The little things: purchases

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Sunday, 16 November 2014

The past two weeks

{classroom}

{shopping center}

{American supermarket}

{purchases - various chocolate bars and peanut butter chips for cookies}

{oven light in the kitchen at night}

{bike renting, then it started to rain}

{supply store at school}

If it were a weekday I would have been in the greatest mood to write here, because I would have other things to do for school - sketching, researching, aka homework, and so writing here would have been just the perfect distraction from that; but it's Sunday and I am lazy, I have not done anything these past two days and now posting about how my week at school went feels like reliving it all again.
As I said. I am really good at being lazy on weekends.I do nothing for school, cause I know I have Monday off and figure I can catch up on work then. All I like to do is talk with R, watch a few series episodes, cook, eat, drink coffee, sit in bed till I'm tired of it. Instagram! I really like checking it out. You can find me there, most days. I check my blog, other bloggers, recipes, make shopping lists if I find some I want to make the coming week. On Saturdays I try to get out a little, walk through the city, check out some clothing stores, take pictures.
I found a second hand store that's pretty decent and I like to browse through their clothes and find a piece or two for wearing inside the house and they have a good selection of table wear/ dish towels and things like that, which I like. I have gotten bored with my clothes, my inside clothes. I like to have loads of them and change them often. So goes with plates and cups, but I'm not gonna start buying those now.
Homework for school has started to pile up. I have loads of stuff to do at five different courses. And I need to be on board and track with everything especially since I'm going/flying home earlier.

This past week we've had courses exclusively outside school. Four days of 'field trips'. That meant getting up a lot earlier to get there on time.
First off our regular once every two weeks visit outside Porto, at the Thirso factory.
Then on Wednesday we visited a clothing firm in the center, not far from my home.
Thursday and Friday two mornings at this far away factory/firm located almost an hour away from the city on rainy weather...just a delight.

{palm trees}

{countryside}

{pattern cutting}

{canteen}

{courtyard}

{an exhibition we got to see}

{Atelier des Createurs - they call it}

{on the highway}

{autumn in the countryside}

{the factory s store}

I really don't want to get into details here. Basically we've been shown fabrics and the whole process of clothes making. From receiving an order to make a certain number of pieces from the final product, everything was explained to us in PORTUGHESE, but I did understand 80 % of it.
I did, seriously and my colleagues do not believe me. Having to hear it every single day and nothing else, really makes you understand.You have no choice.
The people working there, at the factories are so incredibly kind and generous with their time. They always say that we can come back and if we have questions to call them and ask. They were patient and just so nice, I couldn't believe it. People are really nice here, really really nice.
I'm grateful to have this experience. Now I've started to relax more and concentrate and I realized people here are so hard working and you have more opportunities here, than back home. Here, you really do stand a chance to get a decent job in the field. I feel jealous of these girls here, my colleagues. Cause they are from here and will probably make it. I will have to get back afterwards.
I wish we had these opportunities back home.

Sunday, 5 October 2014

Recap

I've been having trouble with my laptop so I had a period where I couldn't use it, and then R fixed it, moved out all my photos and so I couldn't upload any on the blog and made me postpone posts.
But now, we hope I'm good. I'm going to need it on my trip.

I finally caved in and bought a smart phone. It's the Motorola Moto G, the g spot as me and R call it. It's fairly new, came out a month ago and I can't find a proper case for it. I'm a bit ashamed to say I like it a lot. I'm just getting used to it, it's weird having internet all the time, wherever you go...
I chose it because it's the cheapest phone, but still very good. So, being the cheapskate that I am...I went for it. And have no regrets.

This cold weather we've been having has been a downer. I hope we manage to get to Hamak before it gets even colder. But people seem to don't want to go there. I bet it's beautiful this time of the year.

I got green-light to prepare for a year in Portugal, with the Erasmus program. If all the paperwork gets through and the rest of the things go well, I should be departing in a weeks' time. I am stressed and excited and nervous about an eventual plane crash. I hope I don't die on my way there. Also, not when I'll be back for Christmas in a couple of months. Then when I land there I can start stressing out about the rest of the things I have to do there. Like not fail my courses there.

Beyond stressing out about Portugal, I've been reading, watching movies, doing a bit of cooking, just the slightest bit... I've been watching a lot of Parks and Recreation episodes, they are so good. Re-watching one of my favorite movies ever: No Impact Man. I've mentioned this in a post a while ago. And it never gets old, or boring. I love it.

R's birthday is coming up this week and I plan to bake a few cookies for him to take to work and I can get on with that.