Life is not a fairy tale...but maybe ?

So what can I say- life is unexpected. I went for my Erasmus 2 years ago, never had boyfriend (always wanted to have) so nobody was keeping me here in Poland. So I applied for this super life experienced called Erasmus and I was accepted! From the waiting list but still (they say stupid people got luck). So one of the broad experiences I was expecting was being surrounded by huge sort of hot guys from many countries. Yes, I'm being very straight in here, because why to lie or hide something? -Life is life and we are all human :P

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My first weeks I spent on recognizing new places, taking part in Orientation Week, getting to know with my buddy girl (who is genuinely helpful and amazing, but about it in another post). I also started my "hunting" -cause why not to have fun, hun?

Well, I didn't enjoy any hunting at all, cause in the 3rd week I got into something bigger...

So it was wednesday-I remember it well, cause I got all my wednesdays free while studying in ISCTE (that's how I settled my shedule xD ). I went to studying room, but not to study-it was the place that internet was the fastest. Actually I would call it more social room, cause there is not that much ambiance to study-lot of people talking, laughting, joking, sometimes dancing, checking facebook-and things like that. Just some bunch of geeks are always with their computers open (lets hope on some study pages).

Where is me in this story? Well, as I said I went there because of the speed of internet. I wanted to send some new pics to my friends and family so it would take ages with slow internet of residence where I was living at that time. I've chosen some pics and wanted to upload them to picasa, but unfortunately somehow it became full. So I instantly, without hesitating deleted some old pics (cause what bad can happen? )-unfortunatelly at that time I didn't know that I not only deleted them from Picasa but also from my hard disk! OMG-I got tears in my eyes at that moment trying to not panic, but if it was not enough-my computer starts to go crazy! And by crazy I mean REALLY BAD! What you and everybody in the studying room could hear was terrible hard noise of my laptop yelling at me! (I must have gotten some virus or something, cause my RAM slowed down, or even stopped working). To stop this show I took the cable out of the plug but didn't work, so I covered my computer with my body trying to shut it up! BAM! Eventually I took all the batery off to make it quiet, but it already changed my future...

On the next table there were sitting geeks-some of the even hot ones :D Actually I spotted them in the beggining with a glance of my eye, but I was too occupied with my computer to even smile to them. So one of them seeing all this desperate situation asked me (first I didn't understand him cause he was talking portuguese) if I need some help. Well, normally as an independent and self-sufficient girl I would say no and I would find a solution but this time was the limit of my powers... So I agreed on that and invited to sit next to him I was trying to be helped by him. It turned out that I happened on the table occupied with students of engineery of telecomunication -that's why I thought I was saved. But not at all...

My geek not only couldn`t even install normal antivirus programme for me but also didn`t know what to do to get back my photos. Eventually I helped myself out, but we started to see each other. And now it last over 2 years... Was a fairy tale for first 4 months -the time I was studying in Lisbon-I felt like a princess taken from the castle (residence) by a prince (geek in this case). We visited many places together, we met our families and celebrated all the most important holidays during the year... Unfortunately it's not going so good right now, and I can't find a solution. I'm here in Poland-he is there- in Portugal. There is too many variables...

Since this entry is titled "Erasmus tips" it has to include some tip. And indeed there is one here for you: DO NOT FALL IN LOVE being Erasmus! It gonna be hard and believe me-3000 km isn`t piece of cake (you have to include the price of the flight tickets which are not that cheap on the way Portugal-Poland. Also you have to spend even more the time on writing messages that you would spend being together and talking face to face).

So think it up before it is too late!

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