#abroadlife

[lablondetraveler]

Welcome to my travel blog!👋 I will be posting on here and updating you guys about my experiences as a program assistant in Valencia, Spain this summer. I wanted a creative way to document and share my experiences so I figured, why not make a blog?🤷🏼‍♀️ I have never done anything like this before, so I’m excited to try it out! Feel free to comment, ask questions and reach out to me about anything. 😊

[ladouceurdegaya]

Evening lecture

[lthirteenismyluckynumberl]

september.

I have never been far away from my family and friends and especially not for a such a long time. I could have went to Great Britain, since it is very close, but as usually I wanted more. So here I was, after 16 months of planning and wondering, finally on my way to a place I have never been, a work place I was not familiar with, an apartment and roommates I have never seen. 

I always thought I would feel anxious and nervous when the day arrived, but the complete opposite was the case. And even after my family had left me alone at the airport, I felt peaceful. Not even the 22 hours of travelling and being alone with my own thoughts changed that feeling. I was excited to see more of the world. 

Turned out my roommates were two girls from Germany, which made it way easier to feel home. The jet-lag was not as bad either and since work did not start for another week, I had plenty of time to get used to the nine-hour time difference. During the first week I had to start from the scratch, therefore I was going to different stores a lot, buying everything I needed. I also explored the city a little bit, but was not really able to do touristy things. It was feeling like a dream and I enjoyed every second of it. 

And then the first work day came and I started to become nervous. I have never really worked full-time. Sure, I did some internships, but it was always something in my comfort zone and just for a short period. This was something big. Six months. Tourism. English.  

To be honest, the first two works were pretty tiring. It was so much input in such a short period of time. I did not get the chance to breathe. The third week was the scariest week though. It was the week I was officially on my own. The intern who taught me everything was leaving and everything she did was going to be my job. It was challenging, but still so much fun. I met a lot of great people. Some of them I would already call friends!

I was lucky enough to get an intern spot in a great company with awesome people. The apartment I live in feels like home and my roommates are nice. And the most important thing is that Vancouver is everything I have wished for and more. 

one month done - five more to go!

[lovelybrockohurn]

[yt00ka00]

Feeling bad as always. God, looks like it's never will ended.

Feel bad both physically and emotionally.

Can't even describe and explained that.

Only one thing gives me hope. I'm finally desided, that I will go to Korea. Only one thing is left - money! Hahaha. I'm saving now. Hope few months and I can go!

I know one cool website - workaway.info and there is a lot of volunteer opportunities for foreign people. I know people who tried this in Korea and everything was fine. Want to try too.

I work now as social media manager, but not lots of money in Russia (especially if you live not in Moscow). If you live in Europe, USA or another quite wealth country you will be shocked that average salary in Russia is ~300-500$ 🙄😔 We are huge country, with huge natural resources, gas and oil. But what's corruption made with our economics.

I hope one day we will change that, a lot of Russians are talented and smart people, very active.

So, about volunteering, it's good that almost all companies there provide accommodation! Usually you need to work 3-5 hours per day, and weekend is on your own. Aw, so excited to try this.

Actually, sometime before I had client that I worked with (as social media manager) and he was about give me internship in his company in Korea. But..I don't know that happened. Just everything goes wrong and no this opportunity now. Then you feel already desperate it's quite hard to accept news like this. Because I was thinking it will helps me a lot, but now I thinking, that if nothing will actually help?

Feel tired everyday. 😔 and it's so hard to talk about this, dont want to upset anyone.

And it's already one month of winter in my city... everything white, grey and black.

[writingsheep]

So this just happened. Had my breakfast, and one from the „oh we are so friendly and hip and cool“ staff here mourned about how we German girls apparently did the thing. So sad to have hurt you. Well, screw you and your fragile masculinity. Watch any movie and you see how the male gaze undresses countless women.

I am in a really nice place, but the façade of those „nice and cool“ dreadlock people who are too cool is surely breaking. Also: #gilette.

And guess what: we were just happy to speak to another german person. No intention involved.

Writing this while reggae music is playing in this resort called „Good Time Koh Phangan“. Well, fragile masculinity everywhere. Beware. They are so easily disturbed.

[blackboyinindia-blog]

Mellow fellow #BlackBoyInIndia @blacktravelfeed #BlackBoyInSriLanka #blackboyabroad #abroadlife #abroad #travellife #traveling #travel #ilovetotravel #music #rap #hiphop #instatravel #instatraveling #instalike #latergram #latergrams #foriegn #hiphop #blacktravel #itslit #dope #glasses #dreads #chill (at Arugambay, Srilanka)

[borealserendipity]

✿ Midsommar! ✿

Hej everyone! (❛▿❛✿) Sorry for the lack of posts lately... I feel really bad for letting my blog down like this for such a long time... But I had some really busy weeks between work, expat paperwork (ID card, bank accounts...) and finally some time to enjoy doing (almost) nothing on weekends.

But now I’m back! And today I’d like to show you the Swedish Midsummer I finally got to see and participate to!

Midsommar is a very big celebration here in Sweden. Family and friends gather in a cosy place and celebrate the holiday with music, flower crowns, (really really REALLY) good food and very nice stuff to drink! This year, it happened on June 24th and it lasted all weekend. No work on Friday 23th and almost every little shop is closed in town for the weekend. (Except for supermarkets, of course!)

We went to Delsjön to celebrate it. You know, that amazing place I showed you  a few times already, with the lake and super cosy woods around. The family gathered at my boyfriend’s grandparents place.

There were tents all around the main fika (Swedish coffee break)/eating house, where you could play and try to win some loteries. (And I totally forgot to take a picture of them, but here you can see the fika house!) Doug and I bought a few lotery tickets but by the end of the weekend, we didn’t win anything. (｡•́︿•̀｡)

But we got to walk around this beautiful environment all day long, and got to see the Midsommar dance around the maypole. It was amazing. I got to see the traditional costumes and dances from all different parts of Sweden! ٩(♡ε♡ )۶

Here are some more pictures from that Midsommar weekend! I hope you enjoyed! P.S. : Rain is completely part of the holiday too, all Swedes joke about how “beautiful” the weather is going to be for Midsommar, secretly hoping to have a sunny day to celebrate... Which never happens most of the time! It always switches between light rain, sunbeams, light rain, sunbeams... (●｀∀´●)