September 26th (saturday)

My friends and I had breakfast in the hotel and later headed to the beach. It was kind of chilly but I managed to dip my feet into the water, while my friends didn't as I was the only one who wore flip-flops.  After a long talk we headed back to hotel to get ready before the bus came to pick us up at 1PM. I think I broke my record of fastest shower I ever took, hahah.

It was already time, so I was kind of panicking. I rushed downstairs till I reached the bus. My friends were walking even though they knew they first had to return the key to the receptionist and that we were short in time! I even told my teachers that my friends were yet to hop onto the bus and to wait for them. But nope. No one listened to me. So the bus went ahead leaving my friends behind.

One of them messaged me saying that they would take a taxi. I called her so that I could know where they were but there was no answer. I kept calling and calling because I was worried. I had already arrived to the coliseum and didn't bother to get inside to hear the talks because I was waiting for my friends to arrive! I kept calling and calling, to both of them. No one answered. Not even a message! I was both frustrated and worried. We're not that familiar with the city, so what if they got lost? Or if they were kidnapped? Stuff like that kept coming to my mind. I missed around two talks already, and they still hadn't showed some life signals UNTIL MUCH LATER with a "we're buying food".

September 25th (friday)

My friends and I slept during the morning to recover our energies as we were tired from riding the bus. I woke up to have some breakfast with my other friends, but we found out that the hotel didn't offer us any for the first day. So they headed to some coffee shop nearby while I went back to sleep.

At midday, the university's bus picked us all up and rode us to the coliseum where the conference took place. I ate a hotdog for lunch because there really wasn't anything nice to buy near the coliseum, and I also don't trust their hamburgers or sandwiches because of their lettuce.

The conference had tons of people walking around. There were also people selling stuff (like books, illustrations, stickers, clothes, etc) along the gates of the coliseum.

Anyway, on the first day we had guests like Pimp My Carroca, Arseny Vesnin, Liniers, Kate Stone, Tony Alva, among others.
The timetable was definitely delayed, so instead of finishing by 7:30PM it finished at around 10PM.

There was a pre-party and a party after the conference, and even though I'm not a party person, I decided to go just because of my friends. We left the coliseum but it was freaking cold! We couldn't even find the school bus until much later. Then it took us back to the hotel. There we were dazing around whether to go to the party or just call it a day. At the end we decided to not go, and instead went for dinner with my other friends.

So we had dinner at midnight and I wanted to order anything with seafood because we were in a city with seas, right?! The closest to seafood I found in the menu was salad with smoked salmon. Eh, well okay, give me that. It was nice and all, but it wasn't the kind of food I wanted. ;-;

Now onto day 2!

TRImarchi is an annual conference that invites special guests to talk about their experiences and work. These guests are mainly grapghic designers, illustrators, and other professionals related to the visual communication.

This week there was a holiday on Monday, so we had what we literally call it "holiday bridge". So my team and I went to retreat camping.
This retreat's theme was rest. Because all the team members are young adults, we face anxiety from time to time. We go to either college or work, or even both; we do feel insecure about some things.
One of the activities was "helping hand/friend", which requires you to help or give gifts to a certain person, usually of the opposite gender.

From past retreats, this one was the most calm one. For weeks we'd been told to prepare a prayer title, or a maximum of three prayers. Of course I won't say it here what it was about, but I can say it was about what I'd been posting here on my blog. So in this Christian retreat I finally let my dying soul cry out loud. I needed to get rid off those dark feelings. Cry all that depression out and finally clear my heart and mind.

But on the last day out of the three, I lost control of my renewed heart.

Hello, I'm currently feeling a little bit down as my music files are lost gone. I really lost a huge part of my life and it's gonna take a long time before I recover them, if I ever get to do so.
I couldn't believe it at first, but now I'm slowly trying to calm down. I've been feeling blank ever since.

So here's the story:

Is this the first time I'm posting while it still is morning?
How come? Who would have known?
Well, it's because I'm done with my finals!

Thank God the last one was quite a light one. Friday classes were photography class for this semester. And for the final exam, I had to present a themed photograph which had been the class' project for two months or so. We already had a presentation day, but the task for the final was to either leave it as if or improve it.

My theme was "melancholic solitude". And I chose to take photos in a park nearby.


I re-took some photos to improve my grade, but due to season changes from fall to winter, the time span was shorter to get the right light exposure and colours, so I ended up handing over the same photograph. I managed to maintain the same grade though, which was an 8/10 (A- or A).

Now that the first semester is done. I can finally rest.... for a week, ugh. ~_~; Sucks that the second semester starts right away. Boohoo.