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New Blog!
This blog is not going to be updated ever again.
To find out what is happening in my life after my exchange year, please click on:
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Farewell to England
Hello everyone.
This is officialy my last entry on this blog.
As you all know, I’ve been already in Slovakia for about ten days... My surprise-arrival went as I expected, and that made me happy!
So, it’s so strange. I would have so many words to say while I was still in England, and now I feel like the whole exchange happened years ago. On the other hand, I was chatting with other student and she is bored back home.
Me, I can’t say something like that. The day I arrived my hardest week has began, but also a week full of fun and new meetings. In the end, I managed to do all the exams this week, passing everything on 1s (except Physics).
Anyway, this is not about this week, all right? I might write a short overview on my new launched blog (mehehe...), but now I want to conclude the best time in my life I’ve ever had (well... yeah). :D
Leaving wasn’t that hard as I expected. In the end, I didn’t feel a thing. It was very weird, but on the other hand I take it as my brain started up a defence mechanism so I wouldn’t break apart. It worked, so I was glad.
I’m grateful for my chance to experience this year abroad. I can genuinely say that I made the most out of it - the mostest most. It’s something you get to do just once in your life, and if you don’t realise it’s only up to you to make it your best year in your life (to make it different from your other years or to develop your personality so you come back as a new person), you will miss this opportunity even if you are participating. I’ve seen this happening so many times this year, that sometimes I felt really sad that others didn’t see it.
My english got better, I made amount of new friends (which I know will never forger and i will never forget as well), I got more responsible and prepared to face issues in life... at least I hope so. Going on comic-cons was another dream that have come true this year. Now I will be going on slovak ones, and I’m expecting to be disappointed on some of them - the places are going to be musch smaller and the lack of international visitors will be very visible. Well, I’m certainly going to Enland for comic-cons again.
I’m not going to write it longer that it should be, so these are my last sentences. Thanks to everyone who read my blog and who supported me in any moments during my exchange. I enjoyed sharing my experience with you all, because I wasn’t willing just forget about you, my friends.
However, it doesn’t mean that because my exchange year has finished, I will stop doing this! Because I enjoyed writing about events in my life, I’m going to write another blog: alexdawnblog.tumblr.com
Bye bye England, welcome life in Slovakia!
(Just so, I’m going to live the most of everything even here, as I always did... you should too!)
King Regards,
Nika, aka. Alex Dawn
"The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark." - Michelangelo
St. Peter’s Cathedral, London
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London Dungeon (14.06.2015)
Last trip in England? That sounds about right, and it was something I wanted to visit the whole year I’ve been there - The London Dungeon. That place was just amazing, something exactly made for me.
Okay, so we set up on our journey on Sunday the 14th, heading by train to London (we missed the train to London and because it was Sunday, another one was on in one hour, so great). In London we didn’t waste much of our time and go directly to the Winchester part of the London.
We already had our tickets, so we queued in a dark corridor. Zoe was already trembling as hell, like she was actually going to one. :D We entered as a large group, passing through restrooms and then waiting in front of another door. There was a historical clown standing there, giving us a warm meeting. Then he said the poem about the 5th of November, and let us pass through the door. We rushed down the stairs, and there was a guy waiting on us. He told us about the treason we are about to do - the conspiracy against the parliament. He gave us a letter we were supposed to bring to Guy Fawkes, our beloved cospirator. Until the time we came to him, he was found by a police, settin up barrels with explosives. They caught him, tortured him and then finally killed him, as his ghost dared to tell us. There was one guard guarding the head of Guy’s, and he was trying to persuade us about their truth. Then Guy made him to set the knot on fire and the barrels ‘exploded’. Then we were let to another room.
Another room consisted of an aisle leading through the victorian London during the plague. They made it smell by dead, rotten bodies so some people might get sick beacuse of it. We ended up going up the stairs in one house, a woman lead us to the house of a plague doctor. We waited in front of the entrance, and then she disappeared back on the streets, claiming she is needed. Suddenly coffins leaning on the wall have opened and not-dead plague patients started to talk with us. Basically they were plastic bodies with a projection faces on their heads - quite a clever idea how to pay less for actors. When they finished, the plague doctor (as we realised later just his apprentice) lead us to his ‘ordinary’. We sat on long benches, looking at his place. There was a dead body of the official plague doctor, and this guy, his apprentice, started to get through all his guts and showing us one after another. Then he took a jar with leaches from the shelf and he realised they are none of them inside. Suddenly something under our linning on the benches moved like the leaches were crawling there and it was the weirdest thing ever. He chose one of the guys in our group and set him to a chair. He took a sheet of fabric haning down from the roof, and hide him and his ‘patient’ behind it. He started to beat his head (not really) and then the light went off and we all got covered by water, which represented blood. Then the lights went on and we were allowed to leave the room (even the ‘dead guy’ behind the curtain). :D We went first this time and Zoe was extremely scared to turn behind a corner, so she let us go first. We came to the end and a woman approached us. She is the wife (or whoever) of Sweeny Todd. She led us to her bakery, and showed us some of her bakings. Behind her back were cupboards, which could be opened to reveal a slide. At one moment, something slided down and the cupboard opened with a dead body. She was trying to persuade us that it was nothing at all, and she let us go further to the barber Sweeny Todd. We sat on chairs in his ‘office’, waiting for our new haircuts. They turned the light off again and we could see a silhuette to appear behind a window. In the meanwhile, a man was talking thorugh a speaker on us. They made the sounds so realistic, so when the played footsteps, you could actually have the feeling of someone present in the room. The chairs have some features that at instant moments somethign moved at back of your neck or something, so it felt like someone was cutting your hair. Unfortunately, I’ve been on a chair where it wasn’t feel-able, so only some of us get scared of having our hair cut off.
In another room we approached one of the most famous legends ever. And who does this legend concern? No one else than Jack the Ripper. The woman was waiting on us on a victorian street. She was standing in front of brothel, where were posters of her friends glued on the wall. She told us about the person who had been murdering prostitutes in London for few days. No one has ever seen him, and his victims were always ripped off with their necks sliced. One internal organ was missing in each one as well. Everybody was scared, London fall into traps of the fear and doubt. Who was this guy? Why was he doing what he was doing? As we later find out, they have never solved these cases.
She rushed us to continue, because the streets weren’t safe that time. We entered a little pub, where a waitresse told us to sit. We kind of didn’t listen to her (our luck) and we leaned on the wall. She started to tell us about the murders by Jack the Ripper and how he suddenly stopped. That was weird for everyone, and a lot of theories came up - he died, he basically finished or he moved to another country. The pub appeared to be in a middle of a thunder storm. Behind the window were wild flashes, and you could hear the thunder. At every tensed moment of her speech the light went off and the flash cut through the room - she was standing in front of one of the tables, grinning dangerously on the sitting people. In the meanwhile, a cup fell on the floor and the oil-lamp moved on the sink. Zoe was completely scared and while the flashes were on in the dark room, she was pushing us to the side by her arms. :D After the third tensed moment in her speech, the room fell into a darkness and she dissapeared. The flash continued right afterwards, but this time there was Jack the Ripper itself in the middle of the room, and the flashes were lighting his body. He wanted to kill people at the first table and he cut with the knife down. The lighting caused his movements were kind of not continuous, so it was like in movies. Genuinely. The feeling of the situation, amazing. This was my favouritte moment in the whole thing, because thee cinematography of this place was just amazing.
Right after this, we entered our last part. There was a guy waiting on us in front of the doors to a court - he told us about getting puished during Victorian times. Basically everyone got sentenced to die, there was almost no exception. We entered the room with judges and they chose few peopl to stand for their sins. As I wrote before, they all got sentenced to death.
Last attraction was a free-10-metres-fall, a simulation how you would get struggled by a rope. We didn’ have ropes around our necks, obviously (just checking because some people could think we have all become zombies). They got us seated and then they let us fall two times and that was all.
There was a shop, where I bought a Jack the Ripper keyring. Afterwards we walked down the Southbank, right next to Thames, and we visited also the St. Peter’s Cathedral. Beautiful place, it was first time I was inside.
So right, this was my last trip with my host family (and ever for this exchange year). I enjoyed it a lot, my last dream has come true and it was a great way how to spend the last weekend in England.
EF Farewell Days (11.06. - 12.06.2015)
Just a quick entry.
So, these farewell days were the last one. Ever (at least this school year). There are no more so many exchange students in Great Britain and Ireland than before - we are the last ones staying, waiting until our last exam is written.
Well, anyway, journey to Winchester took about 3 hours and something. The coach was already driving students from Hastings when we were getting on. We needed to stop in Portsmouth as well, to pick some of them from the Isle of White.
I couldn’t find any Slovakians on the place of happening. First thing we were doing that day was a little clip shooting by drone on a field. Exchange students which wanted were supposed to hide under the EF flag and then run into formation of U and K and then to for ‘ + ‘.... this plus sign was necessay to connect this clip to another video, shot by our fellow exchangers in Ireland. This video will be uploaded eventually on YouTube, so I will share it here later.
Later that day, I met with other Slovakians during a speech in a common room and then in the canteen during the dinner. We gave up on speaking English right away, so we ended up talking slovak whole afternoon and the other day as well. However, sometimes we took in consideration other students which grouped with us and we broke our slovak talking.
My slovak friends went on the second earliest bus in the morning, so I was left alone after 8am. I met my other friends from HCC as well, so I was helping them bringing their stuff down to the coaches until almost noon, when we left with coordinators to the Winchester station and from there to Polegate. I was going with another exhange student from my school.
It was great to come back to the place where it all started. It felt like it was just yesterday that time though - meeting almost all EFs again, I felt like starting a new exchange again.
Happy Birthday, LittleBigAdventure!
Waaa today I’ve got such a kawaii email - Tumblr has reminded me, that this blog TaleofaStranger/LittleBigAdventure is one year old today!
They hope this year was great, and I can assure them that it was - not a great, but an awesome year full of life experience and remarkable events. Never forgottable, this blog provided the best way how to share it with you guys and how to remember everything forever!
Thanks, Tumblr, that you exist.
And another thanks is to my class teacher Babincova, for putting the thought about going abroad into my mind. ;)
Sand in Grey
Day at beach called Camber Sands
So, our host dad took us today to a place 45 minutes far from us called the Camber Sands. It’s the closest sand beach you can get to from my area (somewhere between Bexhill and Dover).
The weather was great, it was sunny and hot. As always, wind was blowing again, but it wasn’t that cold as usual. When we came there, the tide was just at its furthest point - it took ages to walk to the water. I can say that we were lucky. We could walk quite a long time in a deadly-cold water and then we swam to the bouy, and back to the shore. As we were swimming back, we realised that the tide is coming back. I have never been a witness of something like this - we put our stuff in the middle between the sand dunes at the beginning and the water - and the water was right near them when we swam back. We needed to take them and move them back up the shore, to be sure we put them on the top of one of the sand dunes.
Then I didn’t dare to go to the water again, it was too cold and whole time we were walking to the dunes I was trembling like if I was on Siberia or somewhere cold.
I took few photos and then we got hungry, so we walked about 15 minutes to beach-houses with fastfood and we ordered great cheeseburgers with chips. Then we got back to our place, we had some fun, and then we left the beach and head back home.
It was a nice day, however everyone of us (except our host dad) got sunburnt! Now I will have few very annoying days with red skin :P Whatever.
Barbecue party on beach in Eastbourne
Just a fast report - people from our school made another farewell party for us, EF students - we brought our own food and boxes with coal and we made our own barbeque. Some of the girls brought their bikinis and swam in the sea.
There is nothing else much to say. Some tears, some laugh, typical teenager thing.
Me and Zoe at different places in these awesome Warner Bros Buildings.
Final Room (Room-6): Model of Hogwarts Castle
Diagon Alley (Room-4)
Props Room (room-1): Scenes and other real-sized props