Useful (or not) things that you can learn when traveling by airplane

1º - You should never mention that you have excess of lugage. It can happen that the check-in guy pretends that nothing is wrong and you ended up paying no extras.

2º Never, EVER, decide to go to the queue for the metal detector at the time of your gate open. Try to go like AT LEAST half an hour before, or you can end up crying like a baby in front of the security guys so they let you pass in front of everybody so you don’t miss your flight.

3º Crying like a baby is surprisingly a good method to make security pass more items of hand luggage than they should be.

4º When people at the airports say to you "Oh, don't worry, your gate is just right there", don't believe them. For them, just there can be like 400 meters for normal people.

5º People at airports can be very insensible. They will not help you, or even look at you, even if you are in the middle of their ways with your entire luggage spread out on the floor. Nobody cares.

6º Sometimes you can catch a plane, even if it is 5 minutes away from the departure. And instead of being angry with you for delaying the flight, they help you to carry your luggage inside the plane. And when you get there, they even ask a flight attendant to give you a glass of water, because you are out of your breath.
7º There aren't only cute female attendants. There are also veeeeery handsome male flight attendants.

8º Karma really screws you up. When you think you are the best because you were able to catch the plane, some stupid damage in one of the bathrooms of the airplane makes you (and everybody in the plane) sit there and wait AN HOUR AND A HALF.
9º They put Tchaikovsky for people to listen. You’ve got to admit that it is very calming to listen to the Nut Cracker while you are waiting for them to solve their stupid technical problem.

10º If you hate or get scared when flying, try not to show that to the other people. At least not too much. It is embarrassing to be the only person that closes her eyes and grab on to her chair really tight, when we are taking off, while the other passengers look like nothing is happening.

11º Flying alone gets reaaaallly boring. Especially if you have to spend 5 hours on the plane.

12º The plane staff actually thinks that the appropriate shows to distract the passengers during the flight are dog contests, stupid prank shows , mute films and National Geographic documentaries. So long and farewell to the dearest blockbusters.

13º The pilot's English abilities are not so good. If I wasn’t Portuguese, I probably wouldn’t understand what he is trying to say.

14º Meals on board can be surprisingly good.

15º Don’t you ever wear tight shoes. There’s a high probability that your feet will get swollen and you will spend the rest of the trip wishing you could take them off.

16º High heels are also not a good idea, especially if you are carrying too much luggage.

17º If you stay at the window seat, try not to be all the time opening and/or closing it. People at your side can find that extremely annoying.

18º It is nice to take a nap on the trip.

19º Going up is fun. Going down is reeeeeeeaaaly scary. And your ears suffer a lot more.

20º When the plain stops, just stay in your seat, because everybody will stand up at the same time and try to get out of the plane. Be patient, and you will be able to leave without being crushed by some old lady that wants to pass in front of you.

21º In some airports, there are little cars that bring the disabled persons. So if you hear a horn, try to look back to see if it is for you, or they can easily ran over you, or pass really really close to you, and it's not nice.

22º Do not freak out with every sound the plane makes. No, the plane is not falling into pieces, you’re fine. Plaines just do weird noises.


So, I had my first adventure even when I was still back home. It was a good start ;)

So little time, so many things

So we reach the final countdown. five days. time passed so quickly. it seems yesterday I found out I was going to copenhagen. Still kept the messages of my friends and family congratulating me for going to my first choice. Still remember how I felt when I discover where I was going. Can't believe it has almost passed a year. time really does fly.
But now that I am so close of going away, I've been looking even further back. First year at college. High School. Even kindergarden. All of this memories keep constantly flowing into my head, and I find myself missing that times. This nostalgic thoughts will probably travel with me till copenhagen, but I don't care. I like remebering old good times. I'll bring some photographs, that I hope will make me close to the ones I love. Close to what I call home. Maybe I will be able to find another kind of "home"...

In the meanwile, lots of troubles with packing....can't make 5 months weight 20kg!
Still have a lot of things to pack, and don't know how to make them lighter! Any magical formula?

Cannot believe...

....I am one month away from Copenhagen :) YEAHHH

Pieces are coming together :)

After all the stress, after all the worries, after all the misunderstandings and lack of informations, finally the pieces are coming together. I am already enrolled in the courses I will take in Copenhagen Business School, I've enrolled in the Danish Crash Course too, and, I can't believe I'm saying this, have a PLACE TO LIVE!!!! I can't believe that they're still had a place in a student residence, I was sooo happy when I found that! It is a nice price, considering that it is Copenhagen, where things are much pricier than my country, and that I have my own kitchennete and bathroom :) downside: I am going to live near a motorcycle club, they usually make a lor of noise, don't know what kind of ambience I will find there, hope that the place is in a nice neighborhood, but I am kind of afraid...hope that I am wrong!!!Check out the place where I'm going to live for the next 4 months and a half:

Looks good, doesn't it?? :) :)

I've realised things are becoming a reality now. Bought and change the date of my plane ticket. Everything setlled with my home university. Already starting to pack (how am I going to put it all in only 20kg??!!), working things out, making the list of things to do before leaving, and things to take, planing what's left of the vacations...I won't have enough time for all that I wanted to do this Summer!!!

I'm almost a month away from flying out to the world, being a citizen of Europe, knowing so many different places from home!! I am really excited with leaving, but I also now that I will miss everyone terribly. Gladly nowadays we can see each others through things like skype, but it will not be the same thing...maybe I'll convince some of them to visit me ;)

For now, it is everything I have to tell you. I don't know how many of you are reading this blog, probably just my faculty friends :P but it will be nice to come here in a few years to check out what I've said when I was in my twenties eheh :P

On hold

This past month has been crazy! End of the semester, exams, exams, exams, and some (major) complications with my future faculty!!
The exams part was though, but I made it! Three exams in a row, and other two separated from these, but in the end it all end up well :) not as good as I wanted, but I was so tired that all I wanted was to finish everything...
No good news from Copenhagen. Lots of problems when enrolling, as my home university was not in the system. I was sooooooooooo mad!! The worst was that they didn't answer to my e-mails for two days, so when I finally filled the forms there was no place in student residences!!!!!!!!! When they told me this I got really really really MAD!!!

Could not believe in my (bad) luck!! In that moment I hated everyone from that school, and their lack of organization, something I thought it couldn't be possible!! I wanted to go there because there everything works!!! Well, not everything, as I could see...

Now I am waiting to know where I am gonna live when I arrive, only two months away. I can't believe how close am I, time really flies!!

Time for starting to pack things, but most of all, time for party!!!!

SUMMER HOLIDAYS YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!

Denmark isn't so perfect :(

I've gone crazy this week due to many works and presentations, but my future faculty is joking with me!
They changed the registration date from 1st May to 5th, then to 12th, then to 14th, and it's 10pm of Friday, 14th May and I haven't received anything that allows me to enroll in anything!!!
I thought than this only happened in countries like mine :(

Hope they solve the problem quickly, because I'm already tired of passing my days refreshing the stupid webmail page!!!

(not really) The End

Today it finally came to me that there's only one week left until the end of classes.

And so this week we had (sadly) our last Information Systems class :(

I can't believe, this semester is almost over!

Time flies, and final exams are arriving...

Hope I can make everything with good (at least, decent) grades...

Three weeks of insanity are coming soon....

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I want holidays soon!!!

Finally, something I can call a weekend

After some weeks of pure stress and intense study, I have a decent weekend to prepare myself for what hasn't even come yet (exams and final works).

For now, all I want to do is the art of doing nothing ;)

I will think about that later...

Michael Bublé - Lost

Favourite Singer Ever!

So sad that I'm not going to be here in Portugal to see him perform! If I could I would be front row for sure!

(probably one of the few bad things about going to copenhagen...)

:'(

"If I'd only knew

That days were sliping past

That the good things never last

That you were crying"

Enough

Enough of rain, enough of studies, enough of works, enough of presentations, enough of tests, enough of classes, enough of exercises, enough of sleeping pourly, enough of having no life for a whole week, ENOUGH!

I WANT SUN & VACATIONS NOW!

But for that I have to live more 2 whole months of this....