Lu:
I said I was not going to bed until I had written this post, so here I gooo!
It took us almost a week to start watching the series. Every night we decided to meet up to watch it, we ended up doing something else, actually.
It's said that HIMYM is the best series ever after Friends and it becomes even better in the following seasons -we're just in the first one.
Ted is the main character. He tells the neverending story of howhemethiswife to his children. He is looking for The One For Him, but in the meanwhile he fell in love with Robin, had some one-night stands, listened to Barney's different ways of flirting and so they end up in Phili or wasted,... our daily life, right?
Each episode is great, better than the previous one and so on and on. I couldn't help laughing everytime Barney said "suit up!" or "It's going to be... legen-DARY!!" x___D
We watch the series in OV, that is in American English, covering with a towel the Spanish subtitles ;) If you want to download it, click here. The stuff learnt up to the S01E11: chicken out, suit up, under one condition, flip someone off, toast & set someone on fire. Awesome! =)
[...I'm like Ted, just looking for the right fish in the huge ocean. And when it seemed I've found someone, he doesn't give me any chances. Great, huh?...]
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Cooking
Adri:
We will end up as chefs of something similar...We are doing a lot of stuff related with housework, but for sure the one that has given us the best results has been cooking. At the beginning it was a little bit tough. We started cooking simple things like chicken or rice in the frying pan (a bad idea, but when we found out that the frying pan was quite adherent it was too late. Almost three hours of washing up and fight with the sticking rice was the punishment). The stuff we cokeed turned out to be eatable, though. Below, an example of how the chicken was like could be seen. It has to be taken into account that this was the first meal we cooked together:
But the days went on and we improved, as always happens in the stories of the self-made people xD. Take the cans: The first time I tried to open one with a can opener it proved impossible. In my defence, I should say that it was the cheapest can opener of ASDA. Lu, with no few difficulties succeced at opening it. But something was pending between me and the cans and the following day that a can needed to be opened I tried. I failed miserably xD. And so happened the third time. But at the forth attemp I made it! And in one single round, doing a perfect circle! Nowadays I'm better at can opening than Lu but she doesn't want me to remind this, so I'll rather keep quiet. The point is that we were improving in cooking and here is another example of that, a healthy dish of scrambled eggs with pepper:
Then, we realized that making every night the meal was harsh, so we decided to join my flatmates so that each day one of us will cooked for the other five. Well, at the beginning we were five, now it's seven xD. The thing is that each os us tried to do its best, spaghetti, fajitas, rice with chicken, fried chicken...even roast dinner! In all fairness I should say that it was delicious. Well everyone did its best except for Ryan and Steven who did precooked pizza in the oven. And last Wednesday our turn arrived and we did paella. It seems logical: the Spanish guys make something from Spain. So we did paella. Well,kind of because we couldn't find coloring and it was white, but everybody liked it! It was a complete success. Was so big the success that, unfortunately, we are going to dissapoint them this week xD. To prove my words, here is the photo of me dealing with the paella:
At that's all for today. In following numbers of this Erasmus magazine we'll tell more about our progress in cooking, if so. Have a good meal tonight! (cause we will).
We will end up as chefs of something similar...We are doing a lot of stuff related with housework, but for sure the one that has given us the best results has been cooking. At the beginning it was a little bit tough. We started cooking simple things like chicken or rice in the frying pan (a bad idea, but when we found out that the frying pan was quite adherent it was too late. Almost three hours of washing up and fight with the sticking rice was the punishment). The stuff we cokeed turned out to be eatable, though. Below, an example of how the chicken was like could be seen. It has to be taken into account that this was the first meal we cooked together:
But the days went on and we improved, as always happens in the stories of the self-made people xD. Take the cans: The first time I tried to open one with a can opener it proved impossible. In my defence, I should say that it was the cheapest can opener of ASDA. Lu, with no few difficulties succeced at opening it. But something was pending between me and the cans and the following day that a can needed to be opened I tried. I failed miserably xD. And so happened the third time. But at the forth attemp I made it! And in one single round, doing a perfect circle! Nowadays I'm better at can opening than Lu but she doesn't want me to remind this, so I'll rather keep quiet. The point is that we were improving in cooking and here is another example of that, a healthy dish of scrambled eggs with pepper:
Then, we realized that making every night the meal was harsh, so we decided to join my flatmates so that each day one of us will cooked for the other five. Well, at the beginning we were five, now it's seven xD. The thing is that each os us tried to do its best, spaghetti, fajitas, rice with chicken, fried chicken...even roast dinner! In all fairness I should say that it was delicious. Well everyone did its best except for Ryan and Steven who did precooked pizza in the oven. And last Wednesday our turn arrived and we did paella. It seems logical: the Spanish guys make something from Spain. So we did paella. Well,kind of because we couldn't find coloring and it was white, but everybody liked it! It was a complete success. Was so big the success that, unfortunately, we are going to dissapoint them this week xD. To prove my words, here is the photo of me dealing with the paella:
At that's all for today. In following numbers of this Erasmus magazine we'll tell more about our progress in cooking, if so. Have a good meal tonight! (cause we will).
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
When Adri is wasted, everyfink becomes funnier
Lu:
You won't believe that, but I promise you, it's been real fun!
Everything has started quite boring... going to the library to find out some books to Translation Portfolio, which took us 3 hours, defrosting the trout for the paella, wasting time deciding if it was worth it to photocopy Japanese for busy people or to buy it (we'll finally make the copies :p),...
But at 16:30 we've started cooking the paella -we have a calendar with the flatmates so every day one of us cook and the one who cooked the day before washes- Ella and Sarah already says how good it smelled =) And so it tasted! The girls liked it that much, they asked us for cooking the rest of the nights haha nop
We had the Digby supper, so we couldn't try our own paella T__T But we kept some in our tupperwares for tomorrow lunch ;) it won't be the same, but at least we don't waste food ^o^
And the supper... is been amazing (or sugoi in Japanese). We sit next to Julie, the Austrian girl we met in the BBQ the other day, and she introduced us to her friends, LaToya (from Virgin Islands), Robin (from Nebraska), Nikita (Indian) and Tomomi, who we had already met in the BBQ as well. And we've had free dinner and so free wine and Adri couldn't resist the temptation... so... we all have had fun. A bunch of laughs, photos, a pool, nice chats,... and when coming back to take my bag, Adri's flatmates were awake and we've been talking for a while, laughing at the state of Adrian and suggesting the same for Friday, the traffic night party!!
We'll see.
It's been a good day ^o^
Although... I've missed RP hum
You won't believe that, but I promise you, it's been real fun!
Everything has started quite boring... going to the library to find out some books to Translation Portfolio, which took us 3 hours, defrosting the trout for the paella, wasting time deciding if it was worth it to photocopy Japanese for busy people or to buy it (we'll finally make the copies :p),...
But at 16:30 we've started cooking the paella -we have a calendar with the flatmates so every day one of us cook and the one who cooked the day before washes- Ella and Sarah already says how good it smelled =) And so it tasted! The girls liked it that much, they asked us for cooking the rest of the nights haha nop
We had the Digby supper, so we couldn't try our own paella T__T But we kept some in our tupperwares for tomorrow lunch ;) it won't be the same, but at least we don't waste food ^o^
And the supper... is been amazing (or sugoi in Japanese). We sit next to Julie, the Austrian girl we met in the BBQ the other day, and she introduced us to her friends, LaToya (from Virgin Islands), Robin (from Nebraska), Nikita (Indian) and Tomomi, who we had already met in the BBQ as well. And we've had free dinner and so free wine and Adri couldn't resist the temptation... so... we all have had fun. A bunch of laughs, photos, a pool, nice chats,... and when coming back to take my bag, Adri's flatmates were awake and we've been talking for a while, laughing at the state of Adrian and suggesting the same for Friday, the traffic night party!!
We'll see.
It's been a good day ^o^
Although... I've missed RP hum
Monday, 28 September 2009
Cosas que he hecho de la lista de cosas que deben hacerse
Adri:
Sin que sirva de precedente, voy a escribir esta entrada en español. He aquí una lista las cosas que he hecho de una lista de cosas que debía hacer bien en mi vida bien mientras estoy en UK:
Sin que sirva de precedente, voy a escribir esta entrada en español. He aquí una lista las cosas que he hecho de una lista de cosas que debía hacer bien en mi vida bien mientras estoy en UK:
- Irse sin pagar de un restaurante: No lo conseguí en Sevilla en aquella pizzería de Triana con Javi, pero lo conseguí aquí en un fish&chips regentado por unos chinos. Aunque la verdad es que fue más por el empanamiento de la que me servía que por alguna astuta maniobra de despite.
- Ajustar el reloj del móvil con la hora del Big Ben: Será un topicazo, pero al menos ahora siempre que disctuo con Lu sobre si llega tarde o no, estoy seguro de llevar la razón.
- Comprar un póster de Chuck Norris: Aunque lo tengo doblado, para centrarme en lo importante que son los Hechos de Chuck Norris.
- Ir en el mismo avión que un famoso: ¿Farruquito cuenta, no?
- Ver un zorro: En realidad, ya he visto dos con el de esta mañana.
- Utilizar la lavadora y planchar después la ropa: Voy a acabar hecho todo un amo de casa.
- Hacerse fotos chorra frente a monumentos emblemáticos: El día del Photo Frenzy cumplió las expectativas de sobra.
- Salir todo un piso a la calle en medio de la noche por una falsa alarma de incendios: La colección de pijamas fue reseñable, aunque hacía un frío que pelaba.
- Unirse a una society: En verdad, a 4 cosa así.
- Ir a Camden y no comprar nada.
- Hacerse una foto con un símbolo del Tube.
- Abrir una lata de comida con un abrelatas de los más baratos: Lourdes sabía la maña, yo no y tuve que sudar mucho para abrirla, pero finalmente lo conseguí.
- Que me tomen por inglés después de haber hablado: En este caso fue por una española pero si consigo que me tome por un inglés alguien que sea inglés, habré logrado el gran objetivo de todo intérprete.
Sunday, 27 September 2009
Freshers' week is over
Lu:
¡Vaya pedazo de semana en Roehampton University! La freshers' week es la semana de iniciación aquí, cuando empieza a llegar gente al campus, se instalan, se conocen (normalmente en Belfry, el bar de nuestro college) y se organizan fiestas todas las noches. Por las mañanas, en el césped había montada una carpa con varias actividades según el día; como la venta de pósters (tengo uno de Friends y otro de Kill Bill en mi cuarto, Adri se llevó uno de Chuck Norris) o la fair, donde te apuntabas a distintos grupos de interés según tu personalidad. Estos grupos, llamados societies, tienen un montón de actividades todos los meses, semanas, etc. y como los días de clase brillan por su ausencia (yo solo tengo 9 horas de clase a la semana, sin contar las tutorías de Translation Portfolio) pues me dio un ataque de locura y me apunté a film, alternative culture, Japanese culture, international, give it a go y Blue Arrow.
De estos ajetreados días cabe destacar la noche que quedamos con Dane Cobain y sus flatmates, Michael y Sam, en Belfry para jugar al billar (noche que aprendimos palabras como back up to o squeeze up). El jueves era el día de la famosa y temida registration, pero todo resultó salir más o menos bien -me queda un papel con mi coordinadora española y listo- y ya tenemos nuestra ID card que nos identifica como estudiantes de Roehampton ^^ La noche del jueves era el fraud fest, un concierto en el que actuaban bandas tan conocidas como Maybe Winehoues, Antarctic Monkeys y Kins of Leon xD Oh diox, los Antarctic me encantaron, yo creo que cuando vea a los de verdad en persona ¡¡me da un algo!! Antes de irnos a la carpa del concierto, estuvimos Adri, Eli y yo con las noruegas, una sueca y dos francesas en la habitación de una de ellas porque nos invitó a chupitos :D Y el viernes por la tarde... pusimos nuestra primera lavadora (dos horas pa poner una puñetera lavadora de color y otra blanca, ¡joder!), sin desteñir nada, pero con una secadora que no secaba y claro, pues teníamos la habitación llena de la ropa húmeda. A mí no se me ocurrió nada mejor que poner la toalla de baño encima de la cama... me teníais que ver por la noche dándole al edredón mojado con el secador x___D Y de ese "gran" viernes cabe destacar nuestra interesante charla con Sarah, compi de piso de Adri, que resultó ser una believer from head to toe y la fan #1 de Westlife y nos enseñó palabras como chocoholic y cheesy.
Hoy hemos estado todo el día en en el centro, llevo despierta desde las 9 de la mañana y nos hemos
pateado el Tate Modern y Camden Town.
En un principio fuimos al Tate con Kine, Line y Naoko, pero en la segunda sala ya las habíamos perdido de vista (¡no se paraban a leer las notas!), así que hoy no ha sido un día muy provechoso lingüísticamente hablando. De entre los cuadros/autores que más me gustaron o llamaron la atención están: Paul Nash, Salvador Dalí, este que veis a la izquierda es de Edward Burra y me recuerda a un videojuego de aventura gráfica. Me extrañó un montòn ver un intestino en un marco, pero resulta que sí era un intestino y un clítoris y de todo ahí metido en un espacio reducido xD Esta obra era de Trevelian. Portrait of a doctor, de Francis Picabia, me hizo mucha gracia porque por lo visto en un principio era el retrato de un doctor con una calavera, pero como no vendía, lo cambió un poco y puso penes alrededor y tal xD Las treinta piezas de plata de Cornelia Parker, The pack, de Joseph Beuys, la pornografía de Paul McCarthy daba asco, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Günter Brus y su Run through of an action, me quedé to loca con la gigantesca obra de Robert Therrien y
John Latham.
También moló tela la escultura Venus of the rags, el título de una obra que consistía en una palmera tirada en el suelo de una de las habitaciones del Tate, Palm Sunday, el Self burial de Keith Arnatt, me hizo gracia la cantidad de material pornográfico visual en el corto de Yvonne Rainer, Hand movie, la cantidad de publicidad que le hicieron a la muñeca manga Ann Lee de Richard Phillips, el cuadro que era cómic Whaam!, de Roy Lichtenstein y el último cuadro que estuve admirando un rato fue The end de Ed Ruscha =)
Y por último nos fuimos a Camden Town a ver una exhibición de skate que se había acabado hacía cinco horas xD Así que nos quedamos Eli, Adri y yo por el mercadillo dando vueltas, viendo puestecillos y tal, a Adri le impresionó y yo me compré una mochila que me hacía falta para el curso, ya que la mía no me la pude traer porque no cabía en mi maleta :S El mercadillo era mucho más grande que cuando fui este verano, pero es porque era sábado y es el día grande de Camden. Me acordé de los housekeepers cuando cruzamos el puente para la zona subterránea y les enseñé la tienda de Cyberdog, que debe ser el culmen de la civilización makoy británica. Estuvimos paseando por el barrio, entramos en un Sainsbury's (L)! y nos compramos batido de plátano a falta del de vainilla (¿por qué no se comercializa aquí la vainilla? U¬¬). Y luego nos cogimos el 27 hasta Hammersmith, tardamos una hora, y desde allí el 72 hasta Roehampton.
Y aquí estoy, muerta de sueño, después de este día agotador, pero con la barriga llena después de habernos comido macarrones con gambas y champiñones rehogados en cebolla picada ¡ñam ñam!
PD: Ni en Londres me libro de quemar el pan...
¡Vaya pedazo de semana en Roehampton University! La freshers' week es la semana de iniciación aquí, cuando empieza a llegar gente al campus, se instalan, se conocen (normalmente en Belfry, el bar de nuestro college) y se organizan fiestas todas las noches. Por las mañanas, en el césped había montada una carpa con varias actividades según el día; como la venta de pósters (tengo uno de Friends y otro de Kill Bill en mi cuarto, Adri se llevó uno de Chuck Norris) o la fair, donde te apuntabas a distintos grupos de interés según tu personalidad. Estos grupos, llamados societies, tienen un montón de actividades todos los meses, semanas, etc. y como los días de clase brillan por su ausencia (yo solo tengo 9 horas de clase a la semana, sin contar las tutorías de Translation Portfolio) pues me dio un ataque de locura y me apunté a film, alternative culture, Japanese culture, international, give it a go y Blue Arrow.De estos ajetreados días cabe destacar la noche que quedamos con Dane Cobain y sus flatmates, Michael y Sam, en Belfry para jugar al billar (noche que aprendimos palabras como back up to o squeeze up). El jueves era el día de la famosa y temida registration, pero todo resultó salir más o menos bien -me queda un papel con mi coordinadora española y listo- y ya tenemos nuestra ID card que nos identifica como estudiantes de Roehampton ^^ La noche del jueves era el fraud fest, un concierto en el que actuaban bandas tan conocidas como Maybe Winehoues, Antarctic Monkeys y Kins of Leon xD Oh diox, los Antarctic me encantaron, yo creo que cuando vea a los de verdad en persona ¡¡me da un algo!! Antes de irnos a la carpa del concierto, estuvimos Adri, Eli y yo con las noruegas, una sueca y dos francesas en la habitación de una de ellas porque nos invitó a chupitos :D Y el viernes por la tarde... pusimos nuestra primera lavadora (dos horas pa poner una puñetera lavadora de color y otra blanca, ¡joder!), sin desteñir nada, pero con una secadora que no secaba y claro, pues teníamos la habitación llena de la ropa húmeda. A mí no se me ocurrió nada mejor que poner la toalla de baño encima de la cama... me teníais que ver por la noche dándole al edredón mojado con el secador x___D Y de ese "gran" viernes cabe destacar nuestra interesante charla con Sarah, compi de piso de Adri, que resultó ser una believer from head to toe y la fan #1 de Westlife y nos enseñó palabras como chocoholic y cheesy.
Hoy hemos estado todo el día en en el centro, llevo despierta desde las 9 de la mañana y nos hemos
pateado el Tate Modern y Camden Town.
En un principio fuimos al Tate con Kine, Line y Naoko, pero en la segunda sala ya las habíamos perdido de vista (¡no se paraban a leer las notas!), así que hoy no ha sido un día muy provechoso lingüísticamente hablando. De entre los cuadros/autores que más me gustaron o llamaron la atención están: Paul Nash, Salvador Dalí, este que veis a la izquierda es de Edward Burra y me recuerda a un videojuego de aventura gráfica. Me extrañó un montòn ver un intestino en un marco, pero resulta que sí era un intestino y un clítoris y de todo ahí metido en un espacio reducido xD Esta obra era de Trevelian. Portrait of a doctor, de Francis Picabia, me hizo mucha gracia porque por lo visto en un principio era el retrato de un doctor con una calavera, pero como no vendía, lo cambió un poco y puso penes alrededor y tal xD Las treinta piezas de plata de Cornelia Parker, The pack, de Joseph Beuys, la pornografía de Paul McCarthy daba asco, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Günter Brus y su Run through of an action, me quedé to loca con la gigantesca obra de Robert Therrien y John Latham.
También moló tela la escultura Venus of the rags, el título de una obra que consistía en una palmera tirada en el suelo de una de las habitaciones del Tate, Palm Sunday, el Self burial de Keith Arnatt, me hizo gracia la cantidad de material pornográfico visual en el corto de Yvonne Rainer, Hand movie, la cantidad de publicidad que le hicieron a la muñeca manga Ann Lee de Richard Phillips, el cuadro que era cómic Whaam!, de Roy Lichtenstein y el último cuadro que estuve admirando un rato fue The end de Ed Ruscha =)
Y por último nos fuimos a Camden Town a ver una exhibición de skate que se había acabado hacía cinco horas xD Así que nos quedamos Eli, Adri y yo por el mercadillo dando vueltas, viendo puestecillos y tal, a Adri le impresionó y yo me compré una mochila que me hacía falta para el curso, ya que la mía no me la pude traer porque no cabía en mi maleta :S El mercadillo era mucho más grande que cuando fui este verano, pero es porque era sábado y es el día grande de Camden. Me acordé de los housekeepers cuando cruzamos el puente para la zona subterránea y les enseñé la tienda de Cyberdog, que debe ser el culmen de la civilización makoy británica. Estuvimos paseando por el barrio, entramos en un Sainsbury's (L)! y nos compramos batido de plátano a falta del de vainilla (¿por qué no se comercializa aquí la vainilla? U¬¬). Y luego nos cogimos el 27 hasta Hammersmith, tardamos una hora, y desde allí el 72 hasta Roehampton.Y aquí estoy, muerta de sueño, después de este día agotador, pero con la barriga llena después de habernos comido macarrones con gambas y champiñones rehogados en cebolla picada ¡ñam ñam!
PD: Ni en Londres me libro de quemar el pan...
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Actually, we are happy with only a few things
Adri:
This day has been sick (which actually means good). It began filling papers and consoulting doubts about the registration though. We have filled the paper for the NHS, we have met Claire Burke again, who was very nice with us and answers all our questions with only one phrase: All that has to do with the registration should be done on Thursday, or later on.
It was the afternoon what was sick. We cooked a "revuelto" with things like tunna, mushrooms, tomatoes, cheese and lots of pepper, that turned out to taste good (in fact it tasted more like pepper, but it was good though) xD. After that, Lu wanted to go to some London quarter in order to get to know something appart from the city center. Eli suggested Brick Lane (not Green Lane xD) the Indian quarter and Lu sent an email to all the people that we know to go with us, but at the end we only were four and plans were changed. There was a barbeque in the main ground of Digby Stuart, so there we went. Naoko, another Japanese, a Taiwanese and an Austrian were on a table and we sat together.
Some English like Steven and a black girl joined some extent of our conversation, and I was enjoying the day. The most funny part of it comes here, though. We needed the photo of someones who looked like a celebrity for the photo frenzy and since the competition day we thought on Dani who is quite similar to Robert Pattison, the main actor of Twilight. But to get the jury know that we did some extra caracterizing on Dani, looking for pale makeup and a proper shirt xD. That process and the photo session were very funny. Also the final result was quite close, judge by ourselves:
And another one with some crazy fans to make it more realistic, that shot was a good one (because I did it, obviously xD).
Then we went to the pub as always to chat with whoever we meet there. I played pool for free, but only with the red balls, they were the ruins of a match between Dani and David, who ended up winning although having the red balls, because Dani slipped the black ball in the wrong hole. We talked with the other japanese girl whose name happens to be Totomi and who have a pretty funny tag, because after every phrase spoken by us she said wooo xD.
The day cames to an end going to Lee House to see Naoko's room, that was awfully big, compared with ours, and searching for a party for half and hour. We were so encouraged in the searching that when we finally found it we returned back home, bacause it wasn't such enjoyable. Looking for more days like this, that's for sure. Cause actually people are happy with only a few things.
This day has been sick (which actually means good). It began filling papers and consoulting doubts about the registration though. We have filled the paper for the NHS, we have met Claire Burke again, who was very nice with us and answers all our questions with only one phrase: All that has to do with the registration should be done on Thursday, or later on.
It was the afternoon what was sick. We cooked a "revuelto" with things like tunna, mushrooms, tomatoes, cheese and lots of pepper, that turned out to taste good (in fact it tasted more like pepper, but it was good though) xD. After that, Lu wanted to go to some London quarter in order to get to know something appart from the city center. Eli suggested Brick Lane (not Green Lane xD) the Indian quarter and Lu sent an email to all the people that we know to go with us, but at the end we only were four and plans were changed. There was a barbeque in the main ground of Digby Stuart, so there we went. Naoko, another Japanese, a Taiwanese and an Austrian were on a table and we sat together.
Some English like Steven and a black girl joined some extent of our conversation, and I was enjoying the day. The most funny part of it comes here, though. We needed the photo of someones who looked like a celebrity for the photo frenzy and since the competition day we thought on Dani who is quite similar to Robert Pattison, the main actor of Twilight. But to get the jury know that we did some extra caracterizing on Dani, looking for pale makeup and a proper shirt xD. That process and the photo session were very funny. Also the final result was quite close, judge by ourselves:
And another one with some crazy fans to make it more realistic, that shot was a good one (because I did it, obviously xD).
Then we went to the pub as always to chat with whoever we meet there. I played pool for free, but only with the red balls, they were the ruins of a match between Dani and David, who ended up winning although having the red balls, because Dani slipped the black ball in the wrong hole. We talked with the other japanese girl whose name happens to be Totomi and who have a pretty funny tag, because after every phrase spoken by us she said wooo xD.
The day cames to an end going to Lee House to see Naoko's room, that was awfully big, compared with ours, and searching for a party for half and hour. We were so encouraged in the searching that when we finally found it we returned back home, bacause it wasn't such enjoyable. Looking for more days like this, that's for sure. Cause actually people are happy with only a few things.
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Getting used to the British way of life
Lu:
Siento haber tardado tanto en volver a escribir, pero los días han sido muy busy en Roehampton y más concretamente en Digby Stuart, nuestro college.
¿Cuándo dejé de escribir? Probablemente el viernes ¡y han pasado muchas cosas desde entonces! A ver... el sábado nos prepararon una actividad a los international students llamada Photo Frenzy. Consistía en darnos pistas y una Kodak e ir por el centro de Londres haciendo fotos de los monumentos de los que hablaban en las pistas. Teníamos que fotografiarnos 7 de los 8 integrantes del grupo. Esta foto la hice yo, enfrente de Saint Paul's Cathedral (donde justo al lado estaba la sede de la Salvation Army xD). Y la de más abajo, Adri (imitábamos a Eros en Piccadilly :P). El objetivo principal era hacer amigos y que nos fuéramos relacionando con el sistema de transporte público londinense y creo que cumplimos la meta :D
De hecho, luego nos fuimos al Soho a tomarnos unas pintas. Acabamos reventaos, pero los cuatro españoles nos fuimos a mi cuarto a ver The fifth element.
El domingo llegaron los British a Roehampton. Yo me fui con Naoko y Eli a Putney Bridge a hacernos con una sim card y a comprar provisiones en el Sainsbury's. Al final soy de T-mobile ^_^
Nos bajamos al césped a conocernos entre todos los de mi bloque y nos llevaron al bar (qué raro, ¿no? :P). Luego charla del director de Digby y otra vez al bar, pero esta vez TODO DIGBY STUART.
Fue raro. Los británicos solo se te acercaban para preguntarte lo típico de you alright? Y no decían nada más, la verdad. Te pedían la edad, nombre, estudios y si vivías o no en el campus. Luego te daban una excusa pobre y se iban a conocer a más gente. En fin. Nadie con quien profundizar. David se fue con Naoko la mayor parte del tiempo. Las noruegas son de Froebel (otro college) así que estaban en el bar de allí y no las vi :( Y cuando se me acercaban un grupo de chicas y se me presentaban, lo hacían para luego ponerse a hablar con Dani U¬¬ No me lo pasé muy allá, aunque sí que es verdad que conocí a mucha gente y constaté que las inglesas son unas easy y están colgadísimas. Pero al final de la noche, nos fuimos Eli, Adri y yo en busca de presas con las que hablar en inglés xD Y dimos con un tal Dane Cobain, Sean y Mike. Los únicos majos de la noche, in my book. Se quedaron hablando cerca de una hora con nosotros de todo un poco ^_^
Hoy otra charla sobre seguridad, convivencia, societies, chapliancy,... luego a mandar el certificado de llegada a la UPO, hacer el PAT-testing y comprarme un ticket de los de la Fresher's week para el jueves. Iremos a un concierto :D Cuando les he dicho a mis flatmates que solo voy al concierto del jueves -toda la semana hay actividades y fiestas y eso- se me han quedado en plan: ¿¿¿¡SOLO!??? ¿Pero tú sabes lo que es la fresher's week! ¿Y vosotras lo que es el dinero? Luego claro, me dijeron que se lo habían pagado sus madres, ¡no te jode! Pero bueno, en vez de echarme la siesta (y eso que me hacía falta, llevo sin dormirla desde que llegué al país) me puse a hablar con ellas y a socializarme y la verdad es que son muy majas =) Me han enseñado a hacer baked potatoes with beans and cheese *o* Y le he pedido a Naoko que me enseñe a cocinar onigiri ;)
Poco más que contar...
Las compañeras de Adri nos han invitado a una fiesta en su flat el viernes (¿o era el sábado?) y hemos ido a ver una peli de gratis; The boat that rocked. Y luego al bar a tomarnos unas cervezas y a hablar con los colegas. Hemos invitado a Eli a cenar y me ha llamado Dani al móvil (es que tengo que transcribirlo porque ha sido mítico x_D):
*Veo que me llama un número inglés*
L- Hi?
X- Hi... ehhh
*Me imagino que es español y deduzco que debía ser Dani*
D- Ehhh... bueno...
L- ¿Dani?
D- ¿Lourdes?
L- ¿Sí?
D- ¿Por qué esta cerrado el bar?
L- Bueno, porque cierra a las 23.
[...]
xD En fin. Eso es todo. La próxima será Adri quien os informe, me voy a la cama. NANAIT!!
Etiquetas:
Erasmus,
Friends,
London,
Lu,
UK Network Operators
Friday, 18 September 2009
We've arrived in Roehampton!
Adri:
Well, actually we've arrived here yesterday. My parents and two of my friends come with me to the airport to say goodbye to me. It made the farewell very funny. When I get to the airport Lu was there yet with her mother. We we're worried because our baggage was 2 kilos heavier than the maximum, but the Vueling employee didn't mind about it and we went into the plane without further problems. And we knew that the plane travel was going to be safe: It is said that when you go in a plane with a famous person nothing can happen to you because it has never ocurred that a famous person get killed in an aircrash, or in a massive terrorist act so as Farruquito was in the plane, we were safe xD. Lu didn't recognize him at first but when I told her, she realized that it was him, but she didn't seem happier because she hates Farruquito xD.
I was in the front part of the plane, near the window. I was worried because next to me was sit an English couple (well, more or less, because she looked Chinese) and I didn't understand a bit of their conversation. And I'm going to be a translator. That should ashamed me xD. Vueling displayed some videos but it was useless because I ended up sleeping. After that I experienced my first time in a turbulence area! It was not that amazing, but you know, they are turbulences anyway. So we arrived safe to Heathrow and we passed trought the European queue that was pretty fast in comparison with the international queue.
In Heathrow we met the Roehampton staff that told us to go to a precise metting point. At first we were a few but mre people were coming later. There we proved that Spaniards are a plague. Of the 20 students that were there, 15 come from Spain. Studying English in England is almost impossible xD. But decided as we are to met foreigners, we tried to mix with the people who look less as a Spaniard. We met a Japanese girl, that made Lu and I say "¡ Qué mona!" at the same time xD. And also two Norwegian girls whose names rhyme, Kina and Lina xD.
And logically, we ended up waaay tired. So after a trip of one hour trought Southwest London, we arrived at Roehampton, where we were given bedding packs and a sandwich, and we went to bed in order to be prepared for the long following journey.
Lu:
After having spent one terrible night, the dorm reminds me of Reichel and now I don't have a roommate so it's kinda awkward... I was full of energy again. I had breakfast with Adri (two tiny energy bars and water, sick! meaning cool :p) and then we went right straight to Duchesne, there it was the meeting point to take a tour around the University. An American would say: AWESOME. It's really really really big, incredible, surrounded by forest, squirrels all around (L),... it's magic, it's... well, I have run out of words, it's really amazing, actually.
After the tour, we were given a conference, which Adrián missed, about how to get information about everything if you're lost. The University staff is very helpful with the students, which I admire and like and they seem, so far they are, ready to help you whenever you need it.
We met more Spanish students (how can it be possible???!!! We break in statistics!), and a girl told us to get a SIM card for free in Newman, so there we went! We took the card, in fact, but we haven't put units on it. The company they were advertising was NOMI... a rare one. I still want the T-mobile one :D
Well... until 15pm we had some spare time, we take advantage of it eating, as we were starving xD Some biscuits and an apple was everything we had so... lalalaaaa But we could go to ASDA to buy provisions, thank God -or the Roehampton staff ;) There I had a problem purchasing my hair mousse, didn't know that that "foam" was called mousse xD But there it was my Norwegian friend Kina to help me ^_^
And tomorrow I continue, now, I need to sleep.
NANAIT!!
Well, actually we've arrived here yesterday. My parents and two of my friends come with me to the airport to say goodbye to me. It made the farewell very funny. When I get to the airport Lu was there yet with her mother. We we're worried because our baggage was 2 kilos heavier than the maximum, but the Vueling employee didn't mind about it and we went into the plane without further problems. And we knew that the plane travel was going to be safe: It is said that when you go in a plane with a famous person nothing can happen to you because it has never ocurred that a famous person get killed in an aircrash, or in a massive terrorist act so as Farruquito was in the plane, we were safe xD. Lu didn't recognize him at first but when I told her, she realized that it was him, but she didn't seem happier because she hates Farruquito xD.
I was in the front part of the plane, near the window. I was worried because next to me was sit an English couple (well, more or less, because she looked Chinese) and I didn't understand a bit of their conversation. And I'm going to be a translator. That should ashamed me xD. Vueling displayed some videos but it was useless because I ended up sleeping. After that I experienced my first time in a turbulence area! It was not that amazing, but you know, they are turbulences anyway. So we arrived safe to Heathrow and we passed trought the European queue that was pretty fast in comparison with the international queue.
In Heathrow we met the Roehampton staff that told us to go to a precise metting point. At first we were a few but mre people were coming later. There we proved that Spaniards are a plague. Of the 20 students that were there, 15 come from Spain. Studying English in England is almost impossible xD. But decided as we are to met foreigners, we tried to mix with the people who look less as a Spaniard. We met a Japanese girl, that made Lu and I say "¡ Qué mona!" at the same time xD. And also two Norwegian girls whose names rhyme, Kina and Lina xD.
And logically, we ended up waaay tired. So after a trip of one hour trought Southwest London, we arrived at Roehampton, where we were given bedding packs and a sandwich, and we went to bed in order to be prepared for the long following journey.
Lu:
After having spent one terrible night, the dorm reminds me of Reichel and now I don't have a roommate so it's kinda awkward... I was full of energy again. I had breakfast with Adri (two tiny energy bars and water, sick! meaning cool :p) and then we went right straight to Duchesne, there it was the meeting point to take a tour around the University. An American would say: AWESOME. It's really really really big, incredible, surrounded by forest, squirrels all around (L),... it's magic, it's... well, I have run out of words, it's really amazing, actually.
After the tour, we were given a conference, which Adrián missed, about how to get information about everything if you're lost. The University staff is very helpful with the students, which I admire and like and they seem, so far they are, ready to help you whenever you need it.
We met more Spanish students (how can it be possible???!!! We break in statistics!), and a girl told us to get a SIM card for free in Newman, so there we went! We took the card, in fact, but we haven't put units on it. The company they were advertising was NOMI... a rare one. I still want the T-mobile one :D
Well... until 15pm we had some spare time, we take advantage of it eating, as we were starving xD Some biscuits and an apple was everything we had so... lalalaaaa But we could go to ASDA to buy provisions, thank God -or the Roehampton staff ;) There I had a problem purchasing my hair mousse, didn't know that that "foam" was called mousse xD But there it was my Norwegian friend Kina to help me ^_^
And tomorrow I continue, now, I need to sleep.
NANAIT!!
Etiquetas:
Adri,
Erasmus,
Lu,
Relationship,
UK Network Operators
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