An afternoon at the Berlin Zoo

I finally get a break from the University! In order to write a test, we have to gather at least 50% in our homework marks, which we did, so we can now finally relax a little bit about the hustle of turning in homework every day. 

My days have been pretty much the same: wake up at 6 am, have a slow morning (I love those), go to the lecture from 9 until 11, have lunch and do a little bit of homework, and then come back home to study a little bit more and maybe cook some with friends. On the weekends, the job is calling, both Saturday and Sunday.

I had friends over this week vising around in Berlin. I was not able to join them in their Berlin tour, which was most wonderful including museums and musicals, but I did manage to fit a visit to the Zoo on Monday. Actually, this was my first Zoo visit as an adult. I remember going to a Zoo in Colombia when I was around eight years old, but I do not really recall all the details. Just the elephants!

This will probably one of the two times in my adult life in which I'll go to a zoo, for I do not support the caging of animals. I enjoyed my time in there, but I the space was way too small, specially for the big predators like the lion/lioness cage and the jaguar cages.

Hope you enjoyed the post! Have a lovely weekend!

Sy: Sushi am Wilmersdorfer Straße

Mango Lassi

Veggie Inside Outs + Avocado Makis

Caught photoblogging

A couple of days ago my roomie and I went out to have some sushi in out favorite restaurant: Sy. Undoubtedly, sushi is one of my favorite foods in the world, and I love trying around new restaurants that might offer anything more interesting than simple veggie makis (see Heidelberg). However, not every restaurant aces the spicing up of veggie entries, so if you know of one, please do let me know!

For now, I'll stick to my regular veggie menu at Sy. You can find them in the Kantstraße 54,10627 Berlin.

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Vor ein Paar tage war ich mit meiner Mitbewohnerin beim Sushi essen in unserem Lieblingrestaurant Sy. Ganz klar ist, Sushi ist eins von meinen Lieblingsessen, und ich liebe immer verschiedene Restaurants zu probieren um zu gucken, ob sie etwas anders als das normale Veggie Sushi anbieten, aber leider schaffen sie es nicht, das Veggie Menü zu "gewürzen" (Wie in Heidelberg). Wenn ihr ein Sushirestaurant kennt, bitte melde dich!

Bisher, bleibe ich bei meinem Regulär in Sy. Sie sind auf der Kantstraße 54, 10627 Berlin.

Ku'Damm surprises

I got myself a little treat for finishing up this Studienkolleg year! I'll be posting more details later :)

Today was Christopher Street Day, a renown LGBT parade that presumably started in the UK and extended itself to Berlin. Now, this info was all courtesy of google and my roomie, I had no idea this was happening today! As I saw the streets blocked in Ku'Damm I knew something was going on, and well, something BIG was going on! Streets were crowded with people, caravans with music were taking over and of course, lots and lots people dressed up in full makeup strutting their way into the parade.

I'm kinda obsessed with making videos right? This needed some recording.

In another news, my phone has ditched on me so I'm gladly hearing recommendations!

World Cup Fever!

Hey guys! This summer all around the world we're celebrating the very true religion: soccer. My best friend L and I went over to the Fan Meile in Brandenburger Tor to watch Germany's first game with a thousand fervent fans, to watch our team score those magic four goals. Pay attention to that number, it's magical. Last World Cup they also kept scoring fours.

And this is how we celebrated that glorious first goal!

Holi Festival Berlin

I had been waiting for this day for years! The Holi Festival was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! It is the most fun I've had in months! We arrived there at 3:30 because we didn't want to be super tired so that we could stay until the end. And it was worth it! The  music was great, the people were great (although some where blind drunk) and the mood was spectacular! 

I'd strongly recommed getting either a mask or bringing a bandana and put it in your mouth while in the general color throw, because the air gets really polluted and it can be really difficult to breathe. I always kept my glasses on for the same reason: I didn't want those little powder particles to get in my contact lenses. And be sure to bring tissues, trust me!

Stripe yourself: Summer is coming

There's a clear summer ambiance in the shops. Summer's coming and my favorite part of it are stripes on everything and in every color. While I was shopping yesterday (post coming up sonn!) I spotted some amazing summer pieces.

 

 Tamaris loafers  & Deichman totes.

As of right now I'm going to pick up my cousin at the airport, he's moving to Berlin to pursue his musical studies. He's one of my closest cousins and we love hanging out together, I'm so excited about the coming months! P.S. Maybe he'll be willing to be my outfit photographer, a.k.a I'll force him to do it (Ha!).

Add me on snapchat (andrea.ruizz) for daily updates of what's going on in my life (I'm super obsessed with Snapchat Story)

xo

Andy

Work hard, shop hard

Big update ahead! My computer died last sunday, so I won't be able to post as much, sorry! Anyways, last week I was super busy working in the ITB Berlin 2014, a tourism fair in which almost every country in the world participates. It was amazing. I was asked by a friend to work with her for an analysis company to make interviews about the fair and the productivity of many companies while in the fair. I sounded really simple so I went for it. Little did I know that it was going to be due-at-the-end-of-the-day task and I had to rush to complete all my work, and I'd be lying if I didn't say that it was really stressfull, but I enjoyed myself and I learnt so much from it!

Until now I've never had to have a job to support myself, like some of my friends have, and I'm really lucky that I don't have to be in that kind of situation because I have far less things to worry about. But the opportunity to feel for two days what work is like was more than a lesson.

While doing the interviews there were some people that rudely rejected me and said that they had no time for me. They looked at me as if I were a school kid trying to play in the big leagues and I think that's one problem that I'm going to have to deal with all my life. I'm petite, 155cm and have the face of a 12 year old, which leads most of the people to ask if I'm underaged. I always get the same question, Darf ich ihr Ausweis sehen? (May I look at your ID?) and the conversation always follows the same path: you look so young, I wouldn't have guessed and so on. Most of the time I take it as a compliment. Hell, when I'm 40 people will think I'm younger, that's definitely an advantage! But in situations like in the ITB, where you are trying to get somewhere and you are rejected by how young and "inexperienced" you look, it's definitely worrying.

Even though I was under pressure, I tried to enjoy myself and look up and the positive things and the objective I had to achieve at the end of the day, and not think about the people that turned me down. Plus, I got to eat some delicious colombian treats like banana chips, yucca chips, wheat soda and colombian coffee. Colombian coffee.

Sadly, I was working on the days that everything was happening, and on Saturday and Sunday it was open for the general public to assists, and those were the days I took to actually walk around the fair and go to every single booth. I fell in love with Henna tattoos in the arab section, with the food and the music in the african section, with the people in the latin american section and I tried out my Russian (without any success) in the Siberia section. Europe didn't really need anything to impress me, but what did catch my attention were the nordic countries. I want to go to Sweden so bad. I even talked to a girl from Uppsala, the town I want to visit the most, and she talked me into definitely making some kind of arrangements to just take a plane or train and go. I have only some quick snapshots,I was carrying 5 different bags!

 They even had a section dedicated to the LGTB community.

 

The Haiti stand was b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l

I'm loving these guys right here, they brought a piece from Colombia all the way to Germany!

 

I don't even know how I was able to stand up, my feet were swollen for two days after that

My friend Emilia is crazy about car. This was in the czech section. 

This year we will be celebrating 25 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

 

People were wearing costumes of all countries, it was so beautiful! Now this fair triggered my wanderlust. I got brochures from all the places and I'm not throwing them away til I get there (collector alarm). But what I did make sure I got from every place I could where pens, pencils and little notepads. Nobody loves stationary like I do. I think I'm the biggest client McPaper has!

By the way, you should add me in Twitter, I swear I'm funny and I'll keep your timeline entertaining

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Where do you wanna travel and why?

xx Andy