Peanutbutter Cookies :)

I miss my little sorella Allison Jones and I remember that she loves peanutbutter and she was often making peanutbutter cookies in the college. So, I decided to make them too. I found a simple recipe on the internet and started the baking process. It was rather easy and the result was delicious...some of the cookies were darker than aimed...but still good :) I only have pictures from the preparation process and they are all gone by now...

German sandals

Oh yeah, I got my very first real German shoes...don't worry I am not turning German...never ever...but I thought that they look nice and my feet like them a lot...so I got new good quality shoes :)

Collage

I am sometimes very badly homesick, it's usually not that much about home but rather about the culture and the slightly different way of living...So, I decided to get a little bit the Czech mood and culture and politics and everything into our everyday lives by creating a collage from Czech magazines. You can see quite a few Czech famous and sometimes even smart and very clever people - there are Zdenek Sverak, two presidents, Svejk,...etc. By now it's hanged in our living room and like to look at it and think about home...
Last, please excuse the very bad quality of the picture.

Belgium - Brussels, Brugge and the ocean :)

I was supposed to go to visit Vanessa in Brussels and go to the 5th Czech Street Party there...but I went there with Viktor and we indeed went to the Street Party and because we were there by car we managed to travel a bit around Belgium too...very nice weekend.
We got there Friday late afternoon/evening and rushed to the city to enjoy all the Czechs there and Chinaski playing their famous songs...it was nice, we got lots of stickers saying "today, I am Czech". It was great to see all the random people having the stickers on them.
On Saturday, we travelled a bit further to see Brugge. It's a lovely town, reminded me of Venice with all the canals and turists around. Later on the day we got to the seaside to Oostende. It would be awsome town...but the wind there was simply terrible. I could not even stand still how strong it was.
Sunday was in the name of Brussels - we explored the city very well with Viktor thanks to the brilliant Guidebook which I got from my dad before leaving home in August 2010. Brussels is nice,...but there is something missing, I cannot really say what it is, but there is definitely lack of it... However, we had a nice time there. Viktor had had some troubles with opening a bottle of red wine, consequently I had troubles getting rid of the red stains on his light-blue T-shirt. Thanks Vanessa that we could stay at your place...and thanks Viktor for driving all the time and cooking the delicious broccoli soup :)

oh yes, this is my beloved boyfriend


The three of us


Chinaski


beautiful detail in Brugge

more pictures here

Sicily - escape from Aachen

The day after my last exam we took a plane and went to Trapani/Sicily/. It was quite an adventure to get there, but we managed and enjoyed 6 days in the beautiful south! It was nicely warm there, people were friendly, food was delicious, water was clean as the cleanest thing in the world...not very crowded beaches. We went to see the most beautiful beach in Italy - San Vito Lo Capo which I would say was absolute niceness. I wish we would go back at some point :) We also visited a mediaval village called Erice which is place on the top of a rather high mountain, so we had to go there by cableway which was really cool :) Up there on the mountain it was considerably cold, so we did not stay there for long. Overall, it was nice relax. I should thank Viktor that he was not too annoying as I had expected...he dislikes sea, sun and on the top of everything he's not really a fan of Italy. Anyway, we managed to have a good time in Sicilia.

Erice

Viktor was bored...this is the result.

Viktor's favourite...he said: "That's so pretty, you don't look like you there...."

more pictures here

Bubble making

So, this actually happened before I wrote my last exams but it took my sometime to get the photos from the camera...In short, we wanted to go to a park and read/study there...but once we got there it started raining quite heavily, so we stayed in front of one shop's roof to keep ourselves at least little bit dry. Although it was still raining we started making lovely bubbles and tried to capture their beauty by a camera. It was a great time, lots of fun :)

can you see the rain?

Last day of the first year

Hello again! It seems that I could be done with the first year of university. Though, it is not really sure yet cos I am not really sure about my last exams...they were not student-friendly. Anyway, it is over and on the last day right after I got home from Meersen, the place where we write our exams, I had a tiny breakdown...it felt really weird, a little bit of sadness surrounded me for the afternoon. I cannot explain it, maybe the feeling that the school was over for a moment at least, the bad feeling about the exam... However, some friends came in the evening and we played cards and "The World" game. It was great fun and I do miss those moments...

Hike in Belgium

We had holidays yesterday and I wanted to do something cool and special...however most of my friends were badly lazy, so we ended up going in three... me, Viktor and Simon. I did not mind being in boy's company...since I am starting to realize that in many aspects boys are better to have as friends than girls...especially here. We walked around a dam in Belgium in rather beautiful nature...we made almost 15 km and were really tired...at least I was tired cos I am not doing any sport recently... It was relaxing and sometimes quite fun. Simon picking beatles, Viktor pretending to be an owl...and then both of them playing the grass... :) Oh well, guys never stop to be kids and I like it :)

serious sewing - dress making

So, yeah, I made a dress...It was not so hard as it seems cos I got my mum's old dress with brown, beige and red geometric pattern and a simple brown top from H&M.... Then, I simply cut the dress to get only the skirt part from it and I cut the top as well...and then I put them together and a simply summer dress was born :) I don't have a picture yet...I will try to get some during the week.

I am getting old...or 21st B-day :)

My B-day get together was great fun. I invited friends from school and from my German class...we ended up talking till 3 am or so...which is not very common for me...but I enjoyed it sooo much :) I made this quiz about the Czech Rep. and it was quite fun to hear people wondering who could had been the first Czech president... Moreover, I made my friends to dress up,..so we got really brilliant Ferda Mravenec, Víla Amálka, Večerníček, Krteček, etc. coming... Very nice evening indeed. On the top of everything, it finally gave me the feeling that I do have friends here :)

Kelli Jelly Fish in Aachen

Kelli, my best Estonian friend, came to visit me in Aachen. She was on her way to Duino. It felt really great to have Kelli here, we talked about everything. She managed to express that she dislikes Aachen...anyway, we had a good time. And I was happy to see her and be with her again. I am going to see her soon again because she should come to my hometown in early June. Looking forward to it!