Eiva Poppins: Brighton Blogger

Another year gone. It took me almost a month to write this.. so the fact remains is that I'm not getting any better with posting regulary. My written English still sucks (stop counting my grammar errors - nobody cares!) and my Czech is getting worse. I got nowhere with my Spanish - hopefully it will improve this year. I've got a plan.

I would like to share some pictures of me and of some of my awesome friends. 

I am going to be 23 in a month which is fine obviously and I'm happy being an adult haha but it feels like it's sort of time to learn how to cook (at least a little bit) and do the laundry on time to always have enough fresh undies. That might be some of my goals this year. 
 I am writing this at home in the Czech Republic in my parents living room. There's a burning fire, candle light and it is snowing outside - I know! It is a very romantic place to reflect on last year, isn't it. Are you bored yet? Basically I spent most of 2015 drinking too much coffee (love you Small Batch crew forever), eating take-aways, complaining about the clouds in the sky, working, worrying about money, planning travelling and meeting new people. Some of them became my friends, some of them were waste of my time. Ehm ehm. 

I really did meet some interesting people. I became friends with Roberta who is a very inteligent and very stylish lady. She works for Beyond Retro and we met thanks to Instagram. 

I also met Max who made my coach journey from Czech to UK interesting and fun and now we're friends. Did you see it? Yes, a coach journey. I did it again. Tragic. I mean interesting and fun. Right.

 I had an amazing birthday. I had a great birhday dinner where everyone followed my dress code and ate yummy thai food in my favourite Street Thai restaurant in The Lanes and then my best friend surprised me on the actual day of my birthday and spent almost a week in Brighton with me. Love you, Sabi.

The fact she was here was great but unfortunately during her visit I ended up in hospital. Last thing I remember is being on the street on my own feeling funny and looking around for help. I woke up in an ambulance car and was told I had a seizure. I fell straight on my face and looked like Joker's sister for a good week. It was all jokes to me at first and I loved taking selfies with my half moustache. Few weeks later I got diagnosed with epilepsy and let me tell you taking medication is quite annoying and tiring. Anyway, everyone has their own issues but I just thought it's worth mentioning because that was obviously quite a big deal.
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I went to Amsterdam with Vojta and that was fun. I hope we will go for another trip together soon. Vojta is so crazy but brave with all his adventures and stuff. He works like a crazy person and then just leaves for days/weeks without making a big deal out of it and then casually comes back...with no money but in a good mood haha.

I also went to Barcelona three times and it was always awesome but I seriously need to visit some new places haha. I was fortunate to get paid for going there two out of these three times because of the nature of my job. I went with Patrick and then with Esther, thanks guys. You both are great friends of mine. I also got some new tattooes from Patrick in 2015 and met him for a coffee approximately 365 times :).

This is a dangerous game. I should stop mentioning any of friends otherwise those left out (I do hope you don't actually go on this blog) might think I don't love them as those mentioned but trust me it's just because I didn't take any pictures of you. Below is my friend Cathy who doesn't like it when her fringe is gappy but in my opinion she looks fabulous all the time. It is taken in my current bedroom.

Moving out of bedsit I used to live in to moving in with Megan and her coming to England was one of the most exciting things ever. I never lived with a friend before. We both cannot cook and we share clothes. She once ate my big Nutella but that's fine because she deserves all Nutella in the world. Little Aussie freak. I wish there was no visas in this world.

Our flat is so central and it's been great having my friends Nela and her boyfriend Ondra or my sister over at least for a bit. You might have seen pictures from our rooftop here before so you know it's a pretty cool place. Our windows are quite a disaster haha but that's not what makes a happy living. Happiness is hearing your flatmate's Rain Rain app so you know she's at home. It is finding chocolate and little cute notes on your bed. It is borrowing her shampoo when you run out of yours. Sorry!

...and I also met Jay. He is my boyfriend and a take-away soulmate. He hates mornings, cold tea and when I wear sunglasses at night. He likes skateboarding, loud music and me when I bring him food in bed. He is a feminist which means he chooses female characters in videogames. He feeds me chocolate and pizza. Yum yum.  

top - Zara, skirt - Stradivarius, boots - New Look (given by my lovely friend Essie - thank you!), socks/bag - The Whitepepper

One morning I got an email from Scott Vincent saying he found my Instagram and this blog and liked it so he did a graffiti of me. I was shocked as obviously that doesn't usually happen to me haha. It's just bit funny looking at yourself and it's just massive. It is based on this selfie actually haha. Not sure what else to say really, I just found it really funny.

There was lots of rats running around right by the graffity when me and Benjamin Le Bon Mckenzie taking these pictures haha. You should check out some of his work here. Thank you very much for the photos Ben. It was nice to meet you!

Oh and I think nobody yet sprayed anything over my face. I was kind of hoping someone would do it and then I can feel like I have haters and feel important hahaha.

P.S.: I just came back from few days in Barcelona so I will be posting some pictures soon. (In my case 'soon' could be months haha.) It was nice to be back and skate around :-).

Jednoho den rano jsem nasla mail od Scott Vincent. Napsal mi ze nasel muj Instagram a tenhle blog a ze se mu libil a tak udelal graffiti se mnou. Zvlastni, ne? Haha. Byla jsem samozrejme celkem prekvapena, protoze to se mi vazne nestava casto. Kdyz jsem se tam byla kouknout (samozrejme jeste ten den co mi napsal haha) tak mi to pripadalo uplne sileny. Je to zalozeno na tehle selfie a jak rikam, fakt by me absolutne nikdy nenapadlo, ze tohle nekdo udela. Je to vtipny.
Tyhle fotky fotil Ben Mckenzie a vic jeho pracemuzete videt tady. Foceni bylo celkem zajimavy, vsude po zemi a po stenach pobihaly krysy haha.
Myslim ze jeste porad nikdo nenasprejoval nic pres muj oblicej, tak trochu doufam, ze to nekdo udela a ja si budu pripadat dulezite, ze mam haters ale tak asi neee haha.
P.S.: Zrovna jsem se predevcirem vratila z Barcelony, kde jsem byla na par dni, takze brzo (to v mympripade muze znamenat tydny i mesice) budu postovat nejaky fotky. 

For the fifth time in last two years I moved again! I left my old little bedsit in Kemptown for a flat in central Brighton which I share with my friend Meg, we share Nutella and life is good. I love sitting on my window and watching people in the park. There is people playing music all the time..sometimes it's nice..sometimes it's not that nice haha. But I really like it here and I'm fine with the noise as the one thing which was really annoying at my old place was my neighbour upstairs. That guy was crazy and I cannot even say how many times he woke me up in the middle of the night so it's nice to live somewhere where the walls are not made out of paper haha.
Also, as you can see, we found we've got a rooftop! Awww, how good is that.
Apart from that I've been alright, summer finally got to Brighton (not today, today is raining..) and I spent many afternoons on the beach or in the park drinking Iced Flat White which has Boho Gelato icecream inside..yum.
One thing which bothers me is that I won't be able go to New York this September as I planned. I called the embassy and my appointment for a passport (yep, I don't have one - I only have an ID which is enough to travel around Europe) is at the end of August and then it takes another EIGHT weeks to actually get it. I'm sorry but that's just long! I guess I'll just have to go to NY in winter or something.
My best friend Sabina is coming for over a week in three days which is so exciting and I cannot wait to just sleep, eat and drink..basically that's what we did last year and it was great.
...and last thing which has been on my mind is moving to Spain. I'm thinking about moving to Barcelona next year before the summer. I have to do it otherwise I'm never going to be fluent in Spanish.

I gotta go. I've got cakes to eat and films to watch. xx

P.S.: I got another tattoo from my friend Patrick. Look.

Tak jsem se opet prestehovala, je to uz po pate za posledni dva roky. Opustila jsem po roce svuj stary bedsit v Kemptownu pro byt v centru Brightonu, ktery sdilim s moji kamaradkou Meg. Bavi me sedet na okne a cist si a nebo spis presneji me bavi pozorovat lidi v parku. Pokud neprsi, vzdycky nekdo venku hraje hudbu, nekdy je to fajn a nekdy to zas tak fajn neni haha. Ale moc se mi tu libi a na hluk zvenku jsem si zvykla a cekala jsem to a uprednostnuju tohle, nez souseda, ktery nademnou bydlel v predchozim byte..nevim ani kolikrat me vzbudil uprostred noci svou prisernou hrou na kytaru nebo jen tim, ze se prochazel tri hodiny po byte. Jsem rada, ze jsem se ho vzbudila. Je to fajn bydlet nekde, kde nejsou zdi z papiru.
A taky tu mame velkou strechu, kde jsme prave fotily s Meg tyhle fotky. Je to moje nove oblibene misto.
Krome toho, ze jsem se prestehovala, jsem se mela celkem dobre, leto dokonce dorazilo uz i do Brightonu (dneska teda ne, dneska prsi..) a stravila jsem spoustu odpoledni a veceru na plazi a nebo v parku se zmrzlinou a Iced Flat White, to je ted moje oblibeny kafe. Jsou v tom dva shoty espressa a hlavne dva kopecky zmzrliny z Boho Gelato yum. 
Jedna vec, co me trochu stve je, ze nepojedu v zari do New Yorku, jak jsem planovala. Pred dvema tydny jsem volala na ambasadu, abych si vyridila pas (ano, mam jen obcanku, ktera mi staci na vse po Evrope) a mam schuzku az na konci srpna a pak to trva dalsich osm tydnu, nez ten pas vubec fyzicky ziskam. To mi prijde jako hodne dlouhej proces.. Tak snad se do NY podivam v zime a nebo na jare.
Moje nejlepsi kamaradka Sabina (kterou jsem tu mela uz nekolikrat) zitra vyrazi na cestu za mnou a uz se nemuzu dockat, jak budeme spat, jist, pit presne jako minule leto.
...a posledni vec na kterou jsem myslela posledni dobou je stehovani do jine zeme, presneji do Spanelska. Premejslim, ze bych se prestehovala do Barcelony pristi rok nekdy na jare a nebo v lete. Rikala jsem si, ze pokud se tam neprestehuju, tak nikdy Spanelsky plynne umet nebudu!

Ted uz musit jit. Mam v planu jit si dat banoffee pie a koukat na filmy. xx

P.S.: Vcera jsem si nechala udelat novy tetovani, opet od Patricka. Kouknete tady.

Everyone is about that healthy life style and I'm just like 'veggie burger and fries please' oh and 'can I get more mayo please?' I've just had seven days off which I really enjoyed and my eating habits have been just the worst ever haha. I mean I usually eat junk food anyway but I get food at work which you could consider quite healthy. BUT when it's just my responsibility I eat earliest at 5pm in the afternoon and my dinner which I would have around midnight, I've been having three bars of chocolate everyday too wooohooo. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and have to have some chocolate or brownie bites (I always have them) just to go back to sleep.... True story.

Zdrave jidlo je jeste porad hit a pritom moji posledni zabavou je honeni
se za nejlepsich vegetarianskym burgerem ve meste a hlavne aby v nem bylo dost tatarky. Zrovna mi skoncil tyden volna a bylo to skvely, ale moje zlozvyky ohledne jidla se jeste extremne zhorsili haha. Teda abych rekla pravdu nezdrave jim asi dost (jsem ten nezdravy typ vegetariana:-), ale jidlo, ktere mame v praci je celkem dejme tomu zdrave. Takze kdyz je pak jen a jen na me urcovat, co budu jist, tak to vetsinou dopada tak, ze poprve jim v pet odpoledne a veceri bych vetsinou mela tak o pulnoci a prumerne kazdy den tak tri cokolady jeeej. Nekdy se i budim uprostred noci a musim si dat aspon trosku cokolady nebo brownie bites, abych zase usnula... True story.

These are my favourite songs at the moment / Moje oblibene songy v poslednich dnech

1. Loner - Kali Uchis

(other of my favourite ones by her: Honey Baby, Never Be Yours, Table For Too, All Or Nothing)

2. Shutdown - Skepta

3. That's Life - Frank Sinatra

4. Jailer - ASA

5. Too Good To Be True - Jazz Cartier