look at this fool

look at this fool....drinking too much free wine in Venice and making the city corners his own personal bathroom...not to mention puking in the train on his way back to Padova

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surreal

after 2 months, there are still those moments where i step back from what's happening and i look around, hear the sounds, feel the different gusts of the wind and all those other stuff that remind me i am in a different place. these moments are so surreal for me. lately, i have been hanging out with the most diverse crowd...

Friday, Modena with Miriam and Owen to see the town and taste some old Balsamic Vinegar
Sunday, i went to Verona with the Erasmus people, my bike got stolen!!!! i knew it was too beautiful and new for those thieves to resist
Monday, bought my 'new' bike, (now i feel like an old lady biking around the city!) then had dinner with Virginie at my place then went to the tandem night where i taught some English girls how to count and say their name in tagalog,
Tuesday, dinner at Gert-Jan's, we were 20+ people and the food was international as well as the company,
Wednesday, dinner at the Mensa with the other erasmus and then drinks at Dennis'. after we headed to Metropolis to watch some jazzband trick it out...
Thursday, the afternoon i went to buy gloves in H&M in the nearby mall and then had a german dinner at Isabel's
Friday, did not wake up for the 10am meeting to go to Venice so i followed Isabel, Jurg, Owen, Marius and Nile an hour later..went to see the Biennale, an amazing Art Exhibit from all over the world, it's a shame the Philippines had no exhibition...then Bacarata with the erasmus, free wine and pizza! got too DRUNK...can't even remember all the people i met last night plus i puked in the train...indeed, i left my mark, not a very good one...

Today, i plan to go to Vicenza for the Chocolate festival...i'll be sleeping over Vanessa's place and then she's going to show me around tomorrow! this week has been so busy. too busy. i need to take a day off from all these things...

oh yeah, i've also been going to class of course...ive never missed one! slowly but surely, i will be getting what they've been talking about in class.

tomorrow night, another erasmus party is lined up...the traffic light party. come in green if you're single, red if you're not and yellow just so you have a reason to reject the ones you don't like...i'm wearing black. just because i have the excuse of saying i'm colorblind.:D

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recap

i haven't found the time to write recently although i am always online.
not so much has happened in terms of traveling, ive been busy with school and erasmus get-togethers. recap...

school has been blaaaah. been three weeks since i started and thankfully, i think somehow, my comprehension is getting quite better. the first week was just like polsci classes all over again but this time even the language i couldnt understand. my professors are quite helpful though.

ive replaced H.Gladys but in memory of her, i will call my new one Glahdys, parang pinoy lang, parating may nawawalang H. She is now with a friend from Mauritius. She was just always flat and fixing her meant 20 euros and for that i can buy a new bike and a new lock! which i did. got my new one for 16 euros.

Erasmus, its pretty cool how its arranged here. Europeans and now, also people who arent europeans are able to study elsewhere other than their own university. but somehow, its becoming more of a reason to party abroad. oh well, when in Rome. (another city i have to get to soon) last night was the welcome party and i got home around 5am. wew. i feel so cool. in fact, i feel SOM mall cool.

the weather has changed so much in a span of one week. it has dropped 10 degrees! its 12 degrees celsius max and 4 degrees minimum as predicted for today! its getting harder to bike around in this weather.

i wish my friends were here.

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no pics! im lazy to upload.

Jesolo

a train to mestre and a bus to jesolo brought me to one of the longest stretch of beach i have been! i wasn't expecting much but the sight of the sea when i finally found it from the station just brought excitement, once again, i had contact with the ocean! if only the waves were strong enough to surf!
i definitely will be back again, it being an hour away.

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paying it forward

after a number of couches surfed, i finally have the chance to pay it forward.
this weekend, i have two guests. they are art students in berlin, germany but they are not germans. two girls, one from lithuania and the other from japan. today, i brought them around the center and then suggested they visit venice after lunch and then again tomorrow.

it's quite fulfilling to be a host but there is also that pressure of offering a nice experience to your guests. i hope to get more nationalities to surf my couch in the near future.

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pomegranate run

i ran again today.
there's something about running in another country. i'm just more motivated. especially in the states. mostly, i'd attribute it to the weather. sweating is not mostly because it's scorching hot and terribly humid outside but because you actually did work out!

after my run, i did some exercises i used to do for pole vault and i can still do them perfectly! i did not realize i am not that out of shape. in your face, ____!

oh and in the park, i picked a pomegranate from the bush...it wasn't as ripe as people would want them to be but to me the sweet and sour mix of the taste is amazing and the idea that i just grabbed it off the branch! wew. haha



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H.Gladys

here she is, my H.Gladys.
i got her on the 21st of august and since then i have relied on her.
she has saved me quite a number of euros already. not to mention the exercise i get from her. bike stealing is quite rampant here, unfortunately.
everyone pray that me and H.Gladys will never part.

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