GOD JUL - Merry Xmas!

ok, all Xmas fuss is over now and it's actually just few hours before New Year but as everybody's preparing for the night (=sleeping:p) I have some time to write...
Swedish Christmas - the first weird thing is that they celebrate it not like all normal ppl (ok, half normal, normal ones celebrate it on 7th of January:p) on 25th but they do it on 24th of December - Julafton - Christmas afthernoon.
I started at 8 in the morning! from the breakfast with my host family. Eating rise pourage and exhange presents. Then I ran away from crazy children to my friend's house to celebrate Xmas in typical Swedish family. And then it went: after drinking some glogg (hot sweet wine with spices) we set by the table and started few hours dinner with several rounds, starting from salmon and herring, switching to julskinka - Xmas ham and cold meat and then to meat balls with cranberry marmelade (don't even ask why they eat meat with marmelade..Swedes!), spare pork ribs and Jansson frestelse: a dish with potatos and anchovis and cream sause.
And then all the presents! Here it was a bit less of them coz all children are quite old already but in my host family it was the whole mountain of them. And they got boxing gloves!!!!! Shittttttt!
They'll have to pay me extra for damages!

well, I guess I'm going to relax for a while as well before NY. We've got nice italian champaign and martini:) it's so nice to have guests coming from Italy:P

long run for christmas

hej hej:)
December - the month of running: for presents, between parties and friends and jobs as well finishing everything before new year's come. And in Sweden it's even worse, as Andreas (host father) said on 1st December: "now a long run for christmas has started".
So what do Swedes do during 24 days before Xmas?
Julkalender - Christmas calender. Fighting for easting this small shity piece of chocolate every morning. Also every morning they show some kind of a seria, originally it's for children but as I found out a lot of young (15-25) ppl watch it as well - Swedes.....
Glögg fest - glintwine party. 10-80 ppl pop up in your place for a chat while you have to serve them with glögg (kind of hot wine with spices and a lot of sugar), pepparkakor (spicy cinammon cookies), mandarins and ljusbullar ("light rolls" - rolls with chafran, freaky bright yellow). You as a guest have to seat nicely with your small cup with glögg with some almonds and raisons in it and talk about weather and other blabla social bullshit.
Presents. or I'd say PRESENTS. Because you have to buy really hundreds of them! My host family stored all of children's presents in my room in order they didn't see them. So finally literally half of my room was covered with bags and boxes! They even bought them skateboards and goal gates for hockey (I hope they don't think that I'm gonna play it with them!!). Today they spent just the whole day wrapping all presents with xmas paper! Insane!
and I had to buy also like 15 presents as well, for them, for some friends, for the family of Cattis (my sweidsh friend, where i'm going for christmas tomorrow)....
Sankta Lucia - Saint Lucia celebration. 13th of December is the holiday of Saint Lucia - holiday of light. Originally it's italian but nowadays mostly just swedish ppl celebrate it coz there's no light at all in winter here. So first of all, around 7 in the morning u either go to church or just watch tv at home where girls&boys dressed in white "gost" clothes and carrying candles singing in a church. The main one - Lucia - has a kind of crown on her head maid of candles - i guess that's when swedish kids gets their life mental trauma coz it looks quite scary:P And then my host family kind of forced me to go to kindergarten to watch Sam's singing - ten 5-year olds dressed as cookies and santas pretending to "sign" - great entertainment.

ok, tomorrow it's christmas - have to wrap last presents therefore...to be continued....

Helsinki, snow caos and busy days in Sthlm

Hej hej:)
Haven’t written for a long time again but I just don’t have time as usual.
So October-November, what had happened? At the end of October I was in Finland. Me, 2 other Russian au pairs and 1 poor Russian guy who accidentally got stuck with us (well, he didn’t complain though to be in one cabin with 3 girls;) went to “crazy boat” cruise to Helsinki.
Those of you who have never been on that boat: try! It’s kind of experience. Half of the boat: Russians, always complaining about everything, and carrying all those gigantic luggage with clothes they bought in Scandinavia. Other half – drunk Finns. It’s amazing how they manage to get drunk just in half an hour after the boat left the port… Ok, I can partly understand why do they buy huge beer packages, as it’s truly cheaper in tax-free onboard. But the bar prices are the same as in Sthlm or Helsinki but they get extremely drunk there, start to sing some stupid Finnish coutry-songs and seduce young girls. Hehe, not me, luckilyJ But Larisa (one of the girls9 had quite open dress, so they just ran after her open back:P (im za 60, a vse tuda zhe, na molodenkih tyanet;)
But it was cool anyway to be in a Russian company for a while. And I’ve met with my Finnish friend in Helsinki. Ah, the Russian guy we were with… he absolutely fell in love with Ulla (finnish girl) – men, they just see the blondie and they’re like slaves:P

But holidays cannot last forever (why, why, why???!!!). So when I came back there were school holidays and my little monsters spent almost 3 days at home. AAAAA! Thought I’ll become schizophrenic. On top of that we had first snow exactly during those days. So imagine 3 kids, running around you, throwing snow balls, starting to cry that they got snow on the face but don’t stop but start to get crazy even more!
And Swedish people don’t stop to surprise me. Remember how we always made joke that those crazy Europeans when they get just a bit of snow everything stops to work etc. So it happened here. In a NORDIC country (they call it like this themselves!). First day of snow – we got absolute “trafik kaos” in the evening. Buses didn’t work at all, Andreas (the father) spent 5 hours in traffic jams in the city to get home while usually this tri takes 30min. Even trains didn’t work properly (don’t ask me how snow can affect trains and metro – just Swedish people can knowJ).

And now I’m even more busy as I was before even though I don’t have any extra job anymore but I’m just overloaded with studies. I have 3 courses running at the same time at uni (usually it’s 2 but I was too greedy as usual and applied for free, so suffering now). At each of them assignments, seminar reports etc…. Also I’m passing TOEFL in 2 weeks (shit, haven’t even realized that it’s so close, and I haven’t even started to prepare..), have to pass another English test at my uni next week, have job interview in a week that I have to prepare for also (even though I’m 100% sure that I won’t get a job but I have to try at leastJ. AAAA, really don’t know when to do all those things!
Especially as next it’s a film festival here, and of course I’m going:D

Ok, have to pass prove Spanish test as I wanted to take some Spanish courses next semester at my uni…

Miss you all a lot!!!!
Kisses from dark Sweden

Silly drinking games at KTH campus

Autumn in Stockholm

Fanny&me

Hello dears:)
haven't written anything for quite a while coz there're actually basically nothing to write about: just busy working-studying life.
For those who still dont know what am I doing here, general schedule (it's pretty boring actually but ppl keep asking me the same questions all the time and I just dont have time fot this and you'll see why..):
6.20 - waking up (brrr, hate it!!!)
07 - breakfast
08-09 kicking out kids to school/kindergarten:)
09-09:30 tunnelbanan (metro) - half sleeping, trying to understand from Sweidhs newspapers what scandal happened in Russia at this time:)
09:30 - 14:30 lectures at the uni/swedish classes
14:30 - 15 tunnelbanan - deeply sleeping
15 - 18.30 (19) - hallo little monsters:) working
19-20 tunnelbanan (getting bored)
20 - 22/23 - trying to do some assignments on university computer/meeting with working group from uni/teaching Russian to Australian guy (once a week)/babysitting (will start next week in anither family nearby)
23-00 tunnelbanan (hate it!)
o1-06:20 - zzz.... sleeping:)
Also I have training once a week on Sunday for 2 hours, and I'm thinking about joining local BEST group:)

exciting? I guess not that much.. just tiring, but I'm trying to manage....
and anyway weekends still exist:D even though usually I still have to study on sat and sunday afternoon because we have to submit new assignment almost every week (and unfortunately it's not just like our crappy electronic labs in Russia which you could just copy from the friend:(

so weekends: when I have money (what happens quite rarely unfortunately) - going out:) Like few weeks ago I finally found a club with drum&bass parties here every second saturday:)
Also once we've been to a bar called "KGB":) funny, all those soviet posters around, бюстик Ленина, and russian lesson in the toilett:) (they have speakers there and u can learn some crappy stuff like "I don't understand Russian", "Do you speak English" etc.). And of course there were few russian drunk guys, and my nice friends (thank you, Mischi:) just turned me to them and say out loud "hej, she's Russian also!" Damn! it took 30 min at least to get rid of them!

This weekend our crazy little french is coming:D (french girl, Audrey, who's my first friend that I met here, she's been travelling in Russia and Mongolia during this summer:) - vamos a fiesta:D

And next weekend - Finland:) ok, forst exam on Saturday morning, and then gonna celebrate my total failure on the ferry to Helsinki for the weekend:)

oh, and if some of you don't know: I'm not going home for New Year:(((((((((((( have to wait for my residence permit prolongation in Sweden... hopefully I'll come to Ekb in spring some time (8th of March maybe, to get some presents:P as they don't celebrate it here). Pavlik, tell me, when are u planning to go to Ekb, it's be extremely great to come at the same time!

So ppl, who wants to celebrate Christmas and New Year away from boring home, enjoy snowy Stockhom, full of blond Swedes, glögg (swedish analog of glintwine), pepparkakor (cinamon cookies) and candles on every single window in the city - VÄLKOMNA TILL SVERIGE! Welcome to Sweden:)
I have nice and cosy room (pics enclosed:) which I'm trying to decorate by monthly trips to IKEA:) Last time bought some unknown but quite nice red flower - just 20 SEK (2 euros):D hope it'll survive during few months at least (I guess you know how I am with plants and animals:P)

miss you all:)
pls write me smth nice and warm (just not "public heating":) - this grey, chilly autumn weather is killing me. And I have home nostalgia, especially after Katia's CDs

puss och kram från Sverige (kisses and hugs from Sweden:) - hardly trying to learn Swedish....
Reddy/Рыжая

My birthday weekend

So I´m an official oldie now. 23....gosh! especially when most of my friends´re younger.
People always say that getting older means getting wiser..well, not in my case considering my birthday party:P
It started on Friday afternoon from new haircut:) And then in the evening....I got drunk:( But it´s all Christian´s fault (my friend´s boyfriend). I just stepped into his apartment and already had tequila shot and vodka-red bull right in front of me:P Obviously we didn´t stop just after those 2... when the bottle of vodka and another one of tequilla was almost empty we went to a club... Ok, I wouldn´t call it club, just some place with music at Fridhemsplan which is opened at night but actually I don´t even remember exactly how it looked like and we didn´t care that much, we´re drunk and happy anyway:) And we even saw the kitchen there: were trying to find the toilett, saw stairs going downstairs, usually they put bathroom there so we went downstairs (and anyway we just wanted to pee and didn´t care where we´re going). 1 min later a crazy arabic guy was running after us "Go away, go away":P Finally Christian was crawling around trying to find some guys for me:P, I gave a fake mob number to smbd and managed to got home by metro (somehow...:)
Next day?... well, you can guess - terrible hangover. But I already planned to spend the day with my friends, so quick shower and a sip of chocomilk and I´m ready for the new day:)
We had a picnic:D at my favourite place in Stockholm ------->

It was wonderful! Great view, nice food, big delicious chocolat cake (THANK YOU, CATTIS!:) and my dear friends:)
They were even shooting some movie next to us on the hill, after half an hour sitting there we saw a guy from the crew going towards us. "Oh, God, we´re gonna be in the movie!!:)" - "Eehh, guys, could you move a little bit, we don´t get the view..." Nice! Anyway I´m still young and my Hollywood career can wait:P

Then it was a bar, where I got 1 more tequilla (never ever again!) and then a corridor party in KTH (my uni). Ended up at home around 3 a.m. tired and happy:)

The end


Oh, presents: above mentioned chocolate cake, Martini bottle, Cheburashka (da, da, prichem govoryashii kstati;) and Flowers by Kenzo from the host family:)

It´s been such a wonderful weekend, I love my friends!
And Friday afternoon - the only day when I was happy after all those sms"bipbip" and my smile was just getting wider after each one:)
Spasibo, tack, danke, merci, thanxxx:)

первый раз в первый класс or back to school...so weird and cool:)

Me&Chris at the concert in Kungsträdgården ("enjoying"
shity ukranian band shouting "shake your belly!")

My dear Russian friends, if you think that administration in Russian universities´s bad and chaotic - come to Sweden! Here it´s really crazy. It´s been 1,5 weeks that I try to register and get all access card and I still haven´t got half of them even though my studies have already started. Everybody´s trying to smile and be helpful but final answer to the question "where can i go? or who is responsible for..." is always "I dont know"...
AND of course all the info in the intenet is in bloody Swedish! And it doesn´t matter that people are supposed to study in English here.
But anyway it´s great just to be back to university and be a student again:)) I already have my first assignment to make until Sunday, so now I´m trying to figure out how to work in MS Project but somehow always swithing my page to "What´s on. Stockholm" weekend´s coming :)))
Obviously studying wasn´t all that I was doing here since arrival:P My dear Cathrine´s here, and we were dansing salsa the whole friday evening last week.
I´ve met a couple of russian guys and had nostalgic night with beer and stupid jokes one saturday night.
"Chris from Brussles" has been here for almost 2 weeks, so I was trying to entertain him as well (although it was him mostly who is entertaining me:))
There were a couple of "au pair" complaining meeting with funny german girl (Michaella, now i need your pic here!:)
So finally I have a stable normal life schedule: waking up at 6.30 (I HATE MORNINGS!!!), then rushing to uni (1,5 hours - 1 way, hopefully i have to be at that school just once a week, another campus´s just 40 min away), then back to my lovely monsters. Dinner (I´m a chefcook now:)))
And then...some bar...or...sitting at the park listening to guitar&drinking wine..or some bar...or drinking tea and eating cookies at home of 2 freaky czech guys...or some bar... :)










During open-air movie
in Södermalm


sun´s shining and blinking in Baltic sea, Stockholm´s beautiful and life´s great, basically:D

although I miss you all!!!!!!
Birke -´congrats with university:) student life´s great
Pavlik - i have problems with Skype at home, i´ll try to call u from university when i get my entrance card
Anka - govoryat u tebya otpusk, kak otdihaetsya?
Lelik - krepis, remont -vesh tyazhelaya.
Chichulina - where´re u now? still in rainy Holland? or back home to mother Russia? I wanna your Barca pics!

kisses from the north

...on the road...

yesssss!!! I did it!!! Hitchhiking! All the way from Germany (Wisbaden near Frankfurt) to Sweden (Stockholm lovely Stockholm)! Absolutely alone!
Ok, actually it wasnn´t very smart thing to do but still I feel so proud of myself:P 2 days on the road, around 2000 km, 3 tracks, 2 cars and 1 ferry and I´m back home....
my last day in Barca was a bit stupid actually, like we locked Tanya´s luggage in the locker on bus station and then wanted to go to the beach but it was so hot and we just bacame so lazy:) So finally we decided to go to Parc Guell (park with gaudi stuff:). But just after 10min when we got there the sky became grey and it definitely was going to rain. So we thought that if we go down now we´ll definitely catch the rain so we just decided to wait in one of those little caves in the park. And then at least 2 hours sitting in the dark and cold in almost empty park with sangria and cookies waiting for the rain to finish! We were so pissed off! especially me coz I got so cold (I already cannot stand smth colder than +28:) and I didn´t have any cigarettes.. So when somebody entered to our cave I was trying to exchange cookies for a cigarett;))
Finally the rain finished and we went down to Gracia coz I wanted to bring Tanya to really nice cozy teteria (Elephanta). Obviously it was closed! Definitely not Beckham´s day!
So we ended up on plaza del Sol in a cafe drinking beer (me) and cacao (my little Tanya:).
Then walking down for 40 min to bus station to put Tanya into her bus (she´s heading to Madrid) and then 40min back again to pl del Sol to meet Irme (my german friend from Munich).
But it was tuesday, so after half an hour in Mond bar the lights was on and they were closing!!! On my last night in Bcn!!! And we were too tired to go to Barri Gotic:(
And then the whole next day - packing! Hate it!
And big trip started. I had a flight to Frankfurt Hahn, which was quite shity coz it was delayed (as usual, 15 flights and just mine´s delayed!) and also my luggage: I had 22 kilos instead of 20. So the guy asked me to pay for extra kilos but obviously I didnt have money. So I just put some stuff to my backpack and even into sleeping bag:) 19.5 kg - perfect. But then I had more than 10kg in my handluggage for sure... So i was standing in front of the guy, hiding my backpack under the counter and when he asked about my handluggage I just showed him my litle handbag with purse and passport:) He looked so suspicious as 2 kg were gone from my luggage and just disappeared;) But luckily he didnt say anything although I felt really stupid going away from the counter and trying to hide my fat backpack and sleeping bag:PP
But then I finally arrived to Frankfurt hahn and it was really cool: Birke was already witing for me there with her family:))) We drove to her home, had some food at 2 a.m.:) and then I wanted to go out but everything was closed:((( We were driving around her village and went even to next town but Wednsday night...nothing...it´s definitely not Barcelona:( But anyway it was fun to watch Birke driving:) and then hammering under the rain in the dark:P I was just laughing and she got even more pissed off but sorry Birke but it was funny:))) and I have cool pics now.
So we had to go back home and were just talking all night long.
In the morning we made some sandwiches for me (huge thank you to Birke´s mom) and then Birke drove me to petrol station near Wisbaden where we had to say goodbye:((( and my jorney started.
After 10-15 min a truck driver said he could drive me to Köln but then in a track we were discussing his route (trying to manage with his v.poor english knowledge) and found out that I could go up to Bremen with him. Then 15-20min again and a ride to another petrol station near Hamburg. And there I got a bit depressed coz it was already around 20.00, not so many cars, it was raining and all the track driviers were going to sleep until next morning. I was already planning the night on the wet grass in my sleeping bag and just decided to go for a walk around the station when 1 track driver saw my cardbord "Travemunde-Trelleborg" and said he´s going there now. I was so happy!
We drove to Travemunde at night, took a ferry there, so I could finally sleep normally on a cabin in normal bed and in next afternoon I was already near Göteborg:) Where 15min later I got a new ride to Skara (150km north from Göteborg). And then Iwas already prepared just to stuck there coz it was just a small village with almost no cars.... But my luck´s with me even there and 20min later - a truck - going straight to Stockhom! I couldn´t believe it! he even left me v.v. close to home!
So 36 hours driving and I was in Stockholm, my little Bromma:) Well, yesterday I when we just left the ferry I wasn´t that happy coz it was so cold and raining like hell: "Välkommen till Sverige!" (welcome to sweden) but i think I´ll get used to it as well I got used to +40 in Spain....

So my summer holidays´re over.... And they were great! One of the best time of my life! Definitely! I miss Barcelona and all the great people I´ve met there so so so much! And now back in windy cold calm Sweden it all seems to be so unreal: sandy beach, melting from the heat plaza Catalunya full of tourists and pigeons running after each over, wet and smelly streets in Barri Gotic....... So many things to remember.... and I´m sure I will coz it just imposible to forget Barcelona!
"Barcelona - it was the first time that we met
Barcelona - how can i forget"
Queen/Montserrat Caballe

last days in Barça

hola a todos:) privet vsem!
ok, here I am, at 4 a.m. at the flat, finally alone (crazy family left to some house in a village) in front of the PC with internet connection (also surprisingly) fulfilling this blog...crazy? neeeej...ok, just a little bit perhaps:)
last day, what i've been doing? last week - absolutely nothing:) working a bit of course but mostly just sitting with laptop in the internet or watching some studid argentinian comedian soap operas on TV:P
and then finally weekend! on friday we (me and Woldo-german crazy funny guy) went to see street music festival in Baceloneta - musica callejera - that means all that nice a bit freaky bads plying really everything - salsa, rock, heavy rock, electronic music, just whatever u like. And of course all this people in the streets dancing and enjoying the show - that's why I love Barça - all the time smth is happenig here.
And o Saturday I was trying to make a kind of farewell party and to see most of the people that I've met here during this 1,5 months. well, we managed to meet and went to La oveja negar - huge tavern with cheap and nice sangria in there:) But then after 1 hour or so my lovely Chicholina arrived (my russian little friend:) and it became just a mess. She was supposed to stay at 1 guys place but he himself wasnt at home coz he left to business trip to UK. But he was supposed to leave a note 4 his flatmates and they're supposed (aain key word "supposed"!) to be at home. But when we arrived there and was ringing at the oorbell for 3 min nobody opened. And my friends were waiting for me at the bar. We went there with Tanya but they didnt let her in because of her luggage (as if she could have a bomb there or smth! come'n! just cheap russian cigarettes, well even french actually). So we had to go by bus to my place to drop her luggage and people was waiting at the bar for me to say goodbye but obviously it took some time with slow night buses, so I missed more or less my goodbye party:(
Then we went to a club but Tanya was tired, I was pissed off, so..... U can imagine.
Then Sunday... hmmm..aha - Ciutat Vella (Old town) and Motnjuk singing fountain:) And we finally get into the place where Tanya's staying. It's col actually. Quite big flat full of strange people who sometimes dont even know the name of some person staying there:)
Sh even has her own small room with a matress on the floor:) The only problem's entrance coz people have parties in there so in the evening they're either asleep or out. But I think the place's reall great, she just need to get used to such a bit homeless crazy life and then she'll like it:)
And today we did some sightseeing, like Olimpic Montjuik, having picnic there also - tipical spanish one- jamon, queso y pan (ham, chees and bread). And then beach of course - poor girl coming from cold Urals. We had to go even to shity Barcelona beach:) It was fun though. Making thiusands of pictures and listening to some russian music (what she had in her mp3).
And evening - pub crawlig. Starting from Xampanieia:) - Birke, I did it - I made an order there - and it didnt even took that long time! although it was even more packed I guess coz we came quite ñate ad it's closing in a week so everybody wanted to have their last bite of botifarra sandwich and last sip of cheap cava:)
Then really nice bar in Born where I had my last huge Mojito:)
And of course I couldnt miss Sincopa - Anna's favourite bar with my lovely cava with syrops. And I even met some british friends there which I met i that Beach camp before - cool:)))
And now finally back home as i told u tired but happy, gonna go to bed coz tomorrow is my last night here (Gracia's waiting) and I have to be prepared:)))
gosh, juat cannot imagine myself now being back to Stockholm and not walking round wet Barri Gotic:8 oh, we had our extra part of water, falling down from the windows of annoyed neighbors in Barri Gotic. And even some dry old bread:P Bastards!!!

p.s. all the pics u can find with a link on previous post (www.tatianasverige something:)

weekend

hello hello:)
oh, 1 more weekend has passed and now I have only 1! to spend inBarcelona:((( and for this i'm planning small if not farewell party but at at least meeting with aññ the great people that I've met here. And Chichulina of course:) she's coming on saturday. with my sigarettes hopefully (hehe:) Well, actually a lot of people won't be there on sat:( most of my lovely au pair mafia have left: Birke, Anna, Lisa, Sandra - I miss u all girls!
but lets come back to the previous weekend, what the hell I was doing???
Friday? came home from playground around 21.30 (bloody host mother) and then met Lisa, Christine and some German au pair for a drink in Barri Gotic. And then I had to walk home alone, Birke! It's boring! Nobody to complain to how tired I am:PP
Saturday? Bloody mother again. I almost stepped out of the front door when she said "Hey, dont go anywhere now, we're going to have breakfast outside and when we come back we'll go with u to the grandmother" Shit! I was dreaming about nice afternoon on the beach.
So we had to go to this bloody grandmother, who lives in the midde of nowhere. But I left all of them there and finally went to the city. Shopping!!!:) I bought salsa shoes! So we're going to dance when I'm back to Stockholm:))
Later on I dint have time for the beach coz in the evening there were a kind of farewell party of 1 catalan guy that I met on Beach camp last week. He's gonna travel in Russia! (although he's not stopping in Ekb and go straight from Moscow to Novosibirsk), Mongolia, China, South Asia etc.etc. I wish I can do the same 1 day..............
So finally I had dinner in the catalan restaurant (first time since I'm here, except 1 terribly expensive "tapas" place on my first week). I wasnt very original in my choise, just simple chicken. >But some people were more extravagant and had for example botifarra - catalan spice sausage:) (Oh, Birke, I just remembered Champagneria, it was so fun there! I'm definitely gonna bring my russian friend there. But just...how will i order? share some techniques, you're the professional;)))
and then it was some bar, then it was some club /the club was nice actually, small and rocky:)/
And finally Sunday? We went to Sitges - small town nearby Barça which is famous for being the biggest gay community at least in Catalunya 8maybe even in Spain? ok, not sure).
beach was nice but the water....terribly dirty! and some funny guys (gays?) playing volley in speedos and having a liter of sun oil on them, assuming i suppose that it's sexy.... maybe we just were the wrong public...:)

oh, and finally I've apploaded all my pics from Barça:
http://tatianasverige.spaces.live.com/photos/?_c02_owner=1
enjoy:)

drum&bass - finally!!!!

Hooray! finally yesterday night we went to drum&bass club! first time in 6 months! None of my Swedish friends like it and I didn't wanna go out alone (although i think when I'm back to Sthlm I'll find some d&b place and go there even alone coz it was great yesterday night). So finally I found a German guy in Barcelona who's really d&b freak but in a good way:)
So bumtz-bumtz night:) Although I drank a bit too much of spanish whisky and was tired as usual so after an hour or so there I already almost couldn't move but it was fun anyway:)
Hope to go there again next week (ohh, my last week here - shit!!!!!!)

And friday! I love it! I must stay in thiugh tonight, have just 3 euros in my wallet! Anyway I need a rest before weekend: shopping and catalan dinner tomorrow:)

hugs to all

Dobavila neskolko fotok:
http://www.e1.ru/fun/photo/view_album.php?id=48850&page=1

Lelik, spasibo za pismo:)
Anka - napishi please kakoi u tebya pochtovii address? a to u menya tolko starii moskovskii...

ponedelnik - den' tyazhelii

h0la!
spasibo vsem za kommentarii:) Ochen ochen skuchau i hochu uvidetsya, no naverno eto sluchitsya tolko cherez polgoda:( vse-taki do nashei derevni uzh ochen dorogo dobiratsya...
OK, vihodnie... Ne znau kak u vas no u menya bil odin iz luchshih weekendov za vse vremya moego prebivaniya v Barcelone (kstati v voskresenie bil rovno mesyaz:). Pyatniza proshla pod egidoi alkogolya: shampanskoe na plyazhe po-povodu dnya rozhdeniya podrugi podrug (tut zelaya au pair mafia s kotoroi ya postepenno znakomlus:). Tam zhe k nashei tolpe narodu podseli 2 molodenkih shveda, chto dlya etoi nazii bolee chem stranno (oni obichno ludei boyatsya i predpochitaut peredvigatsya gruppami sebe podobnih). Zato teper u menya est 2 novih znakomih v Stockholme:) Pitalis vityanut iz menya shvedskie frazi...plachevno:( Posle plyazha i posle 2h chasovogo bluzhdaniya po zentru goroda so stakanom wiski-cola v rukah ( dannii napitok bil chrezvichaino tepl v silu otvratitelnoi neprohodyazshei zhari na ulize, v rezultate alkogol naprochno osel v moei krovi). Finally okazalis v techno clube, obitaushem v stenah bivshego teatra: originalno
Hotya v svyazi s populyarnost'u mesta prihodilos po ocheredno otbivatsya ot nazoilivih macho s ihnimi "Hola preciosa"...
Do doma ya dopolzla k 7 utra v subbotu...
Odnako luchshaya chast vihodnih proishodila s subboti na voskresenie: Beach Camp in Vilanova i Geltru (nebolshoi gorodok v chase ezdi ot Barci)!!! S trudom prodrav glaza v raione obeda k 5ti chasam dnya dobralis do campinga: okolo 20 palatok, 70 chelovek so vseh konzov zemli i International Festival of Traditional Music! Luchshe vsego zazheg Senegal! HOtya udalie bosniizi tozhe bili nichego:)
A potom plyazh, brazilzi, tanzuushie capoeira, finni - zhongliruushie ognem, sangria i postepennoe zasipanie pod stuk tam-tamov:)
Odnako spat dovelos nedolgo, t.k. solnze ne dremlet i v 8 utra uzhe obzhigaushe svetit v lizo (ya ne stala lezt v palatku - napominaushu saunu, a ustroilas na travke v spalnike). Popitki poimat ten' zakonchilis polnim provalom, v rezultate mi reshili otpravitsya zavtrakat v blizhaishee kafe pod zontiki.
Voskresenie ofozoalno mozhno nazvat dnem moralnogo razlozheniya : zavtrak - more - lenivoe lezhanie na plyazhe - obed - more - voshititelnii (hotya i chertovski goryachii) pesok! Edinstvenoi problemoi bila polnaya anti-gigiena, poskolku v deshah, prisutstvuushih na plyazhe nelzya ispolzovat kakie-libo moushie sredstava, a legkaya struya vodi bessilna protiv tonn peska i soli. NA samom plyazhe legkoe povanivanie i gryaznota kak-to teryalis na obshem fone sebe podobnih, no zao na obratnom puti v poezde bilo ne tak komfortno:PP
V lubom sluchae weekend udalsya!!!!!! Oj, i ya kstati nauchilas samostoyatelno skruchivat joints (ne pomnu kak eto po-russki, slang nemnogo podzabilsya:)! Hotya mne na eto trebuetsya minut 5, no menya uvereli chto nemnogo praktiki i budu pochti profi:)
No v ponedelnik konechno bilo tyazhko na rodnoi uzhe detskoi ploshadke! Odnako u mamashki bil naverno ostrii pristup gumannosti poskolku menya otpustili posle obeda na vse 4 storoni (obichno ya rabotau do 8-9) i mi otpravilis otmechat od'ezd odnoi iz podrug: anglichanki Anni. Posle kafe v tapom gorode i piknika pryamo na doschatom polu pered gorodskim portom mi okazalis na plyazhe, gde i proveli polnochi, priznavayas v lubvi Barcelone (sm. foto na E1)....
deistvitelno Barcelona - potryasaushii gorod!!! and one day I'm gonna live here for sure!!!!!

privet vsem:)
spasibo za soobshenia:) narod ostavlyaite kommentarii, hotya bi paru strochek, chtobi ya znala chto hot kto-to moi bred chitaet:)
oh, vihodnie kak obichno proleteli absolutno nezametno i opyat nastupila dlinnaya rabochaya nedelya... ok, chto zhe bilo v vihodnie....
pyatniza - ?? aaa, Mojito club - salsaaaaaaa!!! obozhau salsu:)
subbota - shopping (oh, poslednie dengi potratila, po priezdu v Shveziu budu sidet doma i lapu sosat...), razlozhenie na plyazhe (chert, opyat sozhgla nogi, a tochnee izvinite za podrobnosti, pyatuu tochku, vse voskresenie ne mogla normalno sidet, zato seichas proyavilas legkaya bezhevost - priyatno:). Pervii raz v zhizni zagorala topless... nichego osobennogo, vo pervih tut polovina devushek tak zagoraet a vo vtorih zhitko nadoeli belie poloski ot kupalnika... zato teper rovnaya krasnota po vsemu telu:) nadeus vskorosti pereidet v zagar:)
subbota vecher - ohhh, pili... u podrugi host family svalili za gorod i mi sobralis za drinking games.... deti, nikogda ne smeshivaite champanskoe za 1 evro s persikovim shnappsom!
v rezultate v voskresenie prosnulas v .... 17.00!!! novii mirovoi record. reshila osvezhitsya s pomosh'u progulski i korotkogo zapliva. Progulka udalas (v Barcelone est vse! i Triumfalnaya arka, i "nebokrebi", i potryasaushie parki:) a vot zapliv.... bilo vpechatlenie chto tu edinstvennuu chaiku, kotoraya zdes voditsya (nu netu ih zdes, raspugali naverno p'yanie turisti) - i tu sbili samoletom (letaut tut vsyakie, shkolu pilotov reklamiruut) i vse per'ya (k schast'u ne vnutrennosti ) okazalis v vode. Vmeste s drugimi postoronnimi predmetami, groouse! K schast'u v vihodnie edu na camping na plyazhe nedaleko ot Barceloni v nebol'shoi derevushke, ura! noch' na plyazhe! obozhau:) No vecher proshel ochen milo v uutnoi chainoi (ne znau kak eshe perevesti: tetería - te - eto chai) s podrugami po neschast'u - vse au pair:)

v sredu sobiraemsya nakonez v club s drum&bass - yesss:)

pyatniza!!!!!!!!!

privet vsem:)
izvinyaus za angliiskii, no esli govorit po-russki ya uzhe snova privikla (ya zdes zhivu v polu-russkoi sem'e:) to pisat eshe net, po-angliiski pisat proshe, vse-taki polgoda bez russkogo...
Anechka, ya tozhe soskuchilas! A esli ti i pravda uedesh v Shtati??? koshmar! s odnoi storoni, konechno zdorovo, no tak daleko! A esli Pashka eshe v SG ostanetsya?! (da, kstati, ostaneshsya?) Hot' Lenka ostaetsya v Parizhe, ura, ura (Lenka - pozdravlyau! chemu uchitsya-to budesh, fashoin? ili prosto ekonomika?)
No vse ravno, pozdravlyau pochti s mashinoi! a kakuu kstati hochesh?
a u menya nakonez to pyatniza! v 21 idem prodolzhat issledovat mestnie bari:) pravda zavtra s utra vrode rabotat', no eto ne strashno, ne privikat:PP
gospodi, kak zhe zharko! sizhu v Biblioteke, edinstvennoe prilichnoe mesto s kondizionerom, a na ulize ne prodahnut, ne veterka...
v voskresenie nado obyazatelno vibratsya na normalnii plyazh, a to v Barcelone vse-taki plyazhi ne fontan.. da i narodu press:( v Tarragonu chto li svalit?....
oj, a v Avguste ko mne Chichulina priezzhaet, kakaya radost!:) sigareti za 3 kopeiki privezet (nu tochnee za 5-6 evro 10 pachek, krasota!:) hot komu-to smogu pokazat Barcelonu, a to vse ostalnie - pozornie, ne edut

hasta luego (DO SKOROGO)

hola de Barcelona:)

hello to everybody!
almost every day I receive several mails from my lovely friends asking how'm I doing etcetc. It's v.v. nice, I miss u all guys, too:) But I unfortunately I absolutely have no time to reply to all of u and it makes me so sad so my German friend here gave me wonderful idea: create some kind of web diary where everybody can read what I'm doing and where am I at the moment (yeah, my location changed a bit recently:).
So here it is:)

ok, here I am, in Barcelona, already for 3 weeks! wow, I just love this city! Even more than Paris, can u imagine this?:) Paris's on my top list for sure but Barca... you erally feel life here! And u enjoy it! So by now I've been going out every single night except last TUesday when I was just so tired that I went to bed at 23.00!:) unbeliavably early for me:P but yesterday I was awake again and went to explore really nice old area of the city called Gracia (former gipsy area and now one of the most beautiful parts of Barca). Finally me and my au pair friends here ended up in Champañeria drinking Cava (Spanish champaign) and eating sandwiches with Chorizo (sausages) for just 2.5 euros, I love this place. Even though it's so crowded that u hardly can move or even breath there but it's 1 of the most tipical places in Barca (especially if u wanna get drunk really cheap:).
But today I guess I'll have to stay in to save some money for tomorrow coz it's Friday and I have to go out! Yeah, money're always a problem. here I get just 60 euros a week for my expences (in sweden it was around 90) and even though everything's much cheaper here but also there're much more things to do:) and much more coctails to drink:PP ohh, Mohito....! it's so great in here:) Although I'm starting to afraid to become an alcoholic here:P it's not like I'm getting drunk every day but at least I drink some alcohol almost every single night! Well maybe after half a year in Sweden living almost like a nun it's ok.....
oh, to everybody who doesn't know my great news: I'm gonna study at least for 6 months in Royal Technical University in stockholm starting from end of August! so happy:) gonna study project planning etc.
and of course continue my au pairing stuff (i have found really nice family in Stockholm) and learning Swedish.

OK, that's all for today, Katya (2 year old)'s sleeping but I guess she's gonna wake up soon so I have to come home (in internet cafe, this stupid family here doesnt even have internet at home:()