Tiny haul, new perspectives and new nails ♥️🖤

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Today was absolutely stellar! I catched up with my friends from Aurora over shopping spree. 

I have wanted a lip oil since forever - I used to love lipsticks back in high school, but they proved to be a little bit impractical. While I plan on coming back to them, lip oil feels a little more manageable. 

This one is a nice plum colour. I got it in Hebe, which is this Polish drug store. It has m better prices than Rossman, Teta and D&M and it carries a lot of korean cosmetics. I didn't get anything korean, instead I went for Ziaja aloe face toner. I will give you review later, but I heard only nice things about this vegan brand, so I'm already excited :D.

I try to be more careful with my choices of cosmetics - for example, my only perfume is Karma by Lush. It reminds me of 70s.

I also managed to add something to my CD collection. I'm planning to grow it as much as possible. I think I'll make a separate article fort this and my discman, I got it on Vinted for a great price :D.

TNT is a music shop that I've frequented since high school - there is not a lot of brick stores with CDs and LPs in Czechia so it always felt cool here. If you ever get to Ostrava (why, I might ask) you should check it out here. They have really nice vinyl collection too - I found Cat Stevens, Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar and more here.

This time I got Dookie, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge and (What's the Story) Morning Glory. Those are three of my favourite bands. I really want to get Definitely Maybe next, but I'll be happy with anything else. I also want to buy The Now Now by Gorillaz, but it's too pricy everywhere. 

Other than that, I have shitton of Beatles and some classic rock and metal from my dad. 

We also went for dessert and matcha. I don't think I have ever tasted strawberry matcha latte as good as this one. The coffee shop is called Laskomilo, it has really cosy vibe. The desserts were great too.

Both of my friends are PhDs at this point and they are in Aurora council. I wasn't sure if I wanted to continue with Aurora, which is this site of partner universities in Europe. Actually, I knew I would love to, but between my final year of university, production of Scream for student theatre, thesis and work, I wasn't sure if I had enough time and energy. 

I do. I really want to continue in representing my university. also, next conference should be at Reykjavik and I really want to go there for UPOLs money :D.

Other than that, I'm realising how much I need a gap year. I plan to either volunteer abroad with European Solidarity Corps, go on Erasmus+ Internship or both. 

My lovely friend Klárka, who also happens to be my bandmate and part of mcrmy, made me those MCR inspired nails. They are her first set for anyone who isn't her. I love them :D.

I'm keeping them for my Italian vacation but I already love them so much.

I'll have three shifts in  row now BUT I'll finally get to see my favourite couple, Matěj And Maki this Friday. We're going to gym, wish me well. 

Also, my sister made muffins while I was away. She told me I can get one in the kitchen. To her horror, I unwittingly devoured uncooked one ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ.

How's your summer? 🌞 

See you soon! Bye

They Made Me Work For Free (Indiana Jones Didn´t Prepare Me At All)

 Hii!
I have to say, this was not my first archaeologic excavation or my first unpaid internship. It was however my first unpaid archaelogic excavation. These manadatory three weeks of hard work kept me off the internet - I woke up at 6 AM dug up to 15:15 relaxed a little bit, fell asleep and repeted. 
I tried to go out during those days, but fot the first half I was sooo dead I kept being unable to even crochet properly :D.

The site is near my apartment, I actually worked there for a few days during last summer. Most of the other workers are my classmates from department of history, which is nice. For the first two weeks, we were digging this bore. I think we barely got under recent layers in my first week.
Since archaeology doesn´t really care about your gender and our only guy in the team was kind of a dick, me and Daja ended up doing a lot of work over our strenght limits. My hands and back still hurt from 7 consecutive hours of shoveling and I will forever be afraid of wheelbarrows. Have you ever tried carrying one that is full of dirt up the hill on a wooden "highway" that keeps slipping under your boots? That was my highway to hell. 

Both of my soles gave up during the first day. I didn´t have any better ones, so instead of trying to make it in my go go boots, I decided to see how long I can survive in them. They are getting a viking funeral, they reliably carried me through the whole thing. 

We were right under Náměstí republiky, one of the busiest tram stop in Olomouc. The quiet peace we had was stark contrast to life above us. None of those people knew that they are only few meters from such an interesting site.

We manifested rain a lot. Pair of my classmates was lucky enough to have rainy week, and since our boss counted it as day of practice, they really only dug for two non-consecutive weeks. We had a lot of cloudy days, but it was never bad enough to end earlier than 15:00, which isn´t much of improvement.
I still had to go to work during this and let me tell you, you definitely should sleep between several hours of physical work, 12 hours night shift and another bunch of physical work. 
On our last week, we decided that we don´t want rain anymore - it only made everything harder. I felt like an earth worm in wet dirt when it rained just a little bit.

Our last week was spent under our original square. The chef told us the we can decide what to do and she will just consult. Both me and Daja panicked a lot. We needed some assistance. 
I wasn´t really sure what we are looking at. There was a fire pit a lot of bones, but eras were readable only from ceramics and none of them felt distinct enough. Then, in our last hour, another supervisor came and explained that we are at the 10th century AD and this is Great Morava. It felt amazing - we were the first people to stand on this ground after 1000 years! (Funilly enoguh, first bite of 21st century this ground got was pop punk.)

It wasn´t all bad. I got buff down there, and I realised what I actually want to do once I get out - read, party and start a band. I already did all of those during last few days, but I was also excited to finally have time and energy for writing. 

This was one of the hardest thing I ever had to do for school and since I couldn´t choose a date I was unable to go to vacation both with my family and my friends few days later but well, at least I´m closer to my diploma. 

How are you guys enjoying summer? And what was the weirdest thing you had to for school?

Edit few days later: I totally forgot to mention why we were so pissed off and unmotivated most of the time. While we didn´t get paid, our university did. The reason why we can´t choose our own excavation is probably because they are only sending us to places that will pay THEM directly for our labour. We lost at least 600 EUR throught this.
Our university isn´t even transparent - I had to do some digging and investigation to find out and comfirm my suspicions. They have been doing this for quite some time, and no, quality of our education doesn´t really reflect this.