September's Resume #10 @Prague

The view from my bedroom window at the break of dawn.

EN: Hello Bananas! This post will be about my last month in Prague back in 2011. I can't believe it took me so long to finish these resumes (lazy bum bum). But anyway I will leave in the end links to my previous post in case you want to see what happened before and I might do another post about "my tips/suggestions" for Prague, some places to visit in case you want to know.

Okei, now if you saw my previous post - August's Resume - you will know that by the end of the month of August I was on a road-trip with my boyfriend around Europe and I returned to Prague on the 31st of August and on the same day I had to go to work and the next days that followed - for like a week and a half - that's all I've done. Since I had "juggled" my vacation days, that meant that after I returned I would have very few days off, so it was kinda of crazy and extremely tiring and I have no photos from the 1st of September till the 16th . So I will fill you in with what happened during those days. Ah I should mention that at this point I was living alone. My roomate Aya had found a new flat to live on her own, that also was a bit closer to getting to work, we used to live in Prague area 6.

Starting with the 9th of September, it was the last day at work for my friend Moises, he was part of my Iberian Team (Portuguese and Spanish), so as tradition we went first for some drinks at the Moskyt bar and then to Mazanej Králícek. Since I didn't have my camera with me, here's a link from Youtube with some footage of the bar so you can kinda have an idea of the place. I actually had to Google it, because even I didn't remember being at the place (thank god for my agenda lol) but now that my memory was refreshed, I remember that it was a cool place with good music. And funny enough the music that they play in the video "Shakira - Rabiosa" was the song that me and Moises used to sing to each other as a joke.

August's Resume #9 @Prague

Hello Bananas! OMG I can't believe that it has been 3 months since I wrote one of these post baahhhh! Anyways today I will talk about my month of August from when I was living in Prague in 2011. WOW 2011, Jesus! Time flies. I will do another post for September and that's it really, because I left Prague in September. Then if you guys want I can do like a post talking about my thoughts of the city, the ups and downs in case one day any of you go there.

So here we go.

For the first two weeks of the month of August my housemate Aya was away on a tour. For those that don't know this, Aya is a ballerina (ballet dancer) and in August Kanye West was doing a European tour.... yeah that's right, Aya had the great opportunity of going on tour with Kanye (I'M ONE PERSON AWAY FROM KANYE HAHA). And you are probably wondering what does a ballet dance has to do with Hip Hop? Well at the time Kanye had his "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" album out and if you seen any of his videos for his singles, there is a song called Runaway where there is ballerinas in it and ACTUALLY one of those ballerinas is Aya's friend and work colleague Jade :P. So yeah basically Kanye wanted dancers on stage for songs like Runaway. So yeah for two weeks she was on tour with him, she even came to Portugal for the TMN Sudoeste Summer Festival.
If you want to see her, check out this video, it is one of the best videos that I managed to catch so far, you can spot her at 7:30 when there is only two girls dancing and she is the one with black hair (she's Japanese) :3.

July's Resume #8 @Prague

The view from my apartment in Prague.

For those that are new to my Blog I will quickly explain. Last year for 9 months I lived in Prague, Czech Republic, and I wanted to document my experience here, but I failed to do it on a regular bases, so I’m trying to catch up! Soooo let’s go!

The month of July was actually pretty boring. One of my closest friends Plami had finished her internship in June, so I had lost my Wingman, or in this case Wingwoman :(. So most of my time was spent home-work-work-home, I did went to parties and what not, but for some reason I didn't carry my camera that much o_O. Plus must of the month I was home aloooone, because my house mate was out for a Summer vacation.

- On the 1^st of July at our work we had some free cakes, cookies and fruit in order to thanks us for our good job during the crises season.

- On the 2^nd of July it was an early Birthday celebration of my dear house mate Aya. Her Birthday is actually on the 30^th of July but since she was going back home (Japan) for her Summer vacation she decided to celebrate it before she left. And so we did. There is bar/restaurant not to far from our house and they have this massive backyard, so we grilled some food, ate a lot, played ping pong and other games, the only sad thing was the weather, such a pity, it was grey :( otherwise would have been perfect. Oh I should mention that my house mate Aya, she is a ballet dancer, and so are most of the people that came to her Bday.

June's Resume #7 @ Prague

For those that are new to my Blog I will quickly explain. This year for 9 months I lived in Prague, Czech Republic, and I wanted to document my experience here, but I failed to do regularly so I’m trying to catch up!  Soooo let’s go!

- On the 1^st of June, I went to Plami’s house, a small house gathering, with other girls, and then we went to a bar/club called K.U. – it’s funny ‘cause those are my name´s initials haha- on the 2^nd of June was Plami’s actual Bday, so we did an overnight celebration. I had to leave early, ‘cause I had an early shift on the next day :/. K.U. club is really good, Pepe the Dj of that night, who used to be a colleague of ours, was playing there, the music was great, although the bar didn’t seemed to have much of a dance floor :/ such a pity.

Photos from Plami's flat and K.U. Bar Lounge.

May's Resume #6 @ Prague

For those that are new to my Blog I will quickly explain. This year for 9 months I lived in Prague, Czech Republic, and I wanted to document my experience here, but I failed to do regularly so I’m trying to catch up!  Soooo let’s go!

For the month of May, for the first time on the 9^th of May Plami visited “my flat”. We ate some goody stuff and watched Britain’s Next Top Model.

On the 14^th or 15^th it was my turn to visit Plami’s place, again we ate haha, and sorta watched a movie. We weren’t paying much attention, we were gossiping instead :P.

On the 20^th at night me and Plami had a girls night out with some other 3 girls that join us. We went to La Casa Blu – a South American bar/restaurant - had a drink there, and then went to a club called 2^nd Floor, the music that night was a little better than the first time we went there in March, but still not my cup of tea, and then a “funny” thing started to happen, a guy that was there, that we ended up seeing him on the next 2 clubs. So since me and Plami weren’t  “feeling it”  2^nd Floor we left the other girls and went to Bombay, and danced a bit, and then we saw THAT GUY from 2^nd Floor, he was singing loudly next to our ears >.<. I like Bombay but the dance floor area is sooo freaking small. And then we ended up at Harley’s a Rock type of bar, but still you can dance :P AAAAANNNDDDD who was there? THAT GUUUUYYYY! We felt like we were being stalked, but I guess it was just a massive coincidence. This was the night that I also got burned on my arm with somebody’s cigarette, and also cut my thump finger, for cleaning a table that had a broken glass >.<

Me and Plami.

April's Resume #5 @ Prague

For those that are new to my Blog I will quickly explain. This year for 9 months I lived in Prague, Czech Republic, and I wanted to document my experience here, but I failed to do regularly so I’m trying to catch up!  Soooo let’s go!

In April I started training for another product at my work, in this case on Sales Unit, uuuffff what have I done >.<.

. On the 1st of April - April's Fools Day - I went to a house gathering for a while, that belong to a colleague from work. Small flat looots of people, and smoke in the air. And it also was the night that I had to take off a bracelet that Plami gave me. It's a tradition, you use it during the month of March, and then on the 1st of April you have to take it off and hang on a bush or tree. 

March Resume #4 @ Prague

I haven’t done my Prague Resumes experience in MONTHS! Aaaaaaaah Blasphemy.Soooo let me see if I can catch up from were I stopped. I will try resume it as much as possible. 

. In March, on the 10^th I had the opportunity to film like a publicity video for the company that I work in, BlueLink. I already put the video on my Blog on another post, if you would like to see it CLICK HERE, I’ll be the one girl with the brown skin (XD) black hair, with glasses, with an orange/red shirt speaking in Portuguese. Aaahhhh I’m such a Banana XD, I said “Spectacular” twice -_- my vocabulary kinda went to zero on that interview HAHA… LOOOOSSEERRR. And the shirt that I used for the clip, I had to take it bag to C&A, I bought on the same day as the interview on my way to my job, and when I was putting the shirt on, I noticed a hole on the side -_-, I couldn’t exchange it because that one was the only size S available L.

Mommy Mommy I'm on TV! well... internet :P

Soooooo I'm doing an Internship over here in Prague, for a Company called BlueLink.... aaaaanndd I was invited to participate in a video, like a publicity video, to promote the Company.

Check out the videos if you want. I’ll be the girl speaking in Portuguese named Karen Ussene with a orangy red shirt XD.

Oh geeeZAUS! haha 

"Long" version

BlueLink from Prague Camera on Vimeo.


Short version

BlueLink - Excerpt from Prague Camera on Vimeo.

Videos belongs to BlueLink (http://www.bluelinkservices.com/en.html)

Filmed by : Prague Camera (http://vimeo.com/user4207786)

2011

And the Shopping in Prague continues....

These are a few things I bought during the month of March....

The New Foundation for Max Factor in Brown Hessian 75 (so far so good I haven't used it many times)

My new Pink Jeans from Zara

A simple skinny belt from H&M

Some simple shirts/tops from C&A

H&M Black Sneakers

Aaaaannnddd 4 earings from Terranova

What do you think?

P.S.: Shopping in Prague, it...is...NOT...CHEAP.... even if it at stores like, Zara, C&A, H&M..... it's not extremely expensive.. but still, I have to control myself. God I miss Primark >.< hehe.

Sunday's Weekly Resume #3 @ Prague

Hello everyone,

I haven’t wrote about my experience in Prague for 2 weeks now :/ Yes I haZ failed >.<

But anyways here it goes.

5^th and 6^th of February 2011 – I spent the weekend at home, it was way too cold to go out :/ I think that during this weekend was when I met my roommate’s boyfriend.

7^th of February – Monday morning I went to a place to take care of Transport card, called Open Card. It was easy to find the place, but it wasn't easy to find someone that talked good English lol. I was told that I have to wait 2 weeks for the card. That’s crraazzyyy. Just later on I discovered that I could have had the card on the same day, but have to pay like 250 Korunas for it. Bloody hell!

8^th of February – First day at the internship…. It certainly felt like a first day at school, haha. Didn’t know anyone, I was nervous… all of those stuff of a first day in a new place :P

I was in a room with 7 other new interns, one girl from Bulgaria but she studies in Holland (Plamina a.k.a. Plami), one Finish guy, four French, and one Czech Lady. Our teacher during our training week was Matt, he’s from the U.K. After we were done with the first half of the day, it was time for lunch, for one hour. I was sitting next to Plami, and she asked if I had any planes for lunch and if she could join me, and of course I said yes :P. So we went to Subways - aaahhh wow I missed that place, brings back memories from the U.K. – and we chat a bit, getting to know each other. She a nice gal, she likes Ray William Johnson and How I met your Mother, so she’s a keeper haha ^.^. After lunch, we went back to our training, aloooot of stuff to learn  >.<

9^th/10^th/11^th of February – Still on my training week. I was like Oh God! What did I get myself into. So many abbreviations to learn and little details of rules. I hope I don’t fuck it up BIG TIME! Also during this week of training, we went to the Platform, and got to listen to some calls, so that we could understand more or less what we were gonna do. There were indeed funny situations. Later on the 11^th of February after I left my job, I met up with my friend Jay, I met Jay when I was living and studying as an Erasmus student in Nottingham 2009/10, he was also doing Erasmus over there, I even lived with him plus another girl Zuzana, for a month. It was nice seeing him, I also invited Plami to join us, since she doesn’t know many people yet over here in Prague. We went to like a Coffee Shop/Bar called Duende. After we left I realized that the last time I saw Jay was almost a year ago. He left Nottingham in the 16^th/17^th of February (he was only there for one semester, I stayed for a year).

12^th of February - After I done my shopping during the day, at night I went to meet up with Aya and her Ballet colleagues at a Mexican teamed bar called La Casa Blu. It was good, I had fun over there. It was full of Spanish + South Americans :P  The place was PACKED, like fuuuullllll it was hard to move around haha.

One day I might try over there a Burrito or Taco or Fajita aaaahhhh NACHOS! :P

13^th of February - Typical Sunday, coach potato day, cleaning and washing clothes, re-watch old episodes of How I met your Mother :P. 

14^th of February – Back to work! On Valentine's Day. On this day we were gonna start picking up calls, scared much you ask? Well yes >.< . We were all in one corner of the platform, all the new interns, but our teacher Matt was with us, to help us, whenever we need it. And yeah I screwed up sometimes, when pressing the wrong bottom on the phone haha.

15^th/16^th  of February – Now we were on our own…. well sort of. We still could obviously make question to our group colleagues if we had doubts, and it’s better to ask around, than given the wrong information. I’m the Iberian team (Portuguese+Spanish), all my team mates are nice, and help me whenever they can. I do admit that I still have problems getting use to the system that we have to use, and I need help, like 65% of the time :/.

17^th of February – My day OOOOOFFFFF! WWWWOOOWWW, yeah I stay at home haha, I really need to sleep, my shift is from 8am till 16:30, and I have to wake up at like 6:20am :/ aarrgggh. So I had my mini-spa moments, with the washing the hair, shaving, painting my nails, blah blah blah clean the house, iron my jeans blah blah blah, girly/women stuff.

18^th/19^th – Back to work again. So no Friday night out for me, ‘cause I had to work on Saturday :/ buuuttt on Saturday night I did go out. Went to one of my colleagues house (Blas and Carlos)and we had a gathering over there plus other collegues and their girlfriends lol, eating+drinking. I drank a shot of something called Stara Myslivecka and it has 40% alcohol, holly shit NEVER AGAIN! BLAAAHHHRG, it burned my soul! Then went to like a disco/party, called Piscos Ocucaje. I saw one of my colleagues dancing traditional South American dances, I know was from Peru, the other one I’m don’t sure if it was from Argentina or not, and his surprisingly a good dancer haha, he’s one those guys, he’s so calm, and pacific, laid back, and then you see him on the dance floor, I’m like “Nigga said WWHHAAATTTT!“  haha, it was a nice evening.

20^th – Lazy Sunday, slept ‘till like midday, turned on my computer and I read a message from my mother that she left on my Messenger, saying that an aunt of mine had passed from a heart attack. Even though I only saw this aunt of mine a few times, because she lives in Mozambique, and I only been in Mozambique twice, and the last time I saw her was last December when I was there, I of course cried a bit, because well, if you know me, you’ll know that I’m a easy crier with this type of subjects. I couldn’t stop thinking of my grandmother, this aunt of mine used to leave with her, since like forever.

The rest of my day I spent it at home, with Aya my roommate and her boyfriend, he cooked for us, it was really good :) I saw also a movie with Penélope Cruz “Broken Embraces” it’s better than I thought it would be.

On the 27^th my dear friend Zuzana (that I met her when I was doing Erasmus in Nottingham 2009/10) was in Prague for a weekend, before going to Belgium to do her internship in Brussels, Belgium. We met at Chapeau Rouge her favorite Bar/Club in Prague. It was so nice seeing her again, I never thought it would take so long to see each other again, so we had looooaddss to catch up on, but sooo little time L The next day I had to work in the morning so I couldn’t stay all night. So we talked, drinked, danced, and talked to some French boys.

Well I am off to bed now, gotta get my sleep on, 5 days of work are coming my way >.<.

Have a nice week y’all.

Friday's Weekly Resume #2 @ Prague

Hiya, another week as passed, and some days were more agitated than others.

On the 29^th of January, I went to check out the house I saw on the internet on Friday. So it’s in Prague 6, the building is right next to a Tram and bus Stops, so that way I’m just a few minutes away from the Dejvická Subway/Metro Station. It’s a small apartment on the 4^th Floor, 2 bedrooms, 1 kitchen, 1 toilet room, 1 bathroom. Zuzana is the owner of the apartment, and she shared the flat with Aya. Zuzana is going away for a while for some abroad work, and they were looking for someone to live in the spared room. That’s when I came into the picture, I went there Saturday morning, met Zuzana and Aya, saw the apartment, talked a bit with them, and went back home, and waited for the answer…..

30^th of January – Didn’t do much during the day, I kept looking for other apartments, but no success whatsoever, and I was “praying” that Zuzana and Aya would pick me, cause the house is lovely. Later that day, Zuzana called me, and choose me YYYEEEAAAAHHHHIIIII, I was so happy. *Insert happy dance here* =3 So schedule my moving day for the 2^nd of February. Zuzana even offered to help me, by pick me and my stuff up at my friend’s house.

On the 31th of January and 1^st of February didn’t do much, I stayed at my friends house, and started to pack some things that I previously unpacked, and also distribute the weight, because the apartment is on the 4^th floor…. And there’s no elevator :/

2^nd of February – I had schedule with Zuzana my Landlord, at 9pm that she could pass by my friend’s house, to take me and my stuff to her place…. but then there was a bit of a last minute change of plans. My friend’s fathers decided that he was coming to Prague, and take her home to Slovakia on the 2^nd of Feb, and wanted to leave Prague at 5pm the latest…. My friend was suppose to go back to Slovakia on the 3^rd of Feb.

So I had to call my Landlord, asking if there was any chance that I could move in earlier, if there would be anyone at the flat during the afternoon. Lucky Aya my flatmate, was able to go home for an hour, so that I could move in. So I went by Taxi, there was no way I was gonna carry 50 Kilos (in total) in public transports. Once there Aya was very nice, and helped me carry my stuff aalll thhheee waayyy to the 4^th floor >.< Oh God I died….. ggeeeeezzzz

After resting for a some minutes and catch my breath back, I started unpacking with a big smile on my face :D. I love my new room, I think I like this room more than I like my own bedroom in Portugal haha, I definitely like this bedroom more than the one back in Nottingham.  I passed the rest of the day tidying up the room, and went to bed early, I was so tired, mentally and physically….

3^rd of February – I passed most of the day at home, just finishing some tidying up, and then when I wanted to go out, to buy some food, it started to snoooowwww aalooottt >.< for like 3 hours. After it stopped I went to a close by Supermarket called Billa. And cooked dinner for me and asked Aya if she wanted to join me. Aya is from Japan, she’s a ballet dancer here in Prague. She is very nice and friendly, I am happy to have her as my flatmate. During dinner we got to talk a bit and get to know each other better.

4^th of February – Did my morning shenanigans, and after lunch I went to the City Center, to see where is located the place that I’m going to do my internship. It was easy to find. Got in and talk to one of my Bosses that I’ve been in contact during my process. She is very friendly, and helpful, and she’s from Brazil, so we talked in Portuguese, and she explained to me a bit more what am I going to do there. I am both excited and nervous to start working there… I hope everything goes well.

Have a nice weekend.

xoxo

Oh and here's some pictures of my bedroom ^.^

February...

It's the 1st of February, say wwwhhaaattt :O ... So soon already....

Damn! It's what I always say, since the year 2000 came, times flies... 

My month of January passed like vrrrruummm, and so much happened, the 1st week I was still in Mozambique, then stayed 2 weeks in Portugal, and then rush up to Czech Republic o_O damn!

And now I realise that I'm 2 months and a half of becoming 25 years old, OOOHHH NOOOOOO! A quarter of a Century >.< aaahhh! ggeeeezzzz! 

But what I'm really looking forwards is for SPRING! OH YES! The cold over here is killing me. It's way much colder over here than it was in Nottingham comparing to this time of year to last year, I think. When I was younger I used to looooove Winter, but now I only crave for warm weather :3

xoxo

Picture from my first day in Prague at my friend's house

Friday's Weekly Resume #1 @ Prague

Hi y'all, how are ya? Hopefully good ^^.

This time around I wanna try and "document" my abroad experience every Friday. In 2009 I went to Nottingham for a scholar year, and I planned to Blog and Vlog my experience, but due to some stuff I ended up not doing much. But I will still try to write about my experience in Nottingham, 'cause it was truly Legen...... wait for it...... DARY! :D

Anyways, I'm in Prague now, staying at a friend's house, 'till I can find a place of my own.

So on the 25th of January 2011, Tuesday, my flight left on schedule from Lisbon, Portugal, at 9:10am +/-, first stop was in Budapest, Hungary, and then Prague, Czech Republic, which I arrived at 15:15 local time. Left the airplane, caught my luggage, exchange some money, cause they don't use Euro over here -_- , and requested for a AAA Taxi, to take me to my friends house, there was no way that I was gonna catch a bus with all my heavy luggage XD, oh hell no!

I arrived at my friend's house, lovely house by the way :D and took a shower, eat some dinner, and then we went out... my first contact with Prague's night life, it was really fun.... really XD. We went to my friends' favourite place, the Chapeau Rouge , Bar+Nightclub, and we danced the night away... when we arrived at home, I was DEAD! Extremely tired, 'cause the night before I barely slept - anxiety mode ON - plus the waking up early, the journey, bla bla bla, plus dancing and drinking... yeah I died.

26th of January - We spent most of the day sleeping, recovering from the night before,and then in the afternoon, I left with my friends and they took me to the city center. One, Eva, went to the Library (they are both in Exams season), and the other one, Kamila, took me to Staromestská metro station, where I bought a Vodafone SIM card, and she left me there, and she went to take care of some stuff and then went to meet up with Eva in the Library. 

So I was left alone in Prague's city center :O >.< I didn't went toooo faarrr, it was allready like almost 5pm, so it was dark, I went to a grocery store bought some food, went to KCF's and ate a sandwisch and drank a orange soda called Mirinda. Funny thing, I almost laughed alone at KFC's when I saw that they had Mirinda, 'cause in Portugal I don't think we have this soda, but where I know there IS, it's in Mozambique XD, oohh weelllll. After I left KFC's, I walked for a while, and I was stupidfied by the old building, they are BBEEAAUUUTTIIFFFUULLLL *.* GEEZAUS! Then I managed to go home alone, didn't get lost yyeaaaahhiiii!

27th of January - We basically spent the day at home, the girls studying and me surfing the webs looking for a bedroom to rent. It's not like there isn't rooms to rent, is just hard to match a nice decent house, well located, with a good price. I learnt a few a thing or two with my Erasmus experience in Nottingham, like that I to live too far away from the city center, and analise everything in the house before renting >.< oh boy, you sure can find lots of problems in the house, once you are living there, and also make sure that there is a Supermarket and public transport nearby. We just left the house to go to a close by grocery store to buy some stuff, and I ended up bringing Salt thinking that it was Sugar XD.

28th of January - Morning, them studying, me looking for houses.... went out again, to by food, and I cooked our late lunch haha. Well at least no one died .... yet >.< hehe.

I did manage to find a possible room to rent, although a bit more expensive that I wanted :S but is nice, and I might check it out in person tomorrow, and hopefully seal the deal ^.^. Wish me luck.

Countdown..... to Prague....

This is it y'all >.<
I'm like 7 hours away of going to the airport. My flight is at 9:05am, and arrives at 15:30 +/- in Prague (don't know if that is portuguese time, or Czech time lol).
After alot of fighting with the bags, I think Im able to take everything I need, just hope that the scales at the airport don't mess with me -_- .
According to my Windows Vista weather thingy, it is -1ºC and snowing in Prague bbbrrrrrrrr aaaahhhhh >.< GEEZUS! I might get sick right on the first week >.< lol.
Wish me luck in finding a nice bedroom for myself to stay for the next 7 months *fingers crossed*

Done aaaaand DONE! Prague here I come

On Monday I went shopping with my Mother, for a few little things that I need to take with me to Prague. Next week I'll be moving to Prague, I'm gonna do an internship over there for 7 months. I'm excited and nervous at the same time, I guess is normal right? This will be my first time going to Czech Republic ^^, and I'm lucky to know a few people over there, most of them are people that I met when I was studying in Nottingham 09/10, for my Erasmus year. I know a boy named Jay and a girl named Zuzana, I even got to live with them for a month while in Nottingham, but then shenanigans happened (nothing to do with them) and I have to change places. Also I know Eva, Zuzana's sister, and Kamila, Eva's friend ^^. Also I kinda know a girl named Claudia, she studied @ the same Uni as me in Lisbon, Portugal, the year before me 08/09 she did an Erasmus year in Nottingham, and later on she moved to Prague XD.

So I booked my airplane ticket, and I'm flying on the 25th of January >.< aaaahhh, hope no crazy Winter storm ruins my journey -_-.

It feels so weird, 'cause just like a week ago I came back from Mozambique, and now I'm flying off again. Maybe it's better this way, 'cause probably if I stayed longer over here, I would loose all my PUMPNESS and EXCITEMENT!

Tomorrow I will try and post some of the things that I recently bought :p.

xoxo