My Life As Oscar

Aizbraukšana

2013-01-03T22:08:00.001+00:00

Sākās neliela panika, atlikusi vairs tikai viena diena Latvijā, un tik maz izdarīts, tik mazs laiks pavadīts ar cilvēkiem, kuriem gribētos vairāk laika kopā pavadīt, tik maz draugu satikts. Panika jo apzinos, ka tā ir mana vaina ,ka nepavadīju vairāk laika un slinkoju sēdēdams mājās, kāpēc apzinoties tik un tā ,tā darīju? Droši vien tāpēc ,ka ir sāpīgi satikt cilvēkus, kurus tev jau atkal pēc brīža būs jāpamet ,lai neredzētu uz pusgadu. Kad kopā ir tik labi, ka negribas ne pa ko citu domāt un visas raizes pagaist. Un tad ir jāaizbrauc, un tu nejūti neko tādu uz ilgu laiku, tad ir vientuļi un skumji. Šī apziņa, ka esi aizbraucis ,no kaut kā tik patīkama ir mokoša. Tāpēc arī jautājums, kas tad ir labāk, nekad nepiedzīvot laimi ,lai nezinātu kā tas ir, un pat nelaimē dzīvotu domādams, ka tā ir laime, vai arī piedzīvot laimi un dzīvot nelaimē apzinoties ,ka laimi nevar dabūt? Protams, tas ir nedaudz dramatizēti, es kā dzīves optimists, viennozīmīgi uzskatu ,ka dzīve ir kā laime tā nelaime, kā prieki tā bēdas, kā vientulība tā mīlestība. Tas gan, ka es tā uzskatu, nepadara šis sajūtas vieglākas, ja nu vienīgi paspilgtina tās. Tāpēc laikam jau esmu priecīgs ,ka tad kad esmu ar kādu varu būt patiesi priecīgs un novērtēt klātesamību, jo zinu kā ir kad nav neviena ar ko parunāt un nevar tā vienkārši atrast, un arī ar vientulību jau esmu saaudzis ,jo zinu cik labi būs, kad atkal redzēšos ar sev tuvajiem. Laikam jāpiekrīt vecajam teicienam, ka cilvēks nevar novērtēt to ,kas viņam ir, kamēr viņš nav to pazaudējis.( nezinu kas to teicis, un vai es precīzi atkārtoju, bet domu, cerams, sapratāt). It kā varētu likties, ka tas viss baigi motivē uz rīcību, un, ka nu ja es to apzinos, tad man vajadzētu tieši būt baigi aktīvam un neļauties slinkumam un kūtrumam. Bet es ļaujos. Cilvēks nogurst ,pagurst, un aizmirst. Jā aizmirst , viņš aizmirst ,ko pazaudē. Cilvēka lāsts ir aizmiršana. Katras brīvdienas es aizmirstu , cik ļoti negribas braukt projām, un katru semestri es aizmirstu cik ļoti gribās braukt mājās. Es aizmirstu cik ļoti gribās satikt cilvēkus un es aizmirstu cik ļoti gribās strādāt un mācīties. Tāpat es aizmirsīšu cilvēkus, kurus es nesatiku, aizmirsīšu iemeslus kādēļ nesatiku, aizmirsīšu slinkumu un kūtrumu, kas man dara kaunu atskatoties. Aizmirsīšu kaunu un vainas apziņu. Jo tā ir cilvēka daba, vismaz mana daba. Rakstu šo, jo iespējams ,ka uzrakstot ,tas man paliks prātā un ja pat ne prātā ,tad vismaz varēšu atrast un pārlasīt un tad atcerēties. Protams, esot te es atkal aizmirstu cik labi ir tur, cik labi ir draugi tur, atkal aizmiršana, bet varbūt šī apziņa ,ka abās vietās ir labi, ir tā kas rauj uz pusēm un neļauj būt nevienā no vietām tā pa īstam un līdz galam?
Jāatzīst ,ka ir vieglāk aizbraukt, tad ja ir mazāk lietu ko atcerēties , ir vieglāk aizbraukt un nejautāt vai es pareizi daru ,ka aizbraucu ,jo nav cilvēku ,kas paliek te ,jautājot tev to pašu jautājumu. Galvenais, nav pašam sev jājautā , vai rīkojos pareizi, jo nav atbildības sajūta ,ka pametu, atstāju , aizmirstu kādu cilvēku te. Ir vieglāk un es to atzīstu. Ir vieglāk slinkot un sēdēt mājās! Laikam jau varētu teikt ,ka tā tad ir arī mana banālā jaunā gada apņemšanās- neaizmirst un neslinkot!
Tāpēc piedodiet draugi, kurus nesatiku un piedodiet ,ka neatvēlēju jums vairāk laika, piedodiet. Lai gan jācenšas jau laikam piedod arī pašam sev, jo zaudētājs jau esmu arī es pats.
Tomēr no visas sirds pateicos tiem, kurus izdevās satikt, kaut vai uz neilgu brītiņu. Paldies tiem, kuri pabikstīja mani pietiekami daudz, lai es saņemtos un stātos pretim bailēm no sāpēm par atvadīšanos un neaizmirstamajām sāpēm par ilgo neredzēšanos,kas sekos. Paldies, kopā pavadītos brīžus atcerēšos, jo ikkatra satikšanās deva kaut ko jaunu vai atgādināja par kaut ko sen aizmirstu, bet ilgotu! Un ceru , ka nākošajās brīvdienās es atcerēšos, atcerēšos šīs pārdomas un rīkošos tā, ka man negribēsies aizmirst.

My film review blog

2012-02-01T01:14:00.000+00:00

Hy.
so I went to cinema today again, and after seeing the movie , while still fresh on the impressions about it , I did write my kinda review on it .. So head over to http://oskarsreviews.blogspot.com/ , and check it out.. The first review is on the movie called The Grey , currently showing everywhere.

In my time here in UK , I have already seen 17 movies in cinema, to whom all I will soon post my reviews... why do I mention the fact that I have seen them in cinema? well because that means they are up to date movies that are still topical. There is no point in writing a reviews for old classics , because everyone has seen them and probably there are thousands of reviews on them online :D... So for a starter just the ones you might have seen lately or are going to see :)

Also I am now doing a film theory lecture course as well so there's a lot of things it made me think about when watching a movie , hope I can use some of that knowledge to make my reviews more professional, although , they will always stay as MY opinion about the movies , I am not trying to say that it is correct, just my opinion , and I have just pointed out some discussable things about that particular movie .

Thanks and hope you find it useful , if u cant decide whether u want to see it or not , however :D I would say that its useful to see all movies of only u have the time and money( or internet :P )

The Taming of the Ear!

2012-01-30T10:18:00.000+00:00

I will tell what happened some time this week , what was kinda funny... although, extremely annoying and enraging to me.

So as I mentioned before , this week I practiced sculpting and sculpted a human bust ( head and upper body from chest , above.. with one full arm) ... So there I was sculpting when I finally kinda finished it and the only thing left to sculpt was his ears.. very well.. It was the lest bit left to sculpt so it was kinda hard to take courage and just start doing it :D ( its always hard to start doing something) anyway , i started to make the right ear( his left) and sculpted for around 3h .. very well , its beautiful and couldn't be more satisfied ( just to show what I am talking about her is a pic :

The ear is 1,4 cm from bottom to top.

Ok , that's very cool , but whats the funny bit?...

So I am happy that I have don it , and go to sleep... Next day , I decide to get on with making the other ear... Thats were it gets tricky , the other ear has to be a mirror copy of the one I already have... Human ears really are both the same, and a mirror copy of the other one.. they are symmetrical ... so I cant really just make another ear, without it looking just like this one :(...
Again I am kinda scared of starting to sculpt it... I know its gonna take a long time and gonna be a real pain in the ass to make it look the same...

anyway , I started ,and after almost 3h its done...
Well kinda, the problem is it doesn't line up with the other ear ... It looks perfectly like the other one ,though. However, it was in the wrong place , as this picture clearly shows :(

as much as I didn't want to do that , I had to somehow move it to the right place... Only way of how to do that , was to cut it off . The sculpty is to soft to push around , it can only be moved all together with a bigger piece. And if I baked it - hardened, and then tried to cut it off, I fear it would just break apart...it is very small after all, and quite fragile when baked...

so with fear I might ruin it , and quite mad at myself , I did decide to cut it off. and try to remove it as it is ... I really dint want to make another one, because it took so long , and actually looked the same as the other one..

So when I got all my courage I imagined myself as a plastic surgeon and did it , just like this :

-_- ... I know kinda creepy... However you can finally see what I am sculpting( still not sure if it was the right way to reveal it .. anyway there you go ... better pictures and everything later on , when it is actually finished

So that's amazing I have the ear , on my pad right in front of me... First part of the mission : ear transplantation , done... The ear came off perfectly , no harm done

Now starts the funny part ...

As a real professional I take a brake , well everybody wants to take a break after something kinda stressful has been done , and before something even more stressful is about to be done...
So I walk around , stretch my legs, go online, chat a bit, watch some videos ... I have this habit or just thing that I cant keep my hands calm, I have to be doing something with them all the time. So suddenly I realize I am wrapping something in my fingers.... I look to my hand , and see a small piece of the sculpty( the material I use , its like a plasticine/clay) wrapped and kneaded in a small ball... Well that's okay , I am used to doing that ...
I continue watching some music videos and kneading the ball... then finally I decide to get back to work. I get my guy , I get my tools , I turn on my table lamp... And I start to search for my ear ...
And then it hit me! The small ball I was kneading was the ear !!!!!!!! :O :O :O

Obviously the way my face looked , and the way I felt ... and after that the other meme with the long fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu--- ( you all know what I mean)
( I believe I don't have to start explain what I felt like , these two memes say it all!)

So that's kinda it .. I don't know why but my mother and family found that incredibly funny.. so I though I may share -_- ...

Or maybe the funny bit was , when the next day I finally got around to doing the ear again... This time it was also perfect ,in fact better than the first one....sadly it was once again not in the right place , so I ended up cutting it off again ... i don't know why but Homer Simpson comes to my mind... I took brake again, and did the same things that the day before... YES and even the kneading , this time however I realized much more sooner , and stopped right away , but it was too late , in my hand I had a nice solid little ball again ... I started to panic , still hoping and not believing I did that again, I looked for the ear everywhere and couldn't find it :( ... such a dumb ass , I though to myself ... then I took the human for closer inspection to imagine how would he look without a ear , because I was just completely fed up with EARS!!! ... and then I noticed that there is something stuck to his arm that shouldn't be there , something like ... like a ear!!!! :) (*me gusta*) ... It was the ear I was looking for , and it was almost intact ... omg , I felt soooo lucky , I literally (almost) peed my pants from happiness :) ...

:D :D ...

In the end I stuck the ear into the right place. And it was done.. well kinda :D ... I actually realized that the first ear I made was a bit out of the place... So just skipping all the part were I cursed and punched my head against the wall... I did cut the ear of and put it into the right place ... This time with no mishaps ( or just me being dumb and inattentive ) , probably the fact that the first ear was solid and hard helped :D , otherwise it was probably doomed to my kneading habit :D...

So that's it folks .. I hope you found at least something funny in all this ( I certainly didn't ... just joking , when looking back to it , it was funny ... not only Homer can do something stupid and still be funny :D ( I don't know why I mention Simpsons again ...probably cuz I watched them recently and , this just seemed too much of a Homer-ish accident )

I guess you probably want to see how did the ears finally turned out , right?.. Well let me see...
hmm.. I don't have any quality picture to show you right now ... If you want to see( well I want to show :D ) you gonna have to come back tomorrow :)

Ok goodnight for now !...( its late *no me gusta*)

I'll(am) be back!

2012-01-28T18:25:00.001+00:00

Hy,

Wouw ,havent written anything in more than a month .I feel bad... I have let myself down , I have been sooo lazy...

Anyway so Happy new year! :D ok this is just too late to say that so I am gonna just skip all the new years wishes and stuff ... but just know I do wish everybody a good year!

So what have I been up to lately?

Well a lot of things obviously , it has been a long time .. Although , in general it all has been studies-work , eating, relaxing , sleeping , and a lot of movie and tv-show watching. :D , so actually not that much things...

I am still working on my Faberge egg project , ye I know , I am slow... well not really, it just takes bloody long ... anyway here is a picture to show the progress :)

Concerning Uni work ...Well nothing has really happened at the studio , except we learned how to make armature for hands and did some clay sculpting . We did have introductions to milling machine, and now I am supposed to know how to use it... Which I think i do , but I haven't yet tried to make anything on my own , using it :D . We had a week off , and now we have time for our personal projects. Well for the personal project I am still working on my faberge egg , but I also am doing a lot of sculpting. I have never really done anything like that before, so It is really interesting to try it ... I dont want to reveal it here , yet.. but as soon as I finish it I am going to post a whole post for it , with a lot of pictures showing the process and progress... its pretty cool :D . although it have some anatomical mistakes...

anyways What else I wanted to say... Hmm ye I wanted to ask you somebody.. I am finally decided to write my own movie Reviews! .. The question, however, is : where should I post them? Here in this blog, or should I make a new one just for movie reviews? ..leave your thoughts at comment or vote at the new poll in the upper right side .

P.S. I will definitely come back and write something tomorrow , and the day after tomorrow, and day after, after tomorrow ! ...

Home sweet home & some thoughts

2011-12-21T00:57:00.001+00:00

Hy all!

I cant believe but I am actually back at home!!!! Incredible ! THis first semester just flew by. I am sitting in my bed now , looking at my room , looking the same as it looked when I left it. Its like I have never been gone (well only my cat has become pretty fat :D ) ..
This is truly amazing. Just to see how your life can change in couple of hours , how can people change their location in couple of hours !! .... :D ye I guess I am a bit overwhelmed with homecoming, but all I want to say is that even after this short experience, I can say that ANYTHING really IS possible!! And now I believe it more that ever.

Of course this is only the beginning and I cant wait to experience and live the rest of it! Next years is gonna be longer , though. but it sounds even more interesting as well :)

Ok so I am back at home , but what can I say when looking back at the experience of the last 3 months? Well here are couple of points/thoughts that came from this experience!

1. Nothing is impossible - nowadays you can do anything and do it anyway you want! Thats the wonder of our century! ( and I a not talking only about myself, out there I met a lot , I mean a lot , of people from all around the world, and they ALL are doing what they love, and want! and that is truly wonderful!)

2. Studying abroad is not that hard!!! when I went I was more scared than ever, but at the moment I entered the plane ,all my fears disappeared, maybe because I felt that I am doing the right thing or maybe just because of the excitement, but all I know is that , this feeling helped me get through all the obstacles that came my way , and all the feelings I felt (all the language and homesickness crap ) that tried to ruin my staying over there.

3. Meeting new people is fun!!!!! not much to say about this :D , last time I met somebody new before going to UK , was probably at the start of 10th grade :D .. In these 3 months I have met and memorized more people and their names than in my entire mmmm... life?.. no that's probably exaggerated ... well no actually, probably its not :D , it may be true.. at least its very close. :) anyway , you got the idea

4.People are people no matter where they come from or how old they are!!!! of course I never really doubted that :D , but still ,just saying that , usually people like to expect different things from people with different backgrounds and ages and be all stereotypical about races and stuff, but at the end it all comes down to the same things.. We all are humans and we all think and act and doubt and fear and laugh and cry and get shy and get lazy and gossip and smile!!! so nobody is alone!!! never , you are never alone! No matter where in the world you are!! and you can find people just like you even in the imaginable places!! So just an encouragement, we are never truly alone, just dare to ask, talk and see!

5. I LOVE Latvia , Riga , Jurmala and everything in it! I think I just appreciate the knowing that I know where everything is and its impossible to get lost , because it is so small :P !
But seriously , despite the awful weather here , I really missed my country , the trains, the train stations the school ,the statue of liberty , my home , obviously, the sea( I still miss ,it darn, haven't gone to it yet- ok first thing in the morning to do!) It is warm feeling when you feel like the whole city is your home! because I really feel like it is! it is! that's what is awesome about smaller cities - they are more personal, you get to know them and they turn into your personal city , personal hometown! Love it!.... And I love the water! the rivers Daugava and Lielupe mmm, stood at the shore of it today , and just felt the water waving firmly in front of me, the dark dark water ... brr gave me shudders- it was cold and drizzling and crap... but still , I loved it :)...
P.S. London is just way tooooo big and diverse , it doesn't have one character! :D

6. Latvians are truly everywhere !!!!! They are, I met so many latvians there, and I heard about so many latvians, that it is no suprise that the country is really worried about them , and that the statistic show that almost 250 000 people left latvia in the past 10 years ... not it seems legit! Its just that cmon Hertfordshire is not the most talked about(to say the least) universities , when talking about studying in UK, but still there are a lot , a lot of Latvians there , so just imagine how many of them are there in other Universities, like Glasgow and Manchester? One good thing( not that I think the other is bad , but this just sounds good) though, is that they seem to be dating and marrying other Latvians :D ... So they are expending our nationality within other countries :D eventually the number of people leaving country doesn't matter, because that doesn't mean they just disappear , no they just MOVE , and they actually are spreading the word Latvia and Latvians all around the world , and as I mentioned they stick to each other ! :)

7. Self-discipline is the hardest thing ever! :D that's why we have Moms and Dads :P . But seriously one thing worth learning before starting to live alone, is self-discipline . And that is extremely high valuable personality trait... I sincerely look up to all those people who actually have a strong self discipline.... In case you wonder, I am talking about - regime -going to bed in time-waking up in time , doing homeworks in time, doing homeworks, learning extra, pushing yourself to do unwanted, making yourself a meal when you are tired and don't want to spend time on that and so forth ... :D ... just a true story, self discipline is not a students best friend :D

ok seven points is going to be enough for now... I gonna add more if I remember, i am just very sleepy now :D , and cant remember other points, but I am sure there were/are more !

Report on University project nr.2.

2011-11-21T13:32:00.000+00:00

Hy all!
So finally here are my second project. Sorry for the delay . Just somehow didn't get round to posting them.
With no further ado here they are..
Well ok two words about the task :D. The module was called Representation modelling , Scale and structure. So we basically had to research these things :D , scale and structure. Draw some sketches and make some maquettes and models.

I enjoyed this project. It was great experience to see how the work of design evolves. First I draw several sketches, some based on the sketches we were given ,I like to just put my mind on the paper so sometimes the sketches look untidy and messy , but still they show the idea and the intended look of the design . I made almost all of my sketches into maquette’s. It was hard for me to make these small quick sketchy models, because I am pretty scrupulous. So it was interesting to force myself in making something quicker. However, I must admit I didn’t succeeded in that , all 8 small maquette’s I made very already detailed and took more time that they should, and I used for them proper card paper.

Finally, I made one bigger design building. It was the one that I had thought about the most, that I had drew good enough sketch and made good enough maquette to understand how the big thing will work and look like. Next I did a research of building heights and floor heights to properly calculate the scale. I ended up making my model in scale 1:170, and then I drew a proper plan in this scale so I can make all the parts and know that everything will fit. It was interesting to research scale like this because it is really hard to understand and imagine how big something would actually look in real life. So I went to London to get the materials, but to also, look at buildings that had 10-20 floors, and imagined the sizes of my design. Sadly I didn’t include my pictures in my project folder , because I didn’t really know we needed it ,and I have never made a project folder . After seeing some of the other student folders, I realized how handy and useful they are. So I have to learn to make them to make my process of thought clear and understandable.

I again ended up spending a lot of time on my last model, but I am ok with the final look. Again I experienced a lot of difficulties and mistakes, from which biggest was the working with superglue . It is very untidy way to work. I learned that you can’t rush if you work with superglue, to work with it you have to have a lot of time and patience. Otherwise it will come out not as clean and smooth as wished. Another thing is to really calculate the amount of materials needed and make a clear list of things needed, and then buying them, not the other way around. And I guess again I slightly missed the deadline.

This was like my assessment-like self assessment :) . I thought I gonna put it here also ;) .
So thats it , some more pictures: coming up...
Well if you ask about the trees, i know they dont look that good. But I just didnt have the money t buy the proper tree, well actually I would have bought them , but I just didn't get to London before the submission time :( .. And those are not representations of trees!!!!!,Those are Sculptures of trees! Huge Metal or glass sculpture of walking trees... -_-

Here I just played around , and try to put an environment around and on the model . you know usually the models are like put in some kind of space :D.. I didn't like my messy desk .


One day when I came back to studio I saw that my models is populated :O... there were people ( well paper people but nevertheless a human representations ) I have always liked to liven up my created worlds , and populate them.

So the next morning there were even more people in my world! :)


I just had to add this guy! He looks just so real :D and like he would really live in the model , not forced to be there . he doesnt look like he has been put there. He just came and sat on the bench to read his .. thing...

This building is based on a famous designers sketch . That was also one of the task , kinda , to
make a maquette from already drawn sketches ,to inspire from them .
So its a building , whose front looks like a human holding it from collapsing .

Ok so that's it for the big model . Here are the rest of my models and maquetts:

The small model of the big thing :) .. well it took a long time to cut those bloody circles -_-

This is ... hmm .. :D . a building presumably , like a skyscraper. I just liked the texture. didn't know the structure of the building ,though :P


Ok so this is the initial Walking Tree concept. Imagine a park in the middle of the city , like New York , with big building and packed with action. So there is a small block of green grass, and walkways all over it , from one side to the other. People every day rush trough it busy by their work , talking on their phones . Looking to the ground. Then we put there these huge , huge , metal constructions , that look a bit like trees. We put them so that their 'legs' sometimes crosses the pathways , but dont block , them . The huge trunks are made from folded and bend metal . So When people walk the park next day ,and finally look up , they see , between these skyscrapers a bunch of Trees taht are walking somewhere. Walking minding their own business . Captured it this one instance when they cross the park . Interfering with human life. They are so big so clearly cant be influenced by men. So the people stop for a moment and look to the huge slightly , in the wind , moving branches. And then they move along . never looking back. But for the one moment they have stopped and remove their phone from their ear. Because the metal structures are stunning and somehow familiar, because they are walking - going somewhere -they have their destination, they want to get to. We never know where that is , but we never know where an other human person is going , right?And anybody can relate to a walker - because they are walkers themselves, and they want be big they want to be powerfull , rich , so the dont have to care about the small people down there , when they are walking ... These trees could become their morning companions on their way to work , or the late welcome-rs, when they return home . So that the concept behind these Walking tree.. I think its good :D... what do you think? ok some more pics:

...:D , from the front it looked like flying birds ...

So to wrap up , here is the last picture , and its a bus stop !

A bus stop that's gonna take you home , from the world I created for you today . No matter how short the being there was. You clearly were in my world for the time you red my blog. Thanks for that. And have a safe journey going home ... ( I assume that's going back to your facebook pages or draugiem.lv pages , or jsut closing this page :D )

See you back here. I gonna post something soon :D

P.S. I breathed too much supergloue vapor , so the other day my insides of the nose were bleeding :( , cuz the glue burns when it gets on the skin, and when you inhale it , trhough your noise some of it vapor stays inside the walls of your nose , and burns everything there :P .
Ye so that's bad .. Lesson to learn!!! use respirators!!!!! and gloves ...

Solitude.

2011-11-15T01:26:00.000+00:00

Hy!
While I am editing pictures of my second big university project I gonna post these pictures, because I feel that they kinda describe the mood I am in now and then.
The other day - Saturday , I was listening to this song all day ,then after watching a movies in the evening , I went outside , and I listened to this song again , and could not stop listening , it just had grabbed me !! ...
The weather outside was very interesting - it was cold and foggy , and very damp, but it was also emotional- ye , maybe , depressing, but nevertheless emotional , and the fog was very clearly visible because the big grass field is surrounded with lampposts , and the light from them seems to stuck in the fog , and created these huge light clouds .... And its emotional tone was the same of this song... So I was just standing in the middle of this field ,listening to it and just feeling extreme emotions, what emotions? well, listen to the song i have posted and u will understand ...
Then I just realized that I have to try to use these emotions and this weather... so the best way to catch these emotions in this particular moment was photography ! So I ran back to my room , grabbed my camera and went back to the foggy field. I had this vision of taking pictures of a person at the foreground of fog and those lamp light clouds ... so that only his silhouette is visible, so that's what I tried to do ... But ye back to the song its called 9 crimes by Damian Rice , and... well I gonna post it here for everyone to see what emotions I am talking about, and actually I just think that the song sets the pictures and mood up better that any words ...But please watch it... Or BETTER just LISTEN , cuz its about the music not about the video...

Well if u watched it i think its clear what I was aiming for and what I felt, so with no further ado , here are the pictures that came out of my late night photo shoot... :

hmm... just try to feel it :) ... and leave a comment if you have something to say about the pictures , I always appreciate comments ...

I just gonna say that the song is really beautiful , although I have to admit that I don't really get the lyrics though, but this is just one of those songs you don't really care about lyrics ,cuz the chemistry and emotions are still there and very clear!

REPORT on University project nr.1.

2011-11-13T03:06:00.001+00:00

So , I know most of you probably have seen this but :D no matter that I gonna post them here as there could be also some people that have missed this :D , but would still like to know what the hell I am doing in my course :D... Well so , ye the first project (well it was 1 month ago...... ... .. . . .. ) was to make a wooden train, from prepared plans- so we didnt have to do any thinkking , jsut cut out the shapes and parts drawn on the paper like this:

So ye that was kinda easy , but the project meaning was for us to understand how to read these types of drawing , and just to make , the train so it looks just like in the plan !
Well one thing the plan doesn't show is color :) , so thats what we had to decide ... I was thinking a lot about what color scheme I want to use... sadly I was very restricted to paints and brushes and stuff , because I didnt have my hobby stuff here , YET ! ... so I had to do with one single brush and 5 color tubes :).., So I came upo with something like this... :

I had actually used this color scheme and style before so I kinda knew what I am doing , and how it will look when finished ... kinda :P ... anyway because I knew how to do it , it was easier ... Well just to be clear I did it with standard brush , not with an airbrush :( cuz with airbrush its probably easier , but I dont have airbrush :P )

So Ye I cut all the pieces ,spend a lot of time sanding them and making sure they are smooth and likeable to touch ( well that all went for nothing , cuz after applying color primer the surface became rough :( .... ye I know it makes sense, thats why the primer is applied so that the surface has a better grip to the color , d'oh !

Anyway , so I did a mistake I guess , that I actually glued all the train together before painting it ... Well not the weels , though... so that made the painting harder , but actually I knew what I was doing , because I wanted to know how it looks all together , and then paint it as a whole! .

So ye ,here is what the final project looks like :

Well you probably noticed ( well probably not!) but there are some extra details on the train :) , all the yellow parts are my additions to the initial train :)... I did a lot of research of how to make the rod thing work ,and it was kinda complicated , cuz I had to be very precise about the holes and axis and all , cuz the slightest offset meant that it wount work :( .. Luckily in the end it worked ,and all turned out pretty perfect :) , well we all know that nothings perfect , though :D... had I more time , I would have worked more on the paint job to make it more smooth :) ... Anyway I am lucky how it turned out.., It works so that is the most important part , and it looks impressive :)

So here are some videos to show HOW it works ! :D the yellow rods and cylinder .

This is actually my youtube video , its a time lapse of me painting the train... and ye I guess its a bit too fast :P ... :D

Ok and here is like the second part of the project we had to do , to pass this module ...

Its something like an obelisk from blue foam , thats on the top , and just cut out different wooden shapes on the band-saw and use just the workshops machinery -thats under the blue thing :P .. it had to look like this... and that is how it looks like....

Ok , so here you go :) , some information to read and see !

I gonna be back really soon with my report on the second project , cuz ye well its actually done , so all I have to do is take picture of it ... :)

Again if you have any questions or comments , please , please , feel free to post them, cuz comments always encourages me to write more, cuz they kinda approve that somebody actually spends their time reading this :D ... And I appreciate that ... So thanks for reading / watching :D

Pictures :)

2011-11-12T15:03:00.000+00:00

This was some weeks ago , when it was still sunny :( , anyway this was very interesting phenomenon :D , i have never seen this in Latvia , but here one day when I went over the field i suddenly noticed that the grass looks like it is floating , I leaned down , and from one particular angle i could see that the WHOLE grass was covered in , I guess , spider webs . how cool is that ? :D

This is a picture from the same day ... and the colors say it all :) .... wonderful autumn ... well I know the picture is out of focus , sorry , but still you can get the idea :P

hmm and here are some more autumn pictures :) and just pictures I have taken around Hatfield :) , my new temporary hometown . :

I love these complicated house decorations!

I have never seen any gardeners here ... I wonder how do they keep the hedges so .. square-ish :D ...
maybe they have garden gnomes ?

Hatfield House farm ...

and as a farm it needs animals :)


and it has! its like a farm, but open for visitors, they can buy food , adn feed the animals n stuff... its a huge farm ...

:D .... I found it extremely funny.... although, it IS possible :P


how cool is that?

Well , this isn't :(

... I have grown to really like this place, it is beautiful in its way! .. What do you think? Is it a beautiful place to study and spend the off learning time? :)

long time no see!

2011-11-05T21:48:00.000+00:00

WoW... Time passes by so fast! It has been 20 !!!! days since I last posted something. I feel bad.. and lazy :D... Well lazy concerning the blog writing... not in general, in general I have been pretty busy . and a lot has happened.
Well , I have to admit that it is very hard to remember everything that happened :D ... I mean I remember but its hard to put it all in sequence... well if i had like a calendar in front of my journal or diary I would remember , but I haven't.. I dont have anything to write down what is going to happen this week or what happened :D... I just live day by day :)

Ok I know I will repeat myself , cuz a lot of the pictures I gonna post now , are already posted on my facebook page , but I thought I will post them here also , cuz it is my blog after all :) ... So I gonna make some new posts for every new theme or thing :D, because I don't want to make this into one huge long post :) . And I will try to start with the oldest one. and then end with the newest :)
So get ready :D

Test resaults- what a letdown!

2011-10-16T20:27:00.000+01:00

Ou and another achievement , I finally got my ENGLISH ASSESSMENT TEST results and well they said this

Dear student,

You recently took the University of Hertfordshire English Language test.

Your results confirm that your English language is satisfactory for your course.

We wish you success in your studies.

Yours sincerely

...

:D , its not a letdown in the meaning of the results .. well they are as stated there satisfactory , I was actually hoping to see like m score or smth , like how satisfactory-ish I did :D ... Anyway , I guess that's kinda encouraging, that my English is OK , and I should not be worried about it anymore! Or that means that there are other people that are much more worse than me :D , what could leave as space for me being just bad , ou well either way , that mean that there are people that need the English lessons much more than I do ... I wish them luck , s***ers!! :P

Something new!

2011-10-16T19:43:00.000+01:00

Hey wuts up? I have been quite busy.... No really I have been ! its not that I am too lazy to write .. If you know me , you know that it has never been hard for me to write :D... So I have been busy... and I have been quite busy till pretty late hours :D , that's why I haven't been able to write my blog , cuz usually I did that in the evening before I went to bed but the last week has been quite busy
( before-sleeping-time-wise)
What I have been doing then?
Well I spend two evening writing my first essay :D, till 3 am ...I just love writing ...
I have been going to MacDonalds two or tree times at late hours :D
Then Friday was kinda party day ... I went to UV disco night , that was basically ordinary discotheque , but people were wearing white most of all , and they had a lot of light sticks and UV painted all over :D ... Anyway as it was my first big Disco here I decided to do smth more extreme with my outfit! and of course the thing that people can most express themselves is hair ... So that's what I changed - my hair ...

I spent like half an hour to make this hairstyle but it was worth it :)
:O :O
What do you think it was worth it? ... I have never had a hairstyle like this ... What do you think, should I walk like this more often ? :D

well ,ye why was it worth it ? I had like a lot of random people coming up and saying cool hairstyle :D :D funny people ... However, most importantly I felt good having this hairstyle... Well I would wear it all the time , but for parties ? why not :P

Ye and another observation , Its kinda hard to make that hairstyle on your own .. Next time I am going to ask for help :D ...

...

It actually looks like an ancient Greek war helmet... Well I guess I know where the hairstyle came from ... were the idea of it cam from :D

Lol , my silly T shirt :D ... I made that T shirt back in summer , its like the black shirt had been ripped and under it is a white shirt :)

From the left : I , Deb , and Jodine ...

Ye well , I really am tall , compared to other people here... Like in the disco , I could easily see over everyone :D .... that was soo weird , cuz I felt like I am on spotlight :D.... So most of the 3 hours I spent dancing with my knees bent :D , so I would seem shorter :D ... well that hurt in the end :P

Anyway when the disco night was coming to the end ( well not really , but slowly going there) , it became too *** to stay , so we left :) ... some 3 h in the party , people were so drunk that they became kinda aggressive , you know , if someone pushed them on the dance floor , they would go all crazy :( .... and the dance floor was basically covered in bear and alcohol, it was literally a big puddle :D , and my feet got wet straight away , because ye my shoes have hole in the sole :D ... And the exit , the floor was sooooo sticky that you could almost lose your shoe .. it just stuck to the floor :D ...
And it stunk ! like really bad ... I guess people very all sweaty and the drink s everywhere and somebody said that there were people smoking pot in the bathrooms... so ye THATS when you leave ! :)
So we did and we went to MacDonalds ... it was soooo cold again ... I hate the night ... when it suddenly becomes really cold ....

Anyway it was fun night all in all .. and kinda new experience- the part about how much the people drink here ... I mean there were two guys that didn't even get to the Disco cuz they were soo drunk that they literally stumbled over the door guards(well almost (missed by an inch ) :D ... so ye face-control-fail...

Anyway ... Partying is good , but just go away while it is still fun, that's basically the key of good night ( leave before you see how it gets dirty :D )

Ou , ye met a lot of new people ! Yippee :D

What else did I do this week? Well study-wise I just basically went in and out whenever I wanted , and just worked in workshop on my toy train ... We have to finish it on next Friday .. so we have plenty of time :) ...
The thing with the Film Society is slowly moving onwards , its probably not that hard , but you just have to start , and ye , well obviously starting is almost always the hardest part.

But nevertheless, I made Facebook page for us and a gmail , and a cool logo, that people seemed to like ... and a description for our society ... those are like my this weeks achievements :D

Ou ok and also an achievement -we(random guys :D) made our football team, and we gonna participate in Universities football league , that's cool.. I finally found out my position , I guess I am striker arrrr :D
The guys came with the team name and it is ..... well ... FC Rangers ... :D .. I think its funny and there are probably thousand of teams called like that , but ok , I am not the captain of the team, just the top scorer :D ..

Yesterday I saw The Tree Musketeers and I have to say it was OK , like cheesy as hell , but still entertainment , and I just loved the environment - outfits!!! awesome clothes and dresses , castles , jewelry , war machines , swords, and stuff just a very good crafts team ... and me as a craftsman( well soon to be , I hope) I spend a lot of time watching and looking for the technically detail stuff.. and it was good in this movie ... well the story was stupid of course , but great actor team :)

Ok , Bye see you soon!
And express your thought about the hairstyle in the comments... It sure took a lot for me to actually go out somewhere with that hair ... I mean we all have made it in our bathrooms by the mirror , but to really go in public is a different thing, and I have to admit my heart was pounding :D ... I guess enough adrenaline for me for some time :P

:( kinda busy I guess :D... Obelisk , Lecture , Latvians , Family....

2011-10-07T01:59:00.002+01:00

Heyaaa !
I am back, sorry for being away for sooooo long :D .. i guess i was away fro 6 days?????!!?!? wow it felt like only 2 or 3 .... Days pass by so fast! I can clearly remember how I got to plain and how I just arrived here , but this is my 3 week here now ! :O ...
So basically what happened all these days?
Let me think , last time I wrote a post it was ? last Friday ????? :O .... Dammit that's quite long ago :D

Anyway , there was weekend , that I spent pretty much relaxing and enjoying the silent and empty campus. because all the British people go back to their homes on weekends ( ok almost all) ... Anyway it was nice , cuz I could meet all my friends and I knew most of the people that I met on my way ( opposite normal working day , when u pass hundreds of unknown faces ) ... So then there was , you know , working days .... Finally our studies kinda came to start , I guess, it wasn't simple sitting and making funny projects... We received or first briefing , for our first induction project( ye well I guess everything in first month is induction) .. Then we got like induction to workshop , that was cool , now I can go there and use the machines to make things ( ok not all machines actually only the most simple ones like saws and sandpaper machines( i don't really know the professional names of them , but they are professional , not like hand saws , the big complicated machine robot things :D )

So my first project that we have to make looks like this :

We have to makes this like obelisk thing .. From blue foam , using sandpaper basically ... So that's it that's what I have been doing these 4 days ( working days ) got to know the technologies of my workshop and making this stuff...that's about studies

Then what considers out of school activities , I have been playing football a lot :D , like 3,5 hours yesterday , my legs now are all bruised and hurting :( , but I love it :)

I have been hanging around a lot , just walking in the evening , talking chilling with people , eating :D at McDonalds :D ... ye there is actually a funny story about this particular McDonalds , that I now call our Mac , ok maybe its not funny but just interesting ...
So today I went there and we had cashier , whose name was Jana , and even before I saw that I felt heard that she has a Russian accent so I thought she is not British , then I saw here name and we thought maybe shes Latvian ...Actually when I end my order and gave her my money she said paldies , but I didn't hear that clearly and I want sure ... well after Maija ordered her meal she said Lūdzu and this time more louder , so she really was Latvian .. Yeee..well she knew that we were Latvians well because ewe were speaking Latvian kinda loud at the counter , so she clearly heard us speaking Latvian ... Well that made me realize , how actually hard it is to decide how to tell the other Latvian that you are Latvian , just go straight and say hy i am Latvian ,( then should I do it in Latvian , or English, because if she /he is not Latvian , and I speak to him Latvian , its gonna be awkward cuz he would be like WUUUT? :D ) so ye I came to the conclusion that the best way if you know that someones Latvian , and they don't know that you are , is just say them piedod or lūdzu , like pretending you did that accidentally :D , so you pretend this was just a lucky coincidence of two Latvians meeting :D ... Ok lol , anyway ...I mentioned Maija , well ye she is a girl from Latvia , that I met today , and we spent the evening together .. and I have to say I am so so happy to be able to talk Latvian again at least for some hours in a relaxed mode :) . That just gives me a hole new energy to speak English again :D ... that's why I write the blog English today , although I had decided that I gonna write it in Latvian , cuz I was longing for Latvian ( well I am not anymore ) in a perfect way , I gonna be able to spend at least some of my time speaking Latvian now :D, cuz after that it is easier for your brain to speak in English , honestly , because the brain has had its rest :D ( the brain language center) (ye I know , I like to speak abut my brains as if they were 3rd person or something :D , cu they kinda are , aren't they? I mean do you always know what your brain is doing , and why are you saying the things you are saying , OR why are you seeing things that you are seeing ? ( its all an illusion that you can alter , and make it your-way )....
...
Ou ye and by the way I know two more Latvian people working in the same Mac restaurant :O .... so if I know already about (3 at Mc , M.+ G.+ 3 kreivi(no LV ) +3 no ģimn(2gadn) + Olga+ 2 meitenes kas mācā inženieriju) tas ir jau 14 latvieši :O ,kas dzīvo šinī mazajā Anglijas pilsētiņa , tikai iedomājieties cik daudz Latviešu ir visā Anglijā :O ... droši vien daudz ! tagad es saprotu par ko ir runa , kad visi runā par izbraucējiem :)

Lol , just wrote something in latvian ,and it changed so naturally that I didn't even notice , me starting to write in latvian...

Ok anyway Today happened another amazing thing .. Well I finally had my FIRST LECTURE, like the real one , like all the students have ,like sitting in auditorium and listening to a lecturer ( ok it wasn't auditorium , but more like old school .. school class ... Anyway , what was UBER coool about it was the Lecturer( teacher ) Professor . ... HE WAS FREAKIN' AWESOME .... well I guess he is a bit mad , but he was so creative and smiling and just it was such a joy listening to him... Well I don't remember all he talked about him but I remember everybody laughing a lot... I remember him making weird sound effects all the time , like , Wou , AUU, Yeyy , Hippiii , Wollaalll , zipidi duuu , zoooommm, poing , dooong , poof , shwoosh and stuff like that , I remember him dancing , laughing while he turned red... telling jokes, smiling all the time , mocking himself ,and other , changing voices to characterize ...
It was just pleasure to sit there for 2.5 hours . And I am very eager to hear the next weeks lecture :)...
Of course it wasn't all fun and jokes and laughs , at the end of all that , he made the point he was trying to say , and he did it with a style :D ... He was basically talking about how we ,people , perceive information , and how important it is to be able to understand what kind of information we are sending and receiving ... And basically how it connects to the course we are doing ... well that's what we have to write about in our account for next week actually :D ... Ou ye and he made an experiment with us, more like there were 2 people sitting facing away from each other , and they each had a desk in front of them , and one of them could only say "repeat please" while the other needed to describe the other , how to build a block tower ,that the professor built in front of him ... So the one person needed to tell the other how to build the exact same tower from the same parts...(they weren't able to see others tower obviously :D ) , the volunteers kept changing and the teacher made the constructions harder every time , and it got of course funnier for all of us to see, how the people struggled to explain where to put the cube that is located somewhere on the desk with no real markers , only the edges of the table ... Anyway , the idea of this ,was to show that no matter how hard the construction was it was possible to build the same constructions without seeing it , if only you get the instructions- the right information... and also , there were a lot of hard nameable weird shapes , and some people just came up with a new names for them new weird location and distance names :D - so in a short amount of time , we created a new language of how to understand how to build the construction correctly... ( needless to say , that most of the times the structures were made pretty identically... .

So anyway it was fun listening , and it was fun working in the workshop , and it was fun socializing , and it was fun playing football ... All in all it IS fun studying what you love and studying in a place you love ( cuz I love England) and studying in a place that you are understood and the teachers are sometimes just as freak as you are :) ( I get called weird here a lot :D and I like that :D ) ...

Ou and btw IT IS FREAKIN' COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!
today it was suddenly very cold like 10C and very very cold wind , so it was shocking after 5 days of 24-28 C ...

So there you have it , lets see what the next few days bring , and I hope it is going to be more fun :) and happiness .....
only homesickness I fell now, is for my language ... all other sorts of homesickness's I just don't let myself near :D , you just don't want to start think about the summer you had or your brother and sisters playing in your room back home , or your mothers made meals ... If you start think about it , you would just end up crying , so I try to evade doing that ...but the language is one thing that's always gonna be in your head messing with the words you wanna say...( ye I know I know , my family and stuff is gonna be in my mind for always as well , but most importantly even if my mind forgets about them , my heart will never forget them, and it will always keep them near !!!!!!)

29.09.11 Another course challange ... SUN !!!!!!!!

2011-09-30T17:40:00.000+01:00

Today I thought we are not gonna be doing anything important or long :D , but as it turned out my day started at 10 and ended at 16:20 :O ... Kinda long and exhausting (again :D , I am such a whiner :D )... So ye in the morning we had presentations from out Tutors .. We have 4 tutors and they all made a presentation about what they have done in their lives and what kinda works have they made ... To be honest I thought its gonna be something more ...impressive , but anyway it was interesting ... and all in all that's why they are tutors here in Uni , rather than being famous professionals in Hollywood...
So anyway that was kinda long and stuff , but at the end John (thats our 1st year tutor, I gonna call him simply John , not out of disrespect but because he said that we should call him that ,,and I honestly dont know how to spell or write his surname :D ) btw , he is very cool guy ,like , uber positive :) ... anyway , where was I , ou ye he just showed us all the things we will need to make in this semester , wanna know what? ok here they are : Toy train , our own Hand , Time machine , Faberge egg , some architectural building , some kind of park sculpture ... that's it ... When he showed the pictures I actually felt kinda scared , cu a lot of them were really cool and complicated .... I just hope that when I learn how to use all the machines I am going to be able to do the same...
Anyway after that we went to studio , and we got our second induction project briefing... it was to make a cage or protective shell for an egg, thats gonna be thrown from 1 m , 2 m , 3 m , and 15 m :D .... We had to make it using only straws and rope(string) , so we made again triangles :D , just like with the building ... Or team was kinda hectic this time , and I just made something else , than they , cuz I didnt believe that they knew what are they doing , what turned out to be true (later) and I didnt know how to explain what I was building :D ... I encounter the fact that I lack professional English language ( concerning architecture ,construction n' stuff) .. Anyway when our time was almost ended i finally stepped up and said they should help me do the thing I do ... because of the fact that they really hadnt built anything considerable , apart form just straw triangles , from whom some were tied together , they of course helped , me cuz mine actually looked like cage ... I used the triangles to put them in like prism and then connect the prisms together in huge prism shaped ball , and then put the egg in the middle of it.... ( I know that sounds like I am being cocky and all, but that was just true , i guess I have passion for construction , when they probably are much more skilled in model making :) ... and they just talked that , why in the hell they have to do smth like this :D , I guess thats the attitude that made them not do anything :D ) ok anyway , so ye although we didnt have much time , in the end we made pretty solid construction , it looked like a mess , but I knew what was going on , and why I did what I did :)

Anyway , so he (John) started to throw the eggs around (in their cages ) and some broke some not(our didnt) ... ours survived till the last hight ( which was just trow it till it hist the sealing and comes down crahing against the ground ... Well of course no egg survived that :D ... The last level reached our cage and 2 others .. but none of the team won , cuz all the eggs and cages shattered in the last throw :D

But I guess again success for my construction skill( I start to really doubt if I should have gone to engineering and constructing )

After that hmm.. Ou ye I played football again :) ,for 2-3 h :) that was awesome... Our team won 13:2 :D and I scored 6 goals :) :) , yey ... And even bigger success was that the guys from my team , asked my if I would like to play in their team ... HELL YE ... I would :D :D . So i gave him my number and now I hope he gonna call me (fingers crossed)
After that i played poker with some of the people from the other hall with Jess , Harshil , Deb, Chris , Adam? , and George ( well obviously , every name I am going to mention now , is of someone who is from UK :D , so I am not gonna mention that :D ) Anyway that was fun , and interesting to meet new people ...
Ok I have to go now , see you tomorrow..

Ou BTW , I found a place where I can stream TV-show (and I even payed , silly amount for that ) , but I am still not sure whats the difference between streaming and downloading , cu if u stream you still download it (hmmm)

Ou and another thing , here is like ... NO KIDDING 25 C !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it is sunny as hell ,and hot and lovely - nothing like England :D ...People wear shorts and tops ... and leaves are falling and getting yellow - surreal :D

26-28.09.2011- My course starts- Summer Project ,Spaghetti tower..Football tryouts

2011-09-29T00:26:00.000+01:00

Ye , I gonna write this time for the all 3 days together ,rather than making 3 separate posts , cuz I have kinda fallen behind for 2 days :D

This is going to cover a lot of information , you don't have to read it all at one time , split it , come back later , but please read it , its interesting , I promise :D ( ye even the ending( actually the endings are usually the most interesting :D ))

And anyway they were kinda the same... My course finally started ( sorta :D ) , I had plenty of welcome and induction talks ...again .... but at least this time they are a bit more connected to my course so they are not that bad... except today when I had the same speech I had last week :D...

So more importantly -my course started ... It meant basically that , we met all up in our studio ( 3D modelling studio (that's gonna be our home for the next 3 years :) ) ...
so Monday when everyone came , they had with them the summer projects .. i didn't bring mine and was was chilling ,cuz I thought we didn't actually have to bring it on Monday , but on Wednesday ( cuz or schedule said that Wednesday is gonna be for induction projects ( so I thought that those are gonna be the summer projects ( ye I know induction and summer is not the same word :D )))) anyway , of course it was the right day to bring in you summer projects ,and as I found out the induction project was something completely else :D... But ye so I basically sat in my place , when everybody else shyly (or cocky ) took out their project and put them on table... then a bunch of important people( tutors and lecturers ) walked around and took pictures and stuff... but I just sat there miserably and extremely mad at myself .. Of course I asked if I can bring the thing in tomorrow and they said of course you can... but its wont be the same , I knew that ... however ,luckily I wasn't the only one :D , some didn't bring the thing that day or next , or the next .. Of course not me ... after that I straight away went to my room and started a 8 hour long modeling work run to finish my piece and add some details( :D , ye I didn't quite had it ready for the Monday anyway :D ,so even If I knew I would be able to bring it in ( although I was sure I wont need it until Wednesday and so i didn't rush the production of it :D ))) So ye i had to struggle with some thing about how to make it all together , because I had made the letters and I had decided to make the Iron throne...

Ou , I should probabbly explain what the summer project was all about :D ..
SO I gonna just copy paste the briefing :

SUMMER PROJECT: “Make your Name”
Start: Summer 2011
Finish: You need to bring the finished model with you on Monday 26 September 2011 - your first day at the University of Hertfordshire.
This is a simple project designed to encourage you to think three-dimensionally.
It is an opportunity to say something about yourself, to show your ability to make neat, accurate, clean models. It should also demonstrate your creative abilities and illustrate your interests and passions, whether in art, design, architecture, film, TV or any other media.
What you have to do:
Make a name for yourself, which will fit comfortably on your new workbench in the Model Design Studio. It should be a three-dimensional form, which can be seen from the entrance of the studio.
A flat cutout rendering of the shape of the letters is not what is required.

Ye I know it says , with you on monday 26 :( ( shame on me ) :D

Anyway , ye so I gonna just show what I basically did :

1. First what I wanted to build was this: the Iron Throne from the Epic books :A song of Ice and Fire (aka Games of throne) ...

So I wanted to make it just like they did - using only swords, of course i had to make it from paper swords...

2. So secondly I cut out a loooooot of swords ( I guess about 300 , at least , It was actually quite interesting to figure out how , to cut out that many swords, in not time period that is, well forever :D

3rd I glued them all together , just like this :) , ye it took quite some time but it was fun....

I still doubt if it was the right decision to make them from two colors , i know why I did that though , but you know It was impossible to test how will it look when made only from one colour ... so basically i did 2 colors because I thought if one colour it will be hard to tell the shapes of the swords and it gonna just look like a mess ( well it looks like one now too , though :D ) , but anyway , and I thought it gonna fit my black and white theme more ...

4. ye I guess i left out the part of the making my name which I decided is gonna be O S C A R , just for the convenience :D

So it like a Letter man , he hold C in his right hand and he has S in his stomach and R is his crown and A is his hand that holds the sword ..

So ye there it is , finished piece :) .. I thought a lot about how to arrange the letters and stuff , should they be scattered , or all in the O stomach , or just to the side ... and I could quite test how its gonna look , cuz I only hade a super glue , not skotch :D . Anyway I think I came up with the best solution ...

Well this is just a small picture of how the 'masters' workspace looks after his work is done :D ( ye it actually still looks the same :D , I just don't what to trow so many good paper leftovers away :D )

Sooooo , I took it with me on Tuesday ... As I already predicted no one made any notice of it ( at least as much as I saw ) I talk more about the tutors , though... the other student noticed , and a lot of them said they liked and you know the usual polite stuff :D , still that was at least comforting...

I still just left it there , hoping that some day they gonna come in( the tutors ) and see it ...

Actually yesterday( Tuesday ) one of them with camera came , when we were listening a speak about Disability support ... When I saw him approaching my work , with the camera, my heart was pounding hard , I mean I so hopped that he is going to notice and take a picture of it , like he did on Monday of everyone's else work .... :( , but he didn't :( , he instead took a picture of one of the works , just behind mine :D ( so I felt bad) maybe he thought he had taken picture of it on Monday , maybe he didn't notice it , maybe he didn't like it ... OR , maybe he did make a picture of in , some other time that I wasn't around to see :D ( lets hope for the last one) ...

Anyway . So it was Tuesday and our first year tutor John ( don't remember last name ( that's prob a bad thing ) decided we do the induction projects straight away....

So he gave us 5 packs of spaghetti and a 5 packs of jelly candies ... So we had to make a huge spaghetti tower , that would be at least 2 m high :)

So ye that's what we did for 2 days :) ... We were divided in groups , rather , we divided ourselves in groups ... UI had quite good team :D why good? well they basically allowed me to be in charge :D , and I am the kinda guy who wants sometimes to be allowed to do what I wasn't , especially when it comes down to building stuff :D.... But don't think I was like lets do that and that ... i am never like that ... I achieve what I want in different ways ...that I will not reveal you...(ye cuz maybe I don't know , how I do that , but all I know is that the ending piece of works looks like I wanted it to look :D :D) ... ok just to not sound cocky - Its probably not always a good , thing , cuz I am bad leader , maybe, or more correctly - bad supervisor - I just like to take everything in my own hands and get on with it ... Well this was the later...

At the end of the project we were only two guys left building the thing , ( ye maybe because we were the tallest , or maybe cuz we just really enjoyed it , that seemed not to be the case for some of the other team members ) .... so we did build or thing- tower , and guess what????

WE WON!!!!, ye our tower was the only one that actually stood :D , and didn't break or collapse :O , I actually thought that everyone's gonna do it , cuz it was not that hard ... And our tower was almost 3 meters :D ... Cool ...Another team made they tower just above 3 m but their tower collapsed the moment they all backed away :D... SO ye there's a picture of it , they are not very good , and I am doing something weird , but still u can see the structure :

Ye so that's cool I guess ... I took a lot of spaghetti back home :D , (BTW those bastards wanted to destroy it , so they did :( ... so this picture is the only real proof of the towers existence :D ( ok I have 2 more , but there are random people in them :D )

So ye but whats my conclusion ? Someday I gonna make a HUGE building of spaghetti , it was so fun , and it was like LEGO , you could just add more and more ... of course the structure is very important, and its essential that you figure out how to drain the weight and pressure :), that I think I got figured out ...

So ye that was fun , and I think I got myself some recognition :) .. I am definitely not the loudest or most talkative person , so I need this kind of recognition :D , cuz I want my work to speak loudest that my 'words' ( that probably suck :D )

Everyone kinda has their own table , and there a like 46 tables together , so the 6 is going to be a group usually , but to be honest , I didn't like my group that much :( ... So I gonna probably try to find myself a better place... I just want to sit with people that just enjoy spending time doing , for example , this kinda stuff , or just any that is asked of them :D ( only 1 guy was like really enthusiastic , like I , and we even discussed the possibility to really make something big somewhere else :D )

Ok so wrap up about my course:

Most of the students are girls :D like 2/3

A big age amplitude ...

A lot of people with a work experience , in this sphere ...

Actually there are no style freaks :D ( I saw one , though, walking around campus , but I don't want to be judgmental , but that was really creepy ( not gonna describe the picture to you :D , you don't need to know this exists :D )

So my course basically takes place in the same studio and 2 workshops for the 3 years...
I have only one lecture every week in like a auditorium ( that's something called C & CS - critical & cultural studies) ... So what that means is that I DONT have any exams , only 1 essay each semester about the C&CS studies and just my project works :)

Well that sounds nothing like school , AT ALL ... So I gues Bye Bye good school year , I gonna really miss them...

Still I hope I am going to be able to do some optional things ( like drawing n' stuff ) ...

And the C&CS include 18 courses ,that we have to choose one from, which we gonna learn next semester , so I gonna probably take : Introduction to Film ........

anyway , apart from course and study stuff...
Today I went to cinema :) :) :) , and that was cool , I liked it the , teather was really nice , cuz the seats were comfortable and the quality of the screen was SUPERB :) ans was the sound quality ...

So ye that was actually the firs official time I have been to cinema in England listening to movies in their official language with no subtitles :D ...It felt good , I am going to visit the cinema very often I think :D, to boot , they show all the newest movies :)

So ye what did I see? Well I and Deb( I guess we are bonding kinda well , shes a nice girl and everything :D...) went to see the Crazy,Stupid,Love with Steve Carell and Emma Stone and Kevin Bacon ,and Ryan Gosling ( hes the new hit actor I guess, hes in every movie) ...

So the movie was good actually, it was OK almoust trought all the movie when suddenly at the second part of the movie it just went CRAZY :D ... IT basically really was CRAZY, sometimes the thing the carathers did was stupid , but most of all it was about love ... So nice movie , Steve Carell good as always , Emma stone was good as well ( I doubted that before :D ) ... Actually the movie was completely unpredictable , which is kinda rare for the movies nowdays ... So I recommend everyone to see it ( more because you damned people can see it for only 2 Ls , but I had to buy the ticket for 6,50 Ls :( ) so go and see good movies !

Ok so that's gonna be enough for the 3 days :D ...

Ou one last thing : the Football couch pasūtija mani trīs mājas tālāk ( showed me the doors , I guess could be the equivalent of that saying (sorta) ) , he kept saying me ,that the level of football I am looking for is different that Uni standards ,so I should go and talk with that guy in the other side of the hall :D .... Well of course I tried to say to him that I am good n' stuff, I even told him that I am school league champion :D :D , he was ,like , where? I was like in Latvia ... m....h.... he was like I have no Idea where that is :D (he didn't actually say that ,though, but there are times when you can just see that in people faces :D ... Ok , it wasn't that bad in the end , the place where he sent me (and a lot other guys) was just a guy saying that they form teams that play against Uni teams ,instead of playing against another Uni's teams , and if u are really good in those games , you can get picked up for the Uni team... That actually sounds even better, that going straight to the Uni team :) , cuz there is no pressure straight away in the tryouts ... ye so now I just gonna wait till some more information show up on their facebook page ... Ye another thing , when some of the people signed , they were 1.British , 2.second years and 3.most of them had played in some cool club ( I suppose , at least the names of them sounded professional :D )

Anyway besides that I signed up for athletics and track :D , I mean why not ... for 100m sprint ... Dunno lets see if they gonna want to see how I sprint :D , I dint have professional track shoes , though, :D ...

Ok now I really go , thanks , and be back :)

Have a good time , and take care !

Speking in English , why is it so tiring???

2011-09-28T22:31:00.001+01:00

hy , sorry for being away these last couple of days . I have been very busy and very exhausted every day I came back to my room ,so I just went to sleep , I honestly didn't have the power to write something ( Actually maybe I had ,but I definitely didn't have any time :D , I needed my sleep , desperately and writing blog takes a lot of time :) )

You cant imagine how hard it is to suddenly start to wake up every morning at 9 and starting some kind of routine after 4 months of slacking :D ... And the language , to boot. You know the one thing that's makes you feel homesick is actually language ( sorry everything else ) at least all the other thing I know I gonna see and stuff , and thats just life , but when it comes to language , you just want to chill out and speak your mother thongue for a moment , without thinking wheter I gonna say it right or correctly , and constantly stressing about whether they gonna understand you , do you spell thing correctly - that is really exhausting ... i actually start to notice that I sometimes suddenly answer in my own language :D , jsut cuz I am just to it ...

I have also noticed , that if I think more about what I am going to tell and how it is going to sound and stuff ,will it be correct... I mess everything up much more , than when I just trust my instinct ( that I believe has been built up in me the last 9 years of English studies in school) , cuz when I talk freely , I sound much more natural and even correct... Thats actually a learning for everyone... You have to feel the language , not know it .. kinda... Cuz we all know how to speak and what is the correct way , we all have seen people speak in English probably millions of times ( in movies , shows ans so on) , So all we need to do is shut down our own language that wants to control the text we are going to tell , and let the memory of those who speak in English control your English speaking flow :)
To speak fluently its important to not think about the things you gonna say in your own language , but think about it in English (in my case , but I believe that applies for any language :) )
We all are used to speaking to our selves in English and we then we are all pros , like , you can feel and sometimes fell kinda surprised , how I know all those words and stuff, but when you have to do the presentation , you start to stammer and forget words , that you know you should know , so why it is that way ? Actually movie : The Kings Speech , kinda explains it .. try putting in earphones while speaking English , and you gonna see how fluently you can speak ... Ye that's cool and that is true ....
BUT why did I start to talk about it ? Well I have noticed that in pubs and clubs , when there is really loud noise , I speak English much better than , when everybody stands around me and its completely silent :D , then I usually forget what I wanted to say :D ... So now I am really practicing to turn of my hearing when I speak , cuz even if u dont hear yourself , you still know what are you saying , and I know that I am saying the things I wanted , and the words fall in place much better than when I hear myself ... Ye , So that's because when I hear myself , my mind immediately analyses what I had just said ,and gets in the middle of the things I wanted to say next :D ... So it is like my mind works at two things in two languages at the same time - so that obviously exhausts people and makes him more tired ... So I gonna keep practicing to just speak my mind trusting it knows the right words and order n' stuff :D , cuz it does ! ( I am not able to speak like this (like the way I write) , only when I am completely sleep deprived or sound deaf :D .

I hope you red that .. It could actually be useful ( for those to whom the English (for example) is their second language ... And if you have experienced the same share your thoughts and experience in the comments please!

P.S. just keep in mind that I have to speak in English 24/7 not like only for the learning time , like some of you are( those who learn at the Stockholm School of Economics , I bet it is hard for you too , but you at least can go home and spend some time speaking in your native language ... I don't really have that chance ... Ye i use skype and mobile but still its only like maximum 30 minutes ... So ye that's the part where the homesickness creep in :(

| Stockholm School of Economics

25.09.2011 -GAMES DAY

2011-09-27T03:10:00.000+01:00

This day basically was given to Games Day ... I think I am not gonna post any pictures here but just redirect you to my facebook page where I gonna make a gallery of the picture from Games Day+ some comments about the picture ... Ok I gonna post here just some :)

So the excitement actually started on Saturday when I had to call and book taxi for morning... You may think thats not a big deal .BUT it is . It was my first time in life when I had to speak English on phone !!! I was pretty nervous , I dont know why, or I do , I just thought that speaking on phone in English is going to be a lot more different , that its gonna be hard to understand and you know no expressions to understand what type of sentence does the speaker uses ... Anyway I felt kinda scared , but then I just found a number and called... ( of course I had written down all of my lines , and possible answers :D ) anyway , so I called and the first taxi firm was all booked up for the morning , that was sad , but the other didnt ask any questions(only the basics , what when where) or assurance ,just said that all's done :) ... Wow that was easy :) , ye there is no actual difference in speaking English on phone or in personal , maybe on phone it is even a bit easier ! :) really ,cuz you dont see the other person and you dont know , him so you dont have to worry about stuff (you know looks and misspelling and stuff :D )
Anyway after that I pretty much went to bed, but didnt get a lot of sleep ,cuz people where partying everywhere and making a lot of noise ... However I had my alarm on 4:15 and I woke up straight away...(cuz probably I was kinda excited and didnt want to screw the Taxi driver :D ) , so I ate something I think and then run off to meet the taxi , that came a bit early , on 4:50 and then we went to St.Albans... Of course Had the basic usual chat with the driver. and then in about 5:10 I was in St.Albans , ye well , I had to be there on 5:30 :D , anyways , the city was kinda dead , no living sole ( ok another guy going to the Games day , but we will not count him ) It was interesting and cool I have always wanted to see empty city . The day before we were in St.albans market and it was packed with people shouting , buying , selling , and stuff, and musicans playing , and now the same place was completely empty , actually I may have a picture ...

These are the market streets and as you can see they are EMPTY :D

Well this is not a Marks&Spencer advertisement , but draw your attention to the clock :O ,ye really 5:10 ... Its probably ,the first time ....in my life.... when I have been ....hmm ...up so early ....in other country.. ( cuz come to think of it I have walked around Riga in 5 am quite a lot ( nooot , not a lot , but some 10 times for sure :) )

OK so , when I didn my 28 days latter walk around the city , I went to the shop , and of course the sellers weren't there yet but there were about 6 people already :D ...( man those people are eager)... Anyway we waited for about 10 mintes , when it was 5:30 they arrived and let us into the shop... there we spent next 40 minutes , basically standing and looking into the wall( I did that not the other ) , ok , not really I actually talked with one guy that I saw was also a student in Herts , and he is doing astrophysics ( I guess you can lear absolutely anything here) ,so ye the other time I just spent trying not to fall asleep , and listening to British Nerds :D ( ye I am one of them - Nerds , but not British :O ) it was actually kinda funny , I have to admit , that after spending all day with real british people( guys) , they are pretty funny and they are nice and open people :) , at least those Brits that still plays with models ( ye me too I know) ... anyway so the bus cam at dunno maybe 6;30 or something and then we set off...
Only thing I remember form the trip was , that at the start there was a huge thick fog around everything , and it looked so crazy fairytale like ... like the big trees were all in mist ( that gave the feeling of some kinda Sherlock Holmes story) and the road was in deep mist , so that the cars were suddenly swimming out of it ...
They were showing one movie on the bus ,its called Ultramarines , and it was very laud , but still somehow I fell asleep , cuz when i woke up , the movie had ended and it was bright outside ....
Then we stopped for a we-wee and stuff ( thats what they said) ... And then it was only about 20 minutes and we were at Birmingham .... It was 9:05 ... The event started at 10:00 , at that time already began to feel suspicious :D ... So we went in.. ou before that we all toke a picture of St.Albans hobbyists ( ye I gues I am one of them now :) ,yee) with a huge Droppod in a background( dont ask me I have no Idea what that is :D , but It looked like some kinda time machine , or just very up-to-date toilet :D ) anyways we went in and alined into queue ,ye and of course as I suspected we had to jsut stand in queue for almost 30 minutes-pretty exhausting :

that's just people standing :D ..

Hmm , ye every Hobby shop has their own flag , so ye if u think what the hell is those thing on the poles ...

Thats the flag of St.Albans Games Workshop . the blue with the cross , is actually St.Albans official flag ...

Other people were just reading a book... Well this guy was actually in some kind of soldier outfit ?! with like a self made spear-saw-laser beam -weapon , and with a gun made out of cardboard :)

So then we finnaly got into the excibition room , and ye... Then I just walked around , and around ,and around , and ou take a picture , and around , ou I have seen this already ...around ... Uuuu I should take a picture of this ..... around ... and ye that was basically it :D

There were a lot of hobby people form the studio and design and stuff, but I dindt go to anyone to ask anything , I just didnt have anything on my mind , that I would have liked to ask ... to boot, I didnt know any of those people :D , that other guys were coming to and asking for their signatures ... I just havent been that into the hobby. but I guess thats because we have only one shop :D , and I dont actually read any White Dwarf magazine , only buy it and watch trough ... Ok so I took a lot of pictures of the contestants( the entries , not the people who brought the models :) ) , but those I wount post here their are just too many .. ok only one to show what was it all about ( not really , it was all about a big Demon Slayer Sword ,that is the main prize you can win , if your minis are the best ...)
anyway so here is an example of duel that actually won second (bronze Deamon) award :

So , ye then I found out about one competition that everyone who wants can participate in ... So I did it too .. it was a conversation competition . The rules were : they gave you a lot of pieces and details and you had to make a mage in 20 minutes , and whoever makes the best gets a cool award ... Anyway , so I entered , but I had a bad spot - nothing was actually left of the details , everything useful as already used in the round taking place , before mine...Anyway , i still made something and I have a picture of it just here :

Nothing special for the mage , basically the normal parts , but I like how I made the scene though.. Somewhere in the first five minutes of the time , my mind came up with this some kind of menthal mage , that can control other people (the poor guys that keep the mage up in the air ) and the mage can do some kinda sonic attack :D , just that he makes the poor lad go crazy and scream in pain and hold hes head ... ( ok I hope you dont think I am completely nuts now :D , just a quick story about the scene, I dont know why the mage does that , though ...hmmm...)

Anyway, I didnt win of course , cuz there were a lot of pieces made that was huge , and stood out from the more than 600 entrants :D . Although I actually didnt see the winning mage :( ...

Ok so After that I jus walked around, and around , and around... Listened to soome poeple talking with the studio guys and , you know just observing :)

Funny, though , that I actually met a latvian guy at one of the cafes . he worked at the register and when I gave him my credit card , he recognized it and started to speak Latvian ... well that was unexpected :D ...

Well then I ate my breakfast and just sat in the auditorium :

This is just the first hall , there were 2 more , that was just as big but much more packed, cuz the other two where gaming and shopping hall :D , and people bought stuff as crazy(although the prizes were the same, I guess thats could be a thing to research for psychologists - why do people buy stuff in big events , but dont spend money on daily basis ...?)

So ye at 3 and up there was the award ceremony , in which all the winners were awarded with the Golden Demon ( I really hate the prize (how it looks and its name , its just so stupid :D )) ... Anyway there was this guy , don't rememebr his name , but he won 5 GD ,and of course he got the Slayer Sword as well ... Well that seems rather unfair :D ...

Anyway ,that was the ending and then we went home ! :)
It was a long trip that I spent mostly listening and laughing ,and sleeping as well , cuz I don't remember how it got dark :D ..

It was almoust 8 when we were back at St.Albans, and because it was Sunday and late , no Buses were going to Hatfield so I and the guy form Uni split the taxi ...BTW hes name was Dave :)

So there I was back at home .... I think I did something more that day(ou it was yesterday ) ye write , I met up with Deb and Harshil and another girl called Jess ( i believe) from England of course ( cuz everyone knew now is from UK ) so we wen to McDonalds and just chatted and chilled ....
I was actually kinda sleep-deprived drunk :D , I was in a state when I just didn care what happens , I was like ye lets go party and stuff, and I actually felt good , like rally good , :D I guess when you get over the phase of 'I really need to sleep ' and "my eyes are closing" ye feel kinda great :D ...
Anyway we didnt go anywhere , though, cuz from now on ,everything is going to be for a price , and the tickets are like 7 pounds :( ....

Anyway , so to sum up ... I really really really really regret that I didn't take any of my models with me ... cuz the competition is open for everyone... And It would just be nice to see your model in the display , and that thousands of people just goes by it :) ... ye , but that didn't happen ... so it will , definitely next year ... I promise I gonna bring a prize back home :) . for sure ! :D

So I got a lot of inspiration, and a lot of resources about the level of skills and stuff.. But it wasn't fun though , cuz I was all alone , for most of the time , and it was really hard to start a conversation , cuz all the people talked about was hobby stuff , but I barely know anything that's not related to painting ...:D
ok so just before I go some more pics :

Amazing detailed mushrooms :D . This actually was the winner in duel category !

2nd place of large scale models :

A bunch of very excited guys :)

Design dislay:

Winner of Diorama category.. pfff :D seriously ?!?!

Å bunch of dressed up dudes :) , actually they look kinda cool!

That it folks ! Games day 2011 closes , as well as my today's(yesterdays) blog ...
See ya' back soon!

24.09.2011 wow , 7-day landmark : check!

2011-09-24T22:57:00.000+01:00

I am glad you are back :) , so see what I have been up to...
Well today was Saturday - holiday (kinda) , well and btw , ye I have been here for 7 days now ... It still doesn't fell like I am away here for 3 more months :) ... I and I don't feel homesick , YET .... I am feeling like I am on vocation actually :D ...

Ok , actually I am not gonna write a lot today , cuz its kinda late and I have to get up
tomorrow on 4:15 AM... Why? well I show you :

Ye , well , I am going to Games Day . I am sure that to most of you that doesn't mean a thing , but like form me , its the biggest Hobby event of the year .Its gonna be my second time there, I actually went there I think almost 5 years ago , with my friend Jacob. We where in England for about 3 days , and ye , wow those are sweet memories .. It was 5 years ago , but I remember it as it was yesterday ... I even made a video clip about our trip ( sorta ) i think you can see it here http://dra.lv/gZZn , actually I am kinda ashamed of it but anyway I was 14 years old :D , although I could have done better :D...
Anyway , so I am going to Birmingham with a coach from St.Albans, and I have to be there at 5:30 .. I booked a taxi ,because no buses are going that early in Sunday morning ...

So I think I am going to be back tomorrow night , with some photo report about the event , and I gonna tell you how was today also... Or i can tell that in few words right now ... although knowing myself, If i start writing I cant stop :D ...
Still I gonna try ... So today was AMAZING , we were in St.Albans and it was great , I just find the city so full of inspiration ,and it is incredibly picturesque ... And it was amazing cuz , it was Saturday , and we went to the park , and it was full with families , like, fathers playing football with their kids and moms playing with their daughters ... It was just very beautiful , and nostalgic, cuz It made me remember my childhood and how we spent our time as children ... It was sweet...

I finally bought top-up for my phone( that's basically the same as kredīts in our country :D ) so I have a new phone number.....

Dammit there's so many things we did today :D ... we went to the church again , and I felt the same amusement as before ... and ye , It was a lot of fun . Cari was really funny all day long :D , she was just making us laugh all the time , and that was great ...

Ok but I need to go get some sleep :D ... I gonna be back and maybe add something to this post ...

BTW , it IS Saturday so the locals(British students) are going to party all night long :( and they are already walking around shouting screaming and wistling and stuff :( , I just hope I can get some sleep ... Maybe I should go to bed with my earphones , that maybe solved the noise problem :) ..

Ok see you soon ...

just one picture for fun :

That is just me enjoying my first D'oh-nut :D

23.09.11- A mishap

2011-09-24T03:49:00.001+01:00

OMG this was a very messed up day ... But also so mixed up :D , it was full with ups and downs .. And the bigger the Up was the bigger the down was :D...

So first off , The Ups :)
The biggest up toady ,was obviously the sports day . I spend 3 h playing football - what can be better? ( ok a lot of things , but that's a story for some other day :D )
so that was like a big happy fun thing , and the other todays days up was the Disco night , actually the DISCO night itself was a huge DOwn , but the social part of it was uP...
So there were two big ups and two big downs :D , The first not so big but still I felt kinda sad about it. While I was playing football there were a lot of other things happening today , well that's actually why the both downs happened :( , because of the football ...
So lets get down to the business , shall we?
SO while I played football I missed the information fair, and I missed the tour around the Sports village , it may seem not a big lose , but still , I should just have woken up a bit earlier and came to the tour and go rapidly through the information fair , and then still play football for 2 &1/2 h ....
So that was one thing, but the other was like huge down :(... but it needs like and introduction so here it goes :
I ended playing football at 15:00 , because that was when the sports day ended .. I was there with Hisham ... We both went home , cuz we were exhausted and hungry and thirsty and all :D , so without thinking I went to the bus and drove home .... When I got home right away I had a chat with my mom and dad , and it took a a wail, after that i watched the season premier for The Office , and only after that I remembered what I was supposed to be doing today... I was supposed to be .. already at that moment I was freaking out ,like throwing stuff and cursing ... The first thing what I did was I found this page , ye and if you fallowed the time , then this pretty much says it all :

I don't think I need to explain .. Or do I? Ok , so basically you see the big text in the box and you get the idea . The math is simple I am sitting in my room , its about 16:50 and I have been in my room from 15:20 ... So where is the time I spend doing the language test ? Nowhere :( . I didn't I missed it , I forgot about it , I am stuuuuupid :D , like how in the hell I could forget about it , when there was a huge paper on my desk (show in the picture) ... I have no Idea , no actually I have , and I explained what happened(before the picture) I was so involved in the sports day , that I just forgot about it....
It was actually the first day that I didn't just stand in my room and make (in my mind) a list of events I have to attend today( i was doing that every day) so the one day I didn't do that , I forgot about the things I really needed to do :(..
Ok so back to the time machine: its 16:50 I am freaking out , and I have no Idea what to do . I grab my shoes , grab my pants , and change my sports outfit... at that time I had like 3 chats going on inn Facebook and Skype , so I had to say goodby fast :D , and explain that I have to leave really fast...
I have only one guy I know in my hall that is also an international student and hes the only one I know the room number , and he was playing football with me so If he had to do the test , than he missed it also..... So I rush down , run to the other side of the building, and rush into his room .. I tell him everything ... As it turns out , he didn't have to attend the test ?!?! like what?? you can see clearly in the paper I posted : it says : its mandatory for ALL international students... so I am like ok , whatever I guess maybe it is only for the Students of Creative Arts school , but then what the hell? why are we so lucky... Ok so I leave Hisham in his room chatting with his cousin and run back to my room . There is Deb online ,so I ask her does she went to the test.. And no she didn't. I guess I was so freaked out that I made her freak out also :D , sorry for that,.. So ye she also didn't have to do it cuz she didn't have the test on her timetable as well , so those are already two other different schools that didn't need the test ... I send a message to her that I gonna go to the students center and run down , then I run back up(I am living in the 3rd floor) ,cu I forgot the documents , I thought maybe I am going to need them, so then I threw a quick glimpse in the computer, and saw that Deb was replying that shes gonna go also , just to check ... So I wrote that we should meet outside, but Facebook has the stupid thing that when you push the enter it doesn't post the comment but just ,you know ,sends you to the next line :D... so I didn't post it but just made a new line , although I thought that I had sent it ... So I run down for my 5th time , I went to meet here at her hall, but she wasn't there , so I thought maybe shes already gone out somewhere ,and waiting me somewhere else or something... So I ran back to my room :D , and found out that I hadn't posted the comment and she had been writing stuff like : where did u go , why did u leave and stuff, so I finally posted the message that I am going to wait her down at her hall entry ,.... I waited for 2 min for her respond , but she didn't reply , so I thought maybe she has gone outside already, So I just run out again for my seventh time :D ,...
Of course she wasn't there , I wanted to wait here , but every minute I spend my time , could have meant that I miss the working hours of the students help service ,or students office working hours.... So I thought about running back to my room to check if she hasn't written anything back to me... No this time I didn't run back .. not for the 8th time :D .... I remembered which window was hers and just called for her . luckily she heard me ... LOL I had been so hectic , if I had just waited in my room the first time around , I should probably not have had to run around that much :D another fail for me ... Anyway finally we went to the see if the student office is still open ... No it wasn't .... is the Creative arts school open ? no it wasn't ... Is other houses open ? no they aren't :( ... Its a Friday -everything is closed and everybody is back at homes already... :( ... so that settles it. I am not gonna fix this today... I thought maybe I should go to the De Havilland campus ( the other one , the one where the test took place) cuz maybe there is still someone I could talk to ... But luckily Deb's brain were working better than mine, so she just said that I should write emails to somebody, cuz if everything is closed here ,its gonna be the same there... thats true , and I remembered that the Paul guy( you can see that the poster ,has a name Paul's Newsletter) gave as u email ,so we can connect him whenever we need help . So ye we went back and I wrote the email, it was already something past 6 , so a very little chance of getting a reply form him today...

So after all that , I finally decided to make the damn lunch :D , cuz I hadn't had one , from the very morning , when I ate some bred and... I guess that was it ? .. i don't remember.. ou no I ate a sandwich , right... So anyway , I made myself a meal , and after that I felt a bit better, full belly always make you feel better... And my dad called me , and I told him everything ,and he comforted me, so that of course made me feel better as well...
Ye o that's the wost part ... I failed myself , I mean that is definitely not me -the guy who forgets things , naaa , I am not usually like that... Don't know what happened today :( ... I guess the exhaustion takes a toll on me ...

However, there was still a social event tonight planned, something called DISCO night .. I decide that I gonna go there just to take my mind off of the failure I was today :D ...
Before I even got ready , Harshil called me from outside my window , and called me out ( ye that sounds kinda old school- I mean , calling people at their window... But that's because I still don't have a phone number :D , gonna need to get one... )

So I got ready really quickly( actually not really cuz I could find my keys :D ( my room is kinda chaotic- paper and stuff everywhere :D ) , so after that I went out and met them ... but as it turned out they werent calling me to go to the Disco , but just to hang around. I said that we should go though , and they agreed and then I needed to go back and get my ID card , cuz I remembered that you can get into the events only with the ID card, but when I got back , I couldn't find my hall hey , and I was unable to get inside :D , dammit not that now... Luckily though I met Hisham just outside the hall ,and he let me in ... So I ran back up ( which time was it 10th already ? - lol ) anyway I searched for my Id card like for ever ,and for my Hall key even longer forever :D , while I searched I glimpsed that Deb and Harshil are already waiting for me outside, and I didn't want them to wait for me long , so i just threw everything upside down and finally found it ... Lol but then when I got down again , there was Hisham waiting form me and he was trying to get me to go to the kitchen at the first floor cuz there was some kind of party there , but I said I had to go meet Harshil , but he insisted I come to have some drink and stuff :D :D , finally , I explained normally that I need to go , ( because before that I was just messing up words and trying to catch my breath .) Anyway so I went outside and met them and we went to the forum , on our way I met Tomas , the guy that's doing VFX , I knew that he at least had to do the test . so I asked him about that ... and he told me that somebody had actually said that those who missed it will be able to do the test again next Friday !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well that's a relief :) :), so that stopped my hart for pounding for some time , till I wen into the club , where the music was so loud and the beat so strong it just made your insides pound in the beat as well :D

So ye, at the forum I met Cari ,Jake , Jamie ,Nathan , Rocky and others. We spent the time basically talking , cuz no one was very fond of the music they played ( it definitely wasn't DISCO music , just some club DJ , mixing stuff :D, and it was to loud for speaking :D) anyway , some of us went dancing , and after some time I and Deb and Harshil went away , cuz it was getting too crowded....
It was like the first day that the forum was open for everyone from the area not only students , so there were a lot of drunk people , and quite a bit British people , There were one girl who was from Hatfield called Natasha , and she was Asian ( ye sounds weird right ? for those Latvian people - Asian girl with Russian name born and living in England :D ) anyway she was saying that the next week is going to be crazy ,cuz all the local (UK ) student gonna be back and they are going to party all the time , and drink very very very much( that's what she said) and also that even today there's going be a lot of drunk people after an hour or so ...
Yee we just decided to leave :D , not my place... I kinda tried to fit in the pub culture , but I really cant see myself fitting there , that's just not me ..

Anyway we and Harshil wanted to play some pool , so we went to the ELE house( another bar) but with a thousand time better music ,and only not so many people. Ye so we just played pool for some time , and then went back home ... We saw 2 rabbits again :) , gonna have to take pictures of them someday...

Ok , so that's about it :D ... Ou today when I was playing football , one guy came to my and he said that he remembers me from the Games night , lol , and that he remembers me doing the belly dancing thing :D :D :D ,lol ... and ye I made some new friend on the football pitch , and that was nice as well...Of course one time asking their names is not gonna be enough :D , I still gonna need 2or 3 time to remember their names..

I found out that Deb has never been drinking (alcohol) , and that is kinda cool , I am not the only one , or I don't know If I can say anymore that I haven't been drinking in my life ... that makes me feel mad about myself and really regret that last week I did some drinking, cuz ye I wanted to be the guy who has never been drinking in his life also :( .... So good job Deb , keep it up! ...
But still (now I'm gonna try to encourage myself :D) I am still the guy who has never been drunk :) , cuz I haven't , I have been drinking some beers , but I have never been drunk ( like I haven't started to act weird or sway or something, or seeing double :D ) I have always stayed relatively sober :) .. So I am going to stay with that :) ... However that is not like the goal I am trying to achieve , I have chosen not to drink just because I don't like the taste of alcohol and I am not the type of guy who becomes suddenly very open and talkative when he is drinking , more like opposite ( or maybe I just haven't been drinking enough :D ) anyway drinking is not me .

I know what makes me feel happy and when I have fun, I should just stick to that :)

If there's one thing you can learn, when you are suddenly leaving your home , family and friends, and going to another country , its that you can find out who you really are !

P.S. (LIVE ) right now its 3:44 (sorry mom and dad , I gonna sleep in tomorrow (today) ).
There are like a lot of people walking around and shouting and girls screaming , and guys swearing , they are completely drunk , they are making some kind of picnic there :D , ouuu dammit I just hope they gonna go away soon, cuz its not gonna be easy to fall asleep , when you can hear a sudden loud laughter from time to time ...
3:48 man I can hear people vomiting :( ... :D I think I am going to close my window :D

Broadcast over :) pi pi pi

22.09.11-(Continued)

2011-09-24T02:02:00.000+01:00

Ye , So I went to the movie night. It was already started but I still wanted to see what kind of movies they are showing. They were sowing 6 movies . 3 at 6:30 and another 3 at 9 . When I got there they were showing The Fighter , you know the movie that brought Christian Bale his first Academy Award. So I went in and started to watching... I didn't felt like watching though , I don't like to watch movies from the middle :D. And then I saw people going out of the room , and I thought I recognized their shapes in the dark :) , so I went out also , as much as I wanted to see the movie , these kind of movies you have to see from the beginning . So ye I had guessed the people , they where Harshil, Deb , Jaclyn , Cyril ( ye I got those names right ,finally :) ) , I didnt get why they left, but we decided to just have a walk .. and I said I want to buy something to drink , so we went to the Forum , but everything was closed there, so we decided to walk to the Galeria , and get something to drink there... So we visited McDonalds :D , I had an Ice-cream :D . ...
So then we came back to the film night , cuz they were showing Fast and Furious 5 :D , and Harshil wanted to see it , me to actually ( kinda , I remembered it being better , though) Anyway , we got back at about 9:10 :D ( ye again missed ) and went to see the F&F5 , but ye , we entered when it was like the stupidest part in the movie , so I decided I am not going to be able to see the movie again :D ... I was like sleepy and tired , and my head still hurt a little, so I just would not be able to keep my attention to this movie... So I and Deb went out, cuz she wasn't interested in that movie as well ... BTW Cyril left as earlier , cuz he was feeling sleepy :D , he seems nice guy , but he doesn't speak a lot , maybe that's because hes kinda shy I guess , and its really hard to understand his English , cuz he has a big French accent , maybe that's why doesn't speak a lot , or maybe hes just chatting with his girlfriend all the time trough his mobile phone :D. ..
Anyway back to the film night... So I and Deb went out , and wanted to see one of the other two movies, one was Just go with it ( comedy with Adam Sandler & Jenifer Anniston) , the other was Monster , movie that I had never heard about, and acters , well , never heard about them either . I thought that the later would actually be more fun , cuz it looked like some comedy type of mosters&jungle type of movie... Or my second thought was that it actually looked a bit like District 9 , It had to be one of those two options... ( I had those thoughts only by looking to the poster :D ) Anyway , I said I'd prefer the Monsters , and Deb agreed, so we went to that one. There were like 4 people in the auditorium that watched the movie :D , so probably not a very popular or well known movie. Anyway something in me said that I should stay and watch.. So we did ....
Sadly we had already missed the first 10 minutes or so but anyway , from the very first glimpses , I understood that this is going to be the District 9 type of movie ... So ye we watched it. Somewhere in between another of my 'friends' joined us the Rocky guy :D , the one who is doing Music & Technologies ...
I am not going to tell what happens in the movie , just that you should see it , if u like Sci Fi , but not like the stupid moster sci fi , but if you like the serious type and the more kinda artistic type...
It was actually made by some British Director Garreth Edward, it was his debut in directing , and the film had only 500'000 in its budget :O ... I have to admit , that I felt this movie like I have rarely felt others that have their budget around several millions .. It just was the atmosphere type of movie. So ye it was great and you all should see it :D ,It had a great sound and music to boot . And very good VFX cuz the director was actually a VFX supervisor to the movie as well.... so just Google it up :) . DebI guess kinda liked it , but she was confused about the ending , which was actually weird , but I am not gonna spoiler here :D , on the other hand I like when movies end like that ( ok spoiler- when they end suddenly , when you think there must have been something more happening, but they just cut it off)
But as I red today , the movie was actually starting with a scene that was actually an end of the last scene on the end :D, but as we didn't see the beginning , I guess we didn't see the end either :D

So after that we walked back , and on our way in the campus , right next to the road , we spotted a rabbit !!! Really nice ,cute ,brown rabbit :D , for real . And then there was another one :) , that was cute , they weren't afraid or anything , of course when we tried to get closer they run away , but that was fun ... Deb said she had actually seen some signs around the campus that says : there are rabbits living here :) ... Of course they are not living on the campus ,but there is something like a small reservoir , like a forest , so they probably are living there :D ... Ou and when we went further there was another bunny right next to the basketball pitch :).
I don't know how Brits do it , but they have managed to keep the nature quite unharmed here . Like, there are a lot of birds around here , singing beautifully , and there are obviously rabbits , and a lot of squirrels - I suppose that means something , like that the air is kinda clean , and there aren't too much dangerous waste in the forests and no like garbage laying around . Cheers to that !
So I believe that's about it.... After that I just fell into deep sleep ... yey :)

22.09.11 -Registration Day

2011-09-23T11:13:00.000+01:00

Hello once again!
Today(ok ,ok , yesterday :D ) was registration day. We had to register , to become official members of University of Hertfordshire . Ye thats sounds ok , but the part that wasnt ok , was that the registration started at 10 , and i woke up at about 9:30 , so I had a shower and ... nothing else :D , and went to the LRC( huge Learning Resource Center ,were the redistration took place) , anyway , my first mistake , today was that I didnt get anything to eat before I went there ... I knew that the registration probabbly is going to take some time, but I had no Idea that its gonna be that tiring , to say the least. The were huge queues , and I spend there about 2h just standind in a line , with my empty stomach making creepy sounds :D , and hunger just killing me ... :( ... After 2h , I finally got what I had came for, :

My ID card , yee ... But it cost me a lot :D , after that my head hurt , cuz of all the standind and hunger and , it was hot inside and no air - just crappy... :(
After that though I went to my kitchen and made something to eat , some canned food :) , there was only one can that I could open though :D , for the rest I need the can opener ,,that I don't have ...

Right after that I had to rush to get to School of Creative Arts welcome talk... That was not fun at all :( , My head still hurt and I didn't feel well. They told the same *** that everyone has been saying in those other talks :D . Anyway we were about 100 international students there . They said that 100 is a lot , but I know that in my program there must be 60 people ?!?! So I guess there will probably be 58 British people in my program :D . Cuz most of those international students were in fashion , digital arts , music , fine art , and stuff like that :D . Of course no need to say that I was the only Latvian there :D ,but there were more people that were the only ones from their country .

So after that we had a tour around our creative school facilities .. That could be interesting , if only IO hadnt seen all that when I was here on open days :( , still there were some new places I saw , and it was much cleaner now than back In June :D ..

Anyway , after that I was exchausted and tired , but when I came back I saw that there were people gathering at the football field , probabbly to play :D . And of course my love to football is to big to just pass by. I decided I gonna go to the gallerie and buy shoes and shorts so I can join them :)
Before that I managed to put my dirty clothes in washing machine :D , I didnt have any powder, so I just found the machine , which had the most powder leftovers :D , anyway , I pressed some buttons , and it jsut beeped , said locked and started to wash ? ok , who cares :D .. just make them clean ,I said to it :D
So I rushed to the Galeria , and bought all the stuff I needed, I have to admit , that here it was like 30% cheaper than back at home...

Ok so I went back , got ready for playing , and went to the field ,looking very professional and ready to play :D ... luckily some one wanted to leave so I took his place...
I made two rezultatīvas piespēles :D (passes ?) , and I was fast so I thought I made a good first impression :) ye. Anyway they stopped playing after some 30 minutes , cut they had been playing all the time , while I was at the shop ... Anyway it was a good to remind my body how to play :D

Ou , by the way I have a new friend , hes called Nikey

We are great team , only problem , he really likes computer too much, I mean he had to be like sporty and stuff, but meh he likes playing FIFA on PC .....

(ok m btw that was a reference to the famous movie Cast Away , where he had a friend ball called Wilson )

So after that as I found out it was already almost 7 , so I had already missed the start of the Movie night :( . And I prommised to Cari and Jamie , that I am going to be there :( , thats wasnt properly done ... I changed back to my normal outfit :D ,and went to the movie night ...

Damit , I really have to go now ... Todays a sports day , so you know what that means - I HAVE TO BE THERE :D ...so I guess this report on yesterday and the story after the movie night is :

TO BE CONTINUED....

21.09.2011

2011-09-22T01:11:00.002+01:00

Ok , I just found out ,that there are actually some people from here that are reading my blog.. :O well that puts a pressure on me :D , now I have to start think about what I am writing , cuz they might be reading :) ...
No I gonna write in the same way...

So 21.09.2011 , ay?

Ye I already posted some pictures about today's day . I made my first meal :D ( here , not like in my life ) ... I had the speech number 3 this morning at 9 o clock , damn , that's early , I went to bad really late , cuz of the really long post yesterday :D , I were writing for almost an hour , I don't know when you write ,the time just flows by :( ...
Ok Anyway , so ye after the speech I ate ... then I finally decided to risk and download the newest tv episode of Breaking Bad... I don't really know if it was risky , bet a lot of people back in home , said that it is really dangerous to download stuff , here cuz it illegal , and they really do catch you . And someone I thing Mr.G , told me that they find you and cut off your Uni internet off... so I was really scared of that . BUT still I cant live without the shows :D , so I went for it and downloaded it like in 10 minutes. .. All quiet , nobody ,is coming for me yet :N ... So I like wait and stuff, and then's there like all kind of weird sounds outside my room in the hallway , and I am like freaked out :O , I mean O my God ,they really are coming for me ?!?!? So I lock the door and wait :D ...
(some of this may be a bit exaggerated :D )
After some time , that I have spent standing at the door and listening , I finally realized that the sounds are just some , British Ladies cleaning our kitchen :) ... Ye laugh as much as you can now :D :D :D .... After that everything was silent .. And I took the great pleasure in watching the episode... just for the record, this episode was actually really good ( the previous ones was a bit boring) ...

Anyway after well spent 50 minutes it was time to get to the bus , to the trip to St.Albans..
They had several buses taking us there , and the people were divided my their color of their ticket . i got yellow one , but sadly the Americans had blue one , so we couldn't go together.
So when I got into the queue , I made friend with two guys named Tom from Slovakia doing Visual effects yeee , someone from the same school :) , and a guy from Sir Lanka , who said that we should call him Rocky :) , ye that's right , so I remember that, and he is going to study Music & Technologies , yee another Creative arts guy ... they both are here for Bachelors , so I gonna see those guys around :)
Anyway , we spend the whole trip together , and that was a nice walk around the city and a nice talk , about music , about phones , cars , and stuff like that :) .. the Guy from Sir Lanka ( Rocky) was pretty much speaking about , how the women here are beautiful ( not only British girls but from all type of nationalities) that was funny :D.
So I think I gonna do another report on stuff like architecture and buildings some time later, when I gonna combine all the most beautiful pictures. So now I just gonna say that the St.Albans Abbey WAS AMAZINGLY STUNNING , like , hands down , to the people that built it , the details , the craftsmanship , man , I was just touched ,and owed ,I am always like that when I am around something that humans have made , and when its that beautiful,or just that detailed, bold ,strong , and huge , but also felling light inside- it wasn't gloomy ,dark or depressing at all ..I cant even imagine how people can build and make something like this
( pictures coming later in the morning , I still have a lot to cover)
Ok , so I stayed at the Church for quite some time , cuz I wanted to explore every little corner of it , because there were so many crazy things hidden behind the next corner, like some huge painting or smth.... So I actually was the last person leaving the Abbey :)... so that made me quite worried , because I had lost everybody else , and I didn't have any Idea were to go next ... Luckily ,though , the guys Tom and Rocky were just waiting for me outside , yee again ... So we continued to walk further and we got to the lake , that was amazing... Ok I get it , too much amazing things :D , but that's just true. Definitely come visit the city if you happen to be at England. It is one of the oldest towns in all of the UK ( at least that's what the guides told us (as far as I know , non of them is a History major ) :D )
So anyway , I knew that there is an Warhammer - Games Workshop (for those who have no Idea whats that , just google it :D , I cant explain everything ..OR if u want to see how I am connected with it visit http://www.dakkadakka.com/core/gallery-search.jsp?u=35859 .) , somewhere around St.Albans, so I wanted to find it. And we did . It was a nice shop , and the sales person was really nice ,he gave me his name and we had a nice chat about the gaming custom-(s ?) down there . And asked about Games day & Golden Demon 2011, and tickets , and he said that they actually still have 2 tickets left. So maybe if I am gonna be free at Sunday I gonna go , If I find someone to go with :( , don't wanna go there alone ...
Anyway , of course I didn't buy anything ,YET , because first you have to know where everything is , and then you can go home make a list of things you really need , and just come back and purchase them ... otherwise I gonna just spend too much money :D..

So after that we went into like a mobile and internet store. And I was just asking the seller about the broadbands and stuff, and he like explained everything and asked about my country and myself .. Ok that's good , but when I told I gonna take the product , he just wondered off ?!?!?!? what? , I don't know just you know , maybe he was waiting for the other seller or something , dunno , but as he didn't have any interest left in me , I just walked away( that's better anyway , the broadband plan was too expensive)

Man, this is going to take too much time :D ,I am only in the middle of the day , and the best was at the evening :D
Anyway fast forward , so I found tool-shop and bought some of the tools I gonna need in my course , like hammer and stuff :D
Bought some more food ( bread , corns ! , :) , muffins ( I like the muffins they make here) ) ye and then we basically went home :)

After that I was kinda tired , of the walking and carrying the bags, so I just took a nap... then I talked to my father and mother and friends in skype ,and then It was time to go to the barn dance , iiiiihaaaaaaaaa !

So I took my suit shoes , cuz they look a bit like cowboy boots :D , and they had like hard solid heel ( i was hoping to make a lot of sound with them ,like you would if you had the boots.. I took my chequered shirt , so I looked almost like a real cowboy , I missed only the hat ( ye , well , I guess ,that's a big thing to miss :D ,for a cowboy) ...

Anyway , I went out and tried to find the location , but couldn't find it , and I didn't have my map , so I was kind sad , that I gonna miss it , but then I experienced how my brain works :D,
So this is going to be a magnificent story about how something can lead to something else , that leads to another thing ,that leads to the solution! ! ! !
Sot they(the brains) started to figure things out like this:

First I remembered what was written on the time-table under the bold Barn dance letters, the part circled red ... Just a reminder so I didn't had the time table with me either , I just used my photo memory of it . Of course I am no super human , so the only part I remembered clearly was the thing that was circled blue ( and CL -for college lane)
So I had those two words in my mind ,and I was lie repeating it ( the word Venue) and ....
by the way , there were no people outside , it was dark , and no one to just ask this , so ye I was alone with my mind :D..
You see the thing is that I didn't know what the word VENUE means :D , truth be told , I dont even know that now :)
However somehow , somewhere in my mind I thought that the Venue must have to be doing something with big halls and rooms ... So the first thing to cam to my mind was the Forum ( the big huge house , that has all the clubs and pubs inside it .) And something told be that halls were named venues , well so I had a strong feeling that I gonna find my answer there ( in the Forum ) so I went there , trough the mud , over the hills , under the roads , and deep into the darkness, with cold wind bowing in my face....
Obviously when I finally saw the forum I thought I was victorious ! I have found the Barn , ye but that sounded to good and easy to be true... So what happened instead , was that on the door of the entrance of the Forum , I spotted a paper poster , saying Barn Dance . Yipee again , I am at the right place ... ye really?!?! no , there were small letters under the big bold Barn Dance , that said : moved to the De Havilland campus :( :( :( :( :( :( : ( :(
:D , ok so the story has come to an end now , my brain made me go somewhere were I thought I was meant to be , and they were right( the brains or memory cells or whatever :D ) , that's just not their fault that the event had been moved :) right ?

Ok so I am going to stop here .. I hope I remember everything tomorrow, but its just too late now , and I cant keep my eyes open :( ... Plus I hope to get some pictures to really show , what happened at the Barn dance ... Ye after I found out that its moved , I knew were to go( just around the corner to the bus station) however the bus didn't come for almost 30 minutes , and then one of the guides persuaded :D , one of the bus drivers from other bus to take us all ( there were quite a number of people going to the event) to the other Campus. YEY

OK, so while I we waited the bus , I met Deb and she introduced me to two other people named ( I hope I spell it right) Jacklin(?).... she was from USA , Florida , and shes here for History (studies) that's cool , I like history ,a lot :) , and the other guys name was , don't know exactly , but I remember it sounded something like Cereal (:D) , ye sorry , he was from France, and he is doing aerospace also :) (Deb is doing aerospace engineering as well ) ..
So there you go , I had a new pack of people :D .... There were Nathan also , the guy from USA, Texas, he had like cowboy hat and nice looking shirt , so he was fully cowboy equipped :) (except for boots , but who cares about boots when u have HAT ) .. Actually there were many more people that I knew , the girl from Bulgaria ( Sonia- shes like at the every event- very active person :) ) , and of course a lot of Indian guys and Sir Lanka guys from the games night :)
ok , so we went to the barn dance finally ,and ye basically danced and stuff :D ..
They weren't like the line dances ,that I thought they gonna be , but it still was fun (because of the company) , the music was like the same all the time :D . So the band leading man , was just shouting like , instructions of how to move and what to do . basically we stood at a circle and did different hops and turns ,and spins :D , and the same for almost 5-10 minutes 2 h long :D ... that was actually quite exhausting , but fun ,nevertheless ... Of course I met a lot of other people that I had met before - so I strengthened my knowledge of their name :D .... So it was fun , fun to dance , and fun to watch others dance :D ..
I hope I gonna get some pictures from Deb or the other girl , so I can post them here as well.

So look , seems that I have managed to write everything ( ok almost ,there's still the way back and stuff :D , but I cant like write all my life down ,can I ? :D)

So, take care, do barn dance , spend time with your friends and enjoy architectural miracles :) . thanks again for being so patient and interested to read it all the way , down to here :D

I guess I gonna need to figure out a way to tell everything in a shorter version :D , pictures should be a help in that, they sometimes can say a lot more that written words ...( maybe :D)

oks this time really , good night(or day) and see you back here tomorrow .

Social event Timetable

2011-09-21T18:42:00.000+01:00

So just in case that's my Social event Timetable :)

my first student self made meal

2011-09-21T18:37:00.000+01:00

my first student self made meal

Yee , thats just paste , with cheese and ketchup . But i did it really well. like the pasta was in the right condition. ņam ņam.... :D .Next time its gonna be something more complicated ..(or not).. I could live on pasta alone for like forever :D

This could well be my future :)

2011-09-21T18:33:00.000+01:00

Ye , this could well be the thing that I am going to do in my future ...

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... but I promise my standards are gonna be much much higher :) ... poor lads , they don't have fingers...