being 21

hey all. i realize it's been long since i wrote my last entry. i'll do my best to update this blog more often, so that you can know what is going on here.

well, i've been working a lot. the edinburgh festival started in the last week of july (running until early september) and thousands of tourists from all over the world have come to edinburgh to attend various events. to name a couple of them: the edinburgh jazz festival, the military tatoo festival, the fringe festival ... etc. it's been a very busy and hectic time in café rouge. now, i have to work twice as faster and twice as much as i did in june. the pace of work is crazy. the job has become very tiring and i don't enjoy it anymore. something like two weeks ago i even wanted to leave it after having had an argument with my stupid supervisor. then i talked to a manager and he asked me to stay and not take my supervisor's comments too personal. right! if only he spent a day working with that french idiot, he'd change his mind and sack him straight away.

another issue. i finally moved into my flat on dalkeith road. steven and i got our sets of keys on friday, ed moved in on monday. the flat is great. it's very big and looks really nice. actually, i dare say it is a mansion among students' flats. it's got 5 spacious bedrooms with double beds, a huge living room with comfy sofas, a dining table and a bay window. it is still a bit empty, though. we need to put posters on walls, bring a hi-fi, tv, play station and buy some more furniture so that it looks like a proper flat occupied by students.

if anyone needs the address, it goes: 159 (1f1) dalkeith road, edinburgh, eh16 5hq. second top buzzer, green door.

what else? i had unexpected guests in a previous week. alicja and ola arived to edinburgh to visit me for 4 days. i had such a good time then. at last i could forget about work and do something on my days off. we spent a lot of time visiting different places. i showed them the meadows, princess gardens, edinburgh castle. we climbed up the arthur's seat and went shopping on princess street. on sunday (30 july) we went for a day trip to st andrews, a picturesque town north of edinburgh. it took us two hours to get there and we had to change buses twice, but it was very worthwhile. we were all captivated by st andrews with its beautiful beach, harbour and ruins of an old castle. we took many pictures, as alicja and ola set a standard - at least 50 pictures a day! when i've got a next day off, i'll try to upload a couple of them and leave a link here.

and finally, i am already 21 !!!!!!! i don't know if it's a reason to celebrate and be proud of, or if it's a reason to be sad because i'm so old. anyways, i feel like i am in between of these two. it's quite depressing when you realise time goes by so quickly but on the other hand you still feel young and capable of achiving your life-time goals. besides, now i can do anything legally in any country of the world. woo-hoo! how did i spend my birthday? well, i didn't do much to be honest. a couple of people visited me (and ed), so we were staying in our flat for awhile, chatting, drinking lots of booze, eating chineese and my birthday cake. about 8ish we went out to two pubs and, at the end, we went to see a play "the worst toast i ever had", which was part of the fringe festival. that was the most weird play i've ever seen. there were things i didn't understand. basically, it was about life which is sometimes like a burnt toast that you put some jam on to cover a bitter taste, but then it attracts flies which, as far as my half-drunk understanding was correct, symbolized lies. yeah, so that is what my birthday was about. i guess i'll have another b-day party with my polish friends when i go home in 3 weeks, that is on august, 29th. i can't wait to go to poland. miss it so much!