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:)