infected finger

so, i have a small infection next to the nail on one of my fingers.
And it hurts, a little bit.
But of course I should not be complaining, especially not since a very good friend is in the hospital undergoing an operation.
However, today I accidentally scratched my finger, and the infection opened up and puss came out. I know sounds lovely doesn't it.
But one big problem: no disinfectant. Nowhere in the apartment.
So what do you do, with pain in the heart: pored some whiskey over my poor finger...
26, and still feel like I am living a student-life.
Getting some more adult medical stuff as we speak.

and re-opened

Although I decided that I would shut down this blog in March and turn to Tumblr, today I made the decision to re-open this blog again.

Mainly because on Tumblr I only post pictures that make no sense, but make me happy. Which I can imagine is not something everybody is interested in - however, I do wonder if anyone is interested in my yapping about my life, but reading my old posts back, it felt nice to let the interwebs know what is going on in my personal life (like people - read the KGB/FBI/FSB etc - can not already figure that out from my Facebook account).

So, since a few months I have been studying in Uppsala Sweden, International Politics & International Studies (Eurasia specialization) - sounds impressive, doesnt it? And it is completely awesome. Not only do I like the studies, but living in such an intellectual bubble is like having a wet-dream (yes, I realize I am not a 15-year old boy, but I like the analogy). Everybody around my is not only super smart, but also very interesting, and I have made some friends for life here.

Drinking beers at the Nations is one of my new favorite hobbies. Also making assignments with fellow classmates in the late evenings. Or having tea at Cafe Linne of Gustavkas Konditorei.

But of course, I am still travelling Europe like a crazy person. Next stop is Georgia, and after two weeks I will spent my New Year's Eve in Paris (!) with Myriam - a French friend whom I met 1,5 year ago traveling Georgia's amazing mountains and discovering Yerevan in summer (instead -20 degrees).

I am one lucky girl!

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birds

My parents live on the outskirts of the village, bordering beautiful nature. Currently I am staying a week at their place to study for an exam I still have open at my Dutch university and every morning I am woken up by an orchestra of birds, amazing.
Not like the raven's that live outside of my studentdorm in Kyiv, that start screaming at 5 or 6 in the morning, no: beautiful singing birds: spring has started!

снег | snow | თოვლი | sneeuw | schnee | neige | сніг

The title of this posts gives away the content, namely: snow. Yes ladies and gentlemen, it has been snowing in Ukraine since mid-November, and now, mid-March, it still hasn't stopped.

In the beginning snow is nice, snow is very beautiful and it makes you feel all christmassy inside. After one month (or perhaps earlier) the downsides of snow begin to irritate you: the slipping and falling, the cold, the wet feet, your shoes beginning to fall apart, the constantly necessity of a hat and a scarf. All making you stay inside more and more, canceling dates with friends because the ten minute walk to the metro has gone up to a twenty minute walk.

However, yesterday I made a life-changing decision:

I made peace with the snow.



It is very easy, you just decide there is snow, it will be there, and you can better enjoy it than have it ruining your good mood.

And strangely enough: it has worked ;).

Die Antwoord

Ok, via-via-via I found this HotShot South African Elctro HipHop Trash group that got famous in just 5 days because of their crazy bizarre new website. I LOVE them, and I think everybody should know who they are, because they fkn ROCK.

Therefore, from SA with love, Die Antwoord.



(PS: both the girl and the guy are already longer known in SA separately, the girl in the HipHop scene and the guy, I couldn't really figure out how yet, but they decided to do this project together, awesome)

Am I stupid, or are my doctors?

Just a small fact to start this post: My whole life I have had asthma and I have been treated for it with medication and regular tests.

When I turned fifteen I started to have irregular heart-beats and now and then my heart would go on a rampage, making me quite scared, since my uncle is having heart problems and it could be something serious. I went to my doctors several times, and they succeeded in securing me it might not be normal, but nothing too serious and I just needed to be careful.
However, growing older I seemed to have less problems with it, and I had the feeling I grew over it, until a couple of weeks ago, when suddenly I started to have these irregular heartbeats again. Fortunately, it just happened on three occasions, and since I am in Ukraine at the moment, I did not feel the urge to go to doctors here (the reason for that you can find here).
Today I was watching an episode of a television show on my macbook which I downloaded; I don't watch an aweful lot of them since I do not have the time, but sometimes it is good to have some colors and sounds you can watch and listen to while you don't have to think too much. And suddenly one of the characters said: 'We could also give him asthma medication, to raise his heartbeat.' I googled it and all websites confirm: asthma medication can lead to irregular hart beats.
Most probably my doctors were thinking of my asthma medication when they checked my heartbeat, however, they failed to inform me, making me believe I might have some serious heart problems. The reason I am pretty sure it is my asthma medication causing the problems, is because when it occurred when I was sixteen I was taking a lot of medication, and the last three weeks it was similar; the conclusion is simple, my asthma medication has most probably been effecting my heart rate.
I wish the doctors had told me before. The reason I did not check it myself the drug prescription, is because I have asthma since I am born, and therefore never checked the info given with the medication, for me they were like vitamins, you just take them, and you don't ask questions, it is just how it is.
There you go, how you can be afraid of something for almost ten years, and it turns out to be the medication you've been taking causing those symptoms...