A Big Catch Up!

Week 8
Day 50 - I managed to get up early and go to my lecture in the morning. Out of 6 English people who were supposed to be there, I was the only one! This week kicked off with a big party to celebrate 3 of my housemates' birthdays. We had a big house party and didn't stop til around 5am.

Day 51 - nothing... ermm.. sat erm.. cleaned lol

Day 52 - I stayed in bed until it was time to get Mel from the airport. When on the metro, it suddenly decided that it was no longer going to the airport but to somewhere else instead. Oh joy. Everyone in panic about missing their flights etc. Brilliant! Oh and I was late picking Mel up! Eventually we had a walk around, bought some alcohol and had a Halloween Party :)

Day 53 - After waking up late afternoon, we decided to get the metro to the beach. When I got caught illegally we decided to come home. In the end we just went out, had a nice meal and then got drunk again!

Day 54 - Again we did nothing until it was time to get Mel back to the airport! She came all the way to Portugal, drank a lot and slept most of the time!

Day 55 - I actually managed to get up in time for my 8.30am lecture today. However, this was all I managed to do! In the evening the house was cooked a nice meal by Thaddeus and then the day of travelling began!

Day 56 - At 4.30am My Taxi arrived to take me to the airport. When I got there, not even the passport control men had arrived yet! Oh, and when I got to England Mel hadn't even got up yet to give me a lift (I got a Mcdonalds for it though) so I ended up getting a coach to London and then the Underground to my train to Nottingham and then I got a bus to Gedling. That's Taxi, Plane, Coach, Train, Bus. wow :)

When I got to my front door I rang the bell and Kirsty came to answer. However, she couldn't actually open the door and so it all became very anti-climatic while she searched for a key. We went up to Grandad's and I just sat there waiting for when Mum came home from work! At first she thought it was a normal scene until she realised that I shouldn't be in the country! Oh and I was reunited with my son. See below!

Weeks 9 to 13!
So I haven't even looked at my blog since I went home! Since going home lots of things have happened so here's a quick summary of the best / the things I can remember!

I had a lovely evening with Aurélie, her boyfriend Hugo and André where French was the language of choice. Yes, still no Portuguese but it was great for my French!

Breiner had its first official party! The theme was Kitsch.. whatever that is. We each made a profit of around €20 each which was nice. However, I was selling cocktails for the first 2 hours.. mainly to myself.. and so after finishing work all I can remember is waking up with Charlotte taking my shoes off!

Another great night out was had at Armazém do Chá, a nice bar downstairs and great club upstairs with different rooms. We started in a place across the road and were raving to classic tunes such as Come on Eileen and Eye of the Tiger. Everyone always manages to get sufficiently drunk in this place and ends up being chucked out! Another night was had here with Francesca's home friends. I was ill but forced to come out as Francesca had told her friends how fun I was!

I had a trip to the cinema with Ali and Francesca to see the new Harry Potter film. It was the day of the strike and so first of all we had to wait for the metro. The metro came at the time the film started which was a problem. 1.because we missed the film and 2. because the next one started at midnight and there was no way of getting home! Despite this we still went ahead with it! We had to wait 3 hours for the film and when it had finished we had to walk around Porto in the freezing cold until we found a taxi. I enjoyed it!

My room has been completely revamped! The shelves are now near the door so, should someone like Charlotte walk in without knocking, I have time to not be naked. I also spent an entire night making a collage from magazines to cover the back of the shelves :)

We had a leaving meal for the Belgians. It was really nice, although I'm not exactly sure what it was! Then everyone went out although I was pulled away to go and get ice cream with André and old Breiner friends. While we were out we bumped into Suzi and Joao!!! I haven't seen them in so long! We had a really good night!

The next day I got up and went out for breakfast and then spent the rest of the day walking around Porto and taking photos. It was the 11th December and the temperature outside was 20 degrees! I had a walk down Santa Caterina, a big shopping place, and then walked down to Aliados and up.. I have no idea where I went but I just kept walking and ended up at Palácio de Cristal where I took lots of photos of the gardens. I met so many English families on holiday! When I got back everyone was sat outside enjoying the weather and I returned to my post at the nosey window to spy on them all!

That evening was the Breiner Sexy Christmas party. Unfortunately, I was very ill but I had bought an outfit and needed to show it off so I popped down for half an hour and rocked it out on the dance floor with a cuppa! The party was a huge success with everyone earning €71 profit!!

There are plenty of things I've missed! Nights in Contagiate, random fun times, girly meals, cinema trips, December beach trips, Primark occasions, Artemis in the kitchen and much, much more but you would be reading for hours!