domingo, 24 de octubre de 2010

The arrival: Welcome to Ljubljana

Here I continue with the trip to the country that is going to be my home for my Erasmus stay, this is Ljubljana.
I arrived around 2am in the morning to Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport, if I that can be called an aiport (no ofense to anyone), but it was freaking small!!! I rememebr going out of the plane, followed the baggage sign and 2 minutes later it was the luggage pick up area.. and after there was a door that was the exit, and outside of that there were just 4 tables with a bucnh of chairs.. so imagine how small it is.. even Macau's airport is bigger...
Since I arrived pretty late that night, I dind't booked any hostel room to stay for the first night, so my plan was to chill out in the check-in area.. again , a very small one, there were only 3 chairs and 8 check in counters.. at least they had free wi-fi, so I just turned my laptop on and watched few Friends episodes, until 6 in the motning.


After that I just took the airport bus to Ljubljana's train/bus station, around 1 hour trip, et voilà.. Ljubljana. My very first thought was, "what the hell is this and why am I here", it looked a little bit creepy, the fog didn't helped much, coz I couldn't barely see anything beside of a taxi line and the "bus station",( a bus parking slot.. )
Standing there for a while and deciding what the next would be, I took a taxi to the dorms in Rozna Dolina, that I think I got cheated, it cost me 15 euros for a 2 km ride.. but well, I realized later that it wasn't Metro taxi, so it was fine for just once.. 


(this is actually the bus station, so imagine it full of fog, how creepy is that?)

Later on I looked for the dormitory office and checked my self in for a room, they gave me 704 room in block 9, so I just took all my baggage and moved into the dorm.
I will save the details of the room and the roommate coz I moved out of that hell 2 weeks later. Just 2 bad things, the f******* chinese roommate was cooking all the time in the room (it smelled like hell all the time), and there were only 3 common showers and sinks for the whole floors (around 20 people..).
Ohh rigth, another thing from my ex-room mate. I rememebr unpacking my stuff when he came in and said, haaam, and I said, haam what? he answerd, I am not surprised that you are Asian..  wtf?! my questions was? was he even expecting an Asian room mate ?! that's an answer I will never know... 


Anyway, after settling down I went to do some sigthseeing and deal with the university bureaucracy, I took my student card in Kongresni Trg, I got my Certificate of Attendance filled out, and pretty much that. 
After walking for a while, I just came back to my room, settle the internet connection and chilled out for the rest of the day!! 


I apologize for not uploading any pictures yet, but I don't have pics netiher of the airport nor the foggy day, nor the old room of mine. I will upload some pics eventually for the following entries.



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