Bulgaria, Istanbul, etc...

Well well well, it's been a long time since last time. I'm quite bad at updating here... I'm terribly sorry.

I can tell that the driver's licence test is delayed until August, because my driver teacher didn't want me to do the test when I was up in north...
But now I got time to practice enough before the test. If I fail, I will have to redo both the driving test and the theory test..... so I have to make it.



Now I'm in Bulgaria with two friends. We've been here since 14th June. We've done many things together and it's been fun! (^^)
This weekend, we were travelling to Istanbul with a charter bus. The guide is a friend of my dad's. The trip to Istanbul wasn't good, since the guide was talking non-stop during the most of the trip. But the city itself was so awesome!!
The streets were really good, no holes or anything bad like in Bulgaria, no garbage on the street sides. But the people on the streets were like 90% men or more...!!

We went to the biggest tourist attractions together with the charter group and the bus. That was good because otherwise, you would never be able to go to the places on your own. The city is incredibly big and you get lost even if you have a map. But I'll definitely visit the city again one day, because three days were too short to be there.

Something we weren't prepared for was how many people were talking to us on the streets. My dad and cousins told us that people can come and talk with us, wants us to come for a coffee or something, mostly dangerous situations and so on. But that people would talk to us every single meter was unexpectedly.
But we prepared us the second time we were going out in the city, and it felt much better. Kinda good too, because you don't get the attention in other countries, but here people were talking all the time. Maybe because we were looking differently, or maybe because we were girls from somewhere else.

It was a great weekend and I'm happy we choose to go, even if there were times you wanted to smash something (when we travelled with the bus and not getting any rest because the guide was talking nonstop). But it was a good introduction of the city. Now we'll know what we want to do when we go there next time (^_^)

Now we got only two days left in Bulgaria, after that, a long and boring summer will continue, since I don't have any summer job or going elsewhere...

I almost forgot. No, I DID forget.

May month came so fast, I forgot to turn the next page of GLAY calendar... *shamed*

It's not that I've been busy or something. It's been the opposite, I've got nothing to do. The practices have been few, and I wasn't scheduled to coach all the few practices either. So it's been boring. Every time I step on the ice, I've got my head full of exercises I want to try, and when I've got too many in my head, some good ones gets forgotten. Yes, I know, I can write them down, the problem is, when I invent them in my head, I often do other things, or are in a different place, or listen to music. So I just don't have the chance to write them down. But also because I'm lazy to write them down... But I bet that if I wrote down each exercise I come up with, I would have at least a half notebook full of them.

I'm also waiting for the vacation I'm gonna go to with two friends. I don't know why, but I've been longing to go to that vacation now. Maybe because I'm bored? Or maybe because I just want to get somewhere else? I don't know. But there's sure something.

Well, honestly I don't have much more to write. So I think I'll stop here.

My Prince

sick after a wonderful time

So, it was a great ice show the 2nd April. The international skaters, most of them, skated two programs. It was awesome!

And the day after, I got to meet Stéphane Lambiel! I was so nervous all the time, but when we sat in the car and was heading to the airport, it felt natural. The talking went quite smooth, and my english was surprisingly well. He talks good too, in a nice tempo. I couldn't ask him so many things, because the conversation didn't go that way... But watching him all the way to the airport was just so nice. I had a great time, and I won't forget that moment for a looong time.
He's really a prince charming, and I wish we had more time to chat.

Now I'm sick, because my brother have been sick for a long time, and he's been coughing all over the place for weeks! And when I stopped the nervous feeling about the meeting and stuff, the virus got hold on me.... So I've been almost knocked out today. Not much fever, slighly throat ache, but it's irritating. I can't do proper things, but I don't get much better by lying down all the time. So I've been watching "Hotaru no Hikari" a bit, mailing and stuff, but it's not getting better anyway. Now I'm just wishing that the virus gets out of me, as soon as possible....
I was planning to go to the city today to help a friend, but geez, that didn't work out at all...

Not an April's Fool.

So, this is for real.
I'm going to meet Stéphane Lambiel in person.
Yes, I'm trying to write this without getting too hyped, 'cause then I'll write too weird things.

One friend said she's going to drive Stéphane to the airport the day after the ice show. I asked if I could ride with her, and she said yes! So I'll meet him in person, go to the airport together and all the time I'll be able to talk to him, if I have my senses on the right side so to say. I haven't thought of what to talk with him, and I don't know if I want to give a small gift to him that day or on the ice show when it's his actual birthday. And I don't have much to give. The thing is, he's travelling so much now, and I know he don't have much space left for any gifts or so, so it shouldn't be too big in size.
Ah....I really have to think of something. Because tomorrow is the ice show!

What to wear?
Ok, I have to walk the dog, then I'll continue to think.

PS. And this is not an April's fool. This is for real, even if I still can't believe it.

Daisuke daisuki! :D

I AM SO HAPPY!!!

Greatly done, Takahashi Daisuke! You deserve the gold medal more than anyone at this moment, you deserved it at the Olympics too, but here you convinced everyone.

He's amazing and he will always be. One of the few skaters that really touches one right away. He's the same "type" as Alexei Yagudin, every performance struck into the heart. So much emotions, so much strenght and beauty, they show us the whole figure skating. Nothing is missing out, it's perfect. It's beyond anything any other sports can show us.

I mean, wtf?! Quad-flip?! hello...am I missing something..?? He did quad-flip!!! It wasn't completely clear, but he did a quad-flip, during a competition! First skater to do a different quad besides toeloop and salchow. Amazing.
Seeing the judges details, the judges downgraded it, but they put it as a quad-flip.
Means, one day we'll see this man do a clear quad-flip. *eyes wide open*

He's also got level 4 for all spins and step sequences. Besides that, lots of plus!

(The photo shows his previous free skating costume, he changed it for the Olympics...dunno why, I liked this one better than what he weared tonight.)


And our Adrian Schultheiss. Great performance. He's done better before, but this was also great. I mean, he was 7th only in free skating! Made him 9th place overall. Means 2 skaters from Sweden next year! Wohooo!
He did a great quad-toe. And most of the elements he got plus points. It's awesome. I'm so proud! And he's probably really happy too!


I wanted to watch Javier Fernandez and Florent Amodio, but I missed them... But Michal Brezina was 3rd place in free skating! He became 4th place overall. He's also awesome! I hope the coach will pull out more of the coreography from him next time. He's a great skater but I think he has more to show us, more of the passion-side of the skating.

I have to mention, Kevin van der Perren made quad-toe-triple-toe-triple-toe combination, the base value is 17.80..!! And he also got plus, so overall only that combination gave him 19.00 points..!! omg... not bad..!

Happy Birthday Alexei!

Happy Birthday Alexei!! \(^O^)/
I hope you'll having a great day!

ONE OK ROCK has announced that they'll releasing their 4th album 2010.06.09!! I'm so excited and I can't wait!!