Do widzenia, my friends! :)

When life gives you a lemon... make a lemonade :)

At least that is what my friends from Portugal taught me :) I have never thought that I will meet so many people from different parts from all over the world at one place and they will become my friends for such a short time. I wish it to everyone, to have it, to feel this emotion of making a brand new family from nothing and with people that you have just met.

In few days two of my friends from Portugal are leaving. Maybe I will never see them again, maybe I will see them soon, I don't know. Bulgaria is far from Portugal. We have been living here, almost next to each other for the last few months and we have been sharing all kinds of Erasmus emotions, positive, negative, even none :) 

I will miss them...

We were saying that I am their sister and their are my brothers from another mothers and nation, but I really feel like it :) I got attached to many people here, but from the people that are leaving now I know that for three I will be sad the most - these are Diogo P, Diogo L and Ales. Just two Portuguese and one sLOVEnian guys but they introduced me to two new nations that probably I would see differently if it wasn't them.

I remember so clearly what were my first impressions of three of them. The scariest for me was Diogo P. I had seen him so many times but I thought back then that he is very negative and unsocial person. I remember that the first time I saw him was in Warsaw, when we went with ESN to a trip for a few days and the boys got in a fight with one Spanish guy. They had their reasons, but for us, it was just a rush of testosterone. So back then I thought that he has some issues, but I don't know how it happened later, but from one moment we just became such great friends. From those that you don't speak too much with, you don't hear or see every day, but when you see each other you feel completely yourself, feel that the conversation continues from where it has stopped the last time, even if that was 2 weeks ago... Maybe the moment when i started seeing him as a good and positive boy was one night, when we were walking me, him and Andre F. (another Portuguese friend). We were talking about love and I don't know how we started this theme, but finally Diogo started talking and I think it was our first conversation. He shared with me that he has a girlfriend and he thinks that she is the love of his life, she is like an angel for him, the greatest girl and so on... And at this moment I was surprised and amazed how a boy can speak about a girl, and how confident he was in his words and feelings...

I remember how I met Diogo L, too. I met him on my first day in Gdansk. We had a meeting with other Erasmus students in Hifi, a student club nearby the dormitories. Actually in first look, i don't know really, now I don't understand why I would, but still I thought that he is a little bit looser. And i think that now i have to be thankful to my mentor, the greatest Dawid, who in one moment was talking with Diogo and on the nest day me, Dawid and Diogo went to watch a Rugby game. Then I saw that Diogo is a great boy. We had a long day and we had great fun on the biggest stadium in Gdansk :) I remember that in one moment, maybe while we were waiting for Dawid, Diogo was listening to music, and when I heard what was the music, I knew that he has a good taste in music. And sometimes it talks a lot about a person. The next few days I remember that I wrote to Diogo about every place we were going to, so he can come with us, because... I don't know.. I guess I just felt that we will be friends :) And now he is one of my brothers!!!

Well, Ales! What can I say about him, except that he is just from those strange guys that even if you had a whole life to dedicate to learn to understand them, it wouldn't be enough. Yes, maybe someone will make a joke now and say that these are the unique guys, the ones that are worth it. I don't know, really! How can you know if something is worth it when you will never understand it's use, it's purpose?! However, I remember when I met  him, too. It was on a Erasmus party. He just had came in Gdansk with Berkay (my Turkish 'son'). They joined us in the club. I had spoken with him on Facebook before that and I had seen his pictures but I couldn't recognise him, when they came. Actually i remember that he didn't make me any impression. Nothing special... And I guess for the first week we weren't almost speaking at all, but I guess on the trip to Warsaw we became close, even if he wasn't with us almost the whole time. And later when we came back to Gdansk we just became very close. 

He is my big strange elephant, the beer destroyer, the chocolate addict and the cooking neighbour. But maybe most of all, the person here that I love even if I don't understand...

I love these three guys!!! I already sent one of them, Ales, to his country and he will no longer be the one that was few stairs away from me, now he is hundreds of kilometres. I cried like a baby on his last night and on the train station, when I sent him away. I cried on the next day like a baby for its favourite toy. I will miss him...

Next week I will send the other two - first Pinto, then Leocadio. I know I will cry again...

I know that we are young and the time is ours and we will have lots of opportunities to visit each other, but it will never be the same as now! But I guess it wouldn't be so great if it was forever, if it wasn't for a little while...

Things in our life happen once. You may think that you will have a similar moment or meet similar people, or visit this place again, but the moment will be different, you will be different. You look through different eyes every next day.

Just enjoy the moment! Don't loose it, don't waste it! Appreciate it!