Holy Week Vacation in Alicante

Hello guys, it's been a long time to write here. I was spending the first week of the Holy Week in Alicante with my friends. The road to Alicante was so long journey, as you can see at this map, from Bilbao it takes considerable time. This time it took almost 10 hours, I guess, I'm not able to remember exactly how long because I spent most of time sleeping on the bus to kill the time. 

We departed early in the morning and arrived in the evening in Alicante safely. It was the first time to be in there for me, but I didn't receive any special impression from the center because it was no more than normal that I can imagine in any city.  Anyway, as soon as arrived we went to the train station to pick up the cousin of Eider, one of my friend who has a chale near a beach. Then took a tram to the Av.Naciones, where we stayed during vacation. 

The first day we didn't do anything because we arrived late, had to unpack our baggages, prepared dinner and took a rest. The next morning we went to buy some foodstuffs to Mercadona which is a big supermarket chain in Alicante (maybe in other cities too, but I've never seen it before in Bilbao or in Salamanca) and has lots of cheap and fresh products. We spent almost 80 euros to buy stuffs, beers, coke and wine for Kalimotxo, turky, cheese, bread, potato chips, chocolate icecream.... and more and more. Every time I tell this to my friends (especially to guys) they say "Why did you need so much food?". Who cares? You never understand. We were 4 girls, we need things to satiate our stomach and our mouth. We need more things to have fun than you guys! 

Anyway, all we did during vacation is Eating, Drinking, Taking a nap, Watching series (especially How I Met Your Mother and the Simpsons), and when it wasn't raining we went to the beach and did sunbathing. It was the perfect weather to tan! Besides, in order not to make the bikini marks, we took off bras and it made me feel so free. If I had been in Korea I'd never have done that, owing to the people who take your pics with Wide-Angle Lens Digital SLR Camara and upload them online. They're so annoying. In Busan, we have many  beaches where a lot of people come, and there are several guys who are taking bikini girl pictures without permission. So we need some guards to get rid of them from our vacation. 

After all I could enjoy the sunbathing enough and got light brown skin that I always wanted to have, although for some people I still look yellow or little bit white.

As we were 4 girls, the one who feel like cooking prepared plates every time we ate. Once I made Japchae, one of my favorite Korean food which consist of transparent noodles, soybean sauce, sesame oil, meat and vegetables. But sadly we didn't have all of these ingredients, and Ainhoa doesn't like soybean sauce. So I made it in informal way and the result was totally SUCKS! It wasn't even close to the original. Even the noodle looked like worms, because it originally has color grey. I tried everything to make it look better but without soybean sauce I couldn't handle on it at all. I guess it was hard enough for my poor friends to eat it, even I doubted if I could finish my plate. 

And when it was raining, we just kept eating and drinking the most of time, and when we weren't doing that we stuck on the sofa watching series or girl's movies whole day eating popcorn or potato chips, drinking kalimotxo or beer also. Sometimes we started to drink from 3 or 4 p.m and got drunk. It was amazing we still could be hungry and thirsty with all the food and beer that we had taken before. The most surprising fact is knowing we were full enough we didn't stop to, because we were in the middle of VACATIONS!

And guess how many movies and series we've watched! We've finished the all season of 'How I met your mother', two season of 'The Simpsons', 'Sex and the City', some Spanish TV series and several movies. Here is the list of the movies we watched. 

Bridget Jones's Diary 1,2

Sex and the City

The Jane Austen Book Club

Saving Grace

Thank you for smoking

El Crimen Ferpecto (Spanish movie)

Cafe Solo o Con Ellas

Tesis

And from that, as I couldn't sleep well at night I watched more movies alone. Actually, I don't like girl's movies at all, especially about romance, love, sort of those ticklish things. But I didn't know why because I didn't use to watch them, but scary, thriller, action and SF are my favorites. When I was suffering from insomnia I used to watch horror movies such as Scream to take a deep sleep. Anyway when we were watching some girl's movies I realized the reason why I didn't like them at all, even why I hate them. It's because they hurt my feeling! Every time I saw a lovely couple in the movie I had to say "That's really bad lie, totally shit because it doesn't exist in the real world!". Oh poor me, it really hurt my heart to see a love story, indeed. I felt like throwing the remote to the TV even though the film was blowing my friend's mind. 

But except the movie part the vacation was perfect! I really had needed to disconnect myself from the real world, escape from everything that made my shoulder heavy. And as the result of the travel I'm full recharged, even I have 3 more days till the course starts. I've back to Bilbao 2 days before and during  two days I didn't do anything. I'm still on VACATIONS!

Here are some pics taken in Alicante.

In the beach where we went when the weather was nice!

When we went to watch the football match of Copa del Rey between Barca and R.Madrid. The madrilenos won the game and I got so angry with it, but the next morning after heard the news that S.Ramos broke the trophy it really made me LMAO.

I was preparing Japchae.

We went out to have some Tapas.

In the swimming pool of urbanization.

Before got drunk and after. Or already got drunk and turned off?

One day before the last day, on the way home from the supermarket.

The last day, waiting tram to go to the bus station. 

It was nice trip indeed. 

Fall in love with Falling in love

It may have been two or three weeks ago. I was having dinner with some friends at my house. Suddenly, we started to talk about how we feel about our life at the moment, and I found that I was surprisingly satisfied with my 24-year-old life. There was just one thing that I felt a bit miserable, I haven't been in love. 

If someone ask me how it's possible, I don't know the answer. Maybe it's because I'm too realistic. I don't basically understand what the other feel about LOVE. I'm just eager to know about it, wonder how it does work... So far I met several guys who fell in love with me, all the time this happened to me I couldn't understand them, because I wasn't aware of any connection between us. I didn't even noticed what I was doing to make them confused, to feel as if they were falling in love with me (frankly, I didn't do anything, was just being myself as always). By the way, when someone told me "I think I'm falling in love with you" it was really a big shock to me and made me want to escape. Because I just thought he was my friend, no more than that.  

If I write my so-called "love story", I can summarize it like this, in same plot. 

A guy tells me that he falls in love with me.

I don't understand why.

He asks me to be his girlfriend.

I warn him that he should be careful with that because he doesn't know me at all, and I'm not as good with the matter of relationship as he thinks. 

He tells me he doesn't care, and asks me again to be his girlfriend.

I warn him again, but he doesn't listen to me.

I accept the SUGGESTION.

He starts to be heartbroken, owing to the fact that I'm not a kind of girl that he have imagined before, and starts to ask me how I feel about our relationship.

I try to PAY more ATTENTION to him.

He tells me that I don't love him.

I can't deny it, keep silence because I don't know what to say. 

He gets hurt.

I tell him that he should find other girl who is adequate for him. 

He waits for me to change, and I wait for him to admit the real "me".

He leaves me saying that I'm a kind of cold heart, or that he doesn't want to bother me anymore. 

I smile, telling him that he will be happier than now with the other person. 

The relation finishes. 

As the result of this, I've been hesitating to meet someone, as I don't wanna get someone hurt anymore.. actually it hurts me more. They started to love me, with the image of mine that they had created on their own, and as I was so different from that image they were being disappointed with me, got hurt themselves and finally left me, or I made them leave me because I couldn't stand it either. 

Anyway, so far I wans't able to be in love by lots of facts, and as time goes by I am being eager to experience what love is, how it makes me feel. It's very curious when I think about some of my friends who keep their relationship for 7 years or more than that. How can I describe this feeling? Curiosity? Envy? 

One told me, "It's better not to know about what love is, than to get injured by being left when love finishes." He may be right, but I don't think so. Now what I need is falling in love with somebody, even though sometimes it makes me cry all night, I wanna feel my heart beats thick toward someone who I love so much and who makes me shiver when I think just his name. ......It sounds bit stupid, indeed.

So far, I was pessimistic enough with the matter of that feeling so called "LOVE", so always tried to deny it. However, I've been changed. It happened suddenly. One day I realized that the life is too short to hide one's own feeling about the other, it seemed wasting time. (And the world will terminate in 2012, we're in hurry!) Since then, I demonstrate immediately to the others what I feel instead of keep quite, without any hesitation or embellishment. It costs a lot for me, but I keep trying. And I'm sure someday I will find my love in this way.

Love and Peace for me! 

Sala - wait for it - manca!

Last weekend I traveled to Salamanca with one of my friend. It was the first time to be back to there since when I left the city, September 2009. At that moment I was so fed up with my life in there. Actually, I wasn't doing anything, just going out to  uncontrollable parties, having crazy night drinking tequila with my classmates until I was drunken, dancing, and every time after coming back home there was no one, no single meaningful thing to be left beside me. So I decided to leave the city, and headed to Dublin, Ireland. 

Anyway, before going back to Salamanca, I was so depressed by lots of thinkings, even though I was eager to be back there and have fun at the same time. Who knew what I was thinking? Even I didn't know exactly what was happening to me. It was about everything that I got when I was living in Salamanca. It was all about my friends who are already back to their country and don't live in that city any more, about the old roads on which I used to take a walk with them, about the time that we had fun together and never gonna come back again. Especially, the memory with 'S', it really bothered me a lot. Every corner that I found on the way home in Salamanca, there was him, and were all his steps and his laughter toward my house in which I lived.

For this reason I hesitated to go out and didn't know what to do when I arrived there, but soon, I decided to forget it and went out with the friends of my friend's, then I passed some crazy night as before, dancing, drinking.... but every time when I came back to the house where I stayed, I felt so lonely. I couldn't handle on it. Even when I wake up in the morning, I was so sad because of the fact that I was alone in the house. Besides, when I walked down the road alone to meet my friend some guys (so called "Viejos verdes" o "Jovenes verdes" ) stood in my way and called me "China", suggesting me to go their house to "have lunch with him". It made the situation worse. As the result of that, I totally hated to be alone and told my friend that I wanted to join with them, although they didn't pay any single piece of attention to me.

Um, at last I had a fun time, it's also long story so I won't mention it here, makes me tired already. After all, it's worth enough to have been back to Salamanca, despite of all the happens, even I wrote a song.

By the way, this is the unique picture that I took in Salamanca. It was taken by Maria Jose, who taught me Spanish since when I arrived in Salamanca until when I left the city. We spent a day together, it was really nice. She told me lots of things that I won't never forget. And gave me a peace telling me when I felt lonely or wanted to escape from something, I could visit her any weekend, and she would be waiting for me in Salamanca. What a lovely life I have! I love Salamanca!