite the grand plan, the weekend was spent quite calmly - at least for me. We did not go to party to Alicante on Thursday as it was a bit raining, but instead we had a small home party. On Friday was the year starting event in the university. We went there soon after waking up - around 1, discovered quite fool tables of snacks and drinks and lots of people! :) Afterwards, with Year 5 students we went to enjoy the Mexican food and Spanish drinks in some restaurant, which was very nice as we got to know lots of new people and try out different Mexican food, including the super chilly sauce, which tasted very good! Suprisingly enough the start of the university's party, which happened in one of the best night clubs in Elche, was at 5pm (usually Spanish people start thinking about going out at 1am...) and when we arrived at 6.30pm, there were actually very many people! Actually I like clubs in Spain, mostly because of the music which fits my taste better than in Riga - they mostly play top hits (without too much of bum'bum) and inbetween some local Latino songs! So after spending couple of hours in the club, we returned to the apartment to socialize and get some drinks or in other words to get ready for the second part of the night! That included visiting other clubs in Elche... so far I had been to 3, but there are a lot more (in comparison, in Ogre there are 2, while it is just a bit smaller than Elche). So together with newly met Spanish friends we checked out some 3 more night clubs, but in the end, around 5am, still went to Borroco!
So the next morning, which for me was around 3pm, I just felt tired and decided to sacrifice going to party to Alicante for a good night sleep!
I am actually getting used to the long weekends that I have here - usually it is 3 days, as Mondays are free, but for the last 3 weeks due to fiestas I have had at least 4 free days in a row and as there is nothing much to study in the university.... well, life rocks! 8)
Ok, back to advertising that kills...
Despite the grand plan, the weekend was spent quite calmly - at least for me. We did not go to party to Alicante on Thursday as it was a bit raining, but instead we had a small home party. On Friday was the year starting event in the university. We went there soon after waking up - around 1, discovered quite fool tables of snacks and drinks and lots of people! :) Afterwards, with Year 5 students we went to enjoy the Mexican food and Spanish drinks in some restaurant, which was very nice as we got to know lots of new people and try out different Mexican food, including the super chilly sauce, which tasted very good! Suprisingly enough the start of the university's party, which happened in one of the best night clubs in Elche, was at 5pm (usually Spanish people start thinking about going out at 1am...) and when we arrived at 6.30pm, there were actually very many people! Actually I like clubs in Spain, mostly because of the music which fits my taste better than in Riga - they mostly play top hits (without too much of bum'bum) and inbetween some local Latino songs! So after spending couple of hours in the club, we returned to the apartment to socialize and get some drinks or in other words to get ready for the second part of the night! That included visiting other clubs in Elche... so far I had been to 3, but there are a lot more (in comparison, in Ogre there are 2, while it is just a bit smaller than Elche). So together with newly met Spanish friends we checked out some 3 more night clubs, but in the end, around 5am, still went to Borroco!
So the next morning, which for me was around 3pm, I just felt tired and decided to sacrifice going to party to Alicante for a good night sleep!
I am actually getting used to the long weekends that I have here - usually it is 3 days, as Mondays are free, but for the last 3 weeks due to fiestas I have had at least 4 free days in a row and as there is nothing much to study in the university.... well, life rocks! 8)
Ok, back to advertising that kills...
ceturtdiena, 2007. gada 18. oktobris
News from my world!
This morning had to wake up at 7am...terrible :p and it got even worse when I discovered that outside it was raining heavily so for 1 moment a thought of skipping the lecture even passed my mind, but as I had a lecture in Financial Operations and we are supposed to have a test next week - could not afford it! However, most part of the lecture I was kind a sleeping, because all we did as a practice for the test was caclulating how much money would we get after a year/6 months/3 months/2 months and 3 days/1 day if we invested 10 000 EUR/15 000 EUR/1 000 000 EUR with simple/compounded interest rate - welcome to FE in Spain! :D
Apart from my studies, which really do not take much time, I have started to do some sports - SWIMMING! :) The pool is some 10min from home, 1 time costs only 3eur (or 1,5eur with abonoments) and you can swim for as much as you want - I Liiike it! ;)
Tomorrow we are having no lectures again as we will celebrate the beginning of the study year (a bit late, but better later than never ;). Not really sure what is gonna happen, but the party is definitely in the list!
Actually we (Erasmus) have an amazing weekend plan - Thursday (today) to Alicante as there are rumors than on Thursdays there are fiestas for Erasmus people and we want to socialize; Friday is University's fiesta and on Saturday we shall go to the usual party - Borocco! So sounds like another tough weekend! :D
Regarding the weather situation - not so good... It is raining every other day, but luckily is it still quite warm, around 22 degrees.
And on Wednesday my first guests shall visit me - wohooo! :)
Warmest greetings,
Ilziii
Apart from my studies, which really do not take much time, I have started to do some sports - SWIMMING! :) The pool is some 10min from home, 1 time costs only 3eur (or 1,5eur with abonoments) and you can swim for as much as you want - I Liiike it! ;)
Tomorrow we are having no lectures again as we will celebrate the beginning of the study year (a bit late, but better later than never ;). Not really sure what is gonna happen, but the party is definitely in the list!
Actually we (Erasmus) have an amazing weekend plan - Thursday (today) to Alicante as there are rumors than on Thursdays there are fiestas for Erasmus people and we want to socialize; Friday is University's fiesta and on Saturday we shall go to the usual party - Borocco! So sounds like another tough weekend! :D
Regarding the weather situation - not so good... It is raining every other day, but luckily is it still quite warm, around 22 degrees.
And on Wednesday my first guests shall visit me - wohooo! :)
Warmest greetings,
Ilziii
svētdiena, 2007. gada 14. oktobris
Tough life of Erasmus...
Woke up an hour ago... yesterday was another tough day for Erasmus people - as it was Saturday and the weather was nice, we were forced to go out and party... even the fact that due to the same reason (that it was Friday and the weather was nice...) we had slept only 4 hours during the previous night could not help... So now the question is - what is open on Sundays??? (as Monday is free for us and the weather is nice) :D
As I do not know how to get video here, just gonna put the link to our obsession: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hru3Kdn7Lfw
Other news - luckily the weather situation has improved here and it seems I am not gonna freeze, so no worries, Bubi! ;) At the moment it is smth like 23 degrees and sun shining bright!
And yeah, love being Erasmus! ;)
Kisses and hugs! :*
Yours,
Ilziii
As I do not know how to get video here, just gonna put the link to our obsession: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hru3Kdn7LfwOther news - luckily the weather situation has improved here and it seems I am not gonna freeze, so no worries, Bubi! ;) At the moment it is smth like 23 degrees and sun shining bright!
And yeah, love being Erasmus! ;)
Kisses and hugs! :*
Yours,
Ilziii
otrdiena, 2007. gada 9. oktobris
Barcelona 2
Yesterday returned from Barcelona - again! :) This time I went there to see my brother&co. After (very) very tiring bus ride which lasted for 8 (!!!) hours on Sunday's morning at 7am I reached Barcelona. Luckily they had seen the main attractions already, so we went up on the hill to enjoy the view and a ride in air tram down to the beach - b-e-a-utiful view on Barcelona from up! :) Later on swam in the sea, visited some restaurants (including one where we tried oysters - I liked ;), tried some sangrias, checked the view on the city from the tower of Sagrada Familia and my brother even went to a football game: Barcelona - Atletico de Madrid. Luckily Barcelona won! :) So after to great and tiring days it was time to enjoy the ride again, this time in train. The train system in Spain is really great - they are new and comfortable, passengers are given earphones for listening music or watching TV - this time they showed Madagascar. The only thing that really got on my nerves was the little monster (black, about 1,5 years old) who was sitting right in front of me and just could not stop screaming... for 6,5 hours!!!
Now developing plan for today - as the weather is cloudy, no beach today, so I should study Spanish but we shall see how that turns out! ;)
By the way, photos to be added when I get them from LV.
And another by the way, if anyone feels like making my day: ;)
Carrer Doctor Sapena 1
Elche 03204
Comunidad Valenciana
Spain
Now developing plan for today - as the weather is cloudy, no beach today, so I should study Spanish but we shall see how that turns out! ;)
By the way, photos to be added when I get them from LV.
And another by the way, if anyone feels like making my day: ;)
Carrer Doctor Sapena 1
Elche 03204
Comunidad Valenciana
Spain
piektdiena, 2007. gada 5. oktobris
Ok, about the trip...
So, it all started with me leaving Alicante on Wednesday evening/night and Kalvi arriving in Barcelona on Thursday morning - we were supposed to meet at the arrival zone of Barcelona's airport at 7.30am on Thursday... however, unfortunately we discovered that we are in different airports! :D Anyway, afterwards everything went well in Barcelona - we went to see Sagrada Familia and Park Guell, two of the most visited tourist attractions in Barcelona...
The next morning - flight to Casablanca! After arriving in the airport we had to fill in some paper with personal information, go through the passport check and we are in AFRICA! A bit of waiting for train, getting taxi to the hotel (5eur for approx. 5km seemed good price so we agreed) and let's go to explore the city! At first we wanted to find the tourist information but as we did not have the map we did not succeed but after getting the map TI was not necessary any more. The first impression - poor people, city stinks quite badly, people through trash wherever as there are no rubbish bins... well, not quite what we expected... We also went into the central market and wanted to buy some cheap Morocco fruits. Well, not cheap for tourists at all - for nectarines seller asks 2,2eur/kilo, so we buy just few to try out, tastes the same. When going back to the hotel, we notice some small bread shop with lots of different breads - very, very tasty... and arabic sweets as well... mmm.... :)
Our hotel room is quite nice - there is a bed, some shelves, TV, bathroom and cleaning lady comes every day.
The 2nd day we decided to spend near the ocean. On the way - Mosque Hassan II (2nd biggest in the world). Do not want to repeat myself, so check draugiem for photos. ;)
Afterwards we took a taxi to the beach - the taxi driver is quite nice, shows us some things on the way and suggests to go to private instead of public beach as it is safer and cooler. But we want to explore the public beach as well! Very few people, ocean quite calm but water very cold, a bit cloudy... ok, lets go to the private beach! Tahiti seems the best choice - not many people, pool, completely blue sky - NICE! :) later on the waves got bigger and the view - more beautiful!
The 3rd day was planned for shopping and the beach, but as we both were very red after the first day, we decided to go just with the shopping. The market is huge - very many people trying to sell everything, not so many people willing to buy something, so they have time to pay attention to everyone. We got to know 3 arabic men - somehow they made us to go to their shop... afterwards it is really hard to get out without buying anything... after selecting some things that we really could buy, the price comes... 700 MAD (65eur) - WoW! A bit too much! But as we had no idea how much we should pay for it, the bargaining was really hard... We managed to get the price down, but still felt like we had overpaid... but that was not it - then we had to go to the shop which was owned by the son of one of them... that is where the Arabic prince got his shirt! During the process of selecting we enjoyed some tea (actually I enjoyed cause Kalvi was scared that there might be some pills in the tea, but there wasn't :p). Again the same story with bargaining - this time from 600 to 200, while as I later found out the normal price is 100! Some more similar stories, but in the end we are really tired of (mean) Arabic people who just want to squeeze everything out of us, so we feel like going back to the developed world - Barcelonaaa... :) but before going back we tried some more of their traditional food in the hotel restaurant and it tasted wonderful! Afterwards we had some small guest in the room - spider/lizard/other insect which spoilt the impression about the hotel a bit, but Hey, it is Africa! ;)
Overall it was very interesting experience - seeing how people live on that side of the world...
The last 2 days of the trip where again in Barcelona, but I hope Kalvi will write more about it cause I am already tired! :p
peace,
ilziii...
The next morning - flight to Casablanca! After arriving in the airport we had to fill in some paper with personal information, go through the passport check and we are in AFRICA! A bit of waiting for train, getting taxi to the hotel (5eur for approx. 5km seemed good price so we agreed) and let's go to explore the city! At first we wanted to find the tourist information but as we did not have the map we did not succeed but after getting the map TI was not necessary any more. The first impression - poor people, city stinks quite badly, people through trash wherever as there are no rubbish bins... well, not quite what we expected... We also went into the central market and wanted to buy some cheap Morocco fruits. Well, not cheap for tourists at all - for nectarines seller asks 2,2eur/kilo, so we buy just few to try out, tastes the same. When going back to the hotel, we notice some small bread shop with lots of different breads - very, very tasty... and arabic sweets as well... mmm.... :)Our hotel room is quite nice - there is a bed, some shelves, TV, bathroom and cleaning lady comes every day.
The 2nd day we decided to spend near the ocean. On the way - Mosque Hassan II (2nd biggest in the world). Do not want to repeat myself, so check draugiem for photos. ;)
Afterwards we took a taxi to the beach - the taxi driver is quite nice, shows us some things on the way and suggests to go to private instead of public beach as it is safer and cooler. But we want to explore the public beach as well! Very few people, ocean quite calm but water very cold, a bit cloudy... ok, lets go to the private beach! Tahiti seems the best choice - not many people, pool, completely blue sky - NICE! :) later on the waves got bigger and the view - more beautiful!
The 3rd day was planned for shopping and the beach, but as we both were very red after the first day, we decided to go just with the shopping. The market is huge - very many people trying to sell everything, not so many people willing to buy something, so they have time to pay attention to everyone. We got to know 3 arabic men - somehow they made us to go to their shop... afterwards it is really hard to get out without buying anything... after selecting some things that we really could buy, the price comes... 700 MAD (65eur) - WoW! A bit too much! But as we had no idea how much we should pay for it, the bargaining was really hard... We managed to get the price down, but still felt like we had overpaid... but that was not it - then we had to go to the shop which was owned by the son of one of them... that is where the Arabic prince got his shirt! During the process of selecting we enjoyed some tea (actually I enjoyed cause Kalvi was scared that there might be some pills in the tea, but there wasn't :p). Again the same story with bargaining - this time from 600 to 200, while as I later found out the normal price is 100! Some more similar stories, but in the end we are really tired of (mean) Arabic people who just want to squeeze everything out of us, so we feel like going back to the developed world - Barcelonaaa... :) but before going back we tried some more of their traditional food in the hotel restaurant and it tasted wonderful! Afterwards we had some small guest in the room - spider/lizard/other insect which spoilt the impression about the hotel a bit, but Hey, it is Africa! ;)
Overall it was very interesting experience - seeing how people live on that side of the world...
The last 2 days of the trip where again in Barcelona, but I hope Kalvi will write more about it cause I am already tired! :p
peace,
ilziii...
sestdiena, 2007. gada 29. septembris
Casablanca
So we are in Casablanca.... :) After the arrival we went to explore the so called city center, but it turned out to be a lot dirtier and not-tourist-frendly as we expected... locals seem not to know what is rubbish bin as they through the dirt wherever and thus the smell in the city is also not appealing... But today was the beach day and that changed the view of the city totally - the beach side is actually quite developed with beautiful building. We also tasted the local food which tasted VERY good and now the two red europeans are enjoying the internet (yes, it has reached even Africa ;).
Good nighty!...
Good nighty!...
trešdiena, 2007. gada 26. septembris
Adios, Amigos!
In 30min I am leaving... to airport... to Barcelona... to Casablanca (Morocco) and then the same way back! September holidays, as I would like to say! ;) So, yeah - we are going to explore the Africa, while YOU - study hard!!! :D Anyway, be back next Wednesday and if the internet has reached Morocco, maybe will let you know how we are doing! ;)
Exccccited... :)
Exccccited... :)
sestdiena, 2007. gada 22. septembris
Girls night out! ;)
Despite the title I will start with what I forgot to add last time. So, as I am in Spain, I am trying to try out the food that it can offer. So far I do not see a big difference between how fruits taste in LV and here, but there are some new things, however.
For example, the other day I tasted a fruit called Paraguaya.
It basically looks like a bit smashed peach and tastes exactly like peach, but anyway - smth new! :)
The other thing that I like here is the choice of olives - there are just so many of them! Black and green, filled with fish, cheese or whatever you can imagine! Mmmm... :p
Ok, but now to more important things!
Yesterday was the right time to check out some clubbing possibilities in Elche! ;) We started with a little pre-party in our place during which we enriched our Spanish vocabulary with some important words as well as we (me and Lizzie) learnt one phrase in French: "Mu numero de telefono es Aa-Aa-Duu!" ...or smth like that. Anyway, the pronunciation of the numbers in french is veeery funny! :D
So here are superb Erasmus Chicas: Emilie (fr), Ilziii, Lizzie (peru/sw), Violen (fr)
And here THE man (Zakari, be) is also trying to get in the photo:
So, after a little warm-up in our place, 4 Erasmus chicas went to Borroco - one of the local night clubs. I must say that here the night life start after 1am, so we got the club at 2am and it was a perfect time, cause people were already there and the party was on! We kind-a did not have to pay for the entrance, but we had to buy one drink in the bar, so basically the entrance is at least 5EUR as that is the price of the cheapest drink there. The music was cool - more or less latino plus some new hits plus a bit of club music. It seemed that the four of us kind a attracted some attention, but it seemed like guys did not really want to talk to us cause we probably do not speak spanish. Well actually one tried, but I really didn't understand what he was saying! :D
We partied till around 5am when our feet where quite tired and we decided to go home, but I think the usual time when the parties end here is around 8am.
The weather destroyed my plan of spending a great day near the see - it has been raining all day today, so I am just chilling at home and trying to push myself to study spanish! :p
Buenas noches!
For example, the other day I tasted a fruit called Paraguaya.
It basically looks like a bit smashed peach and tastes exactly like peach, but anyway - smth new! :)
The other thing that I like here is the choice of olives - there are just so many of them! Black and green, filled with fish, cheese or whatever you can imagine! Mmmm... :p
Ok, but now to more important things!
Yesterday was the right time to check out some clubbing possibilities in Elche! ;) We started with a little pre-party in our place during which we enriched our Spanish vocabulary with some important words as well as we (me and Lizzie) learnt one phrase in French: "Mu numero de telefono es Aa-Aa-Duu!" ...or smth like that. Anyway, the pronunciation of the numbers in french is veeery funny! :D
So here are superb Erasmus Chicas: Emilie (fr), Ilziii, Lizzie (peru/sw), Violen (fr)
And here THE man (Zakari, be) is also trying to get in the photo:
So, after a little warm-up in our place, 4 Erasmus chicas went to Borroco - one of the local night clubs. I must say that here the night life start after 1am, so we got the club at 2am and it was a perfect time, cause people were already there and the party was on! We kind-a did not have to pay for the entrance, but we had to buy one drink in the bar, so basically the entrance is at least 5EUR as that is the price of the cheapest drink there. The music was cool - more or less latino plus some new hits plus a bit of club music. It seemed that the four of us kind a attracted some attention, but it seemed like guys did not really want to talk to us cause we probably do not speak spanish. Well actually one tried, but I really didn't understand what he was saying! :DWe partied till around 5am when our feet where quite tired and we decided to go home, but I think the usual time when the parties end here is around 8am.
The weather destroyed my plan of spending a great day near the see - it has been raining all day today, so I am just chilling at home and trying to push myself to study spanish! :p
Buenas noches!
piektdiena, 2007. gada 21. septembris
Real Latvian Treasure
As I have missed some days of blogging, there are couple of things that I would like to share with you, but I will start with the best moment of today!!! :) ...So, after the lecture which was supposed to end at 17.30 but ended at 16.30 and thus basically took only 30min of my precious time, me and Lizzie thought it would be a good idea to go shopping! ;) What we didn't take into account was that shops open only at 17.30, but the time was well spent in a cafe while drinking Granisado (actually not sure if that is how it is called, cause I forgot again :D anyway, smth like lemon juice with lots of smashed ice and a bit of sugar - very tasty, very refreshing :) anyway, while looking for good shops, at one moment i just felt like buying ice-cream, so we entered the first grocery store on the way. And what do I see there??? Real Latvian treasure - Kārums!!! That just made my day, ate only 1 but will return there for sure.... :) the funny thing, however, was that Lizzie asked the shop-assitant where are all those things in the shop from and the answer was: Russia! Rrrr.... :p but I was happy anyway - got my Kārums and Lithuanian ice-cream! :)
Now back to other important things! Here I would like to share my opinion on shopping opportunities in Elche. The city is not very big, but quite full of shoe-shops and what is more, they are almost all very cheap. The average price of pair of shoes is smth like 10-20 EUR. I have not been so lucky with finding clothing stores, but it seems there are all the big brands: Zara, Mango, Vero Moda, H&M... The prices are lower in Zara, but quite the same in Vero Moda and Mango. maybe a bit lower.
I just couldn't resist of putting this photo... my amazing shoes with my even more amazing sun-glasses ;)
What is more, I have finally more or less selected the courses that I am gonna take:
Another thing that happened today was that I got to know one Spanish guy from my University who approached me when I was going home. For the first time I was talking to Spanish students and - damn, they speak fast! :p Couldn't understand some parts of what he was saying, but he offered to help me if I need anything! Yeah, we will see about that! :D
But overall my spanish is even better than I thought it will be - during the lectures I understand quite well, but it takes time for me to really get what the professor is saying, as I have to translate AND understand... But the Spanish is definitely improving as I am spending quite some time with Lizzie (who speaks very well as I have already mentioned) and my favorite question to her is "Como se dice esto en Español?"
Vale, I definitely forgot smth, but I will be back here soon! ;)
By the way, I was planning to go to the beach tomorrow, but it is raining and it seems it is gonna rain tomorrow as well...
Now back to other important things! Here I would like to share my opinion on shopping opportunities in Elche. The city is not very big, but quite full of shoe-shops and what is more, they are almost all very cheap. The average price of pair of shoes is smth like 10-20 EUR. I have not been so lucky with finding clothing stores, but it seems there are all the big brands: Zara, Mango, Vero Moda, H&M... The prices are lower in Zara, but quite the same in Vero Moda and Mango. maybe a bit lower.
I just couldn't resist of putting this photo... my amazing shoes with my even more amazing sun-glasses ;)
What is more, I have finally more or less selected the courses that I am gonna take:- Spanish Financial System - i think in this course we will study a part of FE that I didn't pay attention to - smth about the work of Financial Institutions and blaa, blaa.. But the professor seems quite interesting and overall not a bad subject!
- Financial Operations - I think it will be basics of FE, just a bit deeper and more mathematics involved. This professor is kind-a a bit strict, but not very - cannot really compare to Peter.
- International Trade or actually I just do not know how to translate it :p - this seems like smth very new for me. We will talk about the international transportations and Customs and the professor is the same as in SFS.
- Commercial Communication - very new for me as it is basically Public Relations. We will have to make quite some tasks/reports there which sounded a bit complicated, but I have Emilie there so we will be fine! :)
- Financial Planning - have not been to this course yet, as I was trying out that Internet Communication, but I guess I will choose this as Lizzie is also taking it and I feel like having a bit more of Finance! :)
Another thing that happened today was that I got to know one Spanish guy from my University who approached me when I was going home. For the first time I was talking to Spanish students and - damn, they speak fast! :p Couldn't understand some parts of what he was saying, but he offered to help me if I need anything! Yeah, we will see about that! :D
But overall my spanish is even better than I thought it will be - during the lectures I understand quite well, but it takes time for me to really get what the professor is saying, as I have to translate AND understand... But the Spanish is definitely improving as I am spending quite some time with Lizzie (who speaks very well as I have already mentioned) and my favorite question to her is "Como se dice esto en Español?"
Vale, I definitely forgot smth, but I will be back here soon! ;)
By the way, I was planning to go to the beach tomorrow, but it is raining and it seems it is gonna rain tomorrow as well...
trešdiena, 2007. gada 19. septembris
Ice-cream instead of Marketing!
Another day has passed... The day started with another lecture of World History, where the lecture just kept giving overviews of the books that we are supposed to read. But at one moment in the lecture I started thinking if World History is subject related to economics and after asking Evita it turned out that it is not... so instead of that I will have to study Spanish Financial System, which suits the requirements better!
Anyway, I was supposed to have my 2nd lecture in the evening and the subject is smth like Strategic Marketing. However, at 18.30 when the lecture was supposed to start, we where 3 Erasmus students and 1 spanish guy in the class.. when after 10min noone else came, even the professor was not there, the guy called his friend and it turned out that the professor is not in the university and no lecture today - I wonder how are students supposed to get to know it if thee are no announcements and no e-mails about it!? But I cannot really say that it made me sad - as we had a free evening, we (me, Emilie and Lizzii) decided to check out some cafe in Glorieta (the central square of Elche) and we found one extremely-tasty-ice-cream place... there were some 20 types of ice-cream and all looked so delicious... As I only tried one (do not know with what it was, but I liked! and not only because I am addicted :p), I will definitely return to that place!
Afterwards we went to check out some palm-tree parks and here are very many of them, but I did not have my camera with me, so the photos will come after the next visit. During the walk we also found out that we would all like to try out dancing salsa! So we went to one place to get some info, and as the teacher seemed quite handsome (kalvi, read:usual ;) maybe we will go there again! :p
Overall it was a really great evening and I got tired of speaking in spanish as it still requires quite some effort from me.. But it is definitely getting easier! ;)
Muchas buchas,
Ilziii
Ps. i also have a local phone number: +34606092116
Pps. Never thought i will say that, but... I miss (a little bit) autumn... in Sigulda...
Anyway, I was supposed to have my 2nd lecture in the evening and the subject is smth like Strategic Marketing. However, at 18.30 when the lecture was supposed to start, we where 3 Erasmus students and 1 spanish guy in the class.. when after 10min noone else came, even the professor was not there, the guy called his friend and it turned out that the professor is not in the university and no lecture today - I wonder how are students supposed to get to know it if thee are no announcements and no e-mails about it!? But I cannot really say that it made me sad - as we had a free evening, we (me, Emilie and Lizzii) decided to check out some cafe in Glorieta (the central square of Elche) and we found one extremely-tasty-ice-cream place... there were some 20 types of ice-cream and all looked so delicious... As I only tried one (do not know with what it was, but I liked! and not only because I am addicted :p), I will definitely return to that place!
Afterwards we went to check out some palm-tree parks and here are very many of them, but I did not have my camera with me, so the photos will come after the next visit. During the walk we also found out that we would all like to try out dancing salsa! So we went to one place to get some info, and as the teacher seemed quite handsome (kalvi, read:usual ;) maybe we will go there again! :p
Overall it was a really great evening and I got tired of speaking in spanish as it still requires quite some effort from me.. But it is definitely getting easier! ;)
Muchas buchas,
Ilziii
Ps. i also have a local phone number: +34606092116
Pps. Never thought i will say that, but... I miss (a little bit) autumn... in Sigulda...
otrdiena, 2007. gada 18. septembris
1st day of school...
Today my wake-up alarm was at 7.00 - reminded me a bit of times when we studied Statistics or FE... Quite cruel I would say, but if taken in to account that lectures are only until 13.30 and there is a possibility to sleep during siesta, then it is ok! ;) btw, just remembered that in Spain noone says ok, so one of the first words that I was thought was Vale! [Bale!] which is kind a equivalent and used very often here!
So the first lecture today was World Economic History during 20th century... Seems that exchange students have a lot better work ethics than spanish students - the lecture was supposed to start at 8.00 and the only people who where there at that time where 3 Erasmus students! After some 5min the professor came and during the next 15min some 5 students also joined us, but still we were very few people there! Besides me and Emilie there was 3rd Exchange student - Lizzi (from Peru although she is studying in university in Sweden and even recognized SSE Riga ;) and as she speaks spanish and english very well, no problems with this subject - she can explain. But overall it seemed kind a boring.. the lecture is good old guy and history-enthusiast... so he wants us to read 5 (!!!) history related book during this semester! So all the lecture he was giving us an overview of the book that are in the list (some 15) out of which we have to choose 5... Right after the lecture I was quite sure that I am not going back there, but Emilie said that she has heard that it is actually quite easy subject as it is possible to read only summaries of the books and make the overviews based on them, so not that bad after all! :)
The second subject that I wanted to try out was Spanish Economics (no, I am not deeply interested in that, but it is just that the choice of the courses is so limited...). Before the lecture professor approached me as I was the only Erasmus student, asked me where am I from and so on - seemed also really nice guy... until he started speaking in front of the class... I did not understand anything!!! All the time I was just hiding behind the back of other student and hoping that he will not ask anything to me! After the lecture my only thought was that it (my understanding of spanish) is gonna get better... because it certainly cannot get any worse!!!
After that, however, my day got just better. I met Ana Isabel (Erasmus coordinator), she showed me around and was surprised of how good I speak spanish! :)
In the evening I had another course which could be translated kind a like Commercialization in Internet. Seems like a bit similar to Economics of Networks, but less theoretical and more practical! The professor was again very nice guy, and as this is the specialization course for Year 5, the atmosphere is very free. And he also suggested having a bit longer lecture on Tuesdays and not having the lecture on Fridays - yuhuu! :))
So overall today I had quite some ups and downs, but now feeling gooood! ;) Vale, now I am gonna read my book that I have bought for educational purposes - Bridget Jones' Diary! But in Spanish! ;)
So the first lecture today was World Economic History during 20th century... Seems that exchange students have a lot better work ethics than spanish students - the lecture was supposed to start at 8.00 and the only people who where there at that time where 3 Erasmus students! After some 5min the professor came and during the next 15min some 5 students also joined us, but still we were very few people there! Besides me and Emilie there was 3rd Exchange student - Lizzi (from Peru although she is studying in university in Sweden and even recognized SSE Riga ;) and as she speaks spanish and english very well, no problems with this subject - she can explain. But overall it seemed kind a boring.. the lecture is good old guy and history-enthusiast... so he wants us to read 5 (!!!) history related book during this semester! So all the lecture he was giving us an overview of the book that are in the list (some 15) out of which we have to choose 5... Right after the lecture I was quite sure that I am not going back there, but Emilie said that she has heard that it is actually quite easy subject as it is possible to read only summaries of the books and make the overviews based on them, so not that bad after all! :)
The second subject that I wanted to try out was Spanish Economics (no, I am not deeply interested in that, but it is just that the choice of the courses is so limited...). Before the lecture professor approached me as I was the only Erasmus student, asked me where am I from and so on - seemed also really nice guy... until he started speaking in front of the class... I did not understand anything!!! All the time I was just hiding behind the back of other student and hoping that he will not ask anything to me! After the lecture my only thought was that it (my understanding of spanish) is gonna get better... because it certainly cannot get any worse!!!
After that, however, my day got just better. I met Ana Isabel (Erasmus coordinator), she showed me around and was surprised of how good I speak spanish! :)
In the evening I had another course which could be translated kind a like Commercialization in Internet. Seems like a bit similar to Economics of Networks, but less theoretical and more practical! The professor was again very nice guy, and as this is the specialization course for Year 5, the atmosphere is very free. And he also suggested having a bit longer lecture on Tuesdays and not having the lecture on Fridays - yuhuu! :))
So overall today I had quite some ups and downs, but now feeling gooood! ;) Vale, now I am gonna read my book that I have bought for educational purposes - Bridget Jones' Diary! But in Spanish! ;)
svētdiena, 2007. gada 16. septembris
Deep blue water...
Today we went to the beach in Alicante again and luckily it did not start raining - we weather was just perfect for doing nothing! :)
It seemed that there are very many tourists/exchange students in Alicante as it was possible to hear many different languages, even Russian! The water of the Mediterranean sea is amazingly blue, beautiful, warm and salty while the sun just keeps shining, so as a result I am kind a very red-ish... but let's see how it looks tomorrow...
The one thing that I haven't managed to get used to is eating habits of people living here... They usually do not eat anything/eat smth very little during the day as they are sleeping their siesta and then they have dinner around 22.00! Weird! At the moment completely unacceptable for me!
Anyway, here are 2 more photos. The beach:
And Zakari (Belgium) and Violen (France) in a motion while I am reading Spanish newspaper:
Cheers!
It seemed that there are very many tourists/exchange students in Alicante as it was possible to hear many different languages, even Russian! The water of the Mediterranean sea is amazingly blue, beautiful, warm and salty while the sun just keeps shining, so as a result I am kind a very red-ish... but let's see how it looks tomorrow...
The one thing that I haven't managed to get used to is eating habits of people living here... They usually do not eat anything/eat smth very little during the day as they are sleeping their siesta and then they have dinner around 22.00! Weird! At the moment completely unacceptable for me!
Anyway, here are 2 more photos. The beach:
And Zakari (Belgium) and Violen (France) in a motion while I am reading Spanish newspaper:
Cheers!
piektdiena, 2007. gada 14. septembris
Mysterious rain and the beach
Today I went for a small city tour and here are some photos:
The city is really full of palm trees and it looks really nice! :)
And here is the central river:
During the walk this weird thing happened - I was enjoying the sunny weather when suddenly I felt water coming down from the sky. At first I thought that someone is spilling the water from the upper floor of the building, but the water was coming down everywhere, so it was like a rain, but there were no clouds in the sky... anyway, seems that there are natural phenomena that I am not familiar with!
In the afternoon we went to the beach in Alicante (40min by bus), but when we got there suddenly it was cloudy and after an hour of waiting for the sun, the rain came!... So we escaped from the beach to McDonalds! :p
Me and Emilie in the beach (not the best photo, but at least you can se that I am really there ;)
In the evening the other French girl (Maria or in real name Violen) came and we made [kalmārs] for dinner - can't really say that I enjoyed.... :p
Listening to Enrique Iglesias,
Ilze
The city is really full of palm trees and it looks really nice! :)And here is the central river:
During the walk this weird thing happened - I was enjoying the sunny weather when suddenly I felt water coming down from the sky. At first I thought that someone is spilling the water from the upper floor of the building, but the water was coming down everywhere, so it was like a rain, but there were no clouds in the sky... anyway, seems that there are natural phenomena that I am not familiar with!In the afternoon we went to the beach in Alicante (40min by bus), but when we got there suddenly it was cloudy and after an hour of waiting for the sun, the rain came!... So we escaped from the beach to McDonalds! :p
Me and Emilie in the beach (not the best photo, but at least you can se that I am really there ;)
In the evening the other French girl (Maria or in real name Violen) came and we made [kalmārs] for dinner - can't really say that I enjoyed.... :pListening to Enrique Iglesias,
Ilze
ceturtdiena, 2007. gada 13. septembris
Luckily arrived!
Finally I am here - the country of Spanish people and the city of palm-trees! 8) So far feeling quite safe with my blonde hair - no one has tried to kidnap me, although it might be just because I have not been much out of the apartment yet!
Luckily there was a room reserved for me by another Erasmus student that I managed to contact before the arrival. So we live in a cute 3 bedroom apartment (5min walk from the university and center of Elche) - me, Emilie from France and Zakari from Belgium (that is guy's name ;). There is another French girl visiting this apartment every day (don't remember her name, but she said that Spanish people also don't so they call here Maria :D ) so we where all sitting on the roof of the building and getting to know each other.
The communication is very interesting. Emilie speaks a bit of English and a bit more of Spanish, Zakari speaks a bit of Spanish and a bit more of English, so the way we are understanding each other could be called Spanglish!
Tomorrow the beach is waiting for me and then I can also probably add some cute photos!
Temperature at 23.00: +26 ;)
Luckily there was a room reserved for me by another Erasmus student that I managed to contact before the arrival. So we live in a cute 3 bedroom apartment (5min walk from the university and center of Elche) - me, Emilie from France and Zakari from Belgium (that is guy's name ;). There is another French girl visiting this apartment every day (don't remember her name, but she said that Spanish people also don't so they call here Maria :D ) so we where all sitting on the roof of the building and getting to know each other.
The communication is very interesting. Emilie speaks a bit of English and a bit more of Spanish, Zakari speaks a bit of Spanish and a bit more of English, so the way we are understanding each other could be called Spanglish!
Tomorrow the beach is waiting for me and then I can also probably add some cute photos!
Temperature at 23.00: +26 ;)
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