I'm back with the polarbears

Haha. Kidding, off course there are no polarbears here now. They hibernate during the summer... :P

It's around 25 degrees, and really nice in Norway at the moment. I came to my parents place near Oslo Sunday night, and on Thursday I will go back to Bergen. For the first time in 6 months! It feels rather surreal...

I left Amsterdam on the 30th of June, by train, to my grandparents place in Germany. For ten days I ate, basically. From there I took the plane to Naples, where I visited Ivan for ten days. It's so beautiful there (look at the pictures)!

The view from Ivans house

The 2nd bluest water in Italy

Spontaneously, I ended up flying to Vienna to visit a friend from Prinsengracht. I stayed for a week, and it was so much fun! We were 5 people from Amsterdam, and even if it was a bit weird meeting them in Austria, it felt so natural being together again. This made me really happy, because I know it will be the same when I meet any one of you again.

Viennese Coffe- House

It was so touching to read all your posts, there were truly great friendships established this year!

I still think about you, and I always will.

Yours,
Cathrine (Cathie ;) )

From the south of Spain...

Hello people!!

How is your new life going?? I have heard about some people that had already left our wonderful city, and I think that more or less we have all the same feeling about being back home. The truth is that I have been doing here a lot of things but still I think about you every single day. I came yesterday from an amazing trip in Portugal with all my friends, and I have to say that It has been incredible, we had a lot of fun there but despite this, I was always thinking how it could have been if you were there. About you Mahsa, I'm really happy that missing your plane became a good situation. You guys, that changed your trip not to let her alone was a behaviour that says a lot of good things about you, and make me feel very proud of the kind of friends that i did during my erasmus. When I talked to my parents telling them what had happened and that you had changed your trip to go to Brussels to stay with mahsa my father told me - Marisol, these are the kind of things that just good friends in life do, It shows the strong friendship you made there - and I have to say that I feel proud and lucky about this.
For the rest, I am waiting till the first of august to go to Almuñecar and spent there some days in summer. I know that maybe some of you will come to visit me but you are all invited!!!

I don¡t have a lot of new things to tell, just that fortunately my summer is going really good and here I also have a lot of good persons that were waiting for me. I keep talking about you as the best erasmus ever because after talking with a lot of pepole I am sure that our group was the best.

I can not wait to see you, and you those that are far I am sure that we will see again.

I MISS YOU ALL, AND I LOVE U ALL....

Marisol
xxxxxxxxxxx

PD: Adria, really good idea to make this blog. It is nice to heard from all of u.

Some french news

Hello my sweet family!!
I can see that everyone is more or less ok but that we definitly keep it touch although i was sure we will but this blog is a great idea!
I am sorry to not give you more news but i am very busy here and my computer doesn't work very well anymore so i have to send my e-mail from my friend's computer.
I came back from Poland on sunday where i have seen maciek for few hours, it was nice and weird to see each other not in Amsterdam.
If i can give you some hope concerning the "after eramus period", well, it's been one month that i came back home and i think about you every single day but i am not sad....just happy that this happened in my life, so i hope you will have the same feelings.
I have also a funny story : i get my master for next year so i will spend 6 months in Toulouse and 6 months in Warwick as a kind of second erasmus....and guess with who i will be in England??.....JOE!!!!
I asked also for Barcelona but they didn't give me the answer yet so England is sure and maybe Barcelona.....
I have found my appartment in Toulouse so you are all invited to come whenever you want to.
For the Spanish people i plan to come in Barcelona from the 8th to the 11th of august and also to Bilbao at the end of the month.
For the sweetest american girl, i am definitly going to Montreal next summer and i am gonna try to get an intership in US in september 2009....so i will do my best to come to visit you.
Miss Ponce Fiesta i am not sure to be able to come to sevilla but let me know if you can meet me to barcelona or somewhere else....
I wish you all a good summer, here the weather is amazing and i spend my days to the swimming pool.....
LOT OF LOVE
Julie

some words..

Hey people,

How are you?
I’m glad to see that the blog is being followed..

I’ve been back home for already one week but as I’ve been so busy I haven’t had time to write you some words.It’s not that I have to ,but I want to.
I just wanted to thank all of you for such a great year.It has been amazing!It couldn’t have been better.
I know that I’ve grown up so much as a person during this year...I’ve learned something from each of you and the result , I know it, is that I am a better person now.So thank you so much.
All my friends and family are telling me how happy I seem to be , how beautiful I’ve come back, how much my eyes are shining...etc since I arrived. But it just because I’ve come back HAPPY, full of life, full of “ joie de vivre”,...
After a bad period that I had had to go through ,quite recently, this year was the perfect gift someone could have ever given me.
It has fulfilled me of energy, optimimism, and enought strength to face the future and whatever comes.

I sincerly love you ,
Hélène

I love you.

So missing my flight back to the US is probably the second best thing I’ve done in my life. The first being to go to Amsterdam to study.

The last trip around Europe was amazing. I couldn’t have asked for a better 4 days. Thanks guys for coming all the way back for me. It means a lot to me. Sorry to have made Berlin unsuccessful once again. Conde's birthday was great, we missed you all.

I ended the best year of my life with the 2 worst days I’ve ever had. The guys left the airport at around 1:30 in the morning. And I decided to stay the night there to make sure to make it to my flight (not that missing it again wouldn’t have me happier than anything.) I spent the next 12 hours in the airport. Destroyed. Then got onto my plane to Philadelphia. But we couldn’t land in Philadelphia so they took us to Boston. We couldn’t land there either, so finally we went to Atlantic city. We got more fuel for the plane and after 10 and a half hours we finally got off the plane.

That gave me about 1 min to catch my next flight to Phoenix. We had to wait about 45 min before taking off, because of bad weather. After another 5 hours of flying, I got to Arizona. My luggage didn’t. But that a story for another time. No one should be allowed to travel all that way alone when they're destroyed.

My parents picked me up at the airport. I’d missed them. More than I had remembered, and we drove to Tucson. I’ve been home for about 1 hour. Everyone is sleeping. But I can’t, not because of the time difference, but because my first night here is too hard. Too real. Tomorrow is that start of my new life, and somehow I’m hoping it doesn’t come.

I just can’t believe that it’s over. I shouldn’t be here. I can’t think since I left. I can’t breath. I can’t stop crying. I criticize everything now. The big trucks, the huge stores, the wide streets, the never ending sight of cactus. But at least every time I’m about to cry because of sadness, I smile.

Because it really was the best year of my life. Thanks to all of you. My love for you is forever.


I believe in a theory. I wish with all my heart that it’s true.

I miss you………….
Mahsa

Just Kidding...

Concerning my kid... Bullshit!

ALmOsT BeRLin TrIp....

Hey Sarphati people!!I heard from some people that the return to the fucking reality is hard and weird.. I have not arrived yet to this world, but unfortunately I am coming soon.. I am not going to start saying sad things and great memories from the past, but be sure I will..
I just want to let you know how was our almost Berlin trip. We left Amsterdam the 16th after saying bye bye to Mahsa... so imagine.. We rented the car and we took the road direction to a city that aparently is impossible to reach.. When we were in "Hangover" Mahsa called us saying that she had just missed her plane.. So after thinking quite a lot we decided that we must go to Brussels to pick her up. So we did. Once there, and after maybe 10 hours of car, we went to this amazing bar that most of you will remember: The "guinest record beers bar" called Delirious. We slept in a hostel but we had a "quick beer" before in a kind of party in the same hostel.
Next morning, without knowing for sure where to go we decided to go to Lille, because was in the same way of London, which was aparently the choosen city to celebrate my birthday. We arrived in Lille(an unexpected nice city), we have a walk and we went early to sleep.
We had a kind of good breakfast in the hostel, and after calling my friend, who was suppose to give us accomodation in London but finally didn't, we had no fucking idea where to go. This was a weird but at the same time freedom sensation. After making a formal discussion we had the "great idea" of going to Luxembourg.. So once more we get in the car and drive some kilometers..
At 4 in the afternoon more o less we arrived in this small but beatiful country and city at the same time. We went to a hostel but....I do not know if thankfully or not, we had no place to sleep in the whole Luxemburg.. So as usual, we had no fucking idea of where to go..
We had a "free coffee" and a deep discusion and we decided to go to PARISSS without knowing if we were going to sleep or where to stay there. We get in our "secondhouse-car" and we left Luxembourg at 6. After a huge traffic jam and 4 hours of driving we arrived in Robin's city.. His family was really nice and they allowed us to slept that night there.
At 12 my unexpected birthday in Paris began. We went to QUEENs, a really cool but expensive place. We had much fun, but we were only 5.. I felt like there were at least 20 more people which must have been there with us this day... My friends, my Sarphati family...
Next day, we took the car direction to Brussels again.. We all had a strange feeling of happiness because of the great trip we just made, but also of sadness, because of having to say bye to Mahsa again.. We had dinner in a little village, and unfortunately we had to go to the, from now on, most hated airport ever..
So, the trip was great, but it began and finished in a sad way.. But I think for the 5 of us it has been a trip we will never forget...

I wish all of you could have been there with us.

Lots of love. We miss you.

Conde

David is a pussy

Yep. True story, david actually dreams about you guys... I bet he cried while writing his post...
However, i must say that i share his feelings, those were the best 6 months of my life.

I will miss each and everyone one of you (not you Adria) for the rest of my life (not you Alvaro), even Carlijn (no Moflo and no Conde i didnt do anything with her).
The parties, the football games, the poker games, the drinking games, the PES (still haven't beaten me Joan), the talks about nothing and everything, the dinners (by the way, Pierre, you have to teach me to do some of those amazing sauces), the weed, the shrooms ("What else?"), the elevator ("Fuck you Joao" or "Fuckin' Joao"). Man, what a long sentence.
Everything about that place was great even the fact that i had to put up with fucking Adria. Let me just finish by saying: Fucking Portugal we played like shit in the Euro! Congrats to all you fucking spanish people!

Last thing, my girlfriend is pregnant i am gonna be a father!!!!

P.S. Poker?


Lotta Love (Who the hell says that?),

Fuckin' Joao

!!!! HELLO!!!

OLÁ!

Dear friends,

It has been 7 months since i left sarphatistraat. And i just wanted you to know, that after 7 months in "reality" i still haven't forgotten any of you. Believe me or not, i dream with you guys and or times in amsterdam about 2 or 3 times a week, and for the first month i couldnt even get some decent sleep.

Truth is i miss you all. I know that there hasnt been almost any communication between all of you but that doesnt mean i don't remember you or our great times, and i seriously hope you still have some kind of reminescence of my person :)

I also wanted you to know that for me it is really fucked up to know that next time i come back to amsterdam you guys won't be there, so i feel like there is something that i won't ever have again. I always said that i would visit you and i was supposed to however i failed one course and had to stay in lisbon studying, oh and yeah, i passed now which means that i'm graduate now \o/

Dear friends, i whish you all the best, good luck for your life and i hope we can meet somewhere in this (small) world. And hey, the biggest part of this group of people is spanish! And what is right next to spain?? Portugal! So let's just have a weekend together in some random city and have a taste of the old good times!

Lotta love!

David from Portugal

PS. This blog is an amazing idea! Just keep it updated or else ill join Adria for you know what.

SOUL FRIENDS by Mario

Hi Everybody!

I,m pretty sure that specifically this post is not gonna be so read, but anyway someone have to start putting things here, in order to keep in touch in a real way!!

Today it has been so hard guys, I have said bye to some of my closest friends in my erasmus life, and that have killed me, Mahsa looking at me completely distroyed is the last thing i wanted to see (I luv U)

In that train, I was saying to my mind, .... "It is not fair to find finally soul friends here", "why life is so cruel?". I am not talking about the hilarous parties, great picnics and so on that we,ve enjoyed together.... I am talking about something more, about people that have completely accepted me with all of my pros and cons. That,s gonna be so hard to find it with another people. I,m so thanked guys, thanks for making me the happiest man ever!

Hopefully or thankfully (I think in this case is Thankfully,.... Mahsapedia?) Jimena, Faus and I were flying in the same flight and this have helped the 3 of us so much. It was fun the way back home, 26 kilos in a low cost airline, bike with a crappy package, 4 handluggage of joan, 2 of chime, 2 of me,.... exhosted but fun!

And here I am, B.friend is sleeping because he has to work early tomorrow morning,... thankfully I have him helping me to get over of this deep sadness, but it is 3 am and I cannot sleep!

Good luck to those that are travelling to Berlin in some hours, and a big hug as well to Mahsa, that is crossing all the world to meet her family and friends again!

I,ll promise next time to be more optimistic, but what can i do? afterall with you guys I feel that I can say everything without any "tabu", and that,s the coolest thing that could happen to a group of a SOUL FRIENDS.

LOL (Lots of Love)
Mario

PS: Nana is so high,....... You say goodbye I say hello,......... what a memories!

Smiles by Héctor

Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:30:28 PM

Yesterday I celebrated my birthday with my close friends from BCN, as I am used to do.
However, this time it was not the same, I felt like many people were missing in the party... then I realized that I also would have liked to have celebrated it with you Sarphati people in Sarphati... but rather than becoming sad, a smile was drawn in my face when this thought came to my mind.

Thanks for make me smile

Best regards from BCN

héctor
www.hector624.com

Goodbye Sarphati