Bristol trip in pictures II.

Here are a some more photos from Bristol, and the day we went to London!

Bristol trip in pictures I.

So here's some pictures Cille, Emma and I have been taking with my Nikon D3000 on our trip so far. We're still here for 10 more days, so there will be a lot more pictuers up!

My weekend in England.

First of all I want to apologise - I wanted to film a video diary from the entire weekend instead of making a blogpost. But of course my voice decided to go nuts on Saturday, and I found it kinda embarrassing to run around and speak English to a camera. And when I decided I'd just speak Danish and put on subtitles, I found out that my shitty camera (which is so old school it need batteries) can't film properly in the dark.

So instead I'm just gonna tell you about it - shortly, because if I told every little detail (believe me, I remember everything, almost down to the exact minute), it'd be the longest blog post ever seen anywhere on the internet. 

Well, Thursday Cille and I arrived at London Gatwick airport around 10pm English time. We walked around and tried to get a hold of some stuff like a place where Cille could shower and the place where we had to pick up our train tickets. We charged our phones, got a tiny bit to eat and then found some more or less comfortable chairs to sleep on. Well, at least they had pillows. For some reason there was (more or less) silent all night, except for around 4am, where everyone's flight suddenly left. Weird.

We didn't get much sleep and got up around 5.30 Friday morning. Costa was open 24/7, so we went in to get some coffee, before we got ready for the day. We arrived at KoKo around 10am and there weren't many in the queue in front of us. Around 30 minutes later, two other Danes named Sofie and Sarah arrived and we sat together. We had so much fun in the queue! We saw Vic, Mike and Jaime a few times, but Tony didn't show up until an hour before the doors opened, and rarely anyone noticed him.
We also got to meet the sweet Katrina, who's one of our friends from Essex. It was nice to finally meet her!

Between the two support bands Hands Like Houses and Woe, Is Me, the crowd went absolutely crazy. Yeah, it sounds weird that they did so between the bands, but they really did. I went out in the side, where there was a bit more room, and then I had to take care of a kid who had hit his head and was shaking and could barely breathe. I sat with him for half an hour, I think.
After that I went up to the balcony and saw the entire Pierce The Veil show from up there with Katrina. It was weird, but nice to see a band perform from such a distance. 

I apologise for poor quality, but I only have poor quality pics from Friday.

After the show they did give out autographs, but neither me nor Cille got any, because they put up a fence, and rarely anyone got anything. So instead we yelled at them in Spanish and maybe even threw a bad word or two after them, oops.
We were supposed to sleep at London Paddington train station, but we were so unbelievably tired, that we didn't care about money and spent £30 each to sleep in the same room as our Danish friends for just one night. 

Early in the morning, Saturday, we got up and took of to get our luggage back, before we took the train for Bristol. We arrived around 10.15 and met someone at the station who were also at the show in London. So we pretty much spent most of the day talking to them, sitting in queue outside The Fleece, and they were really sweet! They offered to put our luggage in their hostel room, because we had nowhere to put it, since our friend was at the library all day, studying for his exam.

This time it was so much more chill, and the band even got to walk back and forth between the venue without much happening. Except when Vic did so, because he's apparently more popular than the others. The girls surrounded him so all I could see was his extremely small feet, haha! And he was extremely small - not much taller than me, actually (I'm about 5'4). We got pictures with Mike, because he was nice, and he said that they'd love to come to Denmark (but unfortunately it probably won't happen anytime soon, since they don't have enough fans here). 

The show was so much more intimate than the one at KoKo, because there were only like 300 people. Of course the crowd went nuts, but I didn't have to move away and I was able to breathe properly most of the time. Vic did say a lot of the same things as the night before (as everyone does at concerts), but he did interact with some of the fans on the first row, which was so nice.

After the show they all came out and gave autographs and took pictures. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture with anyone, except Mike, because he went out before the show. But I got to speak to all of them, and got a few autographs as well. One thing that made me really happy was that I got to say "feliz cumpleaños" (happy birthday in Spanish) to Jaime, whose birthday was the day before, at the London gig, but he didn't come out to talk, because he had a broken leg. But he said it was alright and he became so happy, when he heard someone speak Spanish to him. Like genuinely happy!

That evening we slept at our friend's place and we flew back to Denmark Sunday. I already miss it really badly, and I can't wait until next time I see those wonderful Sexicans again!

You'll get to see my autographs later, right now it's too dark to take proper pictures.
Ps. I call this blog post short??????

New in: electronics.

Without furhter ado: I am now the proud owner of a Nikon D3000. 

I don't know if that's a good camera in the eyes of people who know a lot about cameras. It's probably not, but it's only my second camera ever, and it's way better than the other one I have, which is actually around 4-5 years old. Somehow it's still alive.

I am keeping my old shitty camera, though, because you obviously can't bring a Nikon to concerts. So I'll just get weird, shitty pictures of all the concerts I'm going to, but I'll live.

My mum also just suddenly asked me if I wanted a new DVD player, because my old one gave up (it was also a few years old), and of course I said yes. It was just a really cheap one and it'll probably just live for like 1-2 years, but I'm fine with that.

Sidenote: I just ordered a ticket to go to this vlogger event in London called Summer in the City - basically a whole lot of Youtubers are going to be there, and so am I. And Emma. I'm going to England for 2 weeks in end July/start of August (reduced from 4 to 2 because Cille won't have the money), and then once again on the 17-18th! It'll be amazing!

Concerts in 2013.

Basically I'm already planning a bunch of concerts next year and all of them are before June. So I just wanted to make a little list of which concerts I'm planning to go to.

• Asking Alexandria, 25th of January, Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Yellowcard, 11th of Feburary, Lille Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark (actually just going because of The Blackout).
• Pierce The Veil, 17th of May, O2 Academy Islington, London, England.
• Pierce The Veil, 18th of May, The Fleece, Bristol, England.

I don't think I'll be going to the BVB concert in Denmark, because it's too expensive and I've already seen them once. And they're not that important to me anymore. 

But I'm looking forward to see what The Dead Lay Waiting will come up with, since Steve promised that they'd come back to Denmark in early 2013!
Drew and Kier from Fearless Vampire Killers also said that they'd do their best to come to Denmark next year. So I'm probably going to even more concerts than this!

I only had 4 big concerts this year, and knowing I'm already planning 4 next year is awesome, because I'm pretty sure there are more to come. I just love going to concerts!

09.11.12.

So Friday was our last day of school in Bristol, which of course made us pretty sad. We didn't go to our lecture class, since we had to talk to some dude at the activities office, but we of course went to our General English class, where our favourite teacher was.

Our topic that week had been music and our teacher had prepared a small quiz about modern music and we had to answer the questions in pairs, Cille and I were together.
Now, he knew that we were the experts on music in that class, and in the end of the quiz we were the group with most correct answers. What we didn't expect was that he pulled out two small trophies out of his bag and handed them to us.

We also got our certificates that day, and said goodbye to everyone. It was actually pretty sad, and to be honest we didn't want to leave the school. We wanted to stay, and trust me, if we had the money, we would still be there.

But eventually we left and went to get some lunch at a Mexican restaurant. I tell you, burritos are great! After a while of walking around in the city and shopping some more (oops), we went back home to chill and get ready for the party later that evening.

That party was really awesome! We went to a club called Walkabout, and we partied hard with all our friends. And I was hammered, like really, it was so much fun! We took these shots that tasted kinda like soda - except one that tasted awful, like marzipan. Those and a couple of Vodka RedBull made sure that I was completely wankered at the time where the club closed.

We were outside and didn't feel like going home at all, so we went to Stokes Croft, because Cille needed cigarettes and we ended up outside a pizzaria, with a box of chips in hands, talking to some random dudes we ran into - who for some reason knew one of our friends. We spent a while talking to them and came back home at 7 in the morning.

All in all a great day and night. And of course the trip itself was super awesome - I'd like to repeat that. And we're going to, since we're planning to go back again next summer, of course just for holidays. But we're probably joined by Selma and Emma. And I just really can't wait!

Me, Cille and some of our friends from EF.

Picture blog: Bristol.

Frozen yoghurt @ Angelberry.

Pirate ship!

White chocolate mocha from Starbucks is pure love!

A cute Cille in Starbucks.

1 week.

Today is Sunday, which of course means lazy day!

But it also means that there's now only one week left until we'll travel back to Denmark - which bums the fuck out of me. I seriously don't wanna go home, I'd give anything to stay, because I love it here. This city even beats Seville, and that's something.

I've had such a great time here, it's crazy. Me and Cille have already made a deal: we'll definitely go back in the summer of 2013. We'll go back home and work our asses off to save up to come back for 3-4 weeks next year. And then we'll probably take one year of studying in the university in 2 years or so. 

I honestly though that I was going to miss Denmark and everyone at home, but it's come to the point where I literally don't wanna go home at all. I wish I could just take all my friends and family and bring them here, so we could all live happily ever after here in Bristol. Oh, and of course I'd bring the SU with me as well (Danes get paid for studying, not paying). 

I don't wanna go home, please let me stay :(

Halloween outfit.

Unfortunately we were in a hurry last night, so I only got to take one picture, before we rushed out the door to catch the last bus headed to the City Centre. And it was unfortunately taken with my iPhone. But I thought I'd show you anyway, just because.

As I told you, I had spend hours doing this outfit, and it really did pay off - we had one of the most amazing nights! We got drunk really quickly, as planned, and so did Michael, which was also planned. The most crazy thing about the night was to get into the freaking venue. Everyone was acting like some musician was inside and about to play, I have literally never been pushed that much in my life! Someone next to us in the queue had been waiting for like an hour to get in! Luckily we got in pretty quickly and found Michael just as we got in.

And it was not like those parties back home in Denmark - it was huge! And I loved it! Anyone planning to go to England should definitely go to a party at an O2 Academy venue.

Happy Halloween!

So today is Halloween and even though it's a Wednesday, we're of course going out to celebrate. We've spend hours getting ready for the party at the O2 Academy and now we're finally ready to go.


Tomorrow I'll put in pictures of what we look like today - and maybe there will even be pictures from the party itself, who knows?
And if anyone of you (silently) guessed that we were supposed to look like ventriloquist dolls, you guessed correctly!

Pictures: TDLW and FVK.

My big brother smashing the drums.

Kier singing.

Laurence and Kier.

Ashley, Cille, me and Ben. Random, much.

Me and Kier. Love this one.

Credit to: Cille  for the picture of me and Kier and Catherine Wilde for the one of me, Cille, Ben and Ashley.

Sneak peek: Halloween make-up.

Yesterday Cille and I stayed up late to try out an amazing idea for our Halloween outfits - the make-up. And it actually turned out pretty nice!
We're going to a pretty big Halloween party on Wednesday with one of our new friends, who's studying at the University of Bristol. We met him Tuesday at another party, and he already invited us to another party.

The party's being held at the O2 Academy and there will probably be loads and loads of university students, which is really awesome, to be quite honest. Of course we said yes to be there immidiately, so we had to figure out some pretty awesome costumes. Now, that was kind of a problem, because neither of us have been to a huge Halloween party befor, nor being too dressed up. But this time will be different. Being in one of England's great party cities means partying, even on a Wednesday night, and when it's Halloween in England, one has to be dressed up.

So here is a little sneak peek of some of my Halloween make-up. Can you guess what I'm going as? Cille is going as the same thing, just with her own version of the make-up.

Credit goes to Cille for the awesome idea and the awesome camera.