Me and my roomie moved out last friday and into this appartment. So far we’ve made dinner twice.
My bedroom
Backyard
Living room
Bathroom
November 11, 2009
Pool
I love taking pictures of the pool. The color is amazing.
This is what happens to the pool when theres really strong wind.
November 11, 2009
Broken
I said before that the lens for my camera is broken. After several tries to find the right store, I got a new one, a 50mm, f1.8 which is awesome. Whats not awesome is that my camera is also broken. Yeah. Its still sort of possible to use it though, at least outside. The thing is, if I take pictures with the camera set to auto they come out like this or darker. If I follow the light metre on my camera they also turn out like this.
So I have to set it to manual and use settings that means the pictures should be completely overexposed which is what the light metre tell me they will be. Im guessing this means that something in my camera that lets light in or something might be broken. Im thinking about taking it to a store to get it checked out. Im just afraid its gonna cost a lot of money.
November 10, 2009
Fiesta en Alfaz
These last few days there’s been fiesta (literally party/holiday) in Alfaz del Pi. These days are public holidays, so everyone’s is free to celebrate.
Friday
These guys were just sitting there on the sidewalk, playing.
Saturday
Outside a penya. Penyas are places that a group of friends get together and rent and then they party there for the duration of the fiesta. They buy lots of alcohol and food and share it with people that come into the penya. Pretty good, yes?
On saturday we stayed out until around 6am. It was a good night. Then I was woken up at 2pm by a chainsaw outside the house.
We didn’t go out on sunday cause we were exhausted so we spent the day sleeping, reading and sleeping some more.
Monday
Carrefocs, walking fireworks.
Monday was great. We went out to a couple of bars here in Alfaz with nice people and had a good time. Although when we got back home, probably around 5, I couldnt sleep. I’ve probably slept like 3 hours since whenever I woke up on monday.
Tuesday
No real partying tonight, we just went down to Alfaz to see what was going on and to watch a firework display which we missed.
Tomorrow it’s back to school.
November 7, 2009
English test
Shortest test ever? Don’t be fooled by the lack of writing people, it was actually quite a lot of work, and 45 minutes was not really enough time. But circumstances gave us only that amount of time.
November 4, 2009
At school
From yesterday. Studying spanish at school outside in the sun. It could be worse. Oh and today I have the day off, its 27 degrees outside and the sun is shining. Not bad for november, right?
November 2, 2009
The industrial revolution
It began in England in the 1600s. People started living longer and having more children. Factories started popping up. The workers often worked 12 to 15 hours.
In Norway people also worked long hours. And women only got paid half as much as men, even though they did the exact same work. It wasnt until 1892 that the government passed a law that sais you had to be 12 years old to work in the factories. And that if you were under 18 you could “just” work for 10 hours.
Most people had to work overtime to survive. And vacation was completely out of the question.
It seems like we’ve got it pretty good.
November 2, 2009
Monday blues
I am trying to study for the history test that I have tomorrow and I’m realising that I can’t even remember the last time that I studied for a test in school. It was probably the year before I went to Australia. So I am completely out of practice. I’m also really tired cause I slept like 4 hours tonight. And I dont like mondays. All this adds up to me not being in a very good mood and I wish I could put on a dvd/read and eat chocolate instead of trying (in vain) to study. Or just go to sleep.
Just thought I’d share with you all how little I like this day. Yeah. Hope your monday’s better than mine.
This picture is of no relevance to what I wrote, except that I would much rather like to be there than here right now.
Buenas noches
October 29, 2009
Mistakes can be a lot of fun
Yesterday Stine and I were going to go and buy a new lens for my camera. We were going to a mall called La Marina. And there was a trainstop called La Marina. So it is logical that we would go there right? The thing was that it took a long time before we were even close to that stop. A lot longer than when we caught the train the other day. So we realised that we had gone way too far and just got off at the next stop. It was in the middle of nowhere.
And this bar was there, so we went in. We had some wine and there were some nice people so we stayed a while.
This fox showed up outside the bar. It got some sausages.
But we had train to catch, so we went back to the trainstation. Except the train was nowhere to be seen. So we went back to the bar.
Stine with two wineglasses because the barowner insisted we had to try this wine called the norwegian princess or something...
We had some more wine, and at some point of time ended up at a different bar a little bit closer to Alfaz (which is where we live). At this bar they made some very nice mojitos.
The mojito I mentioned above
At last we ended up back home. With no lens for my camera. But it was a great night so it was okay.
October 27, 2009
Monday night
We walked to the store and got wine, cheese and salty biscuits. We walked around the supermarket for ages looking for the biscuits and in the end, after trying to ask a couple of people that worked there we found one that spoke english. Then we walked back home.
