merry ERASMUS christmas

our Mrs Claus

to GET USED

I miss you girls

INTERLUDE+++++let me introduce my flatmates+++++

VERENA, 22, Germany; speaks fluently german and english, understands french and truputi lietuviskai

UNESCO chair in Vilnius' academy, great sharp-eye ( be careful ), future business-girl, coffee-with-milk drinker, best planner, and so on

serial photographer VERENA

traditional way

little bit more complicated

without mirror now

actually she is not talented, she just has special glasses :p

and her own model : Grazina the yellow poney

FAME - tv in Vilnius

Last week-end, television interview : about erasmus, Europe, european union, opinions, and so on. For a belgian and a german channel. Pleasant meeting with André and Sven :)

First : little discussion, we plan the day together. Walk through old town. And first "interview" about Europe, our experience, what we learn, etc.
+Charlotte, me, Thibaud, André, Sven+

Then, I lead them to this place : teachers from printing department and friends are painting in the city :)

"interview" with Jolanta, my favourite printing teacher :D MISSION : understanding questions, repeating in french to the camera, asking Jolanta in english, understanding english, translating into french ! ouch :s

+me, Jolanta, Sven+

look around the place

all the group
fine day

+thanks for pictures frogman ;)+

Klaipeida-NIDA sea, snow and wind (part 1)

Last week-end : sea ! 4 hours bus from Vilnius to Klaipeida.

Youth hotel, lithuanian karaoke (nice!), bowling, party ...

puzzle ?

hip-hop stars ?

ferry from dead city Klaipeida to beautiful Curonian Spit(about 10mn)

on the way

about one hour bus through the National Park, sea on both part of the road

Klaipeida-NIDA sea, snow and wind (part 2)

little walk trough the forest, dunes, and finally ...

THE baltic sea :D

dark side of the moon

enjoying last minutes of this strange light. the water is cold, believe me; and worse than North Sea !

Klaipeida-NIDA sea, snow and wind (part 3)

Last day : walk through dead dunes. The bus driver stopped in the middle of nowhere to let us go out and enjoy the beautiful landscape.

but maybe 5 mn after the bus left, snow !

anyway, this place is amazing

and people there too ;)

desert, forest, sea and snow ...

no other conclusion : I love Lithuania

CRAZY forest (Labanoras)

Two weeks ago : little trip to the forest with printing teacher, former silk-screen printing teacher, girlfriend, 2 french erasmus students and me

this is the place

we were 6 persons and 4 of them were bathing (and drinking vodka)

key words : fire, vodka, synthesizer or mobile phone very loud, barbecue, snow, bathing, eating, drinkink, cutting wood ...

the two french girls

the place and me (sleepless night before)

i drove during ALL the way back home ! (and I'm proud) little ways through the forest, a lot of snow, lithuanian car :p , lithuanian roads

nice lithuanian day with nice lithuanian people :)

lithuanian TAPESTRY (gobelinas)

today, in textile department, I've been told that now i'm "ready to work" and all those technical exercices are over...

I don't know why but I suddenly answered : "I think I prefer tapestry than weaving". So next work will be on this kind of frame

-huh-

anyway : I'm here for one year (and the model is good company)

60's SNOW*****

Saturday evening : party, we had to dress up. Topic : 50's, 60's, 70's

and suddenly...

***SNOW***

spanish reaction :D

french reaction :/

christmas mother

around the flat where we were

RIGA je reviendraaa (part 1)

Two weeks ago, we had a longer week-end so we went a little bit further : Riga, Latvia's capitale. A lot of russians, a lot of germans, a lot of frenches.

-arrival-

Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten. German present, maybe because of the past of the town : Riga was a member of the Hanseatic League.

-if you want more- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Musicians_of_Bremen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League

Inhabitant, sells woolen socks, hats and so on. Speaks german with a nice kind of austrian accent "ich habe velschiiiidene glüüüne"

we did a lot of breaks in nice places like this one.

guess why

yes

nevertheless, the next day, our german guide Peter (friend of a friend : Chris, german, studies law in Vilnius) offered us a tour round main places. WET COLD NICE

architectural bug

RIGA je reviendraaa (part 2)

one more bug

-last day-

the market : outside + 3 huge halls. They were built for zepelins

1 : meat and cold cuts

2 : "bakery"

3 : fishes and sea food

little walk round the center. Topic ? Art Nouveau !

We took advantage of the nice weather :)

and at the very end, just before leaving, guess who we met ? Riga's legend :) If you go there, you'll surely hear about her. She goes from place to place, switches on the music and dances -always the same steps-

INTERLUDE+++++let me introduce my flatmates+++++

CLAUDIA, 22, Spain; speaks fluently spanish, intermediate in english (better every day)

painting department in Vilnius' academy, great party girl, always full of energy, smiling, enthusiastic and so on

queen of the night CLAUDIA

what's her secret ?

paaaarty :D

never tired

her spanish associate : Jessica