San Pepe'09

I'd make a very similar post than the one I make 1 year ago, so I just place again the same one.
This time I even didnt go to univ. maybe just go out for a walk at night with some classmates but not going to the main square of the party in the university campus. I guess at this hour again lots of teenagers are coming to the hospital due to hard drinking and so on XD

San Pepe'08 in the Universidade de Vigo Network XD

Entroido 2009

Entroido or Carnaval or Carnival... I dont like too much to disguise in this party (it's more interesting when YOU are the ONLY one dressing hihii hhhhh ;) ). Here in Galicia this is a famous party, though in big cities people are not that party people as in the most famous little towns in Ourense, where all the population of those villages like Xinzo de Limia, Verín or Laza, are attending and enjoying in a traditional way this pagan celebration.
Well, coming back to Vigo, I will just post some pics of this party here, most of them with the rest of the erasmus. I didnt actually dressed, so I asked to my dear Karolina if she could make what I was thinking.. and she totally read my mind :D

Odd Christmas presents

Specially for this day, I just found some nice presents, so if you dont know what to give, have a look to the following ones :P (warning: high level of irony in the following lines)

First one: the child gym at home if you want your children grow up with enough muscles and so being the strongest and the bulling one in the kindergarden. Perfect as well for not spending too much time in unuseful learning or any books and preparing their future profession as security man in a pub or other stuff...

Second one: ouija for girls oh who is calling for the date?? maybe James Dean? Kurt Kobain?. The ideal gift if you want to introduce your daughter in the dark pink arts, paranormal, poltergeist experiences and with some luck, could develop a witchcraft art ;)
Pink mouse included :)

Third one: stationary bycicle for children. Tired your children are always wanting to go out to the street and want to play with other children? This is the solution! combined with the gym at home can be very good for the mental health of the growing child, who wont need anymore to go out from home and breath harmful air.

Finally, if the child is still a baby, and you have a rock star soul that you want to transmit to the new born one little by little, you can buy some nice lullabies in this page:
http://www.rockabyebabymusic.com/
Description: Rockabye Baby! transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies. The soothing sounds of the glockenspiel, vibraphone, melltoron and other instruments will lull your baby into a sweet slumber.
So.. let's rock da cradle!!! XD
I was having a look to them and they actually seem the soundtrack of some of those terror movies were there is a ghost of a child who wants to make revenge or something like that XDD
There are a lot, Coldplay, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, ... but I have chosen these ones like samples from the albums and I will place the funny comment that is written in the original page of every cd:

Ac/dc (Ba/by) - Highway to Hell

Do you have a problem child? Rock and roll ain’t noise pollution, but unwanted cries are. When you’re up to your neck in exhaustion and dirty diapers, AC/DC’s primordial anthems are just the ticket to ride on. Your little live wire will be rocked to sleep by these gentle instrumentals. For those about to nap, we salute you.

Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Do cries in the night make you a basket case? If a rambunctious baby is turning you into an insomniac, Green Day’s anthems about dookie and shenanigans can help make sweet children. Say good riddance to a cranky baby. Welcome to paradise.

Metallica - Wherever I May Roam
Metallica - Enter Sandman - a very proper song for a child trying to sleep indeed

...Sleep with one eye open
Gripping your pillow tight...
...Hush little baby, dont say a word
And never mind that noise you heard
Its just the beast under your bed,
In your closet, in your head...

These ones from Metallica are seriously a bit scary XDD

On this album, they’ll enjoy Metallica’s biggest anthems without the pesky earplugs you didn’t bother to wear growing up. We’ve turned down the volume from an eleven to a two, and made the bed ourselves. Say your prayers little one. Tonight the sandman will be gently rocking you to sleep with these essential masterpieces of rock'n'roll.

Led Zeppelin - Kashmir

Close the doors and put out the light. This evening, your child’s journey consists of a delicate dreamscape woven by the heavens and forged by the hammer of the gods. Although Led Zeppelin’s music was rooted in blues and hard rock, an element of fantasy was always present. On this album, Led Zeppelin’s most extraordinary songs have received the lullaby treatment. Hasn’t it been a long time since your baby rock and rolled?

Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop

Hey daddy-os. Hey mommy-os too. Does your child need to be sedated? Should mama’s boy or girl be too busy howling at the moon, let them pulsate to this backbeat. The Ramones sang about brats, babysitters, and believing in miracles. Is there any doubt the band didn’t want to grow up? If you want a happy family, this album will provide pleasant dreams.

Flasmob Vigo 2008-11-12

Flashmob in Vigo

Flash Mob

What is a flash mob?
Flash mobs seem to be spontaneous events with origing in summer of 2003 in New York and quickly spread to other cities around the world. Through mails and cell messages people start chains to organize a coordinated group action in a public space. These actions use to surprise people who doesnt know anything and just walk or stay in those places. They are ramdomly spectators of the scene. Nobody apart from the participants know what will happen.
Actions, usually of recreational nature, last few minutes and have a marked tendence to surrealism.
Flash mobs reached even to advertisements, and you can understand quite fast how it is having a look at the next video:


Examples:
Pirate flash mob

Ninja flash mob

Frozen flash mob

There was a frozen flash mob in the Atocha station in Madrid some months ago and there will be another one in Vigo nextly. I dont know if I should tell more or not.. but ok... I know there are few people who check this blog so I can say it will be a "Pillow Fight flash mob", next wednesday in some place of the center of the town. I will not be there but would be funny to see how many people will go :D

International dinner of erasmus in Vigo

Last thursday I was invited to a international dinner, hosted by Carolien:

Well, our international dinners were very good and very well organized when I was erasmus, but here the Internationals Relations Office... let's say they are quite lazy... to make any decent event (no, those trips of 4 or 5 hours in a city like Santiago are crap).. So this girl, a very active student :D had this great idea.
Everyone cooked something typical from where they were born in (well, I guess in some lazy cases they just bought XD)

But there was a little problem... we almost couldnt breath for a while due to sooo many people inside the flat! She told me she even didnt knew half of the ones there, and I could see many spanish (...) that I doubt they brought any food... my suspicion is that they came with their own drinks like if it was a "Botellón" inside the flat of someone... or maybe they just feel like inviting more and more friends.. it happens also often ...




Maybe if you saw some pics from any summer, you saw the parties we have here in Galicia in little towns use to finish with Queimada, that strong liquor that has to be burn first to take out some alcohol... well.. some spanish did it... inside the house..:S a bit dangerous I think, but it was ok and very didactic for foreigners XD



It was really like a rainbow of flavors... now sweet, now salty, now salad, now again salty, now greasy, now spicy... XD but I think it was a good dinner and a good time :)
Maybe it wasnt too much funny that we couldnt go to any disco they wanted to go because the security guards in Vigo dont like too many people coming at the same time in a disco... if not... they will ask if you are older than 25 or needed shoes... I know, strange, but this is Vigo... I really feel embarrased when these things happen because I think this city in the matter of going out to discos is too overestimated for too fancy and pose people... but this is another story..
Finally 4 of us escaped to the new place of rock-metal that opened few time ago, a great place, good music, good ambient, you can talk, if someone steps on you he apologizes, and even you can make new friends... the best to go out here in Vigo! :D