Dear diary | My last week of April

Dear diary | My last week of April

Dear diary | My last week of April

Dear diary | My last week of April

Dear diary | My last week of April

Yes, it's already June 2nd, and I've only just found the time to write about how my last week of April went and what I did.

I spent the last week of April in Chania on the island of Crete, where we went to participate in the Musa Novatis festival.

The trip to Chania started off quite romantically. On the plane, Eleni and I sat in the very front seats, right in front of all the other passengers. At one point, I noticed one of the passengers talking for an inordinate amount of time to the flight attendants. At first, it seemed a little suspicious, but then everything became clear: the flight attendants invited his companion over, and right there on the plane, he proposed marriage. It was very sweet. If you believe in omens, you might think this was a sign of something good. A new, happy beginning. But as it turned out, it was the beginning of a very turbulent week for me. The festival lasted two days and, compared to the Thessaloniki festival, was much more interesting for me, as someone who doesn't speak Greek. Why? you ask.

Firstly, after several months in Thessaloniki, I was a bit tired of the city and wanted a change of scenery. The weather was gradually getting warmer, I no longer wanted to sit indoors, and I was craving adventure. Well, adventure I got, but more on that later.

Secondly, I met some very talented people from various fields of art. For example, Labrini, who performed an abstract performance at the festival's finale and simultaneously organized an exhibition of her artwork.

Thirdly, I had enough time to make friends with the festival participants. After each day of events, we had small parties: we dined together, drank wine, and simply had a good time.

Fourthly, I found the participants of the Chania festival particularly interesting. One of the most memorable moments was meeting a group of students from a technical university who brought a large telescope for stargazing.

Looking back, I can only say one thing: it was a lot of fun. Although it was quite stressful at times, as I was playing several roles at the festival, photographer, videographer, and, to a certain extent, communications assistant.

If I had to sum up the entire trip in one sentence, it would be:

Be careful what you wish for it might come true

So what happened?

Several unpleasant, but now rather amusing, stories happened in Crete.

Since my job involved taking photos and videos on my personal phone, you can imagine my emotions when, after the first day of the festival, my phone suddenly died, and with it, I lost access to all the footage from the first day. It simply turned off and wouldn't turn on or charge again. The phone died a hero's death. It served me for about five or six years, but the battery, which had long since stopped holding a charge, finally gave up. Goodbye, friend.

Luckily, Eleni quickly found a temporary solution and lent me her work phone so I could stay in touch and continue taking photos and videos. We decided to put off recovering the data from my old phone for later. But the adventures didn't end there. Since I couldn't use Apple Pay anymore, I had to carry my bank card with me. And a few hours later, I lost it. Honestly, it sounds incredibly funny now. I had no cash, no working phone, but I did have an iPad. So I ran around cafes looking for WiFi, downloaded a banking app, and blocked the card. It took about an hour, but I eventually blocked it before anyone else could use it. At that point, I began to suspect that Crete had decided to test my stress tolerance.

After my old phone died, I quickly found the money to buy a new iPhone. The problem was that Chania wasn't the kind of place where you can just walk into a store and buy the model you need. In the end, I had to wait almost three days before I could get a new phone. Three days without my main device might not seem like a big deal. But in reality, it was hard, because we're all already dependent on those rectangles in our hands.

I've told you about Hanyu, but what about other tasks? Dear reader, everything is going smoothly. The comic is progressing, the articles are being written, I've added to new projects, and so on.

I still haven't started the graffiti and radio show. As for the graffiti, all I can say is that I have an idea for how to combine it with the idea we had in July, namely the trash recycling project, all the details later, hehehehe.

by @lev_me_vision