new connections?

7 apr 2010

i am going to a meeting today, with people i don't know yet. they come from internet social groups and i am wondering what this meeting will be like. i am not usually very shy and don't really 'fear' it, but i have been thinking what it is going to be like in this attempt to make connections in this environment which is not my original cultural setting, since i am not a Brit.

well, i should survive it :-)

yes, i am loaded with expectations. at the first meeting we grown ups tend to be gentle and please the others. let's see how this one meeting goes. it is going to be in a nice and nothing cheap restaurant on Oxford Street, near the Ocean Village. the lady who is in charge of organizing the gathering emailed me and confirmed table is reserved for eight people. i am curious about the other seven. and excited as well.

a good walk in the park should warm me up for this today.

warming up

9 mar 2010 

it seems like things are starting to improve around here. 2 degrees today. there is hope, afterall. i am not going to uni just now. will stay home a bit longer today and read in bed although i feel like listening to music only.

my sister will arrive here in the 18th. when she came last year it was chilly. we visited paris and amsterdam and both places were just chilly. i hope we are luckier this time and meet better winds in prague, vienna, and budapest.

in the meantime i prepared myself a good cup of tea and enjoy some jazz. this is how i start my days, every day. :-) music is inebriating, and healing.

a chilly march indeed?

8 mar 2010

i have realized the cold is far from leaving us. my hopes for the warmth of march is fading away as it feels more like we're having 'waters of march'. the rain, the wind, the need for a warm outfit and for a glass of wine :-) do tell me cold is here to stay. by the way, every year they say it feels colder. the world is upside down. why is it cold like this where i am? cold and damp, that's what is not nice. but it should be fine. i am not that unhappy. i just want to register the cold aspect of life here, but i am ok.

a chilly month ahead

1 mar 2010

it is already the beginning of march, but the cold is still around. this is second march here. last year it represented the hope for warmer days here in southampton. so, when it was very cold early this year i lived on the hope for the month which would warm my days up. my sister is about to come for a visit and i started to wonder what sort of weather will greet her :-)

chilly, chilly days. -3 now. at least the days are now brighter and longer. this is the first manifestation of spring, the renewal of life.