Author: giorgiaboi

I'm a wanderer based on the clouds. I'm waiting for the teletransportation to be invented, but in the meanwhile, I'm pretty pleased with wheels, trains and planes. I love direct people, gelato, snow, tan, americano coffee and running. I don't like easy things, asking for help, people who talk too close to your face, when my feet are cold, pink, long nails and mayo. My favourite quote is: "You must want something with all your strenght. Then, you must do it." Mae West

FINDING A ROOM IN LONDON

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Hundreds of students and young professionals live the same situation: some are looking for a place to move in, some have just found it after a desperate and long search, and wish their renting contract would be renewed. I’ve been looking for a room for two months, and saw a lot of grotesque flats before I’ve found a suitable one.

Picture: Yanivba

The first way to start a research is through the Internet: a lot of websites host adverts of any kind, including flatshares. Easyroommate, Gumtree, Intolondon, Loot, Spareroomare the most popular.

A few words to introduce yourself, some options to define the search by area, kind of room, price range and preferences about housemates, smokers and pets. Apparently, the more specific the advert is written, the better the search will be.

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JAPAN RUNS 54-HOURS ROBOT MARATHON

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Five robots walking along the red and blue lines of a track on an immaculate floor, but no one waving at them: it couldn’t be a kids playground. In fact, it was the first Robot marathon, held last Thursday in west Japan.

Five miniature robots, each less than 50cm tall, have been “running” for more than 50 hours –the winner clocked 54 hours, 57 minutes, 50.26 seconds – to complete a 26 miles marathon. Instead of a city route, the electrical athletes have competed on a 100-metre track in the Osaka’s Asia-Pacific trade centre. It took them 422 laps to finish the race: irrelevant details, as they are battery charged and can’t feel tired, neither bored.

Picture: Serkan Toto, Technews.am

Organized by the Japanese robot maker Vstone to prove the machine’s durability and manoeuvrability, the “Robo Mara Full” was transmitted on streaming from a camera installed in the head of a racer. Nice idea, but the advertising breaks were the most exciting parts of all the eleven shots uploaded by the company.

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OLD FASHIONED ATMOSPHERE AND INDIE ROCK MUSIC AT KOKO

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Old fashioned former theatre with red interiors, Victorian decorations and statues all around: it’s the spectacular venue of the Koko club in Camden, London. As the old seats have been removed, there’s a lot of space to dance and move around the hall, and also an area with sofas for more relaxed outputs. The club allows only people under 18 in and is open from 5 to 11 p.m. during weekdays, unless there is a concert, and until 4 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

Very easy to reach, Koko is located a few footsteps from the Mornington Crescent tube station and the area is very well served by nightbuses.

I went there with a group of friends around midnight a few weeks ago on Friday and we didn’t wait much to  get in, not outside, neither at the glass counter, where we paid £7. Although, there was a long line for the wardrobe: probably the two girls at the desk were getting confused by their unfunctional and slow duty of asking everyone £2 and their initials to sign the clothes.

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ZUZI’S NEW LIFE

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It’s amazing how people decide to turn up their lives as they understand what they really want. One day everything is fine and the day after something happens and they realize that all they were used to do, just don’t suit them anymore. And they change. That’s what happened to Zuzana.

Sitting on the bus, her eyes turned towards the window, Zuzi is following the path of her thoughts, ignoring the dozen people chatting around her and the speaker announcing every stop. Concentration is hard in a noisy place, but not impossible if you are used to meditate.

Picture: Sérgio Castro

Zuzana Grygarova, 26-years old shiny girl from the Czech Republic, has deeply changed her life since she “got in contact with spirituality” last summer. Being brought up in a family where reason was the highest quality, she took a degree in Psychology at the University of Westminster but instead of training as a psychoanalyst, she decided to switch into spiritual counseling.

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Hello world!

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Students from all the countries, here’s my website. I’m a journalist student, and I’m living abroad, so I decided to write a blog for people like me, who are living “so far” from home because of their studies and who wouldn’t mind going even further… It’s amazing how many things you see and you do when you move around: why would we have to comfortably stay  in our hometown or in our region? I have no idea.

Anyway, this blog is aimed to publish news from different countries and stories about students. But as we are eclectic people with a lot of interests, the website will have also other sections for culture, gigs, music, movies, travels, jobs and, why not, food.

I hope you like it and, please, give me feedback!

Giorgia