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Lovely trip to Germany

I just came back from my 2nd mini vacation. This time I went to Germany to visit my best friend who lives there. It was really nice to be able to hang out with her again. Due to inflammation we see each other less and less.

My trip started with staying awake until 4 am because my buss left my city at 5:10 am. I decide to do a night stream to keep my mind from falling asleep. I streamed a cozy supermarket game called “InKonbini”. It was really nice and just what I needed to keep me awake. I ended the stream at 4 to leave since it does take me about 30 min in to town. Since it was too early for public transport I had to rent one of those e-scooters. The annoying part was that I had issue paying for the scooter, so it took me almost 20 min of trying before I got it to work. I thought I would miss the buss, but thankfully I forgot it left and 5:10 instead of 5am, so I had 10 more minutes.

Then there was just an 8-9h buss ride until I ended up in the city where my friend was picking me up. The first day was mostly spent trying out new noodles and getting bubble tea. Other than that we just chilled in her place and got to great all her doggos again.

The first proper day was Friday where her friend came over in the afternoon to give me a much needed haircut and then in the evening we headed to a carnival. I bought a tiny panda key chain, a pineapple & coconut liqueur. I also tried the attraction where you shoot tiny targets. The gun was quite heavy to hold I ended up getting 4 points. I chose one of those plastic planes you build yourself. Seeing it brought back fond memories of when me and my dad used to make them. Then at the end we drove to a hillside so that we could see the firework show that they were doing.

Saturday we were quite tired from the day before and we had plans to hang with my friend’s boyfriend in the evening, so we just decided to chill during the day. Played some games, did a tiny bit of cleaning, walked the doggos and then we headed off to his place at around 6 pm. At his place we played the German version of “Go for Broke” called “Mankomania”. Where the goal is to go bankrupt. It was my first time, but I managed to get 2nd place. Somehow my friend’s bf manged to win within 3 rounds. After that we played a lot of Noosh which is a version of Farkle. 1st round the bf won, but 2nd round I won. Since it was quite late by the time we finished our 2nd game, we decided to call it a night.

Sadly I did not sleep that well at his place. Nothing wrong with my bed or anything, but it was just waay too hot so I was constantly waking up every hour from discomfort. We left at around 8am because we had to drive back and walk the dogs.

Sunday after we got back from his place, we walked the dogs, relaxed a bit and then booked an appointment at a driving simulation place. You get to sit in a full driving sim rig chair and race with and against your friends. We brought another friend of ours. I picked a Mazda 787B as my race car. The goal was to have the quickest time around the track after 1h. I was in the lead for the majority of the beginning, but as soon as the others got a good understand of their cars, they quickly beat my time. I sadly ended up last.

Monday was a full on chill day. Since it was our last day together we just spent it hanging out, played more games, watched our K-drama and walked the doggos.

Yesterday both of us had to wake up early because the bus was leaving at around 6am. Then it was another 9h of travel and I was finally home. I showed Nathan what I got for him, and he really liked it which made me super happy. Then just spent the rest of the day chilling in front of my pc playing games.

Overall it was a great trip. I really enjoyed all the things we had planned and just spending time with my friend. Her dogs are also super cute and great company to be around with. I hope I get to travel and hang out more with her.

Attending FACTS first time!

This weekend was really fun. I had been looking forward to this for a long while, because a group of my friends came together to plan a big meetup at FACTS. We were 9 people in total, and some of us were even meeting each other for the first time.

We woke up semi early because our friend was arriving at 10 am to pick up Nathan and I and take us to FACTS. It was about 1h drive from our destination. The drive itself wasn’t bad and we arrived at the convention around 11:30am, after struggling with finding a parking spot.

Our friends were gathered outside and it was REALLY nice seeing familiar and new faces. I met my friend Sunni and Gortax for the first time, since Sunni had flown in from her country to attend this event. After our first greetings, we headed into the building. We started right in the middle where all the big stalls were. You could skip that if you wanted and just enter it by the artist alley.

We started walking around and looking at what they had. There were a lot of everything. TCG stands, T-shirts, Plushies, Posters, Cloths etc… We ended up splitting into smaller groups cuz of different interest and walking pace. We visited the 18+ area which was the first for me. I thought it was sort of cool that they had a dedicated section for those type of stuff. After a while, we all met up at the food hall to get something to eat and drink, and just to share the stuff we had bought so far. We then checked out the artist alley, where I ended up buying a lit up picture frame of Totoro (Japanese movie). I also walked around looking for more League of Legends trading cards, but only found one stall that got them.

Just like that it was already almost 6pm. We met up one last time before we said our goodbyes and left. It was really fun and I enjoyed meeting up with so many of my friends, BUT I did get super overwhelmed with the entire thing and I also felt like I didn’t get to see anything (Which was ofc, my fault for rushing through it all) If I do this again I will focus more about seeing everything rather than just sticking around my friends and just go where they wanted to go.

The drive home was just as smooth, but when we finally got home all the walking and overwhelming feelings caught up to me and I started feeling a bit sick. I also hadn’t eat a lot throughout the day. I just had 1 egg + bacon sandwich and 1 onigiri throughout the day. As for drinks, I only drank 1 monster and 1 cola. I also just felt overly exhausted and it felt as if everything in my body hurt xD.

After a much needed rest I felt much better. Sunday I joined the band boys for their photo shoot. That was also very fun, because they had such a great and goofy vibes.

Overall a great weekend with a lot of fun and I used a lot of energy XD Had a lot of fun and can’t wait to hopefully do more IRL things like this in the future.

Just a quick trip to Norway

Last week I got back from my very short Norway trip. I was only gone for 3 days and those days went by so fast that I didn’t see the need write daily, but rather just sum it all up in one post.

So I travelled out on Sunday evening. Did the usual bus into the city and then train to the airport. The plane went as schedule and everything went smoothly. It was an evening plane from around 7-8pm. I arrived at my family home at around 10pm. Not much happened since it was late.

The first official day was spent on going for nice morning walk with my mother and a friend of hers. We didn’t walk up to “Grefsenkollen” this time, but different one. It doesn’t have a specific name, but it’s another one I used to do a lot growing up. It was nice 1h walk, then the rest of the afternoon was spent on completely defrosting and cleaning out the fridge. We moved all the food out, took out all the shelfs and cleaned the entire thing from top to bottom as well as putting a pot of boiling water in the freezer to remove all built up frost and ice. Evening was just spent with chilling and continue watching “Ginny and Georgia”.

On Tuesday we went for yet another walk, but not with the friend this time. We walked a bit longer than the previous day. When we were done with that, we went shopping at the nearby shopping mall. It was a late birthday present from my mum. We walked around in some clothing store and I eventually got myself 4 nice jumpers/long armed shirts. They looked really nice and I liked the fit of all of them. I also got a small wallet which I can use when I don’t want to drag my huge one around. My mother had an appointment at 5 pm, so we didn’t take too long. This evening was mostly used to repeat some stuff for my exam the next day and watch more Netflix.

My last day was the day of my Psychology exam. The day didn’t really go to much else. I met up at the mentioned place at 4:30. I registered at the front and then it was mostly a waiting game. I had to wait a bit over 1h before I could pick my assignment, and then I got 30 min of prep. I ended up getting the assignment to discuss “nature vs nurture”.

I was given a case about a pair of twins who went to the same school, were both well liked amongst their friends and extrovert, but one of them didn’t enjoy school and found it hard to go to class while the other one was doing great at school. Their parents divorced when they were 4 and that’s when the twins started living separate from each other, which was hard for the one that was also struggling at school.

I tried my best to answer as well as I could. I brought up a lot of different points and some theory, but I did have a hard time of remember the name of some specific theory or model. I felt bad about how I almost couldn’t answer any of their follow up questions. It was however given a word I had never seen in my 1 year of studying. However, I ended up getting a strong 3 out of 6. It’s not the best grade, but it does mean that I pass, which was the most important thing. After my exam my mother and I ordered sushi, finished the 1st season and then I just spent the entire night watching a different series until I had to leave for the airport again on Thursday morning.

On Thursday I spent the first half of the day just arriving back home to Belgium, and the second half I spent on attending Nathans concert. It was really fun. Despite being quite tired since I only was working on 2h of sleep, I tried my best to be energetic. I even jumped and danced during KARO’s performance. I did have a lot of fun and I also took a lot of photo’s which sadly didn’t turn out as good as usual since I was using my own camera, but they weren’t half bad either

Rounding up my vacation

Today is my last day here in Norway. It’s the day of my cousins wedding and then tomorrow morning I’ll be flying home. This has been a really nice trip. Being able to help out my mother with some of her chores has been a bit tiring, but I know she needed the extra hands. I am looking forward to come back home to my own place.

Nothing much has happened since the last post, which is why I haven’t written anything. I decided to just mention them all in one longer post, instead on multiple short ones, since a lot of days was just spent chilling or minor events.

My mother was gone last weekend on a girls trip to Sweden, so I got to have the house for myself. It was really nice to both get a little break from mum, but also be able to hang out with my friends that I usually hang out with. We played some games and I got to order kebab for dinner. I ordered for the usual place and to no surprise, it tasted delicious. My mother returned back on Monday and I made dinner for the both of us.

The following week, not much happened. We planted some new flowers on my fathers grave, and picked up my cousins wedding present on Tuesday. On Wednesday we sorted out all my dads cloths and put them in big bags to give to charity and then in the evening my sister and her boyfriend came over for dinner that I was cooking. On Thursday, my mother and I delivered my dads old cloths to Fretex (aka charity) and then we had a nice walk down to Grünerløkka and had a nice dinner. I had some spicy Won tons followed my Crazy Duck.

Yesterday however was a nice day. I made plans to hang out with some of my old friends that I had before moving to Belgium. After meeting my mum in the city to go shoe shopping for the wedding, I hopped on a tram and met my friends in a park close to where one of them lived. Since one of them was recovering from a concussion, we just decided to keep it chill. We tried a lot of different Asian snacks and talked about what has been going on in our life’s for the past years. It was really nice seeing them again and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. I’m always a bit nervous when it comes to social gatherings due to my social anxiety, but this was nothing but nice.

Today is the big day so a lot of things will happen. We are scheduled to head out at around noon. I need to run some small errands and then it’s probably just going to go very fast with the wedding ceremony and the after party. I was tasked to take a lot of photos which I’m looking forward to.

So that was basically my last week quickly summed up. As I stated, it’s been a nice trip, but I’m looking forward to be going home. Be back with my boyfriend, my pc, my own bed and back to streaming again.

Another year, another birthday month

We are back in October aka the month of celebrations. We started with my birthday which was on the 8th and then we just recently celebrated my boyfriend’s birthday on the 19th.

My birthday was really nice. I had an event over at my twitch channel (twitch.tv/yannani) that I called “Subtemberthon”. It was to take advantage of the platform’s Subtember event.

Subtember is an event that Twitch does every year for the month of September. During that event one can save up 30% on subs and gifted subscriptions. So it’s the prime to give your favourite stream a bit of extra support.

Since the event lasted until Oct 1st and my birthday is on the 8th I decided to have a 3 week long subathon so that people could contribute while the discounts were active and still have it count towards my birthday stream.

So the day started of really nice. I did a nice 6h stream where I was even wearing a cute little birthday hat while playing games. Then at around 6 pm I got ready to head out since boyfriend and I had made dinner reservation at a place in the city called “Seoul club house”. We arrived just in time and got seated at our table. We already knew what we wanted since we had already looked at the menu. They sadly did not have the drinks that we wanted so we had to pick something else. When it came to the food, everything looked and tasted really good. We happily enjoyed our meal and when we were finished we headed upstairs to play some pool. Boyfriend told me beforehand that he was really bad, but I guess it must have been his lucky day, because he won against me 3-0. Despite the fact that I felt a bit annoyed to have lost we still had a really fun time.

Fast forwards to the 19th aka boyfriend’s birthday. We had a normal start to our day, woke up and played some games. At around 4:30pm we got ready to ride our bikes to the bowling place and meet up with the rest of the family. We played two rounds of bowling where the nephew got total 2 strikes and Nathan’s brother got 3 strikes in a row. I only got 1 spare and so did Nathan, but at least we weren’t last (I was for the first round, but we don’t talk about that xD). After we had played it was time for dinner. We had raclette with a variety of meat, some champions, coleslaw and potatoes and then we had a small chocolate pudding for dessert. When we came home we continued the celebration with some Piña colada and some lemon merengue pie.

All in all, both birthday were a success. I also got an amazing present for my birthday. I got my very own violin. For those who doesn’t know, I used to play the violin back when I was growing up and I have always wanted to return, but since those instruments are usually quite expensive I have never been able to afford one. Together we my boyfriend we found some really nice ones for just above €100 and he said I could get one for my birthday this year. I have been practicing and having a lot of fun with it.

My next post will be in around 1 week time, because that’s when boyfriend is doing a new concert together with a friend of theirs which means more photo jobs for me 😀

Hope you all have a great rest of your week and get ready for Halloween if you’re celebrate that ^^