Life goes on.

first of all, I'm very sorry guys, to have left you with such a desperate short post for almost a week. I've come back to Lithuania yesterday in the evening, very tired and exhausted after all the horrible Polish roads and all the adventures I've had with my family while travelling in Italy and Austria for those few days from last wednesday till yesterday. I'll post the pictures from the trip later though, since I have some other things to show now. To be honest, I have loads of pictures I still need to edit and post, but I have ALL my time now anyway, so will do it soon. Tried unpacking today too. Waaaah, cannot fit my clothes into my wardrobe...

Leaving the college was hard. Last days were very nice. I had all the dearest people around me, a lot of music, dancing in the middle of the night according to some gypsy-balkan music in the rain at the seaside, then talking, singing, just being silent with my friends. The closing ceremony was a bit boring, yet, of course, the sad part appeared to be VERY sad for me, since they have picked a song that we used to sing at camp, which is another very important place and memory for me, so I was crying twice as hard. Anyway. Whatever I write now, I won't be able to express what I felt. I love those people.

Above - me and Gabriel during the closing ceremony, picture by Vova. Below - me and Seva, my lovely first year who is now a second year student herself. In porto, that night when there was a huge storm and we were being silly staying up for the whole night and doing random things.

A picture of me and Rajah, a person who will surely be missed...so much. Even though we've spent so much time talking and making art together, I think that it's the only picture we have together. Lol at someone's facial expression though. Anyway, the reason why I'm posting the picture is because I wanted to finally show the yearbook and address book covers we made.

The yearbook cover. There was also supposed to be a back cover, yet they've put a big advertisement...blah. Anyway. Looks good:)

Our photography activity page. Really love how the colours came out.

And then the address book cover that we've made in the very beginning of the school year. So long ago... Funny to remember, how little I knew Rajah back then, as well as a lot of other people.

Last week before leaving there was a photography activity exhibition opened in the college, posting some pictures from the opening and my pictures in it.

Left - mine, right - Seva's pictures. We made a little Lithuanian corner there, haha.

Marta from Poland was surely amazed by some of the pictures, I guess. Below - I won an award for the best single image in the landscape category with this photo and got that book as an present. Vova, Russian primo, got a smaller one, so we took a picture just for fun.

And so here I am, in my room now, in Lithuania, listening to today's song and thinking about all the things I want/have to do. I think that going on the trip before coming home was a good decision. Being a nomad for a week did help me overcome the numb feeling of being lost and leaving a piece of myself behind after the college has ended. First days I just felt as if I don't have any feelings at all. Slowly, it got better. And even when unpacking all the little cards that bring me so many memories, I was more happy, than sad, happy to have experienced all those awesome moments, rather than crying for what has ended. Of course, it will be hard at times, not having UWC spirit around, my friends and even not being in Duino and not seeing the sea. But life goes on and I'll do my best to take the best of it. P.S. I hope that some UWCers will visit me in the summer though...:)

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I'm leaving, I'm leaving tomorrow morning and not only I cannot believe, but I don't want to believe it. It's a big storm right now in Duino, probably a similar one will be in my heart in the morning when we'll be heading to Venice with my parents. Everything comes to an end.
At least these last days in the college were the most beautiful days in my life.
I don't know when I'll be home. The home in Lithuania, I mean.

My lovely residence

That is the t-shirt design I made from Seva's picture of our residence tutor Henry. My residence is called Lucchese and I honestly enjoyed my time there immensely. We has our residence lunch today and luckily had the t-shirts printed by then, so we all could were them. It was cool, to make a surprise for the residence tutors who were so nice to us the whole year. I cut my t-shirt a bit so it's not of the regular shape...anyway, it was a lovely afternoon. I'll miss it so much, I've been living there for two years.

It has our signatures on the back.

My roommate Tereza and I. Our room was epic. Still is. We've started packing and taking things down though...meh...

Me being silly with Pierre, who was being silly with a toy that I used as a pillow.

Me taking a picture of Rajah and below you can see Filippo's beautiful Italian eyes, haha.

Rajah and Filippo resting after all the good food.

And our whole lovely residence - students and residence tutors.

And of course we did try to make a human pyramid. It did work. Someone wasn't too fast to take a picture though, hihi.

Peacock brooch

One of the last accessories I haven't posted pictures of yet - the peacock brooch. Since I'll be home in just a bit, the new ones will be coming soon. This was done during the winter break, me being obsessed with birds for some reason (the Swan brooch). I also made pretty epic earrings, will post soon. I'm trying hard to study for Monday's exam, but it's so difficult because almost everyone has finished their exams and are just enjoying life and going around having fun. Oh well. Yet I had 4 photoshoots this week so far! Awesome! Yesterday's one was very much also a psychology practise, to get the model to relax, but it was fun and the results are nice too. I have my hard disc completely stuffed with pictures now...but I asked my dad to bring me another one so I can take lots of pictures during the trip home. I can't believe that my parents and brother are gonna be here on Monday! We're driving back from Italy to Lithuania by car, stopping by Venice, Verona, then Austria and some other places...exciting! I almost forgot what it means to travel somewhere with your family and by car. Planes, buses, vans, trains. Comfort ftw.

falling away with you.

The second part of the photoshoot with Rosalba. 1st part here.

Model: Rosalba. Photography: Ieva Blaževičiūtė. Italy, 2011

These past days have been so busy in a very nice way. I did my Lithuanian exam on Monday, had a nice photoshoot with Ushma on the same day, then on Tuesday I went to Trieste with my roommate Tereza for some cool pictures of her dancing. We got so much attention from random (mostly old) Italian guys...eek. Then in the afternoon I finally did a photoshoot and a bit of filming with Rajah. We planned the whole thing ages ago and always had something in the way. It was soooooo much fun and the results are gonna be great too. I'll edit everything probably only when I'm home, because it doesn't make sense to spend my last days here editing pictures... I had to have another photoshoot today, but I found my dearest model sleeping, so this probably will have to be postponed a bit.

Also, I almost packed all the little things in my room today, except for the clothes. I still have a few exams that I'll need to study for, so removing the stuff that had to be packed someday anyway made my head a bit lighter. I was also happy packing all the little things that I'm leaving for the first years - I hope they'll find them useful.

So hard to make myself study after the whole marathon of exams is almost over and the days are so nice. And the room is so empty without all the drawings on the walls. Uh, and today's song here. Can't stop listening.

Lina 4 years ago

This was taken 4 years ago...I accidentaly found it today and decided to re-edit a bit. Oh, old days. This was also my very first planned photoshoot. Can't believe that it's been so long already. I hope that in another 4 years I'll be able to look at my old pictures and find something nice too.

I'm alive and pictures from Grado

Hello hello, after a long silence Ieva is back to the cyber space. I was having THE exams. That doesn't mean that I'm done with them - I still have Lithuanian and Environmental Systems left. But I am done with the most important and difficult ones - History, Math and the others. And how awesome it feels... The whole process was a bit painful because I had a lot of other things happening around and ended up being pretty depressed for a few days. It doesn't happen often for me and I admit that I was a bit scared myself not being able to get back to my normal mood for so long...But it's over and I'm happy again. Figured out once more that depending on other people is not the best way. Just when I wanted so badly for someone just to come and give me a hug without asking a thing - nobody came. Anyway. I am not able to show when I need help either. Art is the best solution for any problems I have in life:)
Talking about other things - we had our last tutorial gathering today. My tutor took the whole group to Grado, a town nearby, where there actually is some sand in the beach...not like in Duino where you can find only rocks. It was a very awesome afternoon and exactly what I needed to recover after yesterday's 3 exams. The weather was fantastic and we went swimming, sunbathing, eating (of course) and running around with some annoying dogs that liked our soccer ball.

Trying to make a funny tutorial group picture while jumping in the water. We ended up taking tons of pictures of jumping and falling into the water afterwards, so much fun. I should have come to Grado earlier this or last year...it's really a place worth visiting.

Beautiful Timmah.

And our attempt to have a full tutorial group picture - success. I guess it's the first time when we got all of us to be in one picture. Really nice group of people, I'll miss them all.

white silence

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falling away with you

Photography: Ieva Blaževičiūtė (me)

Model: Rosalba

Make-up: Carla

Italy 2011

The first set of pictures from photoshoot with Rosalba. I happened to take pictures of different styles, so could not post everything at once. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. Carrying the chair everywhere was also fun.