Holiday!

Long time, no see. But I've been busy with school.
Now I am on holiday! But I still have work for school to do over this period, so it sucks.
Here are a few pictures from the last two weeks. It's mostly just been about work.

 {when my room is clean and organized}

 {one or two storms}

 {the most beautiful girl in the whole wide world - but she won't show you her face}

 {moving furniture around}

 {learning( still) how to do a proper technical sheet - denim jackets}

 {learning how to make jeans}

We are learning about denim now and it's awesome. It's so interesting. We have a project to do - a menswear collection of denim jeans and jackets, we are putting together a denim fabric 'dictionary' - learning about different compositions and structures in denim fabrics and we have to make a pair of denim trousers. It's hard, scary work, but fun.

Now that Girls and Broad City are over I am kind of sad because I used to treat myself with an episode of Girls at the beginning of the week, on Tuesdays, and Broad city at the end of it, on Thursdays and it made my weeks so much better, I had something to look forward to every week.
Now, I have downloaded the Curb your enthusiasm series, and it will have to do. It's OK.


So, R is arriving on Monday and I am psyched! I have a bit of cleaning round the house and cooking to do these two days and it's going to be so refreshing after just working for school these past weeks.
Have a nice weekend!


P.s.
I love these
this article and recipe by the lovely Molly from Orangette
this too
some more Broad City videos here

two weeks in, two weeks more

It's just two weeks since I moved here but it feels like it's been so much more than that. It's fairly decent, with a couple of issues: It can get cold in the evenings, My window faces East and in the mornings I have light and it's awesome but later in the day it can get pretty cold. I know this is nothing compared to the weather right now in Romania but these guys here don't have proper heating systems, not like we do. They just give you a little radiator and it's just not enough. As all other people right now I just can't wait for summer to come.
But really what I am actually expecting is R's arrival in a couple of weeks. Yay! It's all I am thinking about. I'm so happy about that.

I'm supposed to be doing work in Illustrator these but it feels daunting. I don't really know what I'm doing and I am way behind my class mates with work. You should see how fast they work in Illustrator, it's crazy. I have less than two weeks until my deadline and all I can think of is R and bikes. I miss bikes. And I miss home.


Here is a playlist I found



Random photos these past two weeks:

 {american junk food}

 {11 o'clock break}

 {seen from our classroom window}

 {basketball game - of course we lost}

 {open week at Esad}

 {Sara and Sara - my best buddies}

Mornings and evenings.

Some lately and some right about now

{my old room, last days}

{last owners, recent apartment mate, dinner I cooked}

{new place}

I just moved yesterday and it feels strange. Like it should feel the first few days after moving to a new place. I found this place two weeks ago on the first day of searching, and by evening I told them I'll take it. It's right up front my school, so no more metro fare, less time commuting, and it's cheaper. I will have to pay bills with my flat mates, and I did spend a few on some bed sheets and some cleaning supplies but even so it will be cheaper by at least 50 euros on rent and 30 less with no more transportation card.

The weather is the worst right now. Rain, rain and then some more rain. It's all damp and windy and no sun. I am really looking forward to some sunny, warm days. Also looking forward to R coming soon. In exactly 4 weeks!

School is still hard with a lot of assignments to do. This month particularly, as I will have to finish an assignment with a teacher on jeanswear.

{men's suits, outerwear and blazers's fabric swatches - not enough, but all I could find }

{Tuesday morning train station}

  {teacher, fellow colleagues, fabrics expo}

{2016 trends}

P.S.
these photos of Porto
this made me miss illustration at school

Coffee: Six Degrees of Caffeination
eating fruits and veggies in the wintertime
indeed
NY city's 14 most famous micro apartments

It's been exactly two weeks since I'm back here and I already made a sheet-like calender to cross off the days until Easter. I'm hoping I'll get one or two visitors around here...or maybe even more... Everybody, you are most welcome to come visit me!! Besides the money issue, there shouldn't be anything standing between you and a week or two of vacationing in Porto. Just that.

The weather has been so and so. We had rain and wind, unpleasant days, and then there are the sunny nice days, but they are still kinda cold. So I just want to stay in bed and watch movies. I guess everybody is just trying to get through these darn winter months.




I've been thinking about various things. I enjoyed these series on wardrobe changes and all that. I guess everybody's been doing it since last year. Trying to cut down on your clothes and wear just a certain number, 30, something like that. Oh, here's another proof of it, and a whole blog about it. It would be nice to do so, just try to keep only the stuff you like and really wear the heck out of them. And also makes you think about your style and clothes and what matters to you, being comfortable, being 'a fashion diva' and what not...
Just making things simple, clear, uncomplicated.



photo via Rmtl

In parallel with this closet rethinking and simplifying things in your life I've been reading this book, that talks about a new way of rethinking your time and efforts, that you can't do it all, that you have to choose what to do with your time / because otherwise others will choose for you, that you have to accept trade offs.

Another book I want to read soon enough is this one. And here's an article or two about it, if you think you're into it...
I don't know...this time spent here in school, my teachers and my colleagues, even what I'm studying: menswear have got me thinking about re analyzing everything, simplifying, organizing, planning on every level. I guess it's the way people do things here (in school).



I have a little series  /it's called High Maintenance/ I've discovered and would like to share with you. It's a bunch of 5-10 minute episodes about different people and their weed guy. It's in New York
so of course I love it. I love to watch movies and documentaries about people living in NY, so this was perfect. Hope you'll enjoy it too, if not who cares.
As you probably know, Girls is back on for a while now, and thanks to Nadia I have seen the first two episodes and I love it. I've watched them in the morning before going to school and it's just the perfect thing to help me day dream all the rest of the day in classes. I'm so glad it's on again.

I enjoyed this TED Playlist on Finding the right Job, since clearly I'm in need of help on that matter.

Until next time, I leave you with some school and bad weather pics, cause that's what I'll be experiencing in the weeks to come.

Home never seemed so exciting as it does now

 Things have been going ok. I'm just a bit worried about the amount of homework I have. I have an exam exactly after I return from the Christmas holiday and still so much to do for that, and other stuff for other disciplines.
 Having said that, I am so excited to be catching a plane home next week on Thursday. I can hardly wait. I don't even care about the long plane ride, the stress of the ride and all that. I'm just so excited to land in Bucharest. I miss everyone at home, so much.

The city here is definitely in a holiday mood. It's nice but it would be great if I had R here with me.
I spent half a day at the beach this weekend and it was quite good. There were so many people surfing, the water cold, a lot of dogs playing, couples...I walked a lot on the side of the beach and then took a bus to get home bringing along with me a lot of sand, cause my room wasn't messy enough...