2012 m. rugsėjo 18 d., antradienis

Excitement

Now, when there's only a little time left before my farewell, i try to see, experience and try as many things as i can. I even went to dahlia's fest with my mother and grandmother.

It was beautiful, really. Sunny day, relatives in good mood and lots of color. Sometimes i wish i would live in a house surrounded by nature like lady growing these dahlias. Of course it would be nice to have interner, car and live not too far away from city to socialize sometimes. Now sometimes i feel i spend not enough time with myself as stress of city life really gets me.
We later had some dinner in Kernavė and i'm happy my grandmother enjoyed a day as she's usually kinda sad because of life as it is. There's little cafe in a place of old watermill and since it was very sunny and nice day only one not so nice thing was guy there constantly talking on his phone. I simply don't understand people talking on phones in cafes, restaurants, public transport or other places where others hear it. It makes me want to tell them 'We are not interested!'.
I started going to italian lectures on tuesday and thursday. Well, today i obviously forgot. I believe it's always useful to speak more than one language and italian has been very easy so far. Lectures is quite good and patient, lectures are also not boring, so i'm enjoying it so far. After every lesson we go to some bar for drinnk and talk. One time we went to my favourite, Plum bum, so i took some pictures of walls, just to remember how it was. Iw ill miss that place and good estonian cided, nice atmosphere and always fun crowd.
Last weekend there were various events in the city - fair of cultures, European heritage days, excursions for students ("Know the city you study in") and so on. Fair of cultures seemed quite boring for my liking. There's always same people selling their stuff and there were not many cultures - lithuanian, latvian, belarussian and few others. Mostly they were noticeable by selling their food. However it was really nice to see city so lively. My mom enjoyed herself in some excursions organised for heritage days as well. Those were mostly educational but as she loves nature and history like me, she came very happy. And even brought book from book fair which was happening that weekend as well.
Maybe i'm becoming quite picky, but i found excursion for students in old town quite boring. We visited only some sights around old town and guide became angry or more likely annoyed every time while asked something, especially of person who asked something knew more than her. I actually expected to see more than just cathedral, Snt. Anne's church, Literatų street and some other streets. I guided some acquitances around old town and i believe even i was better than our guide Aldona Mikulionienė. At least i like people asking questions. Actually she really reminded me one acquitance from Estonia who gets angry every time when somebody tries to ask him something or express their opinion. He's nice guy though and that guide didn't appear as nice person at all. But maybe it's fault of menopause.
On saturday there were burning of hue statues. Quite nice actually. I realised i would miss such events when i will be far away. There were four signs to be burned and event was quite well organised. Later i went to meet some friends i will miss but maybe they would visit me.



2012 m. rugsėjo 5 d., trečiadienis

Something good

Now when summer is over it easier to look ahead. I made a plan to emigrateto Czech republic, Brno and started looking for a job. I always liked Czech republic even if i was there only fo a week two years ago as nature is beautiful there, people are very helpful and friendly, so i believve i will feel good there. And also earn some money.
I'm so excited about leaving, although i still have some worries. What about health insurance? Water (is it clean fro the tap)? Transport? And many more. One thing i'm not worried about is people there. I believe i would feel good there.
After i posted some messages, first answer came after few hours. People were offering help searching for job, looking for flat share and other help.
On monday when it was first day of school in most of educational institutions i met great girl who came to Vilnius to work. And she's willing to learn our language, which is really nice as most of 'it's socheap there' foreigners working or just getting wasted in Vilnius don't even try to learn language no matter how long they stay as 'english always works'. And being disrespectful they even wonder why locals don't really like foreigners :D Once i heard about english guy who came to Vilnius and spoke russian and later was surprised why people were not super friendly as 'i spoke their language' (yes, some people are THAT stupid).
So before leaving i'm doing some research and trying to learn at least basics. Language does not seem hard, actually quite similar to russian and polish. I'm able to understand russian so some phrases looked familiar, just with lithuanin letters (š,č and so).