live Jazz night > live drawing lessons / Nit de Jazz en directe > classes de dibuix al natural

Sunday: Live Jazz in Ronnie Scott's Club, the most famous Jazz Club in London. Romantic atmosphere and great music with nice company.
Diumenge: Jazz en directe en Ronnie Scott's Club, el Club de Jazz més famós de Londres. Ambient romàntic i música genial amb bona companyia.
http://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/

Today: I manage to get in the live drawing course in Foster + Partners. After working, a group of 14 people with a teacher and a model during 2 hours drawing the light and the shadows in different kind of paper. Using black and white chalk. We've ended the lesson drawing 3 quick and expressive sketches, 5 minutes each. It was the first time I was taking lessons on live drawing it was great! I've really liked it! And we will explore different techniques of drawing during the following 5 weeks, so nice!
Avui: He aconseguit clavar-me en la classe de dibuix al natural que organitza Foster + Partners. Després de treballar, un grup de 14 persones amb un professor i una model, estem 2 hores dibuixant la llum i les ombres en diferents tipus de paper. Utilitzem el carbonet, blanc i negre. Hem finalitzat la classe fent 3 ràpid esboços de 5 minuts cadascun. Ha estat el primer cop que assistia a classes de dibuix al natural i ha estat genial! M'ha agradat molt! I durant les properes 5 setmanes anirem explorant diferents tècniques, que bé!

new phone!

This is my new mobile phone. It is the Skype phone from 3. With that I can be connected to skype all the time and I can call for free to all of you who have skype, and you can call me and my phone will ring without the need of a computer, isn't it great? :-)

Nice weekend, with nice friends

On Saturday:
Sharan's Birthday. First Favela Chic with Binh, Eli, Juliana. There we meet Audun, Ida, Lavinia, Declan and Santiago. Good music, very crowded,.. some food,.. Sharan was not coming,... we contact her,... they couldn't get in! to late!!! The rest of the people was going to Hoxton Sq. Shall we join them? ok,.. let's go,.. a pity because the place was nice.
Looking for the Underbally,... we finally find it,.. ups! I've been here before,... such a remind,... Here they are! People from the office (basically Interior Designers) and more friends of Sharan from uni and school. Dancing, chatting a bit,... Time to go home,... Binh and me walking in near Old street. wow! such a nice club,.. let's go to see the toilets are here, and the flooring,.. it looks nice!
We keep on walking to pick up the bus to go home,.. and surprise,.. 3 guys walking next to us in the other direction and, Jose (from Granada)! I know you! ok,. Binh go home,.. I stay with them. Let's go to take some beer. We walk next to Liverpool Street. We chat. One of them is working in Foster, but I didn't know him. Of course, all of them are architects,.. The bar close,.. Ok,.. let's go home,.. We are waiting for the bus,.. mine come first, I wave and,.. Oh, no!! it doesn't stop! Fill de puta!! and I start to run,.. I manage to catch it in the next stop,.. ufff!!! so tired,....

On Sunday:
Wake up in the morning,was snowing..I was tired,..we don't know if go to the Marc's international lunch or not,..We call Jose (from Madrid) he was going and he was preparing a 'tortilla de patatas' to bring to the lunch,.. ok,.. let's go as well! I take some 'sobrassada', my flatmates some Argentinian wine and Doritos that we start to eat while waiting for Jose,...
We arrive to Marc's home. It's full of people and nice food! lasagna, pizza, meat, gazpacho, salmorejo, tortillas, spanish ham,.... Baylies, Pacharan,... nice music,.. nice atmosphere,.. Most of us architects,.. as always,.. but there was a cartoon animator as well,.. hehehhe
Suddenly I receive a call, was Manel, from Barcelona! he was in Liverpool street. I go to pick him up in Old street and he join the party. It was nice to see him!
The people is starting to go home,...A colombian guy tell me that if I want he can bring me home with his motorbike! wow! that could be cool! and indeed,.. so nice to go by motorbike in London, next to the river, with the lights,.. London looks very nice in the night,...

The postgraduate's chronicle/La crònica d'una post-graduada

1st February-18th February

I arrived to London, I didn't have a house, I've stayed for 2 weeks in Betty's place, she was so nice! I was helping her a little bit with her project and I saw how the AA works, and I have to say that I'm not convinced about it's method,...

I received some news from my former flatmate, they were supposed to leave the flat in 2 months. and Aylin, the girl who took my room when I came to Spain to finish my final project told me that she hadn't paid me the deposit and that she won't do it. Why? she said that the agency should gave me that money,.. but it wasn't the way that I did it when I joined the flat... I talked with the agency and they, of course, told me that they will not give me any money because there were still people living there and they 2 of them who were supposed to be my friends were not paying the month, as they were afraid of don't get the deposit back once they will move. So at the end,.. they let me completely alone and loosing 433pounds!!! That was a very bad time,... 3 people that I thought that were my friends and leave me alone with that,...Sad and unbelievable,....Days and people to forget,..

19th of February to 19th of March


New flat, new flatmates!!! When I arrived I immediately started to look for a flat and, this time I've been very lucky!The second flat I went to visit, I loved it!! and by chance I found my new flatmates in the office, I've found the advertisement of the flat with 3 rooms and they were 2 people looking for a flat, so,.. all together went to visit it and all of us loved it. The day after, the landlord told us that we could had it,... and we moved in the 19th of February!
I'm feeling so comfortable in my new house!!! it is just 5 minutes walk from the office and that means more time for myself,.. so I started cooking a lot and going to the swimming pool,... The only problem that we had, was with the internet connection that was not working at the beginning but at the end we've solved it and now everything is going very well.

At the end of February, my contract and my scholarship ended and I got a permanent contract! it was not easy to negotiate the new salary,.. but at the end I'm getting payed quite well,...

20th of March to 25th of March

Back to Pedreguer!!! And that means meet some friends, my family, go to the mountain,.. and enjoy the nice light and landscape from my region,.. oh,.. I'm missing all that,...
The first day: dinner with friends in 'el corral del pato' hummmm,,..
The second day: lunch in a restaurant just by the sea in 'la platja del portitxol' nice view and seafood! and nice people with me: my mum, my cousins and my aunt,...
In the evening,.. Castells de Castells with Hector and some other people from my village that has a house there. Night in the middle of the mountain, simple but very good food in a quite place,...
The third day: inspection of the territory,.. walking around the mountain,.. lying on the grass,.. the sun in my face,... nice smells, colorful flowers, peace,... in the evening,.. back to Pedreguer and later,.. meeting Natatxa in Dénia,... talk about our life,..
The forth day: Coques in Teresa's house. Very nice to see her and talk with her,.. Teresa and her parents discovered that my mum and sister were coming to visit me in May, and they decided to buy the tickets to come as well!!! oeoeoeoe
After dinner with my father in 'La Seu' restaurant, with 2 Michelin stars! very nice interior design!
The fifth day: 'La ruta de les peixqueres' walking in the mountain by the sea. View of Eivissa and Mallorca through the sea.

As you can imagine,... days I'll never forget,...

After that,... back to London,.. the reality, deadlines, work... Willing to take some holidays to go to Japan,...Let's see if that finally works,...

I finally have internet at home!!!/Ja tinc internet a casa!!!

Hola gent!
Ja estic ací de nou, encara que semble mentida no he abandonat el meu blog,...
Ara que ja tinc internet a casa l'intentaré actualitzar més a sovint,...
Tinc tantes coses que explicar que no se per on començar així que de moment vos penjaré unes fotos on aparèixen les meves noves companyes de pis i demà ja començaré a contar tot el que ha anat suceïnt en aquest darrer mes i mig.