SpECiAL dEDiCaTiOn

On the upcoming Thursday, June 29, two of my very special friends Ági and Palmir will celebrate the I-was-born-then day!

And as I don't count on getting in touch with modern technologies during the next week:

Bees are singing, the sun is going mad, flowers sway in the rythm of the wind and all caus you're having birthday! ;)

Thousands of kisses and hugs!
And don't forget to say thanks from me to your mums, they did a tremendously good work! ;)
Love you guys..

Me vs 79 999 other people :)

I'm sorry for the lack of posts last days but I've been pretty busy (just like always lately).
Beware: This post might get pretty long!!

Sooo (love that word, note to myself: should make a list of favourite english words!) the day of my kicking-out of my beloved*slash*cosy*slash*MINE and ONLY MINE room came today. Getting all of your things out of drawers, shelves and every other imaginable place, placing it on the bed in a huge pile, scratching thoroughly made elements of interrior off the walls brought me very close to another emotional breakdown. So many memories came up in my mind that I had totally forgotten about and couldn't stop thinking about some that I will never ever forget...
My horror grew even bigger as I realised that no way I'm going to fit all that in my suitcases, it was and will be a real struggle. I bet I'll end up screaming at the lady from our national airline company about her "you know, only 20 kg are allowed". Bloody *%#@$&, let me just get home!!! grrr...
Anyway, it was so much fun ending the night smelling and feeling like a cloud of chemicals, not feeling hands or legs anymore but having an almost perfectly clean hospital-like environment, as well as finishing the kitchen-duty week. Excitement, excitement! (Inspection of the room went well.)

Now I have moved to "Casa del Mette Urth", next door :)))

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Have almost packed my backpack to be ready heading for the biggest adventure of this summer - the Roskilde festival!!! Enjoy a lot of music, camp and have as much fun as possible.
The slogan of the next week: Bye bye civilisation, hello party!

I'm so much looking forward to seeing my very favourites from the 160 bands line up - Martha Wainwright and Rufus Wainwright, Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins, Editors, Sigur Rós, Kashmir.
As well as The Strokes, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Morrissey, Godlfrapp, Scissor Sisters, Phoenix, Franz Ferdinand, Placebo, Arctic Monkeys and many, many more.

And if you see me somewhere in Roskilde sleeping in a corner with a beer bottle in my hand and telling how much I love the whole world, you're just having optical illusions! ;)

See you soon folks, take good care of yourself! And never stop looking/searching for those tiny little things that can make you happy at least for a second.

PS. Posting might be delayed for more than a week!

These are the hangover days

Yesterday evening was quite nice (with few very weird and lil embarassing moments, but still fun) and couldn't be different - having my great next-door neighbour Mette as my company!

We went to see bonfires on the beach (actually you can see fume from one of them in the picture above), in between had some ice cream and Belgium waffles; to my surprise, I managed to bargain totally unintentionally at one of those really nice booths that are like heaven-sent when you have had too many drinks and need some protein and carbohydrate to keep the evening running. The guy was so devasteted about me being unable to decide whether to take a saussage or not that he gave it away for half of the price :) Bless him!

Anyway, little later we joined a party in one of the bars in the University, having beer and returning way after dawn.

Remembering that it's a holiday today as well back home, accordingly here's a song by an acknowledged Latvian post-folk group called Iļģi.

Iļģi - Šķērsu dienu saule teka [link expired]

Today is the day aka Līgo, Līgo!

The feeling of happiness evolves! *big, big smile*
Alanis (the one who's Morissette) was so right about the irony of life - it does sneak up on you so many times and then whooom! one moment..and all you can do is smile afterwards..

In other news: have been quite busy today - biking around the town, shopping (not fun at all if the holes in your budget are growing bigger and bigger and therefore it's a tough mission impossible to keep yourself off from the temptation of buying anything that comes in the sight) and now being bloody tired.

But I don't care at all, because today is the The Midsummer night (Līgo vakars), my very favourite Latvian holiday!!!

A bit about the tradition from back home:

Many ancient traditions that have disappeared in Europe are alive and well in Latvia. Especially Midsummer Night (June 23). This 2-day celebration of the summer solstice is the biggest and most beloved holiday in Latvia.

Latvia's Midsummer night celebration is called Jāņi (specifically 23 June - Jāņu diena) in Latvian, and it is the one night of the year that you must never sleep and have to wait for the sunrise. Most activities are outside and center around a huge bonfire. Girls pick meadow flowers to make wreaths for their hair, while men named Jānis get a bushy crown of oak leaves around their heads.

Jānis is the most popular male name in Latvia and comparable to 'John'. Traditionally, people in the countryside made their own special cheese and beer for the festivities and went from home to home, sharing their goodies and singing traditional songs. They'd gather around the bonfire to sing special 'Līgo' songs that can only be sung on this night. Several thousand songs sing about Saule (Sun), the sky son Jānis, the hosts of each farmstead - "mother" and "father" of Midsummer, and the Jānis children - the celebrants who go from farm to farm singing and bringing blessings with their songs, picking Jāņi-herbs along the road. Every phase of the celebration, each situation and its characteristics are sung about.

Although the sun sets briefly, it doesn't get dark and everyone must be awake to greet the rising sun in the morning. A naked romp into the nearest lake or river is a must for men - and the women who cheer them on. Young couples Like to go into the forest and search for the Legendary and mythical fern blossom (which, according to legend, opens its magic golden flower only on Midsummer Eve). Or so they say. And when you greet the morning sun, you have to wash your face in the grass's morning dew, which on Jāņi morning is said to have particularly beneficial properties.

That's it in general, I'm off to have some dinner and then go and see how the Danish people celebrate the Midsummer night.

Drink beer, eat cumin cheese and drive safely back home! See you soon!

Recap

Positive thinking works!
wHooraaayy!!! :)))))
*jump a bit around*
Buzzzzz.... (isn't the bee on the left gorgeous? I wish I had drawn it)



Plus: feels like music sharing time!
Here enjoy! Röyksopp - Sparks [link expired]

Not again...

Pardon, I'll allow myself the freedom to whine a bit again, it's my blog I can write whatever I want, right?!

And to keep the blogging going up-to-date at the pace of at least one post per day - summary of today's events:

It went pretty well: cycling around the city, shopping etc. etc. The weather was quite nice as well, keeping the positive non-worrying attitude. But then the evening came and really, I screwed everything up again. Being in the wrong place and wrong time plus too many expectations (and believe me I'm trying very hard to have none).

I was told to enjoy the last weeks I'm spending in Denmark, therefore from tomorrow on I promiss to

1. be positive about everything
2. not care so much about these little things that can fuck up your mood
3. try thinking as less as possible (that's the main cause of all misery)
4. ...(maybe later on I'll come up with somethging more)...

I wonder how long I can hold to that...
Anyway, take care you lovely people!

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Somedays you just wish there was a thunderstorm that would sweep away all the heaviness that drags you down without any reason. (Though I'm really terrified by them at night.)

It's really hot outside, well, ok maybe not THAT hot, but for Danish standards it is! Even though, I've seen the sun only few times today.

The last couple of days inclination of being in solitude is stronger than any hints by the common sense to get out of my room and be social. Seems like I've lost the ground under my feet on which I was so firmly standing before, and I don't really understand why...

In addition, my mind is generating freaky nightmares about diverse situations that take place back home, wouldn't say it feels great..

Things you can be busy with thanks to luggage weight restrictions on planes

Ladies and Gentlemen, meet my Tower of Pisa!

Made entirely from study materials collected during the spring semester, thoroughly printed while preparing for exams and put as much effort to tear them into tiny pieces for the sake of the environment and more importantly - space in my potentially overweighted suitcase!

So, I didn't go to the beach today (maybe tomorrow if the weather includes more sunbeams) and spent most of the day wondering how much a person can collect any kind of stuff over a particular period of time...

Oh, completely forgot! Finally I managed to get myself to book a ticket for the flight back home. The date is set then! *sigh*

That's me soooo into it! :)

..woke up with a song playing on my mind..

It's somewhat between early and not-so-early hour of the morning.
Your eyes are glued together and you're trying hard to get through the mist of the nightmares that leave that creepy feeling of being too realistic, or maybe it was just the movie you were watching til 3 am (Girl, Interrupted - great acting by Winona Rider, Angelina Jolie (!) and the rest of the crew). And then you realise you've been silently humming to a haunting melody that has randomly appeared on your mind:

hey, when she sings
when she sings
when she sings like she runs
moves like she runs
hey, when she moves
when she moves
when she moves like she runs
moves like she runs

Star Witness by Neko Case....beaauutifulll!

Finally you're awake and feel ready to face the world or at least look in the mirror.
BUT! Shish! The realisation of the fact that you have to leave the place you have called "home" for, oh so long, in two weeks and got to book a plane ticket asap, hits hard!

Well...good times are good only 'cause they don't last forever, bla bla bla...as if it helps..
I should go to the beach & later sort the big pile of mp3s lying around on my laptop to keep my thoughts busy with something different than the upper mentioned issues.

Have a nice day!

A little awkward intro

So, hello to you who has stumbled across my new-made blog!
I've been planning to start blogging since don't-remember-how-long-ago, but never found the courage and time to start (crappy, crappy excuses! I know!)...until now.

Anyway, the place of origin of my wacky being is in the North-Eastern part of Europe, a place that to my surprise is getting more and more known among people I have met while occasionally traveling around Europe. Partly because of the flock of British "tourists" in search of cheap beer and other entertainment, our joining to the European Union or hopefully mostly 'caus of the beautiful nature we have and the fact that anywhere you go you can find or meet at least one of my countrymen! Not to tense you nerves any longer - it's Latvia!

Even though my heart belongs to that particular part of the world, it happens frequently that the feeling of getting away, discovering new things and seeing the rest of the world with my own eyes overwhelms. And so I packed my belongings, stepped into a plane and headed to Denmark to be a part of the amazing bunch of exchange students that have been living and studying in Denmark for the last 4 months.

I'm not good in writing intros at all, and I warn you! I get carried away with writing senseless things pretty easily! ;)

No matter how, this blog will mainly be about my ordniary daily life stuffed with sappy/wacky/melancholic and otherways not-so-funny (did I tell you that I've got a weird sense of humor?) thoughts, bits and pieces of music, literature and who knows what else...