Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Lazy day

I am writing this post and Ander is getting a shower, he is singing and making strength noises, he is really scaring me.
Today we didn't do anything special, we go shopping again to finish our presents and finally Ander found the perfect present for his sister Amaia. Gaizka bought some headsets and a CD for his brothers. We also bought some presents for Inigo and Eszter to compensate our stay there.  We went early at home and we waste all the afternoon playing and watching videos, before going to dinner we  began packing and Gaizka has a serious problem because he is going to return with more things that he came so it could be a problem.
For dinner we went to a Turkey which was very popular but Gaizka's plate had a source which wasn't really nice so he could't finish, so we went to a kebab and he bought a "meal and chips", he could prove that the meal and chips of Bristol is much better than the "pedrata" of Spain.

Monday, 29 July 2013

Shopping Mondays

Two days for leaving Bristol, and all the customs of being at such a country. Gaizka would miss the ability of eating whenever he wants. He would miss the KFC, the chicken fried breasts and the spicy snack box. I don't really like that type of food, instead of that I preferred eating some grapes. Slightly healthier. One thing we would both miss was the people we met here, although we were not the same, talking about the age, we shared incredibly amazing experiences. Thinking on future entrepreneurs ideas, those blended ices at the Costas, the lunch time in the park. It so difficult to resume a entire month in 20 lines. You don not really know, what to tell, how or when. And just to relate a amusing scene you need more than 4 lines. It is crazy, but writing blogs it is not a easy task, it is very harsh, but it worth. Today we just went shopping, I bought a huge quantity of butter biscuits, any size any kind. I also bought some present for my parents and so on. Gaizka also bought some presents so don't worry. We ate on a Italian restaurant, just after it started to rain heavily. We are willing to return there tomorrow because we have more surprises to buy. Just like Santa Claus, Olentzero in the Basque Country. In the afternoon we watched some films and as usual Inigo is know playing his habitual games.

The rabbit and the harbour festival






Sunday, 28 July 2013

Bye friends

Today was a really sad day because we had to say goodbye to our lovely friends: Malagan guys and Carlos, the Navarran guy. We met all together at Malagan house and we spent the morning there, playing footballing. The matches were really really intensive, full of competitiveness and fun. However, Carlos and Ale won us but we put it them hard.
Finally, the time to say goodbye arrived and Ander began crying like a baby, not really. We went to a festival with Eszter and Inigo and we take lunch there. Later we met with some Inigo friends, those ones we met in a Chinese restaurant. When we were going at home, Ander wanted a caricature of him because we saw an artist doing this. He is really really good ant the caricature is so funny. When we arrived at home we just began playing PlayStation and later we cooked the rabbit which Gaizka promised weeks ago, it was very nice.

Saturday, 27 July 2013

25th day, the last trip

Like every Sunday, we missed the bus so we had to walk for taking another bus that could get us to the centre. We arrived only 2 minutes late, so they could not complain. The journey to Salisbury, was a bit strange without a Italian or Spanish guy yelling, in a try to sing. Instead of that there was silence. Only the air conditioning was disturbing, it was frigging cold! I do not pull your leg, I even got a cold. I am know cuffing all time. After a trip of almost 2 hours we finally arrived, we were only able to see a few monuments, the Cathedral and little more. Such a great cathedral, very nice. Afterwards we went to the Poundland, the amazing values of £1. Gaizka and Carlos bought 1.5 litres of milk and some chocolate for making Cola-Cao. When we were leaving the supermarket, we met Zuby: a famous unknown rap star. We did not know him but he was the number 12 in the iTunes uncharted list. Not so bad, his Youtube name was badman31311. Check him, he sings rap, hip-hop and dubstep. And we met him! That's a great achievement. Then we visited Stonehenge and back to Bristol. We had a Subway, and we saw a bit of the Harbour festival. The best thing is that is started to rain! Raining! Aleluya! The result of raining was arriving to home wet. While with our friends we thought about the idea of opening a milk spa, that would work with milk instead of mud and water. Zak Ilikaina Milk Spa, we have copyrighted the idea so please do not copy us. You would have to pay a fine. What do you think? Tomorrow we will meet our friends for the last time because they are leaving in the afternoon. But do not worry because in three days times we are back to Bilbao. Thanks for all the Russian friends visiting us, we really appreciate it. And although it may sound weird, we miss the Italians.

Salisbury and Stonehenge


Ander's class
 










Salisbury's cathedral


Our Malagan friends





Stonehenge








Friday, 26 July 2013

Last academy day!

First of all we want say that the 70 bus is a totally shit. Third time that it wasn't on time. The bus has to come at 8:20 and it came at 8:15, obviously we missed it. Later we thought that it would be a great idea to take the bus which comes at 8:40 but it wasn't appear, we knew that we were late so we got angry. Finally the bus of 8:54 came and behind was the same bus, we began laughing ironically because of the great organization.
When we arrived, late, we went running to the academy, it was the last day! We didn't to anything during the lessons, only play games and speak about the experience. The Chinese like always began taking photos, 10 photos each one to the classroom, another 10 to the teacher and 30 more or less with us.
When we finished we went shopping but we didn't buy anything because we were tired and we went at home. For dinner we ate a Indian food which was delicious, however it was very spicy but no for Ander, he has an antispicy metabolism so he held like a men.

Thursday, 25 July 2013

The Turkish Dates

Today was not sunny. Rain, rain, rain! All the rain drops were just sliding through your skin like a smooth drink rushing through your veins. Just kidding, we missed too much the rainy weather. And that's why we are so excited. The worst part is that there only last 7 days. Today school was even more boring than other days. As long as a day without bread. We had to write a story, and above all that some Italians were leaving today also. I don't know what people have against Chinese people but they are constantly discriminating them. Some were just offending them in their front, making gestures, closing their eyes and so on. And what were Chinese doing? Just laughing, laughing about those offensive jokes. So weird. Oh! Apart from that I don't know what people see in Ander but they are always speaking at him in Italian, and he does not know Italian. He wishes but he can't! This time we visited the Cheddar Gorge Caves. Not as nice as the ones in the Basque Country. The paintings of Altamira can't be compared with the British ones. People scratched the stalactites, stalagmites and also the columns. All the walls were black because of the accumulated fat. Not very nice, the best things were the views, and the cheese. We felt in love with that cheese. It was amazing. Very tasty, not dry and not very tough. The only thing that we were missing was a loaf of bread. After arriving to Bristol, Gaizka ate a complete menu of the KFC; including a spicy chicken burger, a fried chicken-wing, French fries, corn and a drink. Two hours later we had dinner, and although Gaizka hanger is insane I was not able to eat the normal ration. Two or three plates of rice, he only ate one. After Gaizka was trying to lye, arguing that he was not hungry and he had not eaten anything before. Poor Gaizka. At the moment we are watching a programme about First Dates. The Turkish is easily the best one.

Cheddar Gorge



Cheddar caves



It is not a waterfall


Cheddar cheeses 













Cheddar village

Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Successful disco.

Today, we didn't have the bus pass so we had to buy a ticket. Like always, Ander ask "two tickets to the centre" and he showed his D.N.I because people don't believe him, he is too tall for his age, poor bumpkin. Anyway, he said it twice but the driver apparently has a ear problem and he made us to pay the adult ticket which is £2 more expensive (£4 each one). We were indignant and we didn't say him "thank you" when we arrived to our destiny, we always say that but we were really angry. At the academy,in Gaizka's class they were philosophy about Albert Einstein and his famous phrases. Ander, in his class learn very strength and difficult things like always.
In the activity we visited the Bristol History Museum which obviously, is about the history of Bristol. Later, we had a disco because on Friday more of students are going to leave, and it was even worst. Nobody was dancing and all Chinese were making campaigns with chairs in the corners and playing with their hipercool mobile phones. So we decide to go to Peppenero, an Italian restaurant. There began Gaizka's food race. He ate a piece of pizza and a little calzzone. Later, he still was hungry, so he went to a subway and bought a sandwich, each one could be a nice dinner to a normal person. After that, incredibly he was still hungry and he ate a creep. Finally he was satisfied.

MShed


Carlos protecting Gaizka from the bombs





A gromit made of pence. Carlos would need it. 
If you did not know instead of gorillas there are Gromits around Bristol. 

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

"Sorry, I told you excuse me"

To our Russian followers that do not disappoint us, with their every day views. большое спасибо (Thank you very much), we hope you find our blog interesting. In brief: eskerrik asko, muchas gracias, thank you very much, ich danke Ihnen sehr, много вам хвала, muito obrigado.

That's the only special thing you will find during this post. That and other stuff too. First and foremost, Italian people. Let's talk about Italian's, specifically about Italian girls. Why do they try (I just generalizing all Italians are not like that) to establish a conversation with a foreigner or someone who is not Italian in their language? None can make us understand a different language in 3 seconds, come on. Are you pulling me leg? Thanks to god, that the Italian is pretty much similar to the Spanish. I was able to talk with them even I had to fight their habit for the Italian. Gaizka's class was even worse because he is surrounded by Chinese. And apart from that, Carlos was promoted to our class. Clearly the best one. After having a ordinary Spanish jam sandwich that our friends were jealous of. We went to the Clifton Suspension Bridge. A tour I have made more than thrice. With no changes, just crossing the bridge and taking more and less the same pictures. After that we went to have something to the Costas while we were playing a new game we downloaded. It is called "Plague Inc.", the aim of the game is exterminating the human being by spreading a virus, bacteria or whatever , very nice game. After that we went to the Tesco with Inigo, and we witnessed a argue between a South-American guy and a drunk guy. The South-American one, wanted to get over the queue because he forgot taking one last thing before paying. He was trying to go over us, and asked politely to the drunks guy if he could move. The drunks guy did not move, so after the South-American guy crossed, he told this to him. "Sorry, I told you excuse me" because even telling the drunk guy that he did not move. The drunk one, did not mind about the whole thing but the South-American guy was really angry. Finally nothing really happened.

Gaizka's & Ander's great task, cooking



Spaghetti's with broccoli and prawns, dunked on a coating of oil and garlic. 
Accompanied by some fresh parsley.

Clifton Suspension Bridge


The park where we usually have lunch


The Cabot Tower


At the Cabot Tower, the council and the Cathedral in the middle



The Suspension Bridge on the skyline






Gaizka gazing at the mesmerising views of the Suspension Bridge