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@notesandsongs your tags 💙💙💙💙

[contemnitefortunam]

I liked Bergamo quite a lot tbh 

I'd go as far as saying I liked it more than Milan

that’s because in Bergamo you had the best guide in town, @notesandsongs. (Insert my fav emoji looking at you with the knowing smile here)

[strwberieswsugar]

@notesandsongs thank u <3 I hope so too lmao but like did it hurt during it??

[zhivchik]

notesandsongs reblogged your video: [fanvid] Sergey Lazarev - Untitled, youtube | dl

New favourite video.

Thank you! *Read your tags* thank you again. It’s very nice to have some company, so to speak))

[holdouthepalmofyourhand]

@notesandsongs for you, darling 😘

[dementiahormones]

notesandsongs mentioned you in a post “dementiahormones kinda, I’ve changed it during the last week or...”

dementiahormones kinda, I’ve changed it…

It’s awesome! I love your kit. :)

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Rome, January 2018

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Pop Culture Meme

I was tagged by @cantquitu thanks!

Rules : Tag nine people with excellent taste. Colours I’m currently wearing : navy blue jeans, pastel colors fluffy socks, black underwear, navy blue and white shirt and black with pink sweatshirt.  

  Last band t-shirt I bought : I mean, if it counts, the sweatshirt I’m wearing right now is Harry Styles merch. If it has to be a t-shirt, mmm... probably a Serrat y Sabina one, which was the last real concert I went to...

Last band I saw live : This weird band that came to my town with an spectacle of like aerial street theatre? I honestly don’t remember the name, but they were good and I liked the front man’s hair... but then when I googled them the next day the front man was someone else and I still don’t know. :/

Last song I listened: pretty sure it was “Just A Little Bit Of Your Heart” with Ariana.

Lipstick or chapstick : lipstick, I normally wear this brand called Jordana because they are cheap and not bad and I can have all the colours I want (and then obviously I only wear like 3 colours out of all of them).

Last movie I watched : I don’t want to say the last one, but the second to last was disney pixar’s Coco and it was beautiful. If you all can see it you absolutely should.

Last 3 characters I identified with : ok ok, randomly came to my mind April Kepner from Grey’s Anatomy (but also, not really at all, so I don’t know why I’m saying her), Hermione Granger at the end of the first book (when she says “Books! And cleverness! There are more important things – friendship and bravery”) and Kate Winslet character on The Holiday! Book I’m currently reading: the last book I read (again) was Brian Friel’s Faith Healer because unfinished thesis and I want to start reading Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens to be ready for the tv show !!! (have you seen red haired David Tennant?)

Tagging: I don’t think I can tag 9 people but @hardto-explain @contemnitefortunam @notesandsongs @aftgomes21 @ceibos @here-for-the-isco @code-blue-styles @ whoever wants to do this really say I tagged you. 

[contemnitefortunam]

@notesandsongs he already did it once I BELIEVE IN HIM

[stilldriftingoffalone]

Happy Birthday :)

Thank you :)

[songsandnotes]

Bergamo, December 2017 - part 1

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53 - The last five months.

I went back to London! I was tired of Vilnius, the city, the people, the weather, the routine... plus, Easter was coming and it was the first time I would spend a major holiday away from home, some homesickness started to kick in as well. So why not to go a few days to my second home? It had been so long, first time I went back after my year as an au pair there...and as silly as it may sound, I'll never forget the feeling of listening to "Castle on the hill" on the bus that took me from Stansted to the city, or the buzzing vibe I got dropping off at Stratford, and nor even the simple excitement of using my older Oyster card again! I went to the National Gallery for the billionth time, it's one of my favourite places, and I think I got the closest to the Stendhal Syndrome I'll ever be! I felt home, I was surrounded by familiar faces and places. I should also say that going there on vacation didn't feel as good as living there, I've changed and grown up since last time, and in some moments I felt out of place and perhaps a bit lonely too, but still it was a good call to go back in that moment - after the end of my honeymoon phase with the life I was living in Vilnius, those 5 days in London really recharged my batteries for the second half of my EVS! It's said that you should never go back to a place you were once happy, but I think London will always be worth making an exception.

In June I finished my work in school. And when I say finished, I mean it. I learnt everything I could have learnt, and I give everything I could have given! I'm proud of what I achieved... of what WE achieved! My tutor, mentor, the kids... we all feel we did a fantastic job, and I couldn't be happier about it! I'll never forget the laughs, the shared moments... all the times one of my students would literally run from across the street just to say hello on the way back home! The Stranger Things marathon (yes, that happened)! I really left a piece of my heart in that school, I'll never stop feeling speechlessly thankful for the time I spent in there, I'm forever grateful.

Speaking of gratefulness, I'll never be able to repay my host family of all the smiles, hugs, chats, meals and time we shared! They really are special people. Not flawless, but sure better than most. I could actually call their house my home for the five months (and a half) I was there, there had never been a day in which I didn't feel welcomed! Sure living with a host family can be though sometimes (especially one as big, busy and different from mine as them) and it can't and shouldn't be forever, but it was worth it, and I'm looking forward to seeing them again sometime in the future! They made my time there, they truly did.

I travelled. Of course London, Paris, Warsaw, Rome, a bit (a lot, basically every weekend during the last two months there) around Lithuania too. And back to Italy at the end of my EVS, of course! For different reasons, with different people, sometimes with friends and others alone, and I spent way more hours on buses that I would have wanted to... but I felt alive. Citizen of Europe, citizen of the World. Everything I've always wanted! People say travelling is addictive, I can confirm. Not gonna lie, at this point sometimes I feel like I want to stop wandering about, to stop moving abroad or at least to do it for good, to find a more stable job, maybe go back to uni... but not just yet, not just yet 😉

I fell in love with someone. We both did. Some kind of teenage love, sudden and irrational! And at the same time very mature, at least on my side. It really is a beautiful feeling to fall for someone so effortlessly, it was so different from all the drama I had gone through in the past. And for three months I had it all - work, family, friends, and someone to share all my happiness with. Someone to be happy with. We were happy, everyone saw we were so happy! I have the best memories about that time, I'll always love the way he made me feel loved. And then things changed. I've always known it would have had to end at some point, but "some point" arrived earlier than I wanted. We've always known to be different in interests and personality, I knew he wasn't my "soulmate", we never had a future (nor we cared)... but still, all these things were never a problem until they were. To be honest I still have to understand what happened, so I can come to terms with it and move forward, but maybe it's just too soon. I don't know, this experience abroad has been so emotionally intense from start to finish, perhaps I'm just putting everything in this breakup right now. I didn't feel sad when I left Vilnius though I had all the reasons to, maybe it's just all kicking in now. One moment I'm angry, the other I think I'm over it, the next I'm just sad, then numb and then angry back again... you should see my playlists! 🙃 Too soon, too soon. But people say writing about it can help, so here we are. Best way I have to describe what went wrong? We don't speak the same language anymore. Now I can't even understand how we ever did, but sure we don't anymore. We know we both don't want and never wanted to do any harm to the other, and yet at some point everything started to hurt, every action and word misunderstood. Everything made sense till it didn't anymore. It's sad, where should all the love go? What should I do with it? I know breaking up was right, but right doesn't mean good. We were in love and still there's some left, it can't feel good. And here's the paradox - it makes sense that everything ended as suddenly and irrationally as it started, but being the rational person I am, it drives me crazy to not have a reason for what happened. Yes, we both (more or less) made mistakes and I can pinpoint the moments that eventually rushed me to taking that decision, but not the reason behind it. And I just can't stop thinking about it, I can't wrap my mind around it... yet. But I have no regrets. It was so good, simple and beautiful, so for once I have no regrets.

And right after the breakup (like, not even 24 hours later), a dream of mine finally came true. Everything I hoped and worked for during the past years... I made it! I got in! I'm not gonna believe it until I'll actually cross the border (especially since there's a VISA to apply for, and anxious as I am I'm too focused stressing about that for now), but if everything goes well, I'll spend the next year in Brazil! 🇧🇷 Awesome. Fantastic. Crazy exciting! And obviously it deserves its own post, sometime in the future. Not today though, because even if I deserve and should feel absolutely overjoyed about it, right now I'm simply not. I wish I was already, but I'm human and my brain is not made of sealed compartments, so while January seems so far away, what I feel about my breakup right now feels...well, so right now. I deserve to be happy, but I deserve closure first. And luckily or not, there's time - everyone I tell about Brazil to is so enthusiast for me, so happy... and I will too! Not just yet, but I 110% will 🙂

To the next five! 🥂

PS: a special thank you to @contemnitefortunam​​ for not being tired of me yet! 👏 Your support means a lot, thanks for being the best friend! I know I told you before but how can we consider it real before I say it in one of my rambling posts on tumblrdotcom™ ♥️ ti voglio bene!

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Lithuania, month 5

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Paris, June 2017 - part II

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Paris, June 2017 - part I

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Lithuania, month 6