Halloween in Madrid

Pientä kertomusta Halloweenista Madridista: mä en meinannut aluksi edes lähteä juhlimaan kyseistä juhlaa (vaikka rakastankin pukeutua!), koska olin päättänyt välttää niitä överi rommikännejä hetkeen. Muutenkin, kun muut olivat Halloween-ostoksilla, olin itse hoitamassa vakuutuksasioita Applella koskien iPhoneani (tästä myöhemmin :D). Mutta kun olin matkalla kotiin ja näin miten muut olivat pukeutuneet, tuli hieman lame olo, jos olisin jääny halloweenina himaan Madridissa. Siispä kehiin pikapukeutuminen!

Tässä vaiheessa vähän kyrsi se, etten ollut ostanut sitä puolituntia aikaisemmin näkemääni kokoelefanttipukua Primarkista 12 eurolla (! ..no kai sillä sweatshop-touhulla säästää aika paljon rahaa..) mutta en lannistunut. Mulla oli jo suihkussa käymisen jälkeen (ja huom., mun suihkut ei kestä puolta tuntia! :D) kolme eri asuvaihtoehtoa, ja neljäskin tuli kehiin, kun Enni ehdotti, että oon Leijona(lätkä)fani :D Meille siis on itsestään selvyys, että me tullaan Madridissa kannustamaan toukokuussa Leijonat voittoon jääkiekon maailmanmestaruuskisoissa ;D Siksi Ennillä on oma leijonapaita mukana - itse olin suunnitellut tuovani sen vasta joulun jälkeen tänne ;) En kuitenkaan kelannut jaksaa raahata keittiöstä löytämääni pokaalia mukanani (?!?!?! kenen se on ja mistä ?!?! :D) koko iltaa, joten päätettävikseni jäi, että pukeudunko:

1. Yökkäri-ihmiseksi (inspiroiduin aamusesta: olin nimittäin ollut niin vitun pöhnässä aamulla [unirytmi vituillaan + painajaisia yöllä], että kun Heidi oli tullut herättelemään mua n. puol 12 päivällä kouluun, olin luullut, että se tulee kysymään mua salille, joten olin huikannut 'en mä tuu'. Joten, kun unen läpi kuulin Hannan ja Heidin äänen ja sen jälkeen ulko-oven pamahduksen, tajusin, että MUIJATHAN ON LÄHÖSSÄ KOULUUN. Ryntäsin ulko-ovelle ja näin oli. Mulla oli niin kiire, että en vaihtanu ku pikkarit ja farkut jalkaan ja ryntäsin dösärille tyttöjen seuraks. Onneks olin nukkunu hirveen lämpökerraston kera [sukat, villikset, yökkärishortsit, lökärit, yöpaita, pitkähihanen ja huppari] kylmyyden takia, koska aamulla tuli niin kiire, ettei olisi ehtinyt alkaa pukemaan, mutta toisaalta - kuinka siistiä huomata, että istuu koulussa yöpaita päällä..ja vielä ilman rintsikoita........................ the amount of vitutus. No mut onneks mul oli tosissaan se pitkähihanen ja huppari viel siin pääl, niin no harm was done, eikä kukaan muukuin tytöt ollut tietoisia mun yläosakommandosta. Mut back to the outfit: eli yökkäri-ihminen. Mun asuun olisi kuulunu uuden yökkärishortsit, Snoopy-yökkäripaita, pupuaamutohvelit, silmäunilappu (vai mikä onkaan) ja sydänkoristeinen aamutakki korvilla. Mutta hylkäsin asun, koska a) vähän itsepaljastelijaolo noissa lyhkäsissä yökkärishortseissa b) ulkona on saatanan kylmä c) niin lame valinta, ettei asulla ole edes kunnon nimeä? :D

2. Terroristiksi - Kun ostin itelleni huivin Zarasta, tokasin, että tällä huivilla voisi kaapata lentokoneita. (Jos joku vetää nyt herneen nenään niin voi jeesus, sallikaa ittellenne hieman paskaa huumorintajua!) Huivi oli nimittäin niin saakelin iso, että siitä saisi vaikka peiton. Tai burkan. Tai arabikaavun. Hylkäsin kuitenkin idean, koska se oli ihan saakelin lame. Mitä pukeutumista se muka on, jos kiedon itteeni jonku huivin?

3. Surffariksi - ja tähän päädyin. Meitsillä on kaapissa mun Wetsuit, jonka oon ostanu Ausseista Marokon surftrippiä varten. Kelasin, että tää vois pitää mut lämpimänä (well.. kinda....at some points...). Nakkasin päähän viel aurinkolasit. Aika lame asu, but at least i wasn't flashing my ass with my pj-shorts!

Meijän piti lähtee keskustaan, mut hahahahah the bus never came + dösät oli niin täynnä, että ne vaan ajo ohi. Joten lähettiin Villaviciosan kylille. Mentii irkkupubii, join hyvää Rioja-alueen viiniä lasillisen, söin bursun ja sit päätin ett meitsi lähtee himaan :D Kävelin 40 minaa siinä wetsuitissa kotia päin, ja kun saavuin meijän huvilalle, kaikki muut oli jo siellä....Ilmeisesti niillekään ei ollu maistunu toi Doublon-clubin meno ja ne oli ottaneet taksin kotiin :D

Mut anyways; an example how you can have fun, not get drunk and still have a couple drinks ;)

PS. sori iPhone-laadusta jälleen, mutta oli vähä kiire lähteä dösärille!
PPS. Meidän salituntien vetäjät oli kuuleman kaikki pukeutuneet zombeiksi ja body combatin sijasta vetäneet Thriller-tunnin ! ihanaa !
PPPS. Näin ostokeskuksessa paljon isien taluttamia pikkulapsia, jotka oli puettu Halloween-asuihin ja joiden nassut oli maalattu pelottaviksi... niin söpöjä !

New Years - Selamat Tahun Baru !

New Years Gili Trawangan 31.12.2011

1.1.2012 06:18

New Years... Disbelief might be undermining how I was feeling when the year changed to 2012... The last year, kids. D-Day on the 22.12.2012, get ready.

It would’ve been a  SHIT New Years Eve yet again (zombie drunk episode, anyone?) unless it weren’t for this  German guy, Jonas, I met.

Dancing till late, realizing I had drank way too many redbull vodkas (4??? fuu) to fall asleep anytime soon and going swimming in the sea (I had to be lured in, because I was scared of the sharks).

The morning was spent in good company discussing climbing Gunung Rinjani (Indonesia’s 2nd largest volcano) and watching the years first sunrise <3



...And yeah, Someone might’ve ditched his friends and the boat to spend a hungover day with me :)(:

Gili Trawangan & My Birthday

Gili Trawangan 28.12 & 29.12



My feelings about Gili Trawangan and about everything in general had changed 180 degrees over night; when yesterday I felt like I wanted to just go home and I was sulking around and nothing excited me (I was starting to suspect a weird case of home sickness I’ve never had / bad case of hangover sadness) today I was loving life, enjoying myself and smiling at the world :)



I had read about the islands (Gili Trawangan, -Air and –Meno) from this Finnish blog that seizes to exist anymore and I had high expectations to be fulfilled. The pictures this person had taken were breathtaking and I was waiting to be astonished myself. But yesterday, since my overall mood was shit, I didn’t see the reason why this island was so special. But, like I said, the next morning everything was different:



I’m loving the islands’s atmosphere; when yesterday I was just plain bored, today chilaxing and not doing anything seemed ike a perfect combo. Plus, now we have the island full of friends, thanks to yesterday, and it no longer feels like I was (or we were) alone.  Also the rhythm of the island was cool – the sunset was the only thing to set the pace. I was truly enjoying the island’s way of simple life :)



Although I had felt pretty miserable yesterday, we managed to turn the evening around and have a good night. After arriving on the island in the morning and bumping into a Finnish couple (Lotta&Ilkka) we learnt that there was a bonfire every night on the beach overlooking the sunset. So naturally we went there.



Long and Agus, two Gilians with ridiculous afros walked/biked us there and after arriving at the beach we met this Norwegian guy (with the bluest eyes in the world) and  this German guy. They failed to amuse us and because we just didn’t click, we kinda bailed on them accidentally.



We decided to buy a beer and I’m glad we did, because at the bar this girl complimented my dress I had purchased at a flee market. We started taking with Kelly (USA) and Chris (England), this couple that were doing long distance. They both were teaching English with the difference of Chris teaching in Korea and Kelly teaching in Japan. We relly hit it off when they asked us how old we were ”well, actually... 21 today.” ”IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY? OMG! WE HAVE TO BUY YOU A DRINK”. And that’s how we met our first mates :) We also started talking with this other bunch of people from England, Jenn, Ian and Rich.

 The Market

We all decided to meet up at the Irish pub (after hotel runs and dinners), since on Wednesdays they have a massive party. We figured we’d go buy a beer from the store with Jasmine since it was super expensive at the bar. Typical island pricing. We were looking at the beers at a shop near the market when we noticed they also had vodka! We decided to buy a small bottle (only 19,5% whattt) and just then this Indonesian lady who was eating there asked us to sit down an we kindly did. We got some cups and started mixing the juice and the vodka. I felt kind of awkward drinking vodka infront of the Indonesian lady so I explained it was my birthday. ”IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY?” And then the lady, Sri, got up and ran to the other side of the store/kitchen. She came back with another small bottle and insisted upon it being my birthday present. I was so taken ! She was adorable :) She said she couldn’t drink (religious reasons, I assume) but she had a cup of juice with us before we headed back to the Irish pub :)



When we got back the English were playing cards and we met Aishah, this beautiful Jamaican/Spannish girl who had lived in London but now lived in Australia. She was g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s and when I had seen her pass me during the day time, I had thought she looked like a malibu/hawaji Barbie with her dark skin, sarong wrapped as a long skirt and her flower in her hair :) The game quickly swopped into flip cup and soon we had gathered a whole audience among some randoms playing it with us. Nothing however beats the flip cup at Fraser Island!

Getting some Warung

I was getting drunk because everyone was sharing their drinks in flip cup and I was getting some free drinks from people and the bars for my birthday :D We went and took over the dance floor. It was so good dancing on the sand with your barefeet :) Many hours later I was getting knackered regardless of the vodka redbulls and extra josh (this vitamin extract that you put over your drink and it wakes you up with its ”energy drinkliness”) I had had so I headed home to sleep at 4 am. Jasmine stayed behind with some Aussies (which there are not enough at all on this island, Raksu!!! All the hotties must of stayed behind at Kuta!) but she came back home at 5. It was lovely when at six a fucking baby started crying somewhere on the otherside of the wall <3<3<3<3<3<33<3 loving it. That’s just what I love to do when I am drunk/hangover at 6 am – listen to babies cry...  But. All in all, Really good birthday and incredibly nice people :) I was so happy we had finally gathered a really good group of people!



Today we've just been chilaxing at the surf spot beach (no-ho waves at all), eaten good food, and bumped into Aishah. She told us to meet her and everybody else including her fiancee Nick (Aus) at the shisha place. Later on we went to eat together with Chris and Kelly at the market. Ate some preeeetty delicious fish!



But seriously, like I said in the beginning, I fell in love with Gili Trawangan.
I love the slow pace of the island and its simple life. I love the fac that there are no cars and no motor bikes on this island (although it means that I have to be constantly dodging horse carriages and holding my breath). The Gilians are another reason why this island is so wonderful; they are sooo nice! Also the food is the best I have had. I LOVE their food culture here. Skip all the restaurants and eat where the locals eat – cheap and delicious. We fell in love wtih ”Warung” – A KIND OF buffet, but not really.



You pick from the counter what you want on your plate and then pay sme 15 000-25 000 rps for a massive feast of a meal. We always got the ”take away” version, because it was such an awesome WAY of eating: It was this rough brown paper wrapped as a cone and then stapled so the food wouldn’t fall out when you carry it to the spot in which you want to eat it at (we always went to the surf spot’s beach shack).



Also the market was amazing: every night at six the locals would build a market and you could buy warung or delicious fresh fish that they would grill for you. And it would be dirt cheap local price. We ate some amazing red snapper and some other fish on our trip. So good. Also the scenery and the view and the SUNSETS can’t be complained about. I also loved strolling barefoot (although I'm like the only person to do so..). But the most important feature would be the people: people are the ones to make the place. The five days that we were to spend on the island wouldn’t have been anything without the people we spent them with. : ) Gili T <3

NEW YEARS & Falls Festival Day 4 pt. 3

NOTE TO SELF: Next New Years don't drink a whole bottle of Jim Beam & a 6-pack of beer on top of that.

buu

hmm

charlie n laura

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK I CAN'T BELIEVE I MISSED A-TRAK. SO CHOCKED.
FUCK YOU ALCOHOL. :((((((

FUUUUUUUUU
(pissed off & pissed)

NEW YEARS & Falls Festival Day 4 pt. 2

Slip n Slide

Double Beer Bong

Beer Bong or Die

Laura, Ben and that drug guy

I dare you to eat Vegemite

Charlie

<3

-Drugs and Wristies accepted-

Life is Good

NEW YEARS & Falls Festival Day 4 pt. 1

On the last day the wind was super strong. Tents and dust were flying in the whirlwind. The only positive thing about the wind was that it made you feel pleasant against the burning heat.

+31 degrees. Everyone in the shade.

Slip on a short, Slop on sunscreen and Slap a hat on.

Everyone hiding from the sun underneath the tent.

Or-Die-Man, forgot his name. Not entirely coke he's guzzling.

beer bonging

beer bonging with spirits o-ou

True

GOON OR DIE

OR-DIE-man n me