Well people, i am happy.
really really happy.
giddily happy.
mmmmmm happiness.
The weekends just keep getting better and better and better for me, things are amazing here. ---> the people are amazing, the places i visit are amazing, the atmosphere everywhere is amazing, its just all amazing. increíble.
and my spanish is getting so much better. i can give you an example even, i felt sooooo happy when a word floated into my head. eva and i were talking about something, and it had a hole in it, and she paused saying something, and i leapt in there with the most random word i´d heard. i had no idea where it came from, it literally floated into my head, agujero. i don´t even remember learning that word.
that was a week or so ago. last night and the night before when i went out with americans (a different group that i normally hang out with) (thursday), and beths spanish friends last night (friday), were more random words popping into my head and i felt really happy. i still do, yay i´m learning!!!!
last night was veeery cool because insteadd of being with a huge crowd of americans speaking english, it was me and beth and about 8 spaniards who we all spoke spanish amongst eachother. aaah that was fun. plus we went across the river to portugalete where there are lots of night clubs and bars where i´d never been before, and we all had a blast. i crawled into bed at 845am :)
everything lately has just been going soooo smoothly. and whats better is that this coming weekend is going to be the shiz-nizzle also! huge halloween party on the 27th (you know how america is big on halloween...) and then going to frankfurt in germany for the weekend!!!!
This place is AMAZING.
Confession: I don´t want to leave. Ever.
Madness
Ok. the photos are kinda out of order. or they are in order depending on how you look at it. hmm that didn´t make sense. but then again neither did the weekend.
so. thursday night went to 2 bars with jaron, alisha, katherine, sarah, beth, brandon. mmmmmm that was fun. met up with dave and ed. jaron and alisha and katherine went home. so did dave. the rest went back to ed/sarah´s house and drank more, kalimotxo to be exact. (a mix of wine and coke - do not fear, i will bring the tradition back to nz). we had the funnyeist time. dancing, laughing, being immature uni students. stayed on beths couch, and got home at 11am.
as you can see from the photos of alllll the coke cups, i kept myself occupied. i was still drunk. very very entertaining. i even made a big piramid on the table and kicked it down. nice action video of that! where did all the cups come from? momo bar. iñigo has all the hook ups. ;)
then at 3 we went to basauri. now, basauri is having huge fiestas this week. and goddamn they know how to party. we walked around the town for a bit (1/2 hour of metro then 15mins by train to get there), then went from bar to bar getting beer and pintxos (tapas, which are small bits of food. i dunno, hard to explain.). there was a huge concert, met more spanish people, followed stray cats to find adequate toilets, dance parties, drinking from porrones (see my photo description on flickr), all my friends dissapearing with guys, dancing, drinking for free because lindsays guy was the bartender, eating breakfast with lindsay, her guy (David) and the owner of that bar at 7am (??), going back to davids place, sleeping on a chair for 1 hour, then making it back home to bed at 1230.
it was madness. the best night i´ve had so far. utterly incredible. woke up at 8pm, and i was told that i´m going out again. so we went back to basauri! but i hadn´t drunken as much as the night before and i wasn´t as pumped up, but still enjoyed what time i had there. went home by myself at 530, and now have the day to recoop. i have absolutely no voice. and my body hurts lol.
but i had an amazing weekend.
i can´t remember what uni is, or homework. heh.
so. thursday night went to 2 bars with jaron, alisha, katherine, sarah, beth, brandon. mmmmmm that was fun. met up with dave and ed. jaron and alisha and katherine went home. so did dave. the rest went back to ed/sarah´s house and drank more, kalimotxo to be exact. (a mix of wine and coke - do not fear, i will bring the tradition back to nz). we had the funnyeist time. dancing, laughing, being immature uni students. stayed on beths couch, and got home at 11am.
as you can see from the photos of alllll the coke cups, i kept myself occupied. i was still drunk. very very entertaining. i even made a big piramid on the table and kicked it down. nice action video of that! where did all the cups come from? momo bar. iñigo has all the hook ups. ;)
then at 3 we went to basauri. now, basauri is having huge fiestas this week. and goddamn they know how to party. we walked around the town for a bit (1/2 hour of metro then 15mins by train to get there), then went from bar to bar getting beer and pintxos (tapas, which are small bits of food. i dunno, hard to explain.). there was a huge concert, met more spanish people, followed stray cats to find adequate toilets, dance parties, drinking from porrones (see my photo description on flickr), all my friends dissapearing with guys, dancing, drinking for free because lindsays guy was the bartender, eating breakfast with lindsay, her guy (David) and the owner of that bar at 7am (??), going back to davids place, sleeping on a chair for 1 hour, then making it back home to bed at 1230.
it was madness. the best night i´ve had so far. utterly incredible. woke up at 8pm, and i was told that i´m going out again. so we went back to basauri! but i hadn´t drunken as much as the night before and i wasn´t as pumped up, but still enjoyed what time i had there. went home by myself at 530, and now have the day to recoop. i have absolutely no voice. and my body hurts lol.
but i had an amazing weekend.
i can´t remember what uni is, or homework. heh.
The Fantasic Four
Well, these are my flat mates. I know you´ve seen Giuseppe and Ashley before, but not Eva, who joined us 2 weeks ago, and is from San Sebastián (1 hour away).
Ok. so. not too much has happened in the nearly 2 weeks... you can see my photo page which shows that i went to the beach on friday, didn´t do much saturday, then went to plentzia via metro (40 mins) which is a small town at the mouth of a river. i went by myself this time, and it was just like i was travelling solo before uni started - it was heaven. i was the only one making decisions, no maps, no this no that, just what i wanted to do. fantastic.
a very nice and tranquill place, i went to the beach there, and fell asleep for a few hours, i was that relaxed. (i´d stayed up until 330 on sat night, watched sweet home alabama and saved! which the last one is a VERY cool movie, you have to see it.) a swim woke me up - the water was quite cold, and then i sat jealously watching a kayaker surf in the waves. i gotta rent me one someday.
this past wednesday, the 12th is a holiday in spain, "Fiesta Nacional de España", basically national day. it was when columbus discovered america or something, and columbus is from spain (his name is actually Cristóbal Colón). so this means drinking time on tuesday night. and man, what a night i had. the most varied in my life.
started at about 10 with a house party where giuseppe (the pasta master) cooked us and 9 others a beautiful meal of pasta, so we drank and ate which was really nice. then we caught the metro to algorta, a neighbourhood 2 neighbourhoods over where a lot of other usac students live, where there was a botellón.
only in spain do they coin a name for "going to a park or public place and drink alcohol bought cheaply at a supermarket". so that was all fun, about 30 people there in a park overlooking the bay. then we caught the metro back (normally the metro closes at 11pm on week nights, but because of fiestas (parties) it closes at 2) and went to Momo bar. lots of people there, lots of spaniards that is. then 5 of us decided to walk to puerto deportivo, which is 15-20 mins away, so that was fun and we danced in a disco for a while. lindsay and i decided to just start walking around, but we didn´t really need to, guys would constantly walk up to us with the line " where are you from?" so we´d explain our life stories a few hundred times. met lots of people that way. ok, when i say people i mean guys. lol. all of this in spanish however :) (Even tho the initial question was in english, we refused to talk in it). we walked back again, and we heard the metro running! we were sure that it stopped at 2, so imagine our surprise when i realised that the metro had just started back up again.... at 6am!
i was meant to go hiking on the wednesday but that meant getting up at 730... something i was not in the right frame of mind to do!!!!! so i blobbed out yesterday, did some much needed homework also :)
not sure of what i´m doing this weekend, or the weekend after, tho i do know that the weekend after that i´m going to frankfurt in germany! wihoo!
Ok. so. not too much has happened in the nearly 2 weeks... you can see my photo page which shows that i went to the beach on friday, didn´t do much saturday, then went to plentzia via metro (40 mins) which is a small town at the mouth of a river. i went by myself this time, and it was just like i was travelling solo before uni started - it was heaven. i was the only one making decisions, no maps, no this no that, just what i wanted to do. fantastic.
a very nice and tranquill place, i went to the beach there, and fell asleep for a few hours, i was that relaxed. (i´d stayed up until 330 on sat night, watched sweet home alabama and saved! which the last one is a VERY cool movie, you have to see it.) a swim woke me up - the water was quite cold, and then i sat jealously watching a kayaker surf in the waves. i gotta rent me one someday.
this past wednesday, the 12th is a holiday in spain, "Fiesta Nacional de España", basically national day. it was when columbus discovered america or something, and columbus is from spain (his name is actually Cristóbal Colón). so this means drinking time on tuesday night. and man, what a night i had. the most varied in my life.
started at about 10 with a house party where giuseppe (the pasta master) cooked us and 9 others a beautiful meal of pasta, so we drank and ate which was really nice. then we caught the metro to algorta, a neighbourhood 2 neighbourhoods over where a lot of other usac students live, where there was a botellón.
only in spain do they coin a name for "going to a park or public place and drink alcohol bought cheaply at a supermarket". so that was all fun, about 30 people there in a park overlooking the bay. then we caught the metro back (normally the metro closes at 11pm on week nights, but because of fiestas (parties) it closes at 2) and went to Momo bar. lots of people there, lots of spaniards that is. then 5 of us decided to walk to puerto deportivo, which is 15-20 mins away, so that was fun and we danced in a disco for a while. lindsay and i decided to just start walking around, but we didn´t really need to, guys would constantly walk up to us with the line " where are you from?" so we´d explain our life stories a few hundred times. met lots of people that way. ok, when i say people i mean guys. lol. all of this in spanish however :) (Even tho the initial question was in english, we refused to talk in it). we walked back again, and we heard the metro running! we were sure that it stopped at 2, so imagine our surprise when i realised that the metro had just started back up again.... at 6am!
i was meant to go hiking on the wednesday but that meant getting up at 730... something i was not in the right frame of mind to do!!!!! so i blobbed out yesterday, did some much needed homework also :)
not sure of what i´m doing this weekend, or the weekend after, tho i do know that the weekend after that i´m going to frankfurt in germany! wihoo!
Yay for Technology!
This is Getxo <<<< click on me!
hmmmm. ok. you see the copywrite google sign in the bottom corner on the right? the actual c in the circle. ok, draw a straight line from there to the minus sign on the zoom toggle thing. got that line? ok now on that line should be a white dot/diamond closest to the c sign. it looks like it has two roads coming off it going to the ne and se???? that is the plaza that i can see from my balcony. so where that white dot is, i´m on the west of the point of the diamond. this photo was taking during the time of a festival because the whiteness is actually the top of a tent. a huge tent. like in my photo :) now, use that zoom in, and you can see my roof!
the university is the large complex above the "digital globe" phrase in the copywrite at the bottom right. (it is a 40-50 minute walk, or a 25 minute bus ride)
the beach where i took one of my favourite photos (see the blog of that title) is the middle beach in the photo, the one with the giant pier shooting off the south end of the beach (pointing nw). (walking along the harbour from my house, it takes about 15 mins to get there)
if you move the map up some more you can see the beach where i surf :) after the right angle point (the biiiig one, hard to miss), its the 3rd beach along. (on the metro it takes 25 mins, the from the metro stop to the beach its a 20 min walk)
Well. thats where i live, and my neighbourhood :) exciting aye!!!!!
and instead of writing about the past week, i´ll just let you enjoy the wonders of google maps :)
hmmmm. ok. you see the copywrite google sign in the bottom corner on the right? the actual c in the circle. ok, draw a straight line from there to the minus sign on the zoom toggle thing. got that line? ok now on that line should be a white dot/diamond closest to the c sign. it looks like it has two roads coming off it going to the ne and se???? that is the plaza that i can see from my balcony. so where that white dot is, i´m on the west of the point of the diamond. this photo was taking during the time of a festival because the whiteness is actually the top of a tent. a huge tent. like in my photo :) now, use that zoom in, and you can see my roof!
the university is the large complex above the "digital globe" phrase in the copywrite at the bottom right. (it is a 40-50 minute walk, or a 25 minute bus ride)
the beach where i took one of my favourite photos (see the blog of that title) is the middle beach in the photo, the one with the giant pier shooting off the south end of the beach (pointing nw). (walking along the harbour from my house, it takes about 15 mins to get there)
if you move the map up some more you can see the beach where i surf :) after the right angle point (the biiiig one, hard to miss), its the 3rd beach along. (on the metro it takes 25 mins, the from the metro stop to the beach its a 20 min walk)
Well. thats where i live, and my neighbourhood :) exciting aye!!!!!
and instead of writing about the past week, i´ll just let you enjoy the wonders of google maps :)
Yay for Helen!
Well, surfing was aweeeeeeeeeeesome. A LOT of fun, thats for sure. Beth and I got to the beach, climbed into cold wetsuits (which i guess was a good thing because it was a really hot day - good for the water!), and went into the water with about 20 others. Only her, me and a Dutch guy hadn´t surfed before and so we had our own tutor. We had long boards, and at first we just got told to try. So i´d lie on my board, paddle, and then once i´d caught the wave you´re meant to then stand up. amazingly, surprising, gobsmackingly, i was able to stand up pretty quickly. There were some people in that group that had been trying for days and still couldn´t, so i feel pretty good!!
one of the (not so good) times i stood up, i then missed my footing, slipped, and fell on my back on my board with my head facing the shore. i then continued to ride the wave on my back while still on the board!!! that was really really funny. jaron and katherine were with the other 17 people, and they were doing really well also, and beth managed near the end to nearly get the hang of it.
i´m definately going to buy a water proof camera to take to tomorrows lesson... although the weather has turned a little miserable...
didn´t go to rugby practice, jackie who i´d be doing it with was sick so i guess i´m going tomorrow :) (jackie plays rugby in the states). had drinking games at home instead - very cool because for the most part they were in spanish with Eva´s friends (my roommate). this was a cool night, we drank then headed to momo where we met up with many morepeople. very good times. even met an aussie that i could hassle!! yay!!!
on saturday a lot of people went to Gernika, but because i didn´t know about this USAC trip i coudln´t go. i would have gone but you had to sign your name up and noone told me about it :( read some more of harry potter 6 in spanish, went to linday´s place who was sick and missing out on the trip and watched a movie, then walked for 2 hours just listening to music and chilling out.
for the past 24 hours apart from sleeping i´ve been eating and reading harry potter. good stuff. just finished it which is the only reason i´m on the interent :) time to do homework now though. this week looks to be uneventful, apart from rugby and surfing. i hope the weather improves!!
one of the (not so good) times i stood up, i then missed my footing, slipped, and fell on my back on my board with my head facing the shore. i then continued to ride the wave on my back while still on the board!!! that was really really funny. jaron and katherine were with the other 17 people, and they were doing really well also, and beth managed near the end to nearly get the hang of it.
i´m definately going to buy a water proof camera to take to tomorrows lesson... although the weather has turned a little miserable...
didn´t go to rugby practice, jackie who i´d be doing it with was sick so i guess i´m going tomorrow :) (jackie plays rugby in the states). had drinking games at home instead - very cool because for the most part they were in spanish with Eva´s friends (my roommate). this was a cool night, we drank then headed to momo where we met up with many morepeople. very good times. even met an aussie that i could hassle!! yay!!!
on saturday a lot of people went to Gernika, but because i didn´t know about this USAC trip i coudln´t go. i would have gone but you had to sign your name up and noone told me about it :( read some more of harry potter 6 in spanish, went to linday´s place who was sick and missing out on the trip and watched a movie, then walked for 2 hours just listening to music and chilling out.
for the past 24 hours apart from sleeping i´ve been eating and reading harry potter. good stuff. just finished it which is the only reason i´m on the interent :) time to do homework now though. this week looks to be uneventful, apart from rugby and surfing. i hope the weather improves!!
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