Lisboa for friends II

(Bar at the garden of the olive trees in Centro Cultural de Belém - an institute that combines art exhibitions with music concerts, among other things)

I'm happy

Arrumando as prateleiras

"Estamos condenados a isso senhor, a ficarmos acorrentados ao pêndulo do nosso próprio relógio enlouquecido, sem podermos impedir a sua oscilação?"


"Quando o mundo se encontrava na escuridão e na miséria, podia acreditar-se na perfeição e desejá-la. Mas quando o mundo começou a iluminar-se com a razão e a riqueza, começou a sentir-se uma pequenez como o buraco de uma agulha e isso irritava um mundo que já não tinha vontade de acreditar ou desejar. Bem, eles iriam destruí-lo novamente. Este jardim na Terra, civilizado e conhecedor, iria voltar a ser destruído, para que o Homem pudesse esperar novamente na escuridão."

Um Cântico a Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller Jr. (1959)

Silvia, das ist das Buch - wir haben darüber gesprochen, erinnerst du dich?

Conversas

J: Qual é que achas que é o som da solidão?
A: ... O silêncio incómodo.
J: Para mim o som da solidão são todos os sons que te relembram que estás no vazio - que estás sozinha. Os sons dos teus próprios passos quando percorres uma rua vazia, por exemplo.

Lisboa for friends I

(One of the two bridges that connect Lisboa to the other side of the Tejo - These are photos from the oldest one: Ponte 25 de Abril)

city art - Lisboa

Karneval in Lisboa - am Strand

Für die Franzosen

(Paris überall - gefunden in einer Strasse in Lisboa)

last photo

(I hope to see you soon)

Blurry carnival

Carnaval

Viajei sem ter saído do mesmo sítio, a cidade transforma-se e eu perco-me não sabendo já que rua seguir ou qual o destino das caminhadas intermináveis destes últimos dias.

Today I had to say goodbye for the first time…. And all I could think about was that it is not fair that time goes by so fast, especially when you feel that something is just starting, that is how I feel about by friendship with Pipsa…. It is just starting, and suddenly we will be apart by thousands of kilometres.
I had promised myself that sadness was only allowed in Lisboa, this is my last week here so I should just take the most of it…. But I’m not able to ignore tonight, this was the first of many goodbyes, and yes that makes me sad.
Pipsa, I just want to say that I will be continuing writing in English, that I’m really expecting you in Lisboa, that I will not forget our conversations, specially the last ones, and that this is just the beginning…. It could have been better, we should have had more time to have known each other better… but I’m glad that in the end I can say that I have met you, and that we became friends… it’s not an easy way to begin a friendship, but Erasmus made me a optimistic…. And I’m sure that we will be able to keep it alive.
Have fun travelling! And don’t forget to tell us all about it.

P.S. I loved the dinner today, I'm very happy that you all came!

Unterhaltung

GENERATION ERASMUS

Proprieties: Pharmaceutical of grateful effectiveness in the prevention and the treatment of the shyness, shyness, nationalism, racism, and other wrongs of social order.

Composition: stay in a city of the EU to continue university studies

Indications: it favors the learning of languages, the sociability and the interest for the culture, the tolerance and the feeling of belonging to Europe

Posology: To administer at least once in a lifetime, preferably in young people.

Presentation: stays of 3 to 12 months

Contraindications: not described

Incompatibilities: the sentimental relationship in the country of origin can suffer damages, for what doesn't advice its simultaneous use.

Secondary effects: The mother language can suffer damages, as well as any studied third language (these symptoms disappear when abandoning the treatment); there can be an increase to the attendance to parties, promiscuity, inability of living again with the parents, criticizes of the domestic habit of origin, dependence of the e-mail. Multiplication of payments to Europe 15, travel through Europe to visit the friends, idealization of the medication.

Cautions: in some cases it was described dependence to the treatment and depression when abandoning him; if it is this way, to administer periodic trips in the city Erasmus until the dependence attenuated.

Warning: in some cases the patient had stayed in the welcome country; sometimes permanently.

Intoxication: the intoxication is rare, given its high therapeutic index. Prescription is not needed.

(I translated it from a Spanish text, so it’s no perfect, but still the idea was not lost)

London Fashion Week

Do designer britânico Philip Treacy

Finally :)

And finally it’s over…. The struggling with German Law Books has come to an End…
Let the Party begin!