Beach Time

Its true i survived the long trip to beach, yesterday alone, 5 persons lost their lives in nearly 200 accidents, its a thing that happens every other weekend here in Portugal, a shame.

I am liking a lot my 1st day here, its sunny, water temp is great and i am having a good time, lets hope it keeps that way.

Nothing much to say other than some friends also getting here today... so i have to see if we get together and have some fun :d

Back to beach

So there i go again, I am traveling back to my beach house for a full week of fun, my aunt has been at my beach house for last week and she invited me over for this week, something i could not refuse.

Lets just hope the weather is warm and the water is good so that i can have loads of fun, some of my friends will also be nearby so something will be arranged so that we can have some good times.

On last few weeks i been watching the Olympic tournament, specially the Handball competition that today reaches its end, big disappointment in German team, and surprise in Icelandic team for reaching the final, also in the final the big favorite for me, France. At the interval (moment i am writing this) France is leading Iceland 15 - 10 which points to my previsions, just did not expect it to be by this margin.

Well i hope you are all well and enjoying your time wherever you are.

Isla Mágica

Yesterday my parents took me on a trip to Isla Mágica, a theme park in Sevilla, Spain.

I really enjoyed my time there, cool rollercoaster’s, water rides, and some really fancy shows marked my best day in this summer.
Not all was positive of course, lots of couples in there and those are the moments when I feel the loneliest but that will change soon, I feel it, I just don’t see it.

Best rollercoaster was without a doubt the one called Jaguar, a crazy 1 min tide, where you roll and roll and roll, and there are also 3 or 4 loops, all in a speedy tight circuit where you have loads of fun. There was also a water ride which was Anaconda where you had 3 “drops” in the water which left you with no chance of being dry in the end of the ride. My parents preferred the virtual reality cinema 4D one, they had never seen or felt anything like it, and they also enjoyed the virtual coaster, funny to watch their faces when they got out.

You can see my dad gasping for air in one of the drops and my mom biting Her lip not knowing what was going to happen, I was just having the time of my life, never thought they’d get into these things with me, last year we were thinking in going there the 4, I still had a girlfriend, but my dad did not want to go because he was afraid I guess, so I really never expected to see him wishing to go and having fun as he did, he was even talking in going again next year to take my cousin or going to Disney in Paris.

In the picture above you can see one of the virtual coasters, in this one you had to hit the targets with the gun and they would motion or hit you with water. Points were scored and you can see them in this picture, I was lucky and I won, 570 points for me meaning 57 targets hit against 500 points for my dad, and 420 for my mom which is great since she had never got her hands on a weapon before.

Now its back to lonely reality and try to enjoy the best I can my last week and a half of vacations before I have to go back home. Best thing in getting back home? My birthday is 2 or 3 days after I get back so I will have a little gathering to have some fun and friends around.

Last words go out as an advice, cherish your moments with the ones that you love as if they were the last, I didn’t and now I cannot have them back.

Bad Day at Sea

Something unusual happened today, very rough sea here at Manta Rota, something to which we are not used at all.

So what could I have done with this kind of conditions at sea?

Well the options were probably immense like reading a book or stay home sleeping, but I decided to take a long walk by the sea, so many things to think about and so little time when I really can tune with myself to have those kinds of brainstorming sessions.

Thinking about my degree, my inability to leave what is gone where it is, in the past, my knee… will it hold one another season playing handball or will it break once again and will I be forced to leave handball? I need to start thinking positive, I guess that will help me, if there is any chance I can be helped anyway…

Well lets hope weather improves and enables me to get positive energy into me, positive thoughts and if I start t trust myself, my abilities and be happy with how I am, not always wishing to be different and to have what I don’t have.

All Weather

Here I am a couple of days later, and what happened during these days?

Well we had thunderstorms, we had a sunny day and a windy day. So I can say I am having an all weather vacation.

But I am starting to miss my home, I miss having handball practice, I miss going to the gym and I surely miss my friends, of course not all is bad, here we have sun (sometimes), I can run in the beach and I have tried to look ahead, see what else is there for me in life and not live in the past, because what has gone cannot come back, and I have to take a step forward and start out a new life.

Nothing in this life is easy, and this means it will take time to heal and be able to trust someone. I don’t even know why I am talking about this, maybe because its 1st time I come to vacations without a girlfriend and that makes it harder, I used to have someone to talk to, to have fun with, and now I am here with my parents and the fun expectations and the fun that I have been having are immensely low when compared to previous years.

I only see either young people well younger than me that’s for sure, or older people. No one from my age, well of course there are persons of my age here (I hope) but they have boyfriends and girlfriends already, and even worse, I am too shy to start a conversation with anyone at all, so how can I meet new persons and get new friends? Looks like am impossible mission for me.

I guess this is all I have to say for now, I hope all of you are feeling great and having a great time.

Hugs and till next time.

1st few days

So its all beach now for me.

Waking up going to beach staying there and going to bed. that seems to be my daily routine now, and i kind of like it :D

I miss some of my friends of course and i do miss my ability to be on the web whenever i want to, but the beach is surely worth it.

My knee is still not giving me too much work, and i keep the daily exercise routine so that i am prepared for next season...

Well my time on the web is short and there are not many other things i can say, maybe next time.

Vacations and a new start

Hi there, my name is Joao i am Portuguese and i am growing old, or at least feeling like that.

Up until now my life was pretty normal... I was born in the 6th of August 1982 and i grew up the best i could, got friends lost friends, got into fights and lost most of them. (What a failure) lol not really, actually it shaped my way into life, sometimes you should not simply fight because its fun, fight for what its worth, only that...

I play handball at my home town sporting club, i started 17 years ago... wow only now i realized how long it has been!!

I dated for 7 years with a girl and it did not worked out... life is yummy sometimes heh? Well i think its time to move on...

I am now going on vacations and i am starting this blog which i hope to keep updated (Joanna i will really try ok??) so that i can focus on other things in life, good things like friends, going out, school (ok not so good) and hopefully a job soon enough.

So what do i do besides handball and going out? I play some web games, Hattrick a soccer online management game and Aott which is a RPG about 17th Century paris...
I also like read books, a lot of 'em and listen to music of course...

And i follow the adventures of little Dalton :P (updated)

Ok so for vacations i am going to "Manta Rota", Algarve, Portugal, will be there for 3 weeks at my beach house, getting a good tan, and having fun (hopefully), ok you'll say this guy is completly nuts, so he is going to beach 3 weeks and he does not know if he is going to have fun? Insane, well yes I am, problem is i get tired of beach... I need different and exciting things, new experiences and to know new people to make me interested in life, always on the lookout for new knowledge and a different look at the world, one other than the one given to you at newspapers and tv.

So I will see you next time after i settle in and get started up with the beach thing.

Cheers



Btw just a quick final note. Thanks to Joanna for giving me this idea.