Tie-dye!

I've always been fond of tie-dye. All these colors and patterns you could never make purposely, the spontaneous coincidences of the paint settling in one spot of fabric rather than the other, for reasons you could never tell. However, I have never had a chance to wear tie-dye, or do something way more exciting - make it myself. So, as you could guess, I finally did it. Accompanied by my English Studies' classmate, who is also here for one semester, I went to this tie-dye workshop, organised by the arts society of Newcastle university. The  cafe accommodating the event got crowded in no time, and the atmosphere was welcoming with everyone splashing colorful paint on white t-shirts, rolled in tiny balls and restrained with rubber bands. I had so much fun! And, of course, now I am all happy and excited, seeing (and using) what came out of this colorful and 'splashy' experience.

Mingling around in the world of blogging

Recently, there have been quite a lot of changes in my routine.. Well, I could cay it has disappeared for a month or so. I changed my university, my location, almost got used to the British accent and started to understand the local Geordies. However, there are still things I feel unfamiliar with. For example, the left-sided traffic is just driving me mad, together with the friendliness of the locals. It's insane, and I guess could not be more extreme after living in Sweden, where people tend to be very reserved and extremely hard to make friends with.
Here, in Newcastle, I am still shocked how cashiers, library workers, baristas etc. call me sweetheart, young lady, love and all these super lovely names that get me smiling before I even think about it. It's just so much more relaxed and laid-back.. So, if you combine it with the cultural differences which are pretty challenging for me as a newcomer, it equals out and makes it so much easier to feel like home.
Moreover, besides all these new experiences, I was given an opportunity to try out blogging on WordPress. Undoubtedly, I took it, so now I have a second blog on my Swedish university's website, which is exclusively about my new university experience in Newcastle. Due to this change, this blog might become less active, but I will still post things here, as I quite often feel the urge to spill the bits of my inner world in this blog, which had become the home of random stuff that I find exciting.
Lastly, I have always wanted to read more on blogging so that I could not only practice more, but improve my writing techniques as well. Also, I just started the course "Writing for the Media: Journalism", which I fell in love with immediately and which I will hopefully benefit from in all aspects of writing, including blogging.

More on the new courses I am taking and my uni-related adventures - in my other blog: http://blogg.mah.se/studyabroad/author/emilijariaukaite

As for now, as they say here in Newcastle,
Cheers!