Goodbye yesterday

After a highly productive afternoon (YAY!) I am ready to say goodbye to the day.. with a sweet song.. filled with wise words..

Studying from the screen

Weird feeling in the morning..

..I see myself talking with friends on a familiar spot.. Hmm, yes, that's it - I am in front of the building of my faculty in Bulgaria.. but the building has a blue KU Leuven sign... ok, so my faculty has somehow moved to Belgium..

All my friends are suddenly gone and now I only have strangers around me. A teacher that looks like one of the cashiers in Colruyt appears and says we are about to start the exam in "Flemish poetry and statistical calculations of transportation costs related to game theory and European integration"...

After a fierce cold-sweat struggle with the test I never studied for, I wake up... Ooookay, that's gonna be an exciting month till the exam session is over...

If exams were monsters..

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Try not giving a f**k!

What's 2012 cooking..

Normally* I don't do that, but this time I clicked on a link offering me to "See what your horoscope predicts for 2012".

So, it goes:

- "This year is all about non-stop action for you (....), you may start to wonder if there will be any break in sight before 2013." This somehow resembles some old thoughts of mine: "Will there be any break before 2010?".. and: "Amm,.. maybe before 2011?".. also the one: "Oh, well, before 2012 will be good too.."

- In February, they say, I will "settle for nothing less than your true soul mate; either that or you'll feel blissfully wedded to your spiritual nature.." I see...

- Then they  give me some hope about my financial status, starting the paragraph with the promising "You'll be thrilled to know that Saturn.." And just when I got utterly excited, and started to plan whether I should get a Bugatti or a more humble vehicle like a Maserati, they say I have to wait for some 10 more months for that.. Well (looking on the bright side)... that should be just enough for me to get a driving license..

- They also predict some kind of a Virgo migration in the form of "a change of residence or alterations to your current abode"..And that's when I started to wonder.. how do they know I'm on Erasmus abroad...

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* normally I don't use the word "normally" either..

A little before 6x2 last night

I assume that around 12 a.m. last night you were looking at your watch, counting down the last seconds of 2011..
If it looked somewhat like this:

... then I believe you simply didn't follow my last advice.

A piece of advice

Be careful with the drinks tonight! Champagne is a nice tradition, but the headache and the hangover are not..

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Almost there

Are you ready to dive into the new year?

Run, Forest, run!

That's how I feel when I make a studying plan and set small goals to achieve on the way.. The good thing is, I have some progress.. in a way...

From under the blanket..

I like pretty much everything about my room.. but there is one thing that I don't enjoy quite a lot: I'm not allowed to start a fire in here. And that's exactly what I need when the heating isn't working.. which is approximately 24 hours a day..

Damn safety requirements!

To-do list..

..for more structured and efficient studying.

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New Year's Resolutions

In case you haven't already started to fool yourself with how much better you will do/be next year.. you can get some ideas from Levni Yilmaz's new year's resolutions:

Decoration

The common Christmas spirit is fading away. But before it's completely gone, I will share a piece of my Christmas decoration..

As it is obvious, this is how my bathroom got refreshed a couple of months ago..

* Her legs are covered with pieces of grass and there's a little bit of mud on her knees.. She must have been busy with gardening before the picture was taken..

And here's how she changed for the holidays.. It's not a lot, but it's still better than the no-snow, no-tree, no-decoration reality.

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Christmas spirit selection, vol. 10

When I came upon this picture two years ago, I hadn't heard of Anheuser-Busch InBev and that it was the brewer of Leuven's pride: Stella Artois..

This evening I'm having a Stella in Leuven, thinking about all the things that I experienced in the last two years.. and I hope you can also look back and find at least one thing that you are grateful you had the chance to experience!

Merry Christmas! :)

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Christmas spirit selection, vol. 9

Christmas may look a little different when you are away from home.. But that does not necessarily mean it's worse. :)

Christmas spirit selection, vol. 8

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Christmas spirit selection, vol. 7

Christmas spirit selection, vol. 6

Christmas spirit selection, vol. 5