Dance of the Dawn, it’s been a pleasure

Okay, time to update this thing a little bit. So all the exams are over as of two weeks now, and I’ve been bored to death most of the time. The only things that brought a little life in our daily routine was me almost drowning in the pool the other day, and FINALLY going to Devil’s Bridge yesterday. Just to clarify about the first, it wasn’t that bad, I just went (or was pushed by some people!) underwater without holding my breath and swallowed too much water. But after 2 minutes of coughing everything was okay. As for Devil’s Bridge, I wanted to visit the place even before I ever came to Aber, and it was great fun indeed. After arriving, our first try to find the place resulted in us walking the wrong way for about 10 minutes before we realised it. Here I would like to thank the boys for this lovely opportunity. After taking the right path we finally found the famous three bridges, and the stairs leading down to the river and the Devil’s cauldron underneath them. After considerable amount of picture taking and goofing around, we headed up. There was another path leading to the waterfalls, but the gate required 2 x 1 pound to enter, and we didn’t have any coins left. We even had to squeeze by two at a time to enter the gate to the bridges, since we had only 2 coins of 1 pound. So we decided we’ll visit the waterfalls another time, there is a train going from Aber to the bridges anyway.
What else, what else… I started reading “The Picture of Dorian Gray” because it’s my best friend’s favourite book, and having not read it is a huge crime for the literature world (N.B. – I’m pretty sure it’s your favourite book, but if I’m mistaken, sorry!). After all, this is Oscar Wilde we’re talking about here! Speaking of writing, I’ve come up with…. nothing. :D But don’t worry, I’m sure the muse will strike me hard soon.
3 days left till we move from our lovely student house and go to another one for the summer. I’ll really miss the view, but I’ll sure as hell not miss the damn hill leading to it! On the one hand, I feel really fucked up that I’m stuck here for the whole summer, but on the other – I’ll at least miss the unbelievable heat that hits Bulgaria at this time of the year.
I think that’s all for now, expect next blogging…. not anytime soon! :D

Snakes on a plane?

Turbulence, my dear friends, is a very nasty thing. After more than 10 flights I thought I’ve overcome my fear of flying – but yesterday’s flight made sure that won’t happen for a very long time. The weather was very nice on taking off, the wind wasn’t that strong, but even when we were still on the track, the plane was going from left to right with full speed. The situation in the air wasn’t much nicer, it took approximately 20 min for the plane to normalize, during which time some people almost peed their pants (I’m not saying any names). On the other side, I think I took it a little more serious than I should have, because the old man next to me was sitting completely calm and reading the magazine…. while I was about to break the seat handles! Either that, or he didn’t care if we crash or not – he’s lived his life after all. That’s all nice and smooth, grandpa, but I (just decided) I wanna live! Anyway, apart from all the shaking on taking off and landing, the rest of the journey back to Aber was completely normal – for the first time. No missed trains, no delayed trains, no need to sleep on a bench – that’s so poetic I’m gonna drop a tear.
Four beautiful exams lie ahead of me and I should really get on revising because I decided I don’t like failing. Then a summer full of looking for a job and… looking for a job. It’s all nice and swell given that we still don’t have a place to stay. However, I’ve adopted a new tactic called “positive thinking” according to which I have to think everything will work out. And if it doesn’t, we’ll be positively sleeping in the park.
On another positive side, Joe hasn’t come up with anything new, but seeing the clouds from above was one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen and I hope it would give me something to write about. If not, again, I’ll be positively doing nothing. Bye-bye now, I’m going to revise positively.