(traduzido de "back to my portuguese home")
Hey
Cheguei à minha casa portuguesa na sexta feira. O voo não foi assim tão mau, desta vez... Aliás, todos os comboios e o voo que tive de apanhar chegaram a tempo e pude ler durante todo o dia, o que é sempre bom.
Os meus exames acabaram na segunda feira, dia 1. Não consigo descrever quão bom foi sair daquela sala e pensar "pronto, já está". Sei as notas a meio de julho. Espero que sejam alguma coisa de jeito, para completar a minha alegria. Sei que fiz o meu melhor portanto...agora seja o que Deus quiser.
Nessa segunda à tarde/noite, estive com os meus amigos. Primeiro o Dave e depois a Jo e a Rachael. Estava mesmo muito calor (tipo, 26ºC... miséria... desde quando é que 26ºC passou a ser "mesmo muito calor" em vez de "tá ok..um bocado pró frescote") e eu estava de calças de ganga o que não constituiu uma grande escolha de guarda-roupa (o triste é que essa não foi uma má escolha isolada...durante essa semana houve muitas mais...e piores). Fomos ao pub para jantar onde bebi o meu primeiro Pimms de sempre. Depois, o meu quarto (que estava BASTANTE desarrumado, por sinal)
Pas´sámos a Terça-feira em Cardiff Bay. A Jo tinha uma marcação no cabeleireiro de manhã (que acabou por levar 3 horas e meia) e a Rachael e eu passámos esse tempo a ler, sentadas numa esplanada, com vista para a baía e a beber chá. Apesar de ter sido fantástico, apanhei o maior escaldão de sempre devido à minha teimosia de "Eu vivo em Portugal! Não preciso de protector em Cardiff!". Depois fomos ao navio da OM, Logos Hope, que estava atracado em Cardiff. Eles tinham tantos livros!!! Consegui gastar só 19 libras e comprar montes deles :D
Lavei roupa e fiz a mala na manhã seguinte. À tarde, fomos ao Roath Park dar uma volta e acabámos num barquinho a remos no meio do lago. O ponto alto (ou não) foi provavelmente a minha hilariante incapacidade de coordenar o movimento dos remos e quando eu, sem querer, acertei numa mãe cisne com um dos remos. Cheguei a acreditar que o assustador animal (não estou a ser sarcástica...)ia saltar para o barco e atacar-nos. Nós não conseguiamos remar depressa o suficiente e ela já tinha as penas todas levantadas e estava a fazer barulhos esquisitos, de bico aberto... Depois disseram-me que eles são inúteis para sair da água mas mesmo assim... com tanta gaivota irritante à volta que eu podia ter morto (o que decerto constituiria um serviço para a humanidade), tinha logo de acertar no cisne gigante e ameaçador... tempos de azar.
À noite tive reunião da christian union. É tão esquisito ver algumas pessoas pela última vez...
Na terça,a Rachael veio deixar algumas coisas no meu quarto para ficarem durante o verão... junto vinha uma lista, coordenada com várias cores, de tudo o que estava em cada saco... isto há gente :P
À noite fomos ver o "Anjos e Demónios" do Dan Brown. O livro é melhor mas o filme é ok... Jantámos num restaurante indiano muito fixe. Fiquei tão, mas tão cheia...
Na sexta, a Jo e a Rachael foram-me buscar e levaram-me à estação de comboios. O Dave estava lá à espera e ajudou-me com a minha mala super pesada a subir as escadas e a pô-la no comboio.
O resto do dia foi passado a viajar...nada de extraordinário...
E aqui estou. De volta a este escritório (que está a precisar de uma arrumação urgente) como se nunca daqui tivesse saído. Voltei para constatar que o meu champô e a minha pasta de dentes tinham sido usados por completo, outra vez... há coisas que nunca mudam :)
Parabéns se conseguiram chegar ao fim do meu relatório detalhado sobre a minha última semana em Cardiff! Escreverei em breve.
ASG
terça-feira, 9 de junho de 2009
back to my portuguese home
Hey
So, i got back to my "Portugal home" from my "Cardiff home" on friday. The flight wasn't as bad, this time... In fact, all the trains and the flight I had to get were on time and I was able to read for the whole day which is always a good thing.
My exams finished on Monday, the 1st. I can't describe how good it was to step out of that room and realise they were over and done with... I'll get my marks mid-july. let's hope they are ok, to complete my happyness. I know I've done my best, so... now it's in God's hands.
Monday afternoon/evening was spent hanging out, firstly with Dave, and then Jo and Rachael. It was great just to chill out. It was really really hot (in like, 26ºC... oh my goodness! since when did 26ºC become "really hot" instead of "ok...a bit chilly"?!?!) and I was wearing jeans which wasn't a great wardrobe choice for that day (the sad thing is that that wasn't the only bad wardrobe choice that I did that week... in fact there were many more). We went to the pub for dinner where I had my first Pimms ever!
We spent Tuesday down at the bay. Jo had a hair appointement in the morning (that turned out to last for 3.5 hours...) and Rachael and I spent that time reading, seating outside in a coffee shop, looking at the bay and drinking tea. Although it was lovely, I got the biggest sunburn EVER due to my stubborness and to thinking "I'm portuguese! I won't need sun screen in Wales!!". Then we went on the OM ship (Logos Hope) that had arrived in Cardiff a few days before. There were so many books there!! I am rather proud of myself as I only spent 19 pounds and got loads of books!
I did my laundry and packed pretty much all my stuff the following morning. Then, in the afternoon, we went to Roath Park for a walk and ended up going on a rowboat. The highlight of this adventure was prob my lack of gifting for rowing (and we are being nice, here) and when I accidently hit a mum-swan with one of the oars. I thought the evil animal was actually gonna "jump" to the boat and attack us as we couldn't row fast enough to move away from her. I was told afterwards that they are pretty useless coming out of water but still... with so many annoying seaguls around that I could kill (I'm sure this would be appreciated by most of the human kind), I had to hit the massive and evil swan... there are unlucky times.
Then it was CU. it was sooo weird to see some of the people I've got to know for the last time, in uni... well, I'm sure I'll see them around someday and if not, I get to spend eternity with them so... lots of time.
On Thursday, Rach came and left some of her stuff in my room for summer, along with a colour coded list of everything staying there... -.- In the evening we went to see "Angels and Demons", the film adapted from Dan Brown's book with the same title. The book is better but the movie is pretty good! We had dinner at an amazing indian retaurant beforehand. I was so so so full...
On Friday, Jo and Rach picked me up and drove me to the train station. Dave was waiting there and, kindly, helped me carry my mega heavy suitcase up the stairs and into the train.
The rest of the day was spent travelling. nothing that exciting...
And here I am. back in this office (that really needs some urgent tidying...) as like I never left. i came back again to find my shampoo had been used as well as my toothpaste. some things never change... :D
If you got to the end of my detailed account of my last week in Cardiff - well done! Will write again soon.
ASG
p.s. This post will be translated into portuguese so that everyone can read it :)
So, i got back to my "Portugal home" from my "Cardiff home" on friday. The flight wasn't as bad, this time... In fact, all the trains and the flight I had to get were on time and I was able to read for the whole day which is always a good thing.
My exams finished on Monday, the 1st. I can't describe how good it was to step out of that room and realise they were over and done with... I'll get my marks mid-july. let's hope they are ok, to complete my happyness. I know I've done my best, so... now it's in God's hands.
Monday afternoon/evening was spent hanging out, firstly with Dave, and then Jo and Rachael. It was great just to chill out. It was really really hot (in like, 26ºC... oh my goodness! since when did 26ºC become "really hot" instead of "ok...a bit chilly"?!?!) and I was wearing jeans which wasn't a great wardrobe choice for that day (the sad thing is that that wasn't the only bad wardrobe choice that I did that week... in fact there were many more). We went to the pub for dinner where I had my first Pimms ever!
We spent Tuesday down at the bay. Jo had a hair appointement in the morning (that turned out to last for 3.5 hours...) and Rachael and I spent that time reading, seating outside in a coffee shop, looking at the bay and drinking tea. Although it was lovely, I got the biggest sunburn EVER due to my stubborness and to thinking "I'm portuguese! I won't need sun screen in Wales!!". Then we went on the OM ship (Logos Hope) that had arrived in Cardiff a few days before. There were so many books there!! I am rather proud of myself as I only spent 19 pounds and got loads of books!
I did my laundry and packed pretty much all my stuff the following morning. Then, in the afternoon, we went to Roath Park for a walk and ended up going on a rowboat. The highlight of this adventure was prob my lack of gifting for rowing (and we are being nice, here) and when I accidently hit a mum-swan with one of the oars. I thought the evil animal was actually gonna "jump" to the boat and attack us as we couldn't row fast enough to move away from her. I was told afterwards that they are pretty useless coming out of water but still... with so many annoying seaguls around that I could kill (I'm sure this would be appreciated by most of the human kind), I had to hit the massive and evil swan... there are unlucky times.
Then it was CU. it was sooo weird to see some of the people I've got to know for the last time, in uni... well, I'm sure I'll see them around someday and if not, I get to spend eternity with them so... lots of time.
On Thursday, Rach came and left some of her stuff in my room for summer, along with a colour coded list of everything staying there... -.- In the evening we went to see "Angels and Demons", the film adapted from Dan Brown's book with the same title. The book is better but the movie is pretty good! We had dinner at an amazing indian retaurant beforehand. I was so so so full...
On Friday, Jo and Rach picked me up and drove me to the train station. Dave was waiting there and, kindly, helped me carry my mega heavy suitcase up the stairs and into the train.
The rest of the day was spent travelling. nothing that exciting...
And here I am. back in this office (that really needs some urgent tidying...) as like I never left. i came back again to find my shampoo had been used as well as my toothpaste. some things never change... :D
If you got to the end of my detailed account of my last week in Cardiff - well done! Will write again soon.
ASG
p.s. This post will be translated into portuguese so that everyone can read it :)
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