Cardiff I: When in doubt, give people food.

I gave up on blogging from my phone after two days because it takes ages and is highly annoying, so be ready for a series of retrospect posts here!

On Wednesday, I travelled to Cardiff by train, but first I went to have breakfast with a lovely Australian girl called Rose. It was nice getting to know someone after two days of wandering around alone - not that I mind travelling on my own, but it was good for a change.

In Cardiff I met an American girl called Bianca, who just flew in from New York and was about to start studying in Swansea for a semester. Amazingly, it was her first time out of the States, and the first time she'd been on a plane. I can't imagine going to live so far from home if you've never been outside of your own country - even if that country is the United States of America. I have to admire her for not being afraid. We explored the town together for a bit. It was a day full of new people and places - I like those days. 

The best thing about Cardiff was easily the Riverhouse Backpackers hostel, though. I've never seen anything quite like it or met such nice people as the owners. I'm not even going to start praising it here - if you ever go to Cardiff, just go there. It's brilliant. I'll just give you this quote from the owner Charlie, which I think I will adopt as my life's motto: "When in doubt, give people food!"

Good times in Cardiff. I'll need to go back there sometime to see some more of the place.

In the meantime: here's that video from Hampstead Heath I couldn't upload last week. Sorry for the awful quality, but I'm sure you get the idea.

After the rain

Eh. Did I say last time that I was gonna post more regularly? No? Good. Because I didn't. Yeah. Sorry.
I really need to set deadlines for myself, or start making lists, or something! I'll make that my late new year's resolution.

In my defense, it's been a really busy week. I took on a five-day temp job to earn some money. I will spare you the details (it involved a scanner and loads of invoices. Yeah.), but when I spend the whole day behind a computer, I just don't feel like turning mine on when I come home to write a blog post. (Also, with a job like that, there's really nowhere to get inspiration from, so maybe we should all be happy about that.)

Then in the weekend I went out, and my bag got stolen, yay. Then I went to the police station, they retrieved my wallet with most of my stuff but no debit/credit cards or keys, really yay. Then I had to go to the dentist. Very un-yay.

BUT there's good news too: I'm going to the UK on Monday! Yay yay yay! I managed to get myself a ticket to the BBC GetIn event in Cardiff, which is basically a big info session about the BBC Trainee Schemes and the Talent Pool. I'm very excited about that indeed! And since it seemed a bit stupid to travel all the way there (by BUS, because the Eurostar is damn expensive) to stay only one day, I'm spending the rest of the week in London. YAAAAAY! Compensates for the crappy weekend!

I'll try to do blog updates from London/Cardiff, but it's gonna be from my phone, so apologies in advance for crappy layouts and all that. If you want to follow my travelling adventures, in this case Instagram might be the best place. Find me here:  (or by the name of Mayasounds, of course).

In the meantime: still trying to finish my Work Experience application for the BBC too. It's so hard. Ugh.