My darlings... and on the high note of my exam results for which i can thank only you because you were my raison d'etre, the delta course in international house, seville has come to a close. without you i would never have been able to get through it - and don't argue mama, because there's no argument. if you had been here and seen how it's been, i

Lallie rushed to bed that night as she knew that the sooner she was asleep, the sooner father christmas and his elves with reindeers in tow could get to work. mama told lallie that poor father christmas had a great deal of work to do – visit all the children of the world in only one night... what a work load... and so the sooner she was asleep th

Darlings, coucoooooooooou!! how are my beloved parents today? another day done as yours hasn't long begun - 8 more to go in spain for me and 79 til dresden, mama. today, i went in to school late. there seems no reason to be there on the dot of ten anymore since noone else is and i'm fed up with being the only one there waiting. i missed a lesson on

For 16 centuries, tradition has it that saint nicholas crosses the globe tonight, leaving presents for all those who have done good deeds throughout the year. children (young and old, big and small!) polish their boots on the evening of december 5th, so that he will stop by and drop his gifts inside them. over 811,000 romanians mark their name day

Darlings who'd have thunk it! little green men with tall hats and guinness t'shirts running around (or lounging about drinking, more often than running) central seville!! all very silly but was fun! to begin, we had our exam (just me and bh as noone else showed - brian had a real true migraine and liz couldn't be bothered)...papers 1 and 2 with res

Lallie was so tired when she crawled into bed and snuggled her nose behind her mama's ear (its favourite place to be) that she was asleep in minutes and didn't even hear the end of the lalliebye. mama kissed her daughter's forehead and went to the lab to marinade some snitzels for papa's lunch the next day. lallie flew through the velvety sky, as a

Mama got to the end of lallie’s bedtime story and closed the book having first marked the page with a home-made bookmark. “it’s a wrap,” said mama, “i’m bushed!” lallie was already half asleep. “cuddle!” she ordered, dozily and mama bent over her daughter to execute the wish, just as she always did. she kissed lallie’s forehead,

Darling loves, sorry i didn't write this last night - i hope i can remember everything...and liz is coming round at any moment to leave some of her stuff here til wednesday as she's moving into a hostel tonight and doesn't want to take too much. anyway, back to gibraltar, i got the bus yesterday morning as planned after having been further irritate

My darlings well...this is it. my final morning. i am not yet gone and brain of spain wants to strip the bed. lots to do before semana santa. kind of the last straw. i asked for their book and wrote in french all that i have 'sur le coeur' since perhaps they will understand it better in a latin language. i wrote three pages. with bullet points. and

Last week, one of my closest friends (s.) came to bucharest for new year. it was her first visit so i really wanted her to feel the charm of this marvellous, vibrant city. we sped about all over the place taking in museums, galleries, churches, monasteries and two wonderful days in brasov. towards the end of a lovely busy week, s. decided she'd lik