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I’m currently sitting at my hosts apartment in Ferrara, and just taking a break from writing all the last-minute requests on Couchsurfing.

This city is adorable, I’ve been walking around yesterday and today, made a few sketches, talked with random people on the street, ate a nice meal, had a welcome drink, good coffee. Life is good.

Life is also pretty damn unpredictable. 😀
Today during the day I sat in a café, to try and figure out my housing for the next week cause multiple people offered to host me and then cancelled after we agreed, because as usual, life happens. 🙂 So I was messaging people, making arrangements, starting to get to know great people and so on, and landed on the happy state that I actually had my life sorted out until the 5th, when I would have had 2 “homeless” days to figure out later.
Things felt alright and I was happily walking around. Then came the struggle of trying to find a socket that actually takes my laptops charger… that was a challenge, but I managed to find one. Soon enough I learned though that this particular socket doesnt provide electricity :,DD So I was on to my next quest to find a socket in the apartment that not only am I able to plug my computer on, but that actually does the magic. After desperately running around for a few minutes, I succeeded in my mission. Yey! 😀

Later on I did go out to sketch again, and as people tend to, someone just started talking to me – actually asking for directions in italian ( I _totally_ look like a tourist, I don’t know why people ask for directions from me but it happens all the time :D). Anyway, since I don’t speak italian I asked if he spoke english and within 2 language rounds it turned out that he speaks hungarian, he actually is half hungarian. I’m not sure where he wanted to go originally when he asked for directions, but he sure didn’t get there cause he ended up taking me to a very nice park and we were talking about random stuff for about 1,5 hours or so. 😀
The world is just one big village indeed.
He invited me out to meet him for a beer later in the night so we agreed on a time and place, and I headed back to the apartment.

Where my host welcomed me with a kind, but sad and serious face ((How do you even manage to pull all that off together? )). “I have bad news for you” O-oh… Some family stuff is going on and he will have to host his brother… oookay. I was pretty sure that I was being kicked out for tonight, but luckily it’s not _that_ bad, but tomorrow and the day after is cancelled… So was my night out in a pub – I asked the guy to reschedule for a coffee for tomorrow, cause I have to sort things out now.

So here I am, after spending 3 hours of sending out last minute requests to many people in Ferrara and in Bologna and trying to figure out my immediate housing situation I still have no idea about where I’m gonna sleep tomorrow night. 😀
How to handle change of luck, lesson 1, Problemsolving lvl 2 and Introduction class to flexibility :DD

I think I’ll stop for now,cause it’s getting late anyway.
I just hope that I wake up tomorrow and have a goodnmorning message from someone who said yes from either city

Wish me good luck – and if you know anyone in Bologna who has a couch I can crush on, don’t hesitate to tell me! 🙂

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So… TOMORROW I’m gonna set off out to the land of unknown experiences.

Now the “I can’t believe this is happening” is mixing together with the “What the hell am I thinking?”.

Anyway, from tomorrow it shall be awesome. No other choice… 🙂

As of now, the beginning seems to be a bit mor complicated than I wished it to be.
I was gonna stay 4 nights at one person and 6 at the other – both being great and kind enough to offer to host me for the full 10 day stay, but I’d really like to stay in Bologna during the Childrens book fair since that the whole reason I’m going to the city.
But life happened and the my host in Bologna cancelled due to the change of his work schedules.
Now it seems like I have a set place for one night at one person a 3 day gap – exactly overlapping with the Fair, and the remaining 2 set with someone else.  Huh, this will be a challenge to not mess up. Oh well, let’s hope for the best! 🙂 Highfive to all the amazing people on CS that put up with my last-minute-panic-organising messages! I’m grateful to all of you! <3

So yeah, on the upside I shall meet an incredible amount of great people!
I’ll be meeting friends who I haven’t seen for ages, people I’ve only talked to online, one of my former teachers will be there, I poked a local art community to make a drink&draw… It will be awesome. The logistics will probably a nightmare, but the people experience is ought to be great.

Wish me good luck!

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Yesterday I had a goodbye party.

It was a short notice, cause I was swamped by all the things to do and not knowing exactly how I wanted it anyway I just kept putting it off, but it turned out great.

I told a couple of people in person in the beginning of the week that I might pull something together on Saturday, in hope that there was a chance for them to show up plus so that I’m held accountable for actually making it happen. I could have sneakily left without saying goodbye to many of them and I’m sure I would have regretted it…
So on Thursday I finally kicked myself in the butt, reserved a table to Saturday at a pub from the late afternoon, made an open call facebook event with a description of where-when and an FAQ about what the heck it’s all about, where do I go, whats the plan and schedule like.
Many of my friends found it hilarious and typical of me that I wrote an FAQ about my travels, but well… I wanted to spend my time with Them, hopefully hearing about things that go on in their lives as well, so for not spending the night telling the same story of where-why-when over and over again it seemed like a good idea. Especially since the idea was to meet anyone and everyone who is willing to show up, even if we haven’t talked in years, so letting them know whats going on made sense for me. As ridiculous as it may be, it worked. :)))

About 17 people came throughout the night from people I haven’t seen in ages to folks who I befriended not so long ago. Some were planning to go abroad soon themselves as well – all in different ways for different reasons, so we were also aiming to set dates for meeting up in different corners of the continent.

It was a great night, I loved it.

I was surrounded with people I love, we talked, we laughed, we drank, but not to the point of getting drunk (not me at least – I was there to make memories not to loose them), we ate, and talked some more.
I managed to have a one-on-one conversation with almost everyone.
I hugged them all multiple times.

Damn I’m gonna miss these people… and so many others as well…

Getting up in the morning I was wearing a silly grin for hours, just thinking through last night – love overflow.
My mind went off on a ride about all the things I’ve learnt from these people, things I’m grateful for, memories together, why I love them and all the small fragments of life that I treasure.
This is beginning to sound very cheesy, but oh well…

Anyway, so today for the most part of the day I felt all warm and fuzzy and just wanted to hug everyone.

Then I think my mind got exhaused with happiness or something, ’cause after that the lingering panic started to creep in the picture – I’M LEAVING IN 3 DAYS!
That paired up with the I-love-everyone flash and made a gorgeous mix of “what the hell am I doing, I’m gonna miss them so much”. Yes, feel free to laugh at my misery, I’m being entertained as well.

I know that I’ll be really busy being impressed by the world, meeting friends who I’m only keeping contact with online nowadays and just being in ADHD(squirrel!)  mode running around in generall, but still. Now it hit me that I will be missing out on being here for some people that I deeply care about. *sigh*

Hey Self,
Emotion roller-coaster much? 

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Yup, it’s happening, memes are now part of my blog.
It was gonna be an honest corner of mine, so I guess it was inevitable, You probably all knew it was gonna happen.  ¯\_(ツ )_/¯

That’s it about me for today.
But hey, I actually wrote the blogpost instead of just ‘writing it in my head’ as I did with many before.
Achievement unlocked! 🙂

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So I already have 2 blogposts, that I half-wrote, but then never finished, because of the circumstances and so they didn’t get published… ohwell…

Starting the writing habit is a half-failure so far – I did start journaling lately, but as you can see, the blogpost/week had not been happening.
I’m going easy on myself though – I’m not on the road yet so it would probably not that interesting to read anyway, plus other things have top priority now. Like the oh so many administrational wrap-up, the packing and of course meeting friends, hugging people before I leave. <3

That’s just the way it is for now.
I’ll try to get better at it once I hit the road, though the first 10 days will probably be really hectic, but I’ll tell you about that later.

For now, I’ll go back to my corner and work on portfolio things as long as I can cause tomorrow will be all about friends and I should get stuff print-ready by Monday morning.

*hugs to all*