I am just about to head down to the bus station with a girl I met last night, Mel, from Australia, so I don't have too much time here. We're catching a bus from Porto down to Lisbon together since we're both staying at the same hostel down there today.
I promise and swear to all that is swearable to that I will post pictures and videos when I get down to Lisbon. The schedule that I have been on the last week has been the most insanely go, go, go schedule I may have ever had. Most days I would be up at 8 and get back and have a "free night" starting around midnight (I suppose freedom really isn't free?) I am now on my own schedule (even slept in 'til 9 today!!) and will be able to do what I'm best at - philosophizing, pontificating, shooting the proverbial breeze, and telling you what I'm up to.
Yesterday while at the Yellow House hostel in Porto I walked into the kitchen with my laptop to get a better wifi signal and a group of Australian girls were sitting around the table drinking beers and shooting the breeze. I grabbed a drink and my guitar and sat down with them. A few hours later we were going downtown Porto for drinks where the kids from Universedade do Porto were out and about in their traditional academic dress. Apparently they are just starting their school year because it was "freshman introduction week" so there was plenty of crazy drinking games and such. My favorite had to be the girls who ran up to our table with a word search put it down and in a frenzy grabbed all of us and presumably asked us to help her. The word search was finished in under 2 minutes between the 5 or 6 of us and just as fast as she had come she was gone. I didn't recognize any of the words that we found and I don't believe that she recognized at any point that none of us spoke any Portuguese.
My second favorite was most likely the girls dressed as the Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles. This wouldn't have been so hilarious if other people were dressed up in costumes but the only other
dress out of the ordinary were some of the hats that the freshman had to wear and the traditional academic dress that the seniors were wearing. The only English they seemed to speak was the names of the turtles. Their costumes were pretty bad and the weapons that they were carrying didn't match up with the weapons that each respective turtle carried in the cartoon. Classic.
I also tried a proper B52 last night (good call Mo.) I'm not sure if it's the same in the States but here it is coffee liqueur, whiskey (I think?) and then mint liqueur layered. The mint liqueur, being on top, is lit on fire and you put a straw in the bottom and suck until you get to the fire. It's pretty cool because the shot goes from cold to hot at the end and you don't even drink any fire!! I need to scoot off to the bus now but I'll definitely update you all on the past week in 4 or 5 hours when I get settled in Lisbon. 'Til then,
Miles.
I promise and swear to all that is swearable to that I will post pictures and videos when I get down to Lisbon. The schedule that I have been on the last week has been the most insanely go, go, go schedule I may have ever had. Most days I would be up at 8 and get back and have a "free night" starting around midnight (I suppose freedom really isn't free?) I am now on my own schedule (even slept in 'til 9 today!!) and will be able to do what I'm best at - philosophizing, pontificating, shooting the proverbial breeze, and telling you what I'm up to.
Yesterday while at the Yellow House hostel in Porto I walked into the kitchen with my laptop to get a better wifi signal and a group of Australian girls were sitting around the table drinking beers and shooting the breeze. I grabbed a drink and my guitar and sat down with them. A few hours later we were going downtown Porto for drinks where the kids from Universedade do Porto were out and about in their traditional academic dress. Apparently they are just starting their school year because it was "freshman introduction week" so there was plenty of crazy drinking games and such. My favorite had to be the girls who ran up to our table with a word search put it down and in a frenzy grabbed all of us and presumably asked us to help her. The word search was finished in under 2 minutes between the 5 or 6 of us and just as fast as she had come she was gone. I didn't recognize any of the words that we found and I don't believe that she recognized at any point that none of us spoke any Portuguese.
My second favorite was most likely the girls dressed as the Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles. This wouldn't have been so hilarious if other people were dressed up in costumes but the only other
dress out of the ordinary were some of the hats that the freshman had to wear and the traditional academic dress that the seniors were wearing. The only English they seemed to speak was the names of the turtles. Their costumes were pretty bad and the weapons that they were carrying didn't match up with the weapons that each respective turtle carried in the cartoon. Classic.I also tried a proper B52 last night (good call Mo.) I'm not sure if it's the same in the States but here it is coffee liqueur, whiskey (I think?) and then mint liqueur layered. The mint liqueur, being on top, is lit on fire and you put a straw in the bottom and suck until you get to the fire. It's pretty cool because the shot goes from cold to hot at the end and you don't even drink any fire!! I need to scoot off to the bus now but I'll definitely update you all on the past week in 4 or 5 hours when I get settled in Lisbon. 'Til then,
Miles.
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