Sreča.

No pa je za nami uspešen, delovni dan. Med vsemi trenutki pa je bilo tudi nekaj časa za igranje in poziranje (:

                             Sreča ni v glavi in ne v daljavi,

                          ne pod palcem skrit zaklad.

                           Sreča je, ko se delo dobro opravi.

                           In ko imaš nekoga rad.

(Tone Pavček)

VOŠČILNICE :)

Prihajajo najbolj čarobni dnevi v letu, dnevi ki jih najraje preživljamo z družino in prijatelji. 

December je mesec veselja in obdarovanja. Mene najbolj spominja na mesec druženja, kuhano vino, vročo čokolado, okrašena mesta z najrazličnejšimi stojnicami in je tisti čas v letu, ko dobim največ ustvarjalnega navdiha za izdelovanje malih daril s katerimi rišem nasmeh na obraz. Letos sem se odločila za izelovanje voščilnic :)

Nekaj mojih voščilnic (:

brez poštnine?! I LIKE :)

Za vse tiste, ki radi berete....spletna knjigarna brez plačevanja poštnine

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/

Treba sprobat! (:

Pay It Forward

Vsi smo že gledali film z Haleyem Joelom Osmentom in Kevinom Spaceyom, daj naprej. Otrok si izmisli načrt s katerim bo pomagal trem ljudem in ti trije bodo pomagali naprej drugim trem,... Pisateljica knjige, po kateri je bil posnet tudi film, se je odločila, da bi bilo dobro to izvesti tudi v realnosti. Dobra ideja! :)

Ta ideja pa se bo jutri začela izvajati tudi pri nas :) Deljenje zapestnic, ki bodo potovale naokoli vsakič, ko bo nekdo za nekoga naredili nekaj dobrega... Pay it forward! (:

Kako se priprave v Sloveniji že odvijajo... :)

http://www.pifexperience.com/

Around Slovenia

 Čas je tisti, ki tako hitro beži mimo mene in ga včasih komaj dohajam, je tisti ki celi rane, je priložnost, slovo in ponovno srečanje.

 Vikend smo preživeli s prijatelji iz Porta in dobro izkoristili vsak trenutek, ki smo ga imeli na razpolago :) Znova sem odkrivala lepote Slovenije in spet ugotovila kako lepa je ta naša "kura"!

Sobota nas je s sončnim dnem odpeljala skozi Kranjsko Goro vse do Bovca, kjer so nas že čakali simpatični fantje za spust po Soči. Ja, treba je bilo preživeti adrenalinski rafting in kopanje v zeleni reki, ki je imela dobrih 11°C. Spust, ki je trajal uro in pol nas je tako utrudil, da so naši želodčki zahtevali dobro večerjo. In tako je tudi bilo! Preživeli in siti smo se odpravili proti Ljubljani. (:

Nedelja je bila čas za lenarjenje po neprespani noči. S kombijem smo se tokrat odpravili proti primorski. Predjamski grad, Piran, Štanjel in Kras so zapolnili naš dan s svojo lepoto.

Vikend je tako hitro minil. Pat&Mat, petje slovenskih venčkov in izkazovanje talentov v kombiju pa so poskrbeli za iskren, neskončen smeh.

Nepozaben vikend! (:

Ljubljanska Feria

Luna gitana je 01.09.2012 popestrila deževno, sobotno popoldne s svojim plesom, barvnimi, volančkastimi oblekami in rožami v laseh. Dež je ponehal in plesalke flamenka so pričele s svojim živim nastopom.

Španska feria je teden dni pomladanskega veseljačenja v pokrajini Andaluzija, ki poteka vsak april že od davnega leta 1845. Obiskovalci z vseh koncev Španije in celega sveta se zgrinjajo v Sevillo, kjer jih pričakajo praznično okrašeni šotori, zvoki flamenka in tradicionalne bikoborbe.
Vsi navdušenci so bili letos že šesto leto deležni preplesavaja flamenka, okušali špansko vino Rioja Campo Viejo in se prepustili okusom nekaj andaluzijskih specialitet.

Back...

All months have passed and now I'm back, back at home. Watching all those pictures I've made. More than 56,5 GB of photographs and some of them still aren't on my computer. Too many memories, too much pictures, a lot of things to think about.
Sitting on the bad I'm reading the last pages of "Hunger games", a book I bought in Porto. It gives me feeling that I'm still lying somewhere in Matosinhos or Leca. Worries for a moment wanders away...

Esposende, near Braga

You got me hypnotized...

My ErAsMuS experience is going to end in a week. I'm trying to absorb all the information and see everything I still didn't. Seconds, minutes, days are passing by, but unforgettable memories will stay forever.

Around with friends

Lisbon, Sintra & Cabo da Roca

Lisbon with amazing people

Our first coffee when we arrived

Walking on the streets

“Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.” 
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel

“A feeling is no longer the same when it comes the second time. It dies through the awareness of its return. We become tired and weary of our feelings when they come too often and last too long.” 
Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel

“That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?” 
Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel

Cabo da Roca, Portugal

Sintra, Portugal

Sintra, Portugal

Sintra, Portugal

Minimalism

When sunny sunday give you ideas, It's ideal opportunity to realize them :)

Model: Iris Silva

Ideas: Katarina Spreiz [Fashion photography project]

Fogo de artifício - São João, Porto 2012

Perfection...couldn't be better! 

Sao Joao do Porto is the biggest event in Porto. Thousands of people on the streets with lots of hammers, sweets, beer, good music and unforgettable firework. The funniest part of the festival was that everyone gets to hit each other on the head with plastic hammer. This will bring lots of luck in next year. I was hit on the heat so many times, that I will have enough luck for the next five years :) Plastic hammers replaced an old tradition of using a garlic stem that represented wishing people good luck. 

Sao Joao will always stay in mine mind as time, when streets are filled with colour, full of tradition and joy.

...The best part of the evening began at midnight. The firework was over head and spectacular, I wished my eyes were bigger that I could take it all in at once...It's funny how sometimes someone you don't know in one sentence can tell the whole point of your life in last half a year. 

Porto, city where all dreams come true!

Vse, samo pisanje ne...

Spet tisti trenutki, ko je potrebno napisati še zadnji esej za faks, pa je enostavno vse drugo bolj pomembno od tega. Zjutraj skyp-anje, potem trgovina, pospravljanje, čevljar, kuhanje kosila, gledanje nadaljevank,...seveda počasi zmanjkuje časa za pisanje ampak objavo na blog sem enostavno morala narediti, ker sva s Tadejo izumili fantastičen rižev narastek z bananami in rozinami.

Nujno poskusiti!!

Recept:
Vse sva delali po občutku in sva za pladenj [cca 4 osebe] uporabili:
- riž
- 4 banane
- rozine
- 3 jajca
- mleko
- sladkor
- sol
- sladkor burbnske vanilije
- 1/2 limone

Najprej sva v mleku skuhali riž in vse skupaj malo solili. Medtem ko se je riž hladil sva ločili jajca in posebaj stepli beljake in rumenjake. S paličnim mešalnikom sva zmiksali banane, dodali malo mleka in pol limone.
Rumenjakom sva dodali malo sladkorja in burbonsko vanilijo ter zmes vmešali z rižem. Dodali sva še stepene beljake in rozine.
Pečico nastavili za 180° in čez 20 minut ob gledanju nadaljevanke pojedli najboljši rižev narastek do tega trenutka :)

Bon appetit! (:

Festa de São João do Porto

Immigrants? Mhmm, Tadeja nod to random guy on metro while he was touching our Sao Joao plant. We were laughing and figured out that we advance up the scale :P At the beginning we were foreigners, now we are immigrants, what's next? Locals? :) Maybe when we'll speak Portuguese fluently :) 

Now we have Sao Joao plant (: Thanks Tiago! 

Every year, on the night of 23rd June, the city of Porto, in the north of Portugal, becomes lively and seemingly crazy. Thousands of people come to the city centre and to the most traditional neighborhoods to pay a tribute to Saint John the Baptist, in a party that mixes sacred and profane traditions.

The festivities have been held in the city for more than six centuries, yet it was during the 19th century that Saint John's day became impregnated in the city's culture and assumed the status of the city's most important festival.

In June 2004, a journalist from The Guardian commented that "Porto's Festa de São João is one of Europe's liveliest street festivals, yet it is relatively unknown outside the country".

In fact, the party starts early in the evening of 23 June and usually lasts until the morning of 24 June. The traditional attractions of the night include street concerts, popular dancing parties, jumping over flames, eating barbecued sardines and meat, drinking wine and releasing illuminated flame-propelled balloons over Porto's summer sky.

At midnight the partygoers make a short break to look at the sky at Saint John's firework spectacle. The show is increasingly sophisticated with the fireworks being associated with themes and multimedia shows. The party has sacred roots but is also mixed with pagan traditions, with the fireworks embodying the spirit of tribute to the Sun.

One could expect the firework to be the climax and mark the end of the festivities. Yet, it is quite common for citizens of Porto, with all ages, to keep celebrating until 3 or 4 in the morning. Younger people take it even a step further. They walk from Porto's riverside core - Ribeira (for instance the parish of São Nicolau (Porto)- up to the seaside in Foz (parishes of Foz do Douro and Nevogilde (Porto) or in the nearby suburb of Matosinhos where they wait for the sunrise near the sea. [wikipedia]

ESN PORTO wOrLd ErAsMuS goodbye PaRtY...

Now, this is not the time or the place for a broken hearted
Cause this is the end of the rainbow
Where no one can be too sad
No, I don't wanna leave but I must keep moving ahead
Cause my life belongs to the other side
Behind the great ocean's waves. 

Bye, bye Porto I'm gonna 
miss you wherever I go I'm gonna 
come back to walk these streets again
Bye, bye Porto forever. 

Thank you for the morning walks on the sweet sunset
And for the hot night moments
For the fantasy in my bed
I take a part of you with me now and you won't get it back
And a part of me will stay here, you can keep it forever, dear.

Stala sem na vrhu stopnic pred mestno hišo in imela pred sabo celoten Aliados in vse ERASMUS študente, ki so prišli, da bi naredili zadnjo skupno sliko. Začela sem se zavedati, da sem večino izmed njih videla zadnjič. Večina jih odhaja domov v roku enega tedna. Vsak bo odšel na svoj konec sveta, se vrnil na stare tire, ostali pa bodo nepozabni spomini. 

Portugal : Denmark

Oceana - Endless summer [OFFICAL song of  UEFA EURO 2012]

The streets came to life! Competitive spirit, loyal fans and a good game brought victory :)

 Portugal won against Denmark with score 3 : 2.

Can't wait the other game in this amazing atmosphere :)

Some frustration during the match :)

Disappointment over Ronaldos missed shot...

Portugal won after all... :)