Flashbacks: Halloween

I decided to post about that silent months. I stopped the updates just before Halloween, so the first flashback is about that day.

Halloween is an American and English tradition that is not important at all in Spain and most of the countries of my group of friends. Despite of that, the people made the preparations in advance and the results were quite good.

Paige and Ryan were to pints of Guinnes. A really good idea if you are in Ireland. Rikka was a good witch, she looks like really innocent, as well as Sara the little fairy.




One of my favourites customes was Walter's. His homemade ghostbuster suit was simply brilliant.


They were more interesting customes, but I don't have good photos of each one, but it was really funny to see all of them.

In fact, not all the people. Ilkka, Pasi and me were working at the university two hours before the Halloween party and we didn't have any costume or project of one. But we managed to do it!

Pasi borrowed some clothes from Sara and Caroline put some Tesco blood and other make up in Ilkka's face. In both cases, the result was frightening.



I decided to make something more original: a crash dummy. I drew the sign that the dummies have in the articulations and then I printed docens. After painting the yellow parts, and paste it over a cereal box and cut it, that symbols were ready to stick over some dark clothes. The result was ambiguous, half of the people said: "Wow, the Nuclear Man!".



On conclusion, it was a very funny day.

Ceili dancing

The university prepared a lot of events for the international freshers during our first week. The event I like more is the Ceili dancing.

Ceili dancing is the traditional Irish dancing and relies also in the traditional Irish music. In our case, we had a little music band and one man explaining the different dances to all of us just before starting. That dances has some movements like some steps in some direction, turning, people making arcs or circles, kicking the ground and so on. After each loop, there are another movement that changes the groups of people that are dancing together. This is made in a way that is modular and endless (in theory). That part remembers me the algorithm dance, but this is much better ;)

Another advantage is that permutations helps yout to know more people - actually, only to say hello for a couple of seconds.

At the end of the day I was danced all the dances of the event! And I have a little video of one of the dances in which our row was resting during one loop.

Selected by Tesco

Hello!

Today I am going to write a few about the survival of the erasmus students of my floor.

Local students leave Elms in the weekend and they came back with mam with their dirty clothes and cclaiming for food. In the other hand, this is not possible for the erasmus people. The final result is that in our kitchen there are social activities while the rest of the village looks like a ghost village. (Cool!)

Yesterday, we went out to a sort of mall with night clubs named Oddysey. We enjoyed the Box club, that has good but loud music. This place is very far from our kitchen but you can solve it with some taxis for up to seven people. There is a phone in the reception building to book taxis for free.

On the Box with a lot of girleens

More photos clicking in the last one.

Other important thing for the erasmus community is the nearest Tesco. It is the cheapest shop that is worthy to visit on foot. We are poor and all the things here are very expensive, so in many cases we buy the cheapest products. That means: Tesco sliced bread, Tesco oil, Tesco Tesco or products with own brand but with the label Selected by Tesco. There are even Selected-by-Tesco mobile phones!

What is the next? Blogs Selected by Tesco. In order to implement this silly thing I made a label that all of you can use in your blog.

The html code is that (Copy&Shit to your page):

<a href="http://www.tesco.com/"><img border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5118384625442632930" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixi57KvVmVNTRXHzSlVl-GPE7yaHsGMppUP1yHhqRBaJFKFimzYBBV7xV2la0EXvBbxKovK7MDWNlPuArJNPGvvmYUfG2jd_pO5xgfNYlgCapAi0N2J1tmBI7puPRsmbMMfz8tbIMr_2s/s200/tescobutton.png"/></a>


The final result is this:

Fucking good food Sunday

Today is the birthday of one of the portuguese girls. Happy birthday Isabel!

But the day has been very different from Bartek's birthday. Instead of a drink-driven party has been a food-driven party. In the next photo you can see the preparation:

Women cooking
Men beering

All the food was tasty, specially the cake!

Before all this party we were working out on the gym. Consequently, the food vanished very fast.

But the great success of the day was the meal that Pasi and me prepared for the lunch. Absolutely delicious. The only error made was the amounth of food cooked (almos the double of proyected) but our Polish friends helped us ;)

Spaghetti with bacon & dutch cheese
Best food ever cooked by Pasi & me

As long as our food is not Spanish nor Finnish we need a new denomination: Suomiñola food.
That is the logo:

Freshers Wellcome Week

The first week was plenty of new things, places, people and university wellcome acts.
Maybe there are too much new stuff!

When I arrived to my place my first thought was It is like a jail! but now I am used.

Some photos:

My verrry first friends in Belfast are some kindly Finnish people that you can see in the next picture (click to see who is who). In fact, I am spending so much time with them that I will be blondy soon. Currently, I can say hello in Finnish with a good Tampere accent.

I live in the main accommodation facilities of the university, Elms Village. There are many buildings here, and several floors in each one. I am in the ground floor of Oak Avenue 8 and the kitchen and the toilets are shared by eleven students. I am really glad of stay in this floor because most of the people (ten out of eleven) are internationals, so our kitchen is the most international kitchet of the village!

All the people is very friendly, and there aren't dominant nationalities. We have:

• Three American girls.
• Two Polish guys. They study political science and spreads the great Polish Vodka across the worl in their free time.
• One Finnish guy. Computer scientist and our best football player.
• One Netherlands guy. He studies physics but he surprises me sometimes with computer-like comments.
• Our Belgium English expert.
  
• Two for the price of one Portuguese girls. Only one of their live in our building but there are people here that don't know yet what girl.
• One Irish girl. Best English in the floor... and also know a little bit of Spanish (but when she speaks in Spanish I anser in English).
• Me! Spanish pavilion on the top.

In addition, there are more international people that goes (out) with us. Some of them are from Poland, Belgium, Finland (Moro!), Mexico (Jorge, campeón!), and so on.
I don't have (yet) a photo with all the people, but there are some shots with that people.