The Second Week in Porto

Day 8 - Not a very exciting day. Slept until late and carried out a few more uni tasks. In the evening my new housemates and I sat and had a few drinks before heading out to a bar to drink a bit more. I have never been this drunk before. wow. 

Day 9 - This was the day of the BBQ. After doing practically nothing all day, at 7pm it was time for cooking your own food on the BBQ and drinking some more. I stuck to sangría. Hmm.. At around 1pm, it was time to go to our first Erasmus party. However, after standing in the queue for half an hour without moving we made the group decision to leave and head to a bar instead!!!

Day 10 -  Started the same as it had done since I moved in here. Charlotte runs into my room and shouts morning!!!! I don't need an alarm. After I sat up in bed and tried to open my eyes she came back in my room and said that we were going to the beach and I had to get ready now. I didn't have a choice in the matter. The beach was nice. Lovely and warm and the sea was.. well not as cold as France but with huge waves. I have never swallowed that much sea water. Bleugh. We finished the day with a trip to Pizza Hut. The entire menu was in English. Great.

Day 11 - Monday morning and my first full Portuguese lecture was thrust upon me. The lecturer started by making everyone introduce themselves to the class.. Everyone was fine except for the tense looking English crew at the back, frantically trying to remember the first lesson of Portuguese.. "Hello my name is.. I am from.. studying... and I don't speak much Portuguese." However, after mastering the introduction and the lecturer pointing out that English people are generally quite poor at languages, we were just left to listen to two hours of Portuguese. I wrote a page of scrambled notes on Positivism.

That night we celebrated our achievements at Riveira. A regular Monday night affair with buckets of alcohol at €5 a time.. buy one get one free of course. €2.50 for what's in the picture below and it went straight to my head.

Day 12 - I am finally home. Portugal I love you. Primark in Portugal :D YAY So I kept seeing Primark bags around and then made it my mission to find it. So i went on google and found it instantly so it wasn't a very long mission but nevertheless successful.  After thinking about trying a Portuguese Francesinha for tea, me and Charlotte both had burgers and finished the meal with a huge waffle with ice cream and lots of other wonderful things. When I asked for mine "sem chantilly" I was looked at as if I was English or something and he asked twice to make sure it was really what I wanted. Yes. I do not want cream!

In the evening it was time to say farewell to a new friend. It was Kamil's last night and everyone loves him! We had a lecture in the morning but thought it best we stay to say goodbye.. it's only fair.

Day 13 - Weekly shop was in order for this day after missing another lecture. For tea I had chicken in roasted veg and potatos. Yumm. Then after planning to head to the cinema we all suddenly decided that we'd do this the next day and that we'd actually go to our fav bar Piolho and fill up on Capirinhas. My housemates all went home and left me there with my ex housemates whom I'd bumped into. It was a nice evening but drinking every night had definitely started to take its toll.

Day 14 - Did absolutely nothing today but talk to my lovely housemates. Everyone is really nice and it's like one huge family. There's going to be a house meeting soon and outdoor weekends including paintballing and canoeing to come :)

In other news I made a cracking bolognaise!! I was well impressed!!! Maybe I should study though..