S. goes to see the Sporting football game.

coming a bit delayed, but here is the story of me going to see the Sporting football match this monday @ the green stadium in Lisboa. yes, yes, its Football, and yes, i am surprised myself, as all in all football is far away from my sports of interest and i tend to think that the one and half hours could be spent way much more useful, watching the ice hockey for example.

however miracles happen or more like unexpected happenings, and that`s what really happened this monday. By morning this monday i could not imagine finding myself in fan zone of the Sporting match among couple of hundreds of the crazy team fans and actually watching the match. Thanks to the recently made friends, the big fans of the green team aka Sporting, i ended up at the game.

I was told, Portuguese policemen are handsome.

Volta a Portugal, here it is.

Sunday at some time i had this spontaneous idea, to go for the coffee at Lisboa. one, two and i was on the way from Sintra to Lisboa. Big was my surprise when reaching the city center, i found that some of the streets are closed for the cars. However there were no signs of what was happening. After a walk, a coffee and enyoing the sun, the empty streets got crowded by the bikers passing by, as it turned out to be the part of Volta a Portugal happening this last weekend in very city center of Lisboa.

What about police you may ask? well, this all started the first time when we went out this last friday, as somehow the topic of the handsome policemen appeared and the point of that Portuguese policemen are handsome than any other European country have them started. If thinking back in times, then till sunday i had not really and encounter or did not pay any attention, whatsoever, as policemen in latvia...well, ok that`s another topic, sure not for now and sure some of them are handsome too, however not the most of them...

the best Pasteis de Nata @Belem and that`s not it

@Belem, S. having sardinhas.

its time to sneak back in this last saturday and to see the small happenings, as i`d like to keep notes, afterall  it is fun returning months after and see the nice memories noted and not slipping my mind and left in past. other than i hope its also small inspirations for you or at least making some fun times reading.

after the friday night out at Lisboa (the part i don`t remember the name. names just don`t stick at my head) with my colleagues and friends of theirs, as noted here earlier then saturday afternoon i was running late for the meeting with one of the old friends of mine. As it turns out that we not only met for the first time in other side of Europe aka Greece, but we have been living abroad for the same couple of countries, and we even managed to share our ways in life of Barcelona times, and afterall i am here now at her home country. Small world it is, once again approved.

Taguspark Adventure

@Taguspark, the big science center,
where dolphins hang in trees

before its fallen out of my head and left behind, i wanted to share the nice adventure i got myself into yesterday as i think it has to be noted after-all.

couple a weeks ago just short after getting to move to Lisboa, and discovering the amount of free time, i had the thought of maybe finding some new free time hobby to do or small part time kind of job, as being in EVS there is no legal option of being employed even if its part time or anyhow... so yeah, it all came to that one of the days browsing the expat site, there was the add of looking for different native language speakers to translate from english to their language just pieces of short text for the online game. As with short search i found no latvian translations for the site, i decided to give a try and offer my skills and knowledge. E-mail sent...couple of days passed...no reply...couple of more days passed...i already left this behind and it was forgotten.

However with the other culture and with the august vacation times, like two weeks or so passed and my mailbox received an e-mail of stating that they would like to offer me translation/community manager internship within their company, i should just send the CV and then they will see of the interview time.

27 things for 27 days.

Thank you for the lovely present, now its up on my wall

Seems that I don`t know how to not be busy with things and doing something. And whenever I come to the empty time situations i get myself out of usual good mood.  Since before coming to Portugal the first month were supposedly to be more get to know the new life and less actions, and the first week went good for me, all in all when everything`s new for you, its exciting. then when you discover that the new gets old and then the spare time appears...it takes some time to figure out how to spend it so i am happy after all.

And as first set but then changed, pfff and the end of august plans just disappeared i have the empty spot to fill in...so here may be useful the 27 things for 27 days that i got before arrival here... Have to admit, that some of them ill already tried and it was amazing...pastels de Nata could be part of my every morning habits unless they would not be so unhealty after all, however superdelicious. Seen couple of beaches, still looking for my the perfect one. Oh what else, i tried to give a try to listen Fado, but seems that it may not be my thing...will check back with this, to be sure i like it or not. Other than everything, friends, do you have something else to add in this list on what to see in spare time?

Atē amanhā,
S.

Beach, sun & trying to catch the Cascais Festival.

@Somewhere walking by the coast from Cascais

when having time for yourself, it just passes...pfff...and its gone. So that what happen during the weekend while aside sleeping there happen sleeping in beach, sightseeing, coffeeing... as saturday after waking up with the "lovely" mosquito bite next to my eye and managing to look more or less as i usually use to look, i found myself not staying home and going to take a rest in beach. As maybe the murphy was there on saturday, then at first the weather seemed not that encouraging to even think of beach, however i decided to give a try, so i found myself on going to nearest spot aka Sintra beach and if first thinking of Praia Grande i ended up at Praia das Marcas (sorry for not using the superb signs for the c and a letters, just don`t have them on my latvian keyboard). And if maybe not with a good start of day, all in all the beach time turned to be just perfect, as the sun was there, great waves were there and i got my spot at beach just before it got really crowdy. So catching up with summer and tan went very well. oh, right thanks to my current work in Dinamo, i also had "the best" read - getting to understand and know of European Court of Human Rights, which after all was a nice piece to get to know. But thats enough of the saturday...as during the weekend there was also a sunday, the first day of week for portuguse, still holiday.

Latvia & Serbia = Portugal

Can you solve the equation? Seems a bit silly, isn`t it? Well, actually everything is simple as it is.

As you already know then since couple of weeks I work for Dinamo, and yes, its right, I am not the only one here. Here are two of us doing their EVS projects - me from Latvia and Olja from Serbia, so that sums up for our new adventures in Portugal. So you got the answer, not that difficult after all.