Where do I begin?
After four days of searching for a room in rainy weather and much frustration and hopelessness, I stumbled across this place. A girl at school who knew I was looking for a place introduced me to Marta - my current apartment mate. Marta told me she had a room available near the center, not far from a metro station and that I could come and see it. Well, I did. And I took it. It's a bit pricey but it's Ok for now. The price includes utilities and other little stuff like laundry detergent...I also have towels, bed sheets, a very well equiped kitchen, all sorts of appliances, so it's Ok. - again, for now.
So I've been here 10 days and I've gotten used to the place. Besides us, we have a boy living too, Henrique. He is at work all day and I barely see him. I also barely see Marta, which doesn't bother me. Marta's parents come often around here. They cook for themselves and their daughter, they clean up sometimes, and they are very nice actually. Her mom knows english well; better then any of them.
Here are a few shots of the place, for you to get a sense of the vibe around here:
What else?
School. I apologize for the pictures. These were mainly taken to show R around the university, and not for the blog. But I don't have anything else, yet, so these will have to do.
The school is really nice and simple, very minimalistic. The teachers are so nice, also.
This week was my first week of school. I had an introductory course on Tuesday where all the teachers presented themselves and what they were going to teach and loads of other interesting stuff. I think. I don't know. I couldn't understand a word. Ok, maybe I did understand, but just 1/3 of it. Portughese is fucking hard!!! It's frustrating, really is. And most of the teachers know very little English. Others just tell me to learn Portughese and not even try to explain in English.
Until Christmas I have five distinct courses. After the holidays I'll have more.
This year, I found out, I'm only going to learn about menswear. Fucking menswear.
So I have a course on that, with an asshole: where I learn about shirts, collars, fabrics, pants, jackets.
Then I have a course called Contextual Studies: theoretical and pretty hard, especially in Portughese. Then I have Advanced Virtual Models course - 3D programs on the computer.
Then something called Product Engineering - haven't done yet/ will do next week.
Then something that would translate as Modeling/ Confection - haven't done that either.
I now have eight weeks/ or seven- with God's help until I come home for Christmas. I can't wait.
Aparently these days (the weekend) were Fashion Portugal days and there were several presentations in downtown Porto. On Friday evening, me and three of my group girls went to see some. It was interesting, for sure. I guess you can check it out here. But we didn't get to see that much because we were tired from classes and soon after we were on our way home.
My new friends are nice. A bit odd, but nice. Of course they're odd, I don't know them yet. They try and help me out with translating and explain to me again certain stuff I didn't get in class. We have lunch together at school, they're happy they get to practice their English and they're trying to make me speak more portughese by refusing to answer me if I adress a question in English and not in Portughese. One is from Brasil, one from Madeira and the other from a town north of Matosinhos.
The city is great, like really. The weather is so nice and I can't wait to go the beach. I haven't had time to really go about and visit stuff but I figured I got time. I really do want to rent a bike and go about with that. Surely it would save time and would be so fun. I'm working on that.
After four days of searching for a room in rainy weather and much frustration and hopelessness, I stumbled across this place. A girl at school who knew I was looking for a place introduced me to Marta - my current apartment mate. Marta told me she had a room available near the center, not far from a metro station and that I could come and see it. Well, I did. And I took it. It's a bit pricey but it's Ok for now. The price includes utilities and other little stuff like laundry detergent...I also have towels, bed sheets, a very well equiped kitchen, all sorts of appliances, so it's Ok. - again, for now.
So I've been here 10 days and I've gotten used to the place. Besides us, we have a boy living too, Henrique. He is at work all day and I barely see him. I also barely see Marta, which doesn't bother me. Marta's parents come often around here. They cook for themselves and their daughter, they clean up sometimes, and they are very nice actually. Her mom knows english well; better then any of them.
Here are a few shots of the place, for you to get a sense of the vibe around here:
What else?
School. I apologize for the pictures. These were mainly taken to show R around the university, and not for the blog. But I don't have anything else, yet, so these will have to do.
The school is really nice and simple, very minimalistic. The teachers are so nice, also.
This week was my first week of school. I had an introductory course on Tuesday where all the teachers presented themselves and what they were going to teach and loads of other interesting stuff. I think. I don't know. I couldn't understand a word. Ok, maybe I did understand, but just 1/3 of it. Portughese is fucking hard!!! It's frustrating, really is. And most of the teachers know very little English. Others just tell me to learn Portughese and not even try to explain in English.
Until Christmas I have five distinct courses. After the holidays I'll have more.
This year, I found out, I'm only going to learn about menswear. Fucking menswear.
So I have a course on that, with an asshole: where I learn about shirts, collars, fabrics, pants, jackets.
Then I have a course called Contextual Studies: theoretical and pretty hard, especially in Portughese. Then I have Advanced Virtual Models course - 3D programs on the computer.
Then something called Product Engineering - haven't done yet/ will do next week.
Then something that would translate as Modeling/ Confection - haven't done that either.
I now have eight weeks/ or seven- with God's help until I come home for Christmas. I can't wait.
Aparently these days (the weekend) were Fashion Portugal days and there were several presentations in downtown Porto. On Friday evening, me and three of my group girls went to see some. It was interesting, for sure. I guess you can check it out here. But we didn't get to see that much because we were tired from classes and soon after we were on our way home.
My new friends are nice. A bit odd, but nice. Of course they're odd, I don't know them yet. They try and help me out with translating and explain to me again certain stuff I didn't get in class. We have lunch together at school, they're happy they get to practice their English and they're trying to make me speak more portughese by refusing to answer me if I adress a question in English and not in Portughese. One is from Brasil, one from Madeira and the other from a town north of Matosinhos.
The city is great, like really. The weather is so nice and I can't wait to go the beach. I haven't had time to really go about and visit stuff but I figured I got time. I really do want to rent a bike and go about with that. Surely it would save time and would be so fun. I'm working on that.
No comments:
Post a Comment