On Monday the Germans arrive, properly dressed and right on time. Tuesday comes and the Italians are a bit late, but who cares they made good pasta. On Wednesday the French people realise that they are only 15 minutes late, they are so proud that they give themselves a few more minutes in bed (which in real time would be the whole afternoon). On Thursday the Estonians already started partying. They get hold of some vodka and all of a sudden all the furniture is gone and by midnight all the sleeping people somehow ended up in the Estonians room (yes they had to steal them too).

Every Friday there's a package waiting for the Belgians, containing tons of chocolate and cartoons. (We can coun't them out from the party, they'll be busy). The only sign of life will be a constant smack and once in a while a giggle.
On Saturday the Czech will join the party, but don't look for any Vodka in the Supermercado, the Czech are good at cleaning the shelves (of Vodka of course). The Swedish girl no one has seen during the whole week, finally shows up to join the after party. Since she hasn't been drinking from Monday to Friday (come on they don't do that in Sweden) she makes it up by drinking up everything she has in half an hour, because you have to be quiet at midnight and in Sweden the rules are to be followed! Stand in line people, come on! Two and two!

By the time the vodka is out, the Germans got hold of lots of free beer, so now it's getting "geil"! On Sunday the only people you'll meet in the living room are the Germans and the Swedes because they are used to get up in time. (Boring huh?) Oh and not to forget our lovely dog, who speaks 6 languages (7 if you count' the different accents of Woff wooofff)

Yeah, so we live like a big happy family. The catholic Czechs are happy that Jesus is our Homie and protects us from the evil surrounding in the world. Corcovado bless us all!

Oi pessoal!

Tdo bem??



So Madge the badge made it to coooold sweden. Damn it i'm out of shape when it comes to manage the cold. That is the cold outdoors of course, because I have something called heaters, in every room, which was invented to keep human beings warmer inside the house when it was freezing outside. Kind of a good idea, a great tip for the Portuguese ;-) (sorry guys, just had to=))

I had the best trip of my life, to get back to this cold place up north. For those of you who haven't heard it, here it comes once again, laugh or cry, do whatever, as long as you don't chose flights where you have to connect in Heathrow....

"Yesterday i had the longest fight of my life, Roch i love you but i don't think i'll ever travel through london again =/

Of course i had some bags too much but i had less than 1 hour to change flight in heathrow and as soon as i got of the plan a guy stopped me and told me i had to check in my trolley. Because of new rule you can only carry one item at the heathrow airport.. I had almost 4 hand luggage... My trolley, my small computer, my little purse and the o melhor bolo de chocolate do mundo.. Anyway, fine i went out to the terminal to check in, just to find out that i had to go to another terminal just for my flight. Great, it was about 15min left until the gate closed...

To get to the other terminal i had to catch a train (yes...) that should have taken about 5 min, and it does, once the train starts running... Anyway i got off at the right terminal at last and it was a huge mess at this place... I really love the airport in lisbon and Copenhagen compared to heathrow =) Anyway i catched a very stressed guy who didn't want to talk to me, but i showed him my ticket and then the clock (which already was 16.00, meaning the gate was probably closed and the flight would take off in 10min). he took me to a counter where the slowest lady at this place worked, i checked in my trolley (of course there was no time for paying extra which was good) but ten i had to go through the security-once again. I once again jumped the cue and asked a very nice man where to go. He looked at me and my bag with he cake and asked what it was. I told him and he said it was a very cute idea, but the guy at the security check would never let me in with 2 items. So he told me to take out my computer, because i would have to do that anyway and then we somehow squeezed in the cake in to the computer bad. I rushed in, jumped the cue for metal detectors just to found out, above all other things, I had to take off my boots.. Oh god! Even the cows at acores are treated in a better way than humans at an airport. Anyway there was a really nice asian girl letting me jump the cue and holding my stuff in order to get off my boots. I finally ran out and searched for a monitor to check my flight. Just to find out it was one hour.... lovely! Que bom! Hahaha. I was dead carrying all things and everything, but ainda bem because otherwise i wouldn't have made it for my flight...

Well the story doesn't really end there... Once on board we waited about 30min out on the yard just to take off and once landed in copenhagen, the bag i checked in at the airport in london was the first out on the belt and the one i checked in in lisbon still hasn't arrived.... Apparently it was still in london when i ahd landed in copenhagen. I will now call them and check where it is, because not only my glasses are there but also and important t-shirt, my galão cup and a precious bottle of port wine.... i arrived in my bed in my hometown about 4hrs later than expected...."

Anyway i'm now in my new flat and i really like it! It's not portuguese standard but still ;-) And my job is really cool! After one week at the job i went to Copenhagen yesterday to hold a presentation about our company for a client! haha talk about fast moving! Well it went really good and afterwards me and my colleague had a bottle of champagne in the city centre of Copenhagen, that was really nice and motivating!! =))



However, the weather i woun't even mention, the amount of people i meet "downtown" at 23.00 on a friday is equal to NONE! Incredible... I'm experiencing a great cultural chock.... (in my homecountry, but not my hometown! Because home now is Lisboa..... =))

Take care folks and see you soon! You're all welcome anytime!!!

Muitos beijinhos para todos!!




Kochanie: are you living great time at the airports??? Let's go shopping!! Miss u! Lots of kisses
Duchess: are you taking care of cultura da chá and the galões for me? Swedich people have problems with too many blonds... =))Miss u!! Baci!
Godfather I: You see i told you i'll take care of the family bussines! ;-) But I need a driver.... Come and help me out! Grandes beijos
Pedro: Let's go and drink coffee!! I miss it so much! You also owe me a long ride with your new car, without any cops ;-) Miss u lots... Muitos beijinhos
Papiii: Mamiii misses you lots!!! Madrid in july! but before that:LUX! and Paella!! Osteia!! Jooooooooooder!Muuuuaaaa! be a good student ;-)

Lots of amore

/M

Last day at home - Lisboa

The one with both a house and a bag... =)

On Sunday night my bag finally arrived!! I thought i would get an heartattack while looking through to see if the bottle of port wine actually survived. And it did! Hallelulja!! =) Almost felt like opening the bottle to celebrate but I thought better not to ;-)

So here I am, in a slightly bigger apartment than my old one... It's lovely! Well, I spend some time at work, so it's really just chillin' when I get back home. I don't dear going to the gym yet... Will do my best to get there these days...

Update soon again, as well as pics. Anyway, anyone interested in visiting - Bem Vindo!! =))

Beijos

/Maja

Hi guys,

after almost 24 hours in sweden i'm still missing out one bag, haven't got used to the coldness outside (-8), but most of all no noises at all! But almost the worst, no galão.... hmm... ;-) I miss lisbon....

Well i'll just write shortly to let you know what's up.

Yesterday i had the longest flight of my life, Roch i love you but i don't think i'll ever travel through london again =/
Of course i had some bags too much but i had less than 1 hour to change flight in heathrow and as soon as i got of the plan a guy stopped me and told me i had to check in my trolley. Because of new rule you can only carry one item at the heathrow airport.. I had almost 4 hand luggage... My trolley, my small computer, my little purse and the o melhor bolo de chocolate do mundo.. Anyway, fine i went out to the terminal to check in, just to find out that i had to go to another terminal just for my flight. Great, it was about 15min left until the gate closed...

To get to the other terminal i had to catch a train (yes...) that should have taken about 5 min, and it does, once the train starts running... Anyway i got off at the right terminal at last and it was a huge mess at this place... I really love the airport in lisbon and copenhagen compared to heathrow =) Anyway i catched a very stressed guy who didn't want to talk to me, but i showed him my ticket and then the clock (which already was 16.00, meaning the gate was probably closed and the flight would take off in 10min). he took me to a counter where the slowest lady at this place worked, i checked in my trolley (of course there was no time for paying extra which was good) but ten i had to go through the security-once again. I once again jumped the cue and asked a very nice man where to go. He looked at me and my bag with he cake and asked what it was. I told him and he said it was a very cute idea, but the guy at the security check would never let me in with 2 items. So he told me to take out my computer, because i would have to do that anyway and then we somehow squeezed in the cake in to the computer bad. I rushed in, jumped the cue for metal detectors just to found out, above all other things, I had to take off my boots.. Oh god! Even the cows at acores are treated in a better way than humans at an airport. Anyway there was a really nice asian girl letting me jump the cue and holding my stuff in order to get off my boots. I finally ran out and searched for a monitor to check my flight. Just to find out it was one hour.... lovely! Que bom! Hahaha. I was dead carrying all things and everything, but ainda bem because otherwise i wouldn't have made it for my flight...

Well the story doesn't really end there... Once on board we waited about 30min out on the yard just to take off and once landed in copenhagen, the bag i checked in at the airport in london was the first out on the belt and the one i checked in in lisbon still hasn't arrived.... Apparently it was still in london when i ahd landed in copenhagen. I will now call them and check where it is, because not only my glasses are there but also and important t-shirt, my galão cup and a precious bottle of port wine.... i arrived in my bed in my hometown about 4hrs later than expected.

Anyway, sweden is really calm and quiet (or my hometown atleast). Tomorrow i'm going to växjö to move in and on monday morning at 8.00 am i have to be at the office. It's gonna be a very interesting weekend =))

Well i have to go and call some guys at the airport now! I think this is a matter for Il padrino ;-)

Fica bem e ate logo ;-)

beijnhos

Hey everyone!

Hope your doing good! I've been lazy updating this blog once again, but at the moment i don't have a great internet connection since i moved... well hope to fix that soon.

Anyway at the moment I'm at açores!! Wow what an island (in the middle of nowhere) it's incredible green and just water and cows everywhere. Yesterday i went whale watching! Wow that was an experience... and we saw dolphins as well... incredible, i really can't find words to explain this experience... it was breathtaking. but being on this island is really like being one with the nature or at least know that you're little just a small little thing in this huge world...


we rent a car today and drove around, while it was raining and raining and really windy, but the views.... oh dear good... it's like being in a ghost island but at the same time in the movie of sound of music (except the houses and more cows)... =))

Mercedes limousine

well little news from me, take care see you soon!

beijo grande!
/M