My name is Elli Yampolskaya. I was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine over 26 years ago. I moved to Austria in 2011 to study computer science at Graz University of Technology. If you are so inclined, my old blog in Russian about moving to Austria can be found at www.grazstories.illuzionjournal.com. This blog is a side effect of my short love affair with Lisbon in 2018 called an Erasmus semester. I am habitually restless and genuinely believe that sleep deprivation should be considered torture.
Completed, finished, done
All good things come to an end. Well, all bad things as well.
This is dance! It is hard!
The title of this post is a quote of my street dance teacher Dagu, along with “I hate...
The good-bye problem
The end of the Erasmus semester turned out to be a double-edged sword. On the one hand the...
International dinner
My exam-free time in Lisbon is in truth very nice. Yesterday I was invited for a dinner at...
Pride
Sometimes I wonder how many layers of memories people have for certain locations if they have lived in...
An update about no update
Remember this last time I wrote that I am mostly studying? Well, I am
That pigeon story
I guess the whole rivalry with pigeons started the time me and Asia were in LX factory eating...
Cascais and strawberries
There was not much happening lately. My life mostly consists of studying, going to the dance classes and...
What would you do?
At the end of a short trip to Valencia I was sitting at the boarding gate waiting for...
Remember, remember, the 25th of April
I used to laugh at Portuguese people who would call Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and other smaller territories that...
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