Packing

The constant problem of packing. I've recently seen videos about the contents of other peoples luggage and am baffled by them. Do you really need a tennis bracket and your own plates when you go on a trip? I say that you really just need your passport, a method of getting money, as in a credit card, and the clothes you're wearing. After you realise this packing becomes really easy. I just went on a 3 week holiday to Finland and packed my stuff in 20 minutes. These minutes also contained washing the dishes and turning the flat upside down while searching for my finnish SIM-card. Okay I admin I had pre-packed my Christmas gifts beforehand while wrapping them.

There also had to be space for the stuff I still had to bring here from Finland that didn't fit at the time I moved here. Have I mentioned that everything I currently own fits in a car? And I mean really everything I own. It's very refreshing to get rid of stuff you kind of don't want to get rid of and when you have space to store them, don't get rid of. Now I'm free to move wherever I want without any constraints. Luckily for my current well being I'm happy to live here in Aberdeen, I'm not sure if I had the strength to move again in such a short time.

I don't know who would buy just one of these

Oh yeah, the packing. Do you really need five shoes, twelve dresses, a coffee maker, your Ming dynasty porcelain elephant and clean underwear while travelling? Well clean underwear I do get, but you don't really need extra shoes or dresses do you? It's a luxury that you can live without. You totally can survive with just the shoes you're wearing while travelling. Maybe one extra pair, be it shoes for night-life or hiking, but that's it. A few shirts or something else for the upper body, a few skirts/trousers/jeans for the bottom part and you're fine for outfits. On longer trips you can wash them and they'll last a lifetime. Underwear and socks too, they don't even take that much space.

Even if you forget everything, you won't die. I assure you you can buy everything you need from our destination as well. There are people living there too, and they've survived living there as you'll probably see when arriving there. So means of getting money, and a passport for getting into the country is everything you need. Don't stress about what to pack, just pack something and it's fine.

Random pictures continue. Here's my understanding of Europe.

Guess I'll have to travel more to get it right the next time :D Although I'm not sure that it'd help since I didn't really know where I live. I don't really know why Tiia and Tiia were laughing so hard when they watched me draw this out. Sadly it's also in Finnish since we were in Finland at the time I drew this.

Next time I'll be travelling with just hand luggage. I'm sick of hauling a suitcase around with me, and I won't be able to leave it behind locked doors while I'm supposed to be flying either. Cheaper too. The picture below is the travelling we did during the Christmas holidays. Tell me in the comments about your packing practises! A quick tip for flying that I learned this time: your luggage weight is rounded down, if you're allowed a 15kg bag, it can weigh 15.9kg and you don't have to pay any extra.

Fresh minced beef

I'm a real fresher now, feels a bit weird. Am I really here and am I really studying abroad in a university? Judging by what's been going on these past weeks, it does seem so.

Freshers week was, well, fresh. I talked to new people which was a bit scary, got my student ID, went to see what societies do, got drunk, really drunk (think 4‰) and went to see free movies. I'm quite satisfied with it even though I felt like a piece of minced beef after the night out. I didn't drink alcohol after that for a couple of weeks.

Student life has begun, we're eating macaroni and pizza while skipping lectures. That's what students do in university, right?

We've settled in fine in our new flat. Apart from the woodlice and GIANT spiders it's a nice flat. Haven't had any problems with our new flatmate Kata either, she's straightforward, clean and tries her best to understand us. Of course it might be that it's just the surface and I've managed to bribe her grudges quiet with cider, food and favors with computer support and furniture. Speaking of that, I managed to put together a wardrobe without any instructions or previous knowledge what it should even look like! Seems like my furniture building skills are the best in this house, so I'm the one who does them. The wardrobe in the picture unfortunately isn't the previous one, this one is mine current one, hopefully I'll be able to fill it with beautiful clothes in the near future, right now I've managed to save the front image of it by filling it with Tiia's ball dresses :D



























Shopping time! Student loan yay! I bought a custom laptop (nicknamed it the Lecture Killer) from utopiacomputers that is yet to arrive. It's pretty powerful and can run the latest games too so I don't have to use the bulky desktop for my gaming needs anymore. Speaking of which, after a break I've managed to find some time to play again. Guild Wars 2 has been on my screen these past days and the halloween event in there just started. We grinded a few achievements with a friend today and I'm progressing quite well. Leveled my second character to 80 and got the cutest armor ever for it. Oh, and got my ass handed to me in World versus World.



Other shopping news: new glasses, a corset and skirts. Lots of skirts, pleated ones. I'll probably make a whole new post about my clothes shopping in the near future. This all made possible by the fact that my money well aka an empty house is now gone and my financial problems aren't so acute anymore!