My life here as a random.

Let's see. My week went as so: wait for baby to wake up, feed baby, pay attention to baby, put baby to sleep, contemplate a hobby, take 2 year old to the park, shop with stroller, hike home.

Don't worry, I'm just serious.

Today was fun though, as I have weekends off, I went to Zurich today to meet up with Marina Ribi.. the latest member of the LVSD family. We also met up with her friend Anna and her boyfriend Johannes. So once we were all together we went shopping and I found some pretty cheap stuff so that was FANTASTIC considering a shirt on average is about 25 CHF. Aka too much for the content.

After shopping we went to this quaint coffe shop and met up with one of the boyfriends roommates. Then we walked to their apartment and had dinner drank some wine and hung out. I finally felt like today I made some "local"ish friends. I've begun to feel like a sorry loser with no friends. But slowly and surely I'm meeting people. Thank goodness for swimming or else the only friends I'd have here would be a 2 and a half year old and a 4 month old. Real cool...

SIKE.

Tomorrow I am meeting up with a friend's sister and having dinner with her and her husband. Maybe I can request the number of a cute single friend that can help me out with not being such a loner. Not that I really mind ALL that much, but having something to do/ someone to hang out with on weekends or after work on weekdays would be nice.

Thats all for now. I'm going to read (my itouch is now my best friend, at least it provides me with reading material).

peace and blessins.

x jsaff

ALSO

i can smell the sheep/ cows right now that live in my backyard

im not even being dramatic. I can take a picture and post it. literally 100 feet from my house. Sasha and I went to hang out with them yesterday.

My new life.

OK So.. Now Im in Zug.

Everything everyone told me about Switzerland? TRUE

Its beautiful/ clean/ EXPENSIVE.. But whatever I have a room and I dont pay rent. And I eat my meals for free, I'm not complaining... This past weekend I went with the family I'm living with to the mountians.. I posted pictures on facebook. It was breathtaking. I cant wait to see what everything looks like with snow covering it. I'm anticipating to be blown away by the fact that there is REAL SNOW that doesnt turn to slush the minute it hits the ground.

The family I am with now is AMAZING. Like ideal family. The kids are so cute and the parents are young. I definitely know that I am in the right place this time. I still feel like this is a dream and I have yet to wake up. I am only stressing about the whole visa thing, but you know what? Something will work out.. God's got a plan for me :)

What about the guy I've been blabbering about in my past few posts you ask? He's coming to visit. We talked for a while last night and he locked in our reservation. I am excited now. Because its REAL. Now I am allowed to get excited to see someone I care about.

Lauren Moloney: happily surprised :)

Today I went to the park in the Old City (Zug has an OC too!! So much like Knoxvegas) with the girls and had a good, easy time. Sasha cried a bit at first, but when she saw all the things to play with she was fine. Of course she ended up going to the sand pit where there is a fountain (what idiots thought it would be a good idea to put water for kids right next to a sand pit would be a good idea??)... When her park friends left she and I found some headphones in the diaper bag and sat down and listened to the one song I have on there.. Shakin it for daddy.. Robin Thicke ft. Nicki Minaj.. unedited. haha So typical. Anyway, today has been a good day and I dont dread waking up every morning (unlike Italy).

Peace and Blessin's

xx J

Traveling across western europe...

DAY 1

Just watched this young couple say goodbye as the girl got on the train. It was so cute. Then she sat down and looked out the window and OF COURSE the guy wasnt there. That'll be the day when romance is alive again when a man watches his woman leave him alone at the train station, instead of loving and leaving.

Anyway, I had a sandwich at the Lisbon train station that was called "Americano Classico." Since when do classic American sandwiches taste like complete SHIT? Seriously, I dont quite remember them being that awful.

This is so sad. I am waiting for my train and the only thing productive I could think of to do is write for my little blog. At least now I am documenting my trip. Its becoming a sick obsession. I can see it now..

"Jamie, want to go for some drinks?"

"No IM BLOGGING!"

Gah, I hope it never comes to that. If it does I guess that will be me saying no to empty calories, which is a good thing... right? Anyway rather than spending an arm and a leg on my train ticket, come to find out since I am under 26, it was WAY cheaper than I thought it would be. So I am happy about that. OH AND I GOT A BED (I thought I'd be in a seat all night). I'm going on my first sleeper train tonight and I am excited, but nervous because I am still having nightmares about people stealing my stuff when I sleep. Thank you to everyone who told me to be careful, I now wake up in a panic every night to make sure I know where I left my wallet.

My train comes soon. Can't wait to see who my roomies for the night are, should be interesting. Yes, I am sleeping with my purse, it's my little spoon for the night.

Come morning time I'll be Madrid. Woop.

Be Good To Me

NEW FAVE SONG BY SIA

BE GOOD TO ME

He says darling don't forget  there is sweetness left unhurt  for you and me  He says honey no regrets  we just do our rest and die  I just want to cry As you be  Be good to me be good to me  I need you now more than ever I'm fate for me and when you're gone  I'll be around, I'll be your every weather  He says this is just today it will be okay and I'm listening He says you can trust in me, you get all you need and all And I doubt you, as you be  Be good to me be good to me  I need you now more than ever I'm fate for me and when you're gone I'll be around, I'll be your every weather  You know what you do to me You light up, light up but darken Your heart not good was in me My heart is filled of weeping  Be good to me be good to me  I need you now more than ever I'm fate for me and when you're gone  I'll be around, I'll be your every weather

one more thing..

Thank you Joes Garage Flyers for making me feel loved every night. Your harassment kept me feelin wanted by your bar all day every day. I will miss you Ben and the fact that you havent showered in months.

LAUREN, you taught me a valuable lesson: never judge a book by its cover. You're probably one of the coolest prettiest girls I've met while abroad :)

Jsaff?

OUT

Packin' up... RATS

This is me packing... :'(

So I'm trying to make sure I distribute weight evenly through my bags.. It's impossible. I'm just going to have to deal with the fact that my rolly bag weighs more than I do. Thats what I get for being a nice person and giving my other giant bag away at the airport in Lisbon. Now I am kicking myself, kinda.

Congrats to Paivi on her new job. Gypsy girl.

Anyway back to my sob story of leaving this crazy town I ended up in. I am sad/ happy.

Sad because: I met Jana Damien Paivi Jas Clare Kristy Eddy Clinton Adam and many others here. You guys are great.

PAIVI ME ADAM JANA

Jana and Damien, thank you so much for lookin out for me. You taught me for sure that age is JUST a number. I hope that when I get to be more mature I only hope I am as cool as you guys are. I can't express how much I admire the two of you.

Paivi and Jas, my lovely roomies... I loved living in A2 with you guys. It was so fun and I'm so glad our diverse group got on so well. Who knew people from all corners of the world could have as much fun as we did. I can't wait til our paths cross again.. because witches you know they will!

Happy because: soon I will have an aircon room with a clean shower. Also I wont be living out of a suitcase anymore, Huzzah!

So tomorrow I leave for Switzerland to start, once more, on a new adventure. It's going to be a pain in the ass to get there, but none the less it'll be another adventure for me to blog about!

Now I'll explain why I have been in such a FAB mood the past 24 hours. For those of you who don't know, when I first got to Portugal within the first week I met Eddy and Clinton. They are a couple Aussies that happened to be staying right next to the staff room in Carlos House. Anyway we got along great and it just so happens Clinton is going to NYC and I told him about KatieMGehring of course. Anyway we went our separate ways that night and of course I find Eddy coming out of the bar I was going into by himself, so out of the kindness of my own heart, I walk back to our hostel with him to make sure he didn't get mugged ;)

A couple of nights later we are both out, I didn't know/ didn't care where he went but I saw him at the bar I went to pashing some other chick. I ran up to him, called him something mean, and then went to the bathroom. Later he came up to me, after I tell him to not touch me, and says something along the lines about feeling like I slapped him in the face? Some of you know, I have a way with words that perhaps that was true, because I know I definitely didnt actually slap him in the face (which is what I thought he said at first.. even though LVSD taught me how to box.. I wouldn't actually uppercut someone). Anyway I told him some things, Im not going to pretend to know exactly what I said because honestly I was completely knackered, but I specifically remember him asking me "What do you want me to do? Drop everything and come to Switzerland?" and of course I said "Yes."

Anyway we had our fling and after a few days he had to leave. I was totally sad and depressed about it for a few days. We have been keeping in touch via facebook. So last night I get a message from him saying something along the lines of:

just looking into my onward travels and where exactly are u staying, possibly address so i can look into accomadation and flights there! will hopefully spend three nites wif u before i train up to a mate in germany what u reckon??? and is it best if i come over the weekend than a week day???

and I responded

then he said

Cool just looked it up its 30km south of zurich! well i could fly in on the friday 10th and then leave monday 13th, its the only weekend i have! so u would have friday nite sat nite then have to leave sunday arvo yeh??? sounds pretty good!!

Needless to say.. IM ELATED. He was so much fun. So hopefully it'll work out. Those of you who know me best know that I go for jerk dudes and not one has offered ever to do something like come see me in a different country, much less a different city in the same state. So if it works out, hooray, if not.. I'm trying to not to get my hopes up tooooo high (but lets be real, they are already there).

Well, I guess the next time I write something, I'll be in another country!

Peace and Blessin's

xx J

2nd to last night in Lagos

I am not allowed to sleep in my room. Someone is doing something in there that I def do not want to witness.

awkward.

On a lighter note, I get to have a spend the night party with Jana. Yeeehaw.

2 days left. 2 days left. 2 days left. 2 days left. 2 days left. 2 days left.

Tomorrow I have to get some things DONE.

xx J

Last night out in Lagos

So... Last night was my last night out in Lagos. You know it was a big one. Started at Gold Coast where Carlos (boss man) made the staff dinner: wieners, beef patties, lamb, rice rice baby (Arthurs words, not mine), and this white melon that was DELICIOUS.

Drank Sangria and some white wine. Took the party to Sunny Coast where we met up with some of the people that we wanted to see later.

First bar: Whytes Bar, where I of course got free drinks because I brought people in because I've made nice with the manager, typical right?

Bar 2: Red Eye where we met up with more friends, which at this point Paivi happened to disappear with her flavor of the week.

Bar 3: Sarah, Jana, and I made it to Inside Out. This is where they left me and I was to fend for my own self with the mass quantities of sweaty drunk people. At this point I re-found Paivi who was STILL kissing Matt (pretty sure they hadnt stopped after Red Eye... literally think they were attached by the lips). Anyway met up with a bunch of Sunny Coasters and proceeded to go to Bar 4: Avalon.

I didn't actually go in the bar. I sat outside for about an hour with Cal, a very drunk Aussie who ended up walking (JUST WALKING, nothing more) me home.

After we walked to Carlos House, which I didn't go into until after an hour after I got there because I saw Carlos go in and I was scared he would judge me and all my drunken glory... When I went in he was sitting on the computer playing Solitare, so my plan of avoiding him went to shit.

Walked into my room, found two naked people, said something explicit quite loudly and ran. I wasn't bothered by the two nekkid people, but I think it was the surprise of them that made me freak out. So I said see ya later to Carlos and speed walked with Cal (hes a slow walker) to Sunny Coast. Where I ate some Veggiemite (DISGUSTING) and hung out with some people. Mind you by this time it was a good 4:30-5 am.

Sat in the kitchen for a while before Ben offered me his friends bed, so we went to bed... kinda :)

So that was my last big night in Lagos. I leave in 2 days, maybe 3, for Zug. Nervous, but excited.

Dinner tonight with Clare (she's cooking for me since my chef Jas left me).

Peace and Blessin's

xx J

For real this time...

Ok I am actually going to write about what has been going on with my life..

I am in Portugal until Tuesday the what... 17th? of August.. then off to Switzerland where my "real job" is in Zug.

Im going to be nannying.. for hopefully 2 years if I can get all the visa stuff taken care of.. if not I'll be back sooner than later, jobless.

Anyway I am going through an array of emotions about leaving Lagos. I've met some great people and I've learned so much about traveling/ life/ etc. (im not about to go into the gushy stuff.) Any way, I met this amazing 30 year old Aussie that I've aquired a large crush on so hopefully I'll see him soon. Thats what Ive been doing. Working at this Hostel called Carlos House for the past month since leaving Rome, meeting heaps of Aussies every day. Rome is not somewhere I want to live ever again. Too hot.. Too many people.. Too many wild drivers.. No thanks.

Somehow I managed to find a small city in Portugal where the people that I yearn to be like happen to flock to and they also just so happen to party like rockstars. Aussies I swear are the most laid back, party animals I've ever met.. Sorry Vol fans, you just dont compare. Anyway, I can't say I will be too sad leaving soon, I can't wait to be in an aircon room with my own bathroom where there isn't mold on the edges of the shower. I year for cleanliness for sure.

Tonight I am going out with Jana and Paivi, my two roomies... We're having a girls night. I am excited!

To the beach now!

xx J