quinta-feira, 7 de fevereiro de 2013

Fighting crises

Dearest blog,

Last week I applied to get an Erasmus scholership, and even if I get it, I shall need tons of extra money since most of the good Erasmus outgoing countries in Europe are more expensive than Portugal.
By having that in mind, I decided that my next summer work money will be all saved for Erasmus, but even so, I don't get big amounts of money out of that, so I
First I started by saving money when going out or having too many meals out of the house.
Secondly I think if I can DIY something before I buy it.
Thirdly I started thinking on how to get my income.
Knowing that I'm a university student, that doesn't leaves me much time to get a part-time job, because I need to sleep and eat also, so I thought of services that I can easily provide on a time that is good for me, and the roller-coaster of ideas begun.
I've putted adds on a famous online adds website, in various subjects, such as babysitter, petsitter, seniorsitter, gardener, house cleaning lady, clothes ironing, flower maker for uni cars, etc.
And I just new realized that I love to do hand crafts and sew and such, I can also make some original stuff and sell them online or something. What matters is that I'm staying active and not getting my arms crossed to another life dreams, that is do Erasmus. :)
The trick is to plan ahead!

The moving.

Hmm, around a month ago, me and my roommates asked our landlord to price down our rend, but he didn't, so we decided to start looking for a new apartment, but only thought about moving out in July.
By a mysterious miracle, two days into our web surfing for rooms, we found the perfect house.
Lower rent, closer to uni, closer to the bars, even better condition than the previous!
It was a give it or take kind of situation, and we took it!
Our previous landlord did not like it, and made a drama out of it, but that is something I do not want to talk about right now.
So there we were, having to moving out of old apart at 23.59h Jan 31, into the still occupied new apart. It was an adventure, but still we moved, and now we are happier people.
We all have to get used to the new house and stuff, but we are glad we did it, because our new landlord is so cool that it looks like we are talking to a Uncle or something!