Goodbye 2010, you've been amazing

Hello fellas!!

These past days have been amazing, having delicious meals, celebrating the pre-Christmas eve in la Puerta del Sol, doing lots of shopping and of course having great time with my friends, those from the IB and from the UC3M. With these last I have a cool anecdote to share with you, today we went to have a coffee after lunch in a cafeteria, by the time we wanna leave, the waitress ask us if we wanted some free Churros con Chocolate, and later she offered us bocadillos and tortilla de papatas, isn't she nice?

Today is the very last day of the year 2010 ! a year full of adventures, trips, remarkable moment, and full of changes.

I haven't changed myself indeed, but I did change a little bit my life, I packed my stuff and moved to Ljubljana for an exchange student programme for the whole academic year (get ready Ljubljana coz Milo is coming back in a few days!!), where I met lots of very nice people from Spain,  Europe and the rest of the world. Thank to you I have learned mor about your culture, about your traditions, I am so glad that you are part of my life, a part of my transition trough life.

I want to thank also for the amazing Slovene friends I made in Ljubljana, and for making me feel that I am part of your country and culture, I'll try this upcoming year to learn more of your language, coz it's freaking difficult!!

Anyway, I could stay the whole evening telling you about how amazing this year was, but that would be too boring, even for me.

To end up this last post of the year, I wish you all have a wonderful 2011, a year full of happiness and amazing adventures.


      HAPPY NEW YEAR !
      Srečno Leto 2011!
      Bonne année 2011!
      新年快乐
      Felice Anno Nuovo 2011

Living la vida with sun in Madrid

Hello fellas!!

Left Ljubljana for almost 1 week already, and I am kinda missing it, but I am also having lots of fun here in Madrid. 

As I said in the previous post, right after I arrived to Madrid, I inmediately gathered with IB friends, on the following day more tapas dinner in El Olibo with the people from uni, with whom we organized a 'secret santa'. Lovely evening I must say, nice dinner, cool presents and the perfect company.

The next day I was supposed to meet more friends from uni, but I apologize for not being able to attend, (I was so sick..), but now I am fine and ready to keep partying!! 

This leads me to talk about Christmas eve, well, having already celebrating the venue for 21 years already, it seems to me that is another regular day, I mean, still special coz I can meet all my friends and family. and have alltoguether a huge dinner with tons of delicatessen, entrées, sushi etc... but it stills one more day. 

hmmm... what else can I say... well I remember going out that morning to do some x'mas shopping, which I really enjoyed btw, among all the presents bought, I also got some pretty thing for myslef. lol

As I was saying, beside of the amazing dinner, I didn't do anything else, just some chitchatting and playing some boardgames.  

During the next day, that is the 25th, me and my parents went out for lunch with some far far really far relatives that happend to be in Madrid... so we had lunch with them, and pretty much that for that morning.. 

But the evening, well, that was much more fun, I was going to meet Alfonso, Laura and Jaime, the funny part is that I've never seen them before in town, but in Slovenia, so it was kinda good strange feeling meeting here in Madrid, even being all of us Madrilians.

And guess what we did, walked around the Plaza Mayor and go to have some sangria and tapas.

This is all I've been doing these past days.

Allow me to say a few more words, I wish u had a lovely Christmas with all your friends and family, and hope you have a fantastic new year's eve and the best for this upcoming 2011.

The odyssey of travel from Ljubljana to Madrid

It is time to say goodbye to Ljubljana for 2010 and spend the rest of the year in Madrid.

The fact itself it's not interesting, but how long was the travelling deserves a blog post.

After the fantastic weekend, partying, chatting, and drinking homw made kuhano vino.. yess!! We made Kuhano Vino ourselfs for the first time with red wine and some prepared flavour, it tasted quite well, and our Anja also liked it, so we can confirm that wasn't bad at all, next time we'll make it even better.

What I was saying, that night I didn't sleep enough coz the next day I had class.adding the fact that during the trip I didn't sleep either I arrived to Madrid with only 8 hours of sleep in 2 days, fever and coughing like hell, and I'll explain why,,,

On Monday night I decided to not to sleep till the departure of the train to Monfalcone, but instead go to Parlament Pub and party the last time in Ljubljana, by 1:30 we went to have the last mesni burek of the year (at least for me) and then head to the central station. The train departed at 2:28 sharp, but due to some techinical porblems during the journey, it stopped several times, but not big deal, we arrived to Monfalcone 20 minutes later than stipulated. Later on we cought a bus to Trieste airport from the city (after walking like 15 minutes...). Since out plane was scheduled for 9:10, and we arrived there around 7 ,we decided to go and grab some breakfast till it was time to board

For the 2 hours travel from Trieste to Valencia I slept like half of the way, coz you know how annoying is Ryanair with its advertisement at high volume during the travel...

So 2 hours of plane, and tadaaa!!! we finally got to our homeland Spain!! but for some of us ti was the final point of travel, but for the rest (aka me and 2 others) had to stay few more hours to catch the next flight, for me to Madrid. While waiting I managed get some sleep, but due to the hard seats fo the airport I couldn't sleep much, so I turned on the laptop and watched some episodes of TBBT.

Around 4pm my flight took off and after 1 hour landed finally in Madrid, where my lovely mom was waiting for me.

By know u can imagine why I didn't sleep that much on my way home, but that doesn't matter even I was hell tired, I went at 9:00pm to Sol where I was going to meet my long time friends for dinner and do some chit chatting like we are used to...

For those who were wondering If I am feeling better, yess indeed! I woke up this morning feeling terrific, thanks to the drugs and 10 hours of sleep... lol

Celebrating the 21st birthday in Ljubljana

Regarding the title of the post, u may imagine what's the post about.. yeahh this is the celebration of my 21st B'day... 

I can't thank u enough for being such good friends and thanks for the fantastic 2 days celebration!! 

Despite of the inconvenience of moving from restaurant to restaurant because none of them accepts reservation during these days, so after 3 shots, we end up finding a Thai restaurant in Rimska Cesta (Thai Inn Pub), which the food wasn't that good.., but with the simple company of all of you was enough.. 

but it also happened a irregular thing, it turned out that in the restaurant there was going to be a karaoke night, so instead of going to Companeros right after dinner, we stayed in there to sing a couple of songs, like 'Umbrella' with Eva, Hajde Da Ludujemo with Miha, Anja and Claudia, and a couple of more songs with Marte and Alfonso, among others. 

What was really fun is that I was singing a Croatian song, and some Serbians got so surprised that they end up inviting me to some Rakia shots... imagine how was I after that... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRa-GmoAnfM, does this song sound familiar to u Alfonso ? grande grande ehhh!! 

Well, after a couple of drinks and more singing, we left and head to Companeros, what can I say about it... it is always a great place to party, as usual, we received free tequila shots from Anja.

Dancing our souls out till 4am or smthg, but we decided to go back home coz we've been out the whole day... (yeahh we had class in the morning and then we went almost straight to party party!! )

The next day, it was the official b'day date (17th of December), which is the same date as Edu, so depsite of the little hang over, we 3 went to have lunch in Emonska, and later on we went to eat a home made cake by Adri y Rosi, really yummy btw.

The rest of the evening was quite relaxing, went to BTC, did some shopping and bought the stuff to make Kuhano Vino.. 

After that we went to have some beers with Andres and Adrian, and later on we end up in Orto Bar, where the music is always good, at least for me (Indie session on Friday nights, this is for u Draisis, if u ever come to LJU , this is a must place to go!). 'Rollo desgarbado pero elegante con un toque vintage'

We didn't stay long, some of us were tired, we started partying from Wednesday, so we went back home, with all the snow falling. to Rozna Dolina coz there weren't any metro taxis in the city... at least not free ones.. (my jeans ended up frozen, yess forzen, coz of the snow and the coldness..)

Well, as long as I can remember, this was all, again, thank u so much for the fantastic bday. It would not have been the same without u guys!

Thanks again, Hvala Lepa!! vi ste najboljši !!

Študentski Domovi, a regular day in the Student Dorm in Ljubljana

The week has passed really fast, without noticing I stayed here in Ljubljana already for 3 months!! well , by now 3 months and 1 day.. amazing experience afterall, but I've realized 2day that I haven't really talked about anything about the residence,  how does the residence in Ljubljana I am staying looks like and stuff.. 

Študentski domovi

Well I have said in previous entries, I've changed the dorm once, thanks to Miha.. I can't really thank u enough for the change, I couldn't imagine my life living in the dorm 9... mainly becouse of the room mate I had.. 

As I was saying, I am living in the block 14, it's a little bit different form the other blocks, mainly because I don't have to share with the rest of the students the kitchen and the bathroom, state that I wouldn't have mind living like that, but now that I am used to this, thinking of something else it's unimaginable.. 

Block 14

Beside of that it's quite simple student dorm, shared "apartment" with two double rooms, and all my 3 room mates are Slovene, this is a quite improtant fact, since they are not from Ljubljana, they go back to their respective hometowns during the wekeends, so 2 days a week it's like living alone, enough time to find myself. Not that they bothered me, but from time to time it is good to be alone to find inner peace.

Also an advantge to live here is that we have a mini living room, and by mini I say 3 meters square, and by living room I mean cubicle stick to kitchen with a table to sit in...even tough this is good for me because Alfonso, Rosi and me gathere here from time to time to have dinner and play cards, eat some 'tostas con jamón', or just simply have a 'piscolabis' while we sit and chat.. 

Well, I can not say anything else form this mini-home of mine.. I don't spend much time here, I simply go out whenever a plan shows up.. but after all, I can sey here, that this has been my lovely home for the past 2 months and will be until the end of my stay.. 

Outdoor sports field

Block 13

And talkin about the block , why don't say a couple of things more about the whole student campus, with 14 blocks, a main rstaurant, where u can also eat with student coupons, a sports centre and some other stuff.. 

Crepes, Kuhano Vino, People, Tree : Christmas in Ljubljana

I know that winter hasn't officially started yet, but as in all the cities acorss the globe and around this time of the year are already decorated with X'mas lights, food stands and so on, and Ljubljana wasn't goin to be less.

The city is full of X'mas light, some tradicitional tucky ones, but also some with Science theme, like Chromosomes, ADN chain and stuff, I think related to some EU issues.. not sure really, but it makes them quite special and different.

There is also a huge X'mas tree in the main square, also very beautiful.

Last Saturday or was it on Sunday? I don't remember which was it, was the official X'mas switch on of the lights, so we gathered in Preseren Square to see the event, I won't usually do that in Madrid, but that is why  I am here in Lju right? to do different stuff. The event itself wasn't very special, but watching the city center crowded and full of life it reminded me to Madrid and felt a little bit homesick, but it was just a moment of weakness, afterall I will be back home in a couple of weeks.

About the the stands I've just told about, they sell the typical x'mas food, pretzels, sweets, some handcrafts and winter-themed souvenirs, there is also one popular beverage here called Kuhano Vino, literally cooked wine, this is hot red or white wine with a slight flavour of plums and a touch of cinnamon, I was reluctant to try it at first.. C'mon it's hot wine!! But it didn't up bad when I tried it, actually I am kinda liking it.. And it really helps to keep the body warm with temperatures below 0 during the evening..

4th International Student's Footbal Match 2010

This past Saturday the SOU organized the 4th Internatioanl Students Football Match.

I think I don't have to explain what's the event about, but all the people who know a little bit of me might be wondering why the hell am I participating in a football match, since I am a total a total dull at sports, not that I don't like it at all, but to be honest, I totally suck..

Anyway, I tought that paticipating mught be a good experience, and indeed it was a great one!

Me, Alfonso, Andres, Pablo and Javi were the team named Isotopes, we played against the Portuguese and the a multinational team.  What ca I say, we played really hard, alotugh we lost both matches, we didn't feel bad with the results, we did what we could, we played very good against both teams. They end up pretty exhausting, so did we.

We also played a third match against the SOU team disputing the last 3 places in the ranking. Depsite of being tired already of the previous games, we handle ourselfs and we won 2-1, gols scored by me and Pablo, and thanks to the perfect game and support of Alfonso and our great goalkeeper Andres.

After the games we headed back to Rozna to rest a little while, and even taking a nap afterwards, my body is hurting me like some beat me up... it's part of the deal, isn't it?


I feel bad of not having any pictures of the match, but I can ensure you it was a fantastic day!!!

Thank you guys!! I hope we can play football again soon!

UC3M Bilateral Agreement: destination Thailand

The title of the entry pretty much describes all.

Chulangkorn University of Thailand

I will be going to Thailand for 5 months on a student exchange programme in the 2012 spring semester.

I don't know how my life is going to be there, but I hope it will become an amzaing experience like my Erasmus is right now. Meeting tons of people from all the globe, learning from the native culture, which I love, specially the food!! ohh I will kill for a Pad Thai and Mango sticky rice right now..

December has officially arrived..

Well well well,

3 more weeks and I am back home for X'mas break, what can I say... these months have been amazing here in Ljubljana, I think I have said it before, going on Erasmus is one of the best decisions I have ever made, it is sad to leave all my life temporary from Madrid, my friends, my classmates, but I can stay there forever, and the people who really know me know that.

Anyway, I am not here to bore you with my life, but tell u how great it is.. nah, just kidding.
I haven't changed my lifestyle at all, but the cold weather here, plus the free time, I realized that I am doing much more here in Ljubljana than back in Madrid. I almost go out every day, whether to dinner, party, or just hang out with my friends in the dorms. I have to be honest, I am joing any plan that comes up, otherwise I will just stay at home and do nothing, well watch tv series for instance, but that's not cool, at least not for every single day.

Plus the cold is hitting really hard.. and if I don't do anything I will just stuck at home bored like hell...

Snowy Rozna, sucky but beautiful