Tomás Pifaro
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I'll tell you a little about myself
I'll tell you a little about myself
Ever since I was a child, I've always enjoyed creating and imagining things like stories or even ideas, and as I got older I realized that it's possible for me to make my ideas real, using programming to express my creativity in the form of websites, games, and even creating applications to help me finish tasks faster and more efficiently.
I chose programming for my future for these reasons, but it turned out that I liked it more than I thought I would.
Now that I'm 16, I'm going to try as hard as I can to develop in this area.
9th December, 1st day in Lithuania
On the first day, 9 December, we went to Faro airport at 4.30 in the morning to catch a 6.30am flight to London and then a 1.30pm flight to Vilnius in Lithuania. We arrived at 6.15 in Lithuanian time and our time was 4.15 in the afternoon. We put our things in the hotel and went to eat in a burger parlour near the hotel and then went to bed.
Sunday 10th
On Sunday, we went to see a bit of Vilnius. In the morning, we saw some shops and the infrastructure of the market, which was very nice and had food and products on sale that seemed to be of good quality.
In the afternoon, at around 3pm, we went to Kaunas, where we'll be staying for the rest of the time.
We settled into our hotel and went to see a bit of the city, we went to see a tunnel and some of the houses and restaurants in the area so we could choose which one we were going to dine in over the next few days. We also tried playing with snowballs, which I thought was fun.
We had lunch in a traditional Lithuanian restaurant, which I really liked because their cuisine is very much based on potatoes and lamb, but I think if I eat like this every day I'll get bored of it.
In the evening we went to the hotel to see the rooms and I found mine very spacious and cosy, I think I'll get used to it.
11/12/2023 - We went to see the school
we went to see the school on the first Monday we were here in Lithuania.
I found the teachers very friendly from the moment they introduced themselves to us and explained what we were going to do during our stay here. They also gave us a guided tour of the school, which I found to be very technological and advanced compared to the one I study at in Portugal, as well as the way the courses work here.
12/12/2023 - Beginning of the project
As soon as we arrived at the school, on the first Tuesday, they gave us the project to be carried out during the internship and explained what we had to do, which was to make a fake AI, more briefly to make an API connected to an AI that would read the promp posted and pass it on to the AI and send it back to the user, to do this for 3 different types of Ai, one for text, another for creating images and the last one will analyse an image sent and pass on the answer or more information about it. They also gave us an idea of job shadowing, showed us the room we'd be staying in and how to meet the teachers, and for lunch we went to a very good local burger restaurant.
13/12/2023 Museums we went to see
In the morning we went to see two museums here in Lithuania, in Kaunas: the M. K. Ciurlionis National Art Museum.
I found it very interesting to see and learn a bit more about the culture here, the art and the statues were very different from those you see in museums in Portugal and I really liked them.
At lunchtime we went to a Mexican restaurant and I ordered some borritos.
In the afternoon we went to see a museum called the Devil's Museum, which only had sculptures of demons and angels and also modern art.
To summarise, I really liked the art and sculptures in the museums we went to see today and I found it very different and exciting to learn a bit about the history of a new country that I didn't know anything about.
The Devil Museum
the National M. K. Ciurlionis Art Museum
14/12/2023
14/12/2023
Today I woke up and ate breakfast and we walked to school, when we got there we continued our project. There we were told to research how APIs worked and how to create one, which I had to do for a good part of the day there.
After leaving the school, the teacher told us that we could visit a D&D session that takes place every Thursday. We decided to go and see what it was like and. The people there for D&D already had a session going when it started, so we were left to watch, but it was still a lot of fun, as the story and the players reacted in really funny ways.
After the D&D session ended, one of those organizing the game asked us if we wanted to take a tour of the Akropolis mall with them, and we all said yes, since we hadn't been there yet.
They showed us the small “island” they had near Akropolis, as it was a land surrounded by a river. They also showed us how Lithuanian couples put padlocks on the bridge to show their love.
when we arrived at Akropolis! It was very big, it had 3 whole floors and each floor was bigger than the previous one. The first floor had stores from technology to bookstores, the second floor had clothing stores and the third was restaurants.
After we left, they told us to install and create an account on an application called 'Ziogas' so we could go by bus to the restaurant where we were going to have dinner since it was already late. They explained to us very well how the buses here work and I managed to understand it well.
Day 15/12/2023
In the morning we went to school and started with some parts of the project we're doing to learn about APIs.
Then in the afternoon, as the teachers had a meeting at school, we were excused and went shopping to buy the ingredients for lunch and then we went home to cook our lunch. It was the first time we'd cooked here in Lithuania on our own and the food was good, but it was a lot of work and we spent until 4pm cooking.
In the afternoon, I went with two of my friends to an internet café for an hour to play some games, since the last time I played a game was in Portugal.
For dinner we went to eat some typical local food, but I honestly didn't like it very much, but some people do, it's just my taste.
16/12/2023
16/12/2023
To day we spent the morning resting a bit, and in the afternoon, we went to the mall. It was my first time there because I hadn't been before, and I found it much larger than I was expecting. There were many stores with products and clothes that I had never seen before, such as a Mentos energy drink and cool clothing brands that aren't sold in Portugal. We also had dinner at Burger King. Afterward, we visited a board game store and bought a bunch of games. We also went to the mall's food court to buy lunch for the next day and purchased a toaster because the apartment didn't have one.
After our shopping, we took the bus home, and I found their bus application quite good and innovative because it covers all the city's locations, and the fare is very cheap. When we got home, we played some of the board games we bought.
17/12/2023
17/12/2023
On Sunday, we spent the whole day relaxing in the flat in the morning, and after resting we made lunch, which was pasta with some chicken strips and tomato sauce, in the afternoon we played a board game we'd bought and in the evening we ordered takeaway.
18/12/2023
18/12/2023
In the morning we went to school and were given the task of making an API with Asp.net, the programming language we like the most. I managed to make the API store prongs in IDs and manage to look up the IDs and show the prong.
Lunchtime was spent eating a sandwich I'd brought along.
In the afternoon I continued with the project until we left at 3.30pm.
In the afternoon we walked around the city a bit and then had dinner, which was literally just potato and beetroot soup - I liked the soup the best because I've had enough of potatoes.
After dinner we went to a shop nearby to buy some things we were missing and then we went home to rest.
19/12/2023
Today we did a lot of things in the morning. I woke up at 10 and went to get ready, had a piece of toast and we left for school at 11, taking the bus which was quicker.
We arrived just before 11.30 and stayed in a room until the teachers got everything ready for us to go to Vilnios. We left around 12.30 to see a Data Base company and they explained everything from the power generators to the blocks where the Servers were.
In the afternoon we went back to Kaunas and had a pizza for lunch and then dinner two hours later. Dinner was good tonight, it was meat with a few slices of tomato and a portion of potato.
20/12/2023
today I had to redo the project because it wasn't the way I wanted it to be, I started the frontend part by making the main menu, and the backend part I started from scratch, I only managed to make the API and some basic configurations.
After leaving school I walked home to clear my head a bit and see a bit of the city. I spent an hour and a half seeing a bit of the city and the route I took, I really like walking and seeing the sights is fun.
Dinner was 2 meatballs with mashed potato and salad, and the carrot soup was good, in my opinion it was a 7/10.
21/12/2023
We went to school by bus as usual, and went straight to the classroom, I continued to do the frontend of the site as I'm enjoying doing it, today I did the initial part of the menu and tested a lot of different things from colours to fonts to the organisation of the text to the colour and animation of the enter button, I'm using HTML and CSS for this and when I go one step further I'll start using JavaScript.
I had to do it all the time at school until 3.30 in the afternoon and I found it quite fun as I like doing the frontend of applications and websites more because it gives me the visual result.
I've also put some animations on the button to make it look like it's being pressed and when the cursor passes over it, the colour becomes lighter. So far, the site has a more greyish style, unlike the beginning when I had put everything in purple.
I'm also going to show you some photos of the versions I've made over the course of the day, from the most recent to the oldest, which I made a little of yesterday and the rest this morning.
Today we went for lunch at an Italian pizzeria and I ordered a pizza called Italia and a sprite to go with it. The pizza was ham, with cheese, some tomatoes and a little salad on top. I liked the pizza, but it took them a long time to deliver the food, almost an hour.
Note (I forgot to take a photo of the pizza :( )
After leaving school, Raul, Leandro, Arturo and me went to some supermarkets about 20 minutes from the school because the ladies who went to clean the rooms were there when we returned home, so in order not to disturb them we went as long as possible, which is a supermarket 10 minutes from the apartment I went there to buy some water, some juices and some biscuits and they bought their things, when we were going home we passed by Lidel and went to see what they had as there was nothing there that I wanted was to the apartment and I was surprised because the ladies cleaned it very well, the room looked like a new room, after arriving he went to eat some toast and a glass of milk and went to take a shower.
Until it was time for us all to go to dinner, I was watching a series that I liked. I've been watching this series for about a week now, the name of the series is DragonBallGT, I've been watching one or two episodes a day and it's interesting. I had already seen it when I was younger but now I want to watch it again and each episode is about 20 minutes long, which makes it useful to watch before bed or when I'm bored.
When we went to dinner today it took a little longer than usual, I thought it was strange, but when the food arrived I immediately realized that the beetroot soup was so-so, but the main course was very good, a salad with a steak and some really good fries. Ok, I'll even put the images here, I really liked it, the potato was very crispy, just how I like it and the meat was at the point I like, I think if I were to rate it it would be about 9/10.
We then went home and immediately ate an orange and a packet of chips that I bought yesterday, not everything needs to be healthy.
And now I'm watching my series as I write this :)
22/12/2023
This morning we woke up early to go to Vilnius to see a company called BlueBridge. We left here at 8am because the journey there takes about 1.5 hours and we went in a van with one of the teachers. We arrived at around 9:00 to 9:30 in the morning and when we arrived we split into two groups one went with one of the teachers to the supermarket to buy breakfast, which was my case and I bought 2 curasan and a water because I was thirsty, the other group went to a café nearby and then we got together at 10 and went to the company and we were very well received.
Then we went to a meeting room where they talked about how the company's security worked, types of information theft and how to avoid them, the type of data scam they talked about was fishing, and at the end we asked questions about cybersecurity and how it's used on a daily basis, as well as how it worked to be able to work in the area and what we needed to know to do so.
After leaving the company at around 11:10 or so, we went in a van with one of the teachers to see a museum that used to be a palace and a castle, I really liked the museum because I really like history and knowing more about the In the cities I pass by, the museum was divided in several ways. One of the areas of the museum had some very cute and funny ceramic statues, in the same area there were also objects that members of royalty used at the time. There were also some paintings along with that. in fabric that I really liked.
The museum had several tabs with a specific theme each and had 3 floors with several rooms in addition to having 2 blocks, in another of the rooms I liked seeing the crockery and glasses they used at the time, there were several areas in the museum if you stay at Talking about each of the things, I write an entire article just describing what I liked, I'll summarize the rest, we saw things from the inquisition, weapons from the medieval era, old games, a church, clocks, stories about historical figures.
What I also really liked was the ambiance of the museum and the structure, which I found different from what I'm used to in museums.
After going to see the museum we went to a hamburger nearby, I took the opportunity and bought a magnet from the museum and we went to eat. I ordered a hamburger with fries and water, I honestly liked the hamburger but if you asked me I would say I preferred the potatoes because they were very croaking. And like yesterday I forgot the Lunch photo.
Afterwards we went to see a little of the space around and went to the van to return to Kaunas which we arrived there at around 4:20 pm, when we arrived we went to rest a little in the apartments because looking at the museum tired me a lot because I had to I always have to walk a lot to see different things, I must have walked about 5km without playing just inside.
Today when we went to dinner we arrived and we waited a while for them to find a place to sit down, but it was worth it, they put us in a very comfortable place and today's food was very good because I liked the soup with carrots and potatoes and also the dish main which had chicken with French fries and I love fries.
Afterwards we went home and had a 40 minute video call with the teachers who asked how we were doing, what we had done and gave us tips on how to put them on the website, then they went to talk to my mother and my father and then went to see my series while I write the blog here.
23/12/2023
I didn't do much today, starting with the fact that it was the end of the week, I woke up later, I mean much later, I woke up at 11.30am and a bit later, I ate some cereal and woke up better, then I watched an episode of a series I've been watching and then at 1.20pm we had lunch, we each had an omelette with ham and cheese, it was Leandro and Lara who made the omelettes for everyone, then I played a game similar to chess until 2.30pm.
The afternoon after that we went to catch a bus to go to some trampoline park, I'm warning you since I was almost forced to go because it was a vote and the majority wanted to go to that trampoline park so we went, on the bus a rather annoying situation happened which we were stopped by the inspection because we thought that the Portuguese student card was also used to get discounts here and as we bought through the app that had that option, they asked us to see the cards and we were forced to pay another 1 euro for the ticket, I was very scared as the trip was 30 minutes I was afraid that they would leave us in some place, even though they only charged us the amount.
When we got off the bus we had to walk another 20 minutes to get to the place. After we got there, the place looks like a square of green cement on the outside and on the inside there was a resection and part of the trampolines, honestly I was very disappointed because besides not really wanting to go there, there were even fewer things and it was smaller than I thought it was going to be, we stayed there for a while, I stayed there, I didn't think it was very fun but that's just my opinion, I stayed from one side to the other every now and then, I stood there and then I went back to them.
When we left there we decided to go to McDonald's for dinner and while we were going there I saw a Christmas tree on the street that looked really cute, I even took a photo, at McDonald I ordered a hamburger and a sprite, the hamburger I don't remember the name but it was very big compared to that of my colleagues and the price was very cheap, because I ordered less with a chessburger which cost 4 euros and the hamburger I ordered I paid 6 for, it all cost the same price as my colleagues and it had almost triple the amount of food.
As soon as we left, we went to a supermarket that was nearby, I had never seen a supermarket that big, we went there to buy some things and then cook on the 24th and 25th because the stores here on those days are closed because they are festive days.
Then we went to the bus and arrived at the apartment at 8:30 pm or so, and the rest of that time we took the opportunity to organize things for cooking tomorrow.
24/12/2023
Today, on Christmas Eve, we decided to stay at home, I also woke up a little late at 11 and around noon, around 1 pm, we went to have lunch, which was plain with bread crust and fried, with some potatoes and spaghetti, I stayed With Leandro taking care of the meat, I got careless and almost let it burn, luckily I remembered just in time, then we went for lunch a little late because it took longer than we thought, because we didn't go to eat there for lunch. 15:30, we spent a while talking and packing our lunch things and then we went with Raul to see if there was a supermarket open to buy some snacks because we had forgotten to buy them, so we went there to see and passed by one called IKI and it was closed at 9pm but on the website it said it closed at 10pm, then we went to 2 more and also passed by the shopping mall here in the city, as a result we spent almost 3 hours from one to the other and everything was closed.
We returned home and our colleagues were already they had made dinner, which was apple with fries, tomato and salad, it was good, but after that I went to eat about 3 pieces of toast because I was hungry, the rest of the night I spent talking to my parents and family via video call or text and before going to sleep we talked amongst ourselves and took some funny photos.
25/12/2023
Today, as it's Christmas Day, we spent most of the day at home. In the morning, I woke up and ate some cereal and talked to some of my family on the phone and I also watched a film on the PC which I thought was really good, then we went for lunch and as we only remembered at short notice, we ordered from an app called WOLV, we ordered MC and I ordered a hamburger which has fried meat and fish, I thought it was good and I was almost full and I also had some toast, in the afternoon we were talking to each other and playing an online game on the PC called stardew valley and then I went with some colleagues to walk around a bit and we had some waffles with chocolate, and we went home as soon as we arrived I had to talk to my parents and my brother, while I was talking to them some of my colleagues who had stayed to make dinner finished and we all went to eat dinner was some strips of chicken breast passed in the frying pan with onion and oil and rice, I honestly liked it and I was satisfied. We also made a draw for a Secret Santa among ourselves to be delivered on the 1st.
Today we spent a bit of time at home too, as I'd excreted before Christmas and had more time to do things.
26/12/2023
I woke up today and had a bowl of cereal and some toast with a glass of milk, then I was talking to some mates and we decided to go and see the city of Alytus and we left here at 1pm and got a minibus to go to the bus station which is a bit far from here, when we got to the station we went to buy our tickets and as we still had 45 minutes or so we went to a shopping centre by the station to buy lunch, I bought some sandwiches and an apple jam, we got the bus and it took us about an hour and a half to get to Alytos, the idea was to go and see a museum and we called an uber to take us there because by car it was 10 minutes from the station and walking would have taken me a while so we took the uber. When we arrived, the museum was closed because it was the day after Christmas and we didn't know because the website said it closed at 10pm and it was half past three, so we were a bit annoyed.
Then, so as not to waste the day, we went to dinner early because the lunch was quite poor, we went to a pizzeria and I ordered Hawaiian pizza, it was really good. city but it was already night because it gets dark earlier here but there were lights everywhere and the city was beautiful, and as I really like seeing the infrastructure and architecture of different cities because it says a lot about the history and culture I liked it, so After walking around the city, we went to see some of its monuments and we also went to the city park to see what it was like, honestly I didn't like it very much because the park didn't have anything, it was just some dirt walkways, what I liked most is that in the middle there was a water fountain that was quite funny and what I liked most was a statue at the exit of the park that I found funny because it was a statue of an angel and there were some metal sculptures around it that were really cool.
We immediately went to ask for an Uber from the park to the bus station, the man who was driving drove very well and safely, and then we took the bus and when we arrived in Kaunas at 10 pm we walked home and it took us more or less than 30 minutes, I got home and immediately went to eat some toast and write the blog now.
27/12/2023
I ate a bowl of cereal and went to school with my mates. Today I focused entirely on the frontend and made the enter button take me to the tab where the test will be printed and the prompts will be sent, but it's not finished yet, and I also made a button to go back to the menu, as one of my favourite colours is grey, I've added it to almost the entire project and it's already possible to send text to the program via the frontend, but I haven't yet added it to be sent to the API. Tomorrow my idea is to redo a few things in the API and fix a few bugs it has and try to connect it to the frontend so that it can receive the prompts and save their IDs, and that's what I did during the part of the day I had at school. I'll put a photo here of how the part that will be used to enter the prompts looks.
At lunchtime there's no secret, it's like it's been almost every day. I went to Silas, which is a supermarket, and bought some meat sandwiches and a bottle of water and we went back to school, but I've already told you everything I did today, so I'll move on to another topic.
After leaving school, we passed by some stores near our house, which were a Chinese store. My classmates bought some things, but I didn't like anything there, so I didn't buy anything, and then we went to Tieguer, which is a store that It sells some different and funny things, I always like to take a look but today I didn't see anything interesting so I went home.
At home I didn't even have time to rest as it was time to go to the restaurant. There they gave us some soup that I didn't like very much because I don't like mushrooms, but for those who do, they might think it's good, and the main dish today was a lot of fried potatoes, which I love, and meat with spicy sweet and sour, which I loved since I like spicy, after After eating we went to pay as I had agreed to pay 1 euro for each day every day but we had agreed to pay one each day and today was the day for me to pay :)
After we had dinner we passed by a donut shop and I ordered a chocolate and strawberry one which was very good, we all ordered some donuts and shared them to try them all, while we ate we walked home, when we got home we started playing almost all of the same online game and now I'm writing this here.
28/12/2023
In the morning we hit the brakes at short notice, so we took the bus and got there on time. As for the project, today I've been researching how I'm going to improve my Api, in short I've been looking at how to interconnect it with the html, but I haven't finished that part yet, and also how to make it save more than one promp, I was only saving one now, and I've also spent a lot of time in the morning and the rest of the afternoon solving visual bugs in the Htlml and Css part, I'm enjoying doing this project, I'm already understanding how the APIs work and this project is proving to be very interesting and as I've never studied this before I was having a lot of difficulty at first but now I'm starting to understand it better.
Then at lunchtime, which I'm talking about here so as not to get confused between talking about the project and what I had for lunch and then the project, we decided to go to a restaurant called Bistronomė which sold sandwiches, burgers, meat dishes and fish dishes, and the dish that caught my eye the most was a chiken burger which was very good, I liked it a lot, and then we went back to school and stayed there until 3.25 or so.
Leandro, Raul and I went today after leaving school to wash our clothes, which I already needed, I took about 2 bags of clothes to wash and we also dried the clothes in the machines there, in addition to washing each one of them. The process took 40 minutes and I also had to fold my clothes to make it quicker because I just left the clothes at home and we went to the restaurant for dinner.
We went to dinner today and a funny thing happened, they put us at the wrong table and we already had the cutlery and glasses and then they changed tables but otherwise it went well, the soup was better than yesterday and the main black today was the only day that there were no potatoes, there was just rice with meat and some pickles and we passed by a donut shop again and I bought a chocolate one which was very good, it was the same as yesterday, and we went home afterwards from that.
At home we made a video call with the teachers to talk about our visits to other cities and to ask if they were well and about some papers to deliver to the teachers here to serve as proof that we were here, and then we listened to some music and went to talk with my parents.
29/12/2023
My mates and I went to school by bus today, and in the project I spent the whole day trying to get the text entered in the Html to be passed to a variable called promp in the api I had to add a script to use the method to add a promp to an id so that when I do the part of responding to the user it's easier, what I did today stopped short because I couldn't finish it but it gave me a lot of work.
At lunchtime we went for lunch at the same burger restaurant we went to yesterday because we all liked it and also because the price is cheap for the food, yesterday I had ordered the chicken burger and today for a change I ordered a beef burger with a slightly spicy sauce and it came with fries on the menu which were very good and crispy, it's just a shame there were very few of them, in short I really enjoyed today's lunch and after lunch we went straight back to school to continue the project.
The afternoon after leaving school we all decided together to go see a museum in the city that I've wanted to see for some time, which is the war museum, and as I took more than 200 photos (I just saw it on my cell phone) I'm just going to put the photos that I found it more interesting, and I'm going to write everything or almost everything. The outside of the museum had an architecture that I found very cool and the inside also gives the impression that I am entering a 18th century house, when we entered we immediately went to buy tickets which were 7 euros each and right in the first section of the museum there were with replicas of weapons used in the 2nd and the man who was responsible let us move around and see why they were identical replicas, there were also many models replicating places and situations that took place during the second war, in the initial part there were also some weapons in showcases that were used in war and some vehicles like a motorcycle and a jeep, if we went up the stairs there was a room just with swords and armor from medieval times which is one of my favorite periods in history because my favorite time is the era of discoveries, also in the other wings of the museum there were uniforms, weapons, objects, projects and emblems from a good part of Lithuania's history of what was there was from the 17th to the 20th century and I really enjoyed seeing these things and I also learned about a a little more about the history here, the museum also had a tab with models from the cave era and medieval times and depicted them in detail on plaques in English, there were also many cannons spread throughout the museum, I think I managed to summarize everything without writing a whole book , in short, I loved going to see the museum too because I really like history and knowing what happened in the world in the past.
After leaving the museum we left some things at home and went straight to dinner, which was about time, today dinner was very good, I think it was one of the best days so far, it was meat with carrots, porridge and the soup had cheese, which I've gotten used to because At first I didn't like it much, and the soup also had potatoes.
When we finished dinner, I went with 2 of my colleagues to see an anime store that was next to the restaurant, but I didn't find anything there that interested me, so we went home, at home, we immediately prepared things for tomorrow to go see some museums in Vilnius, and Now before I go to sleep I'm writing this here :)
30/12/2023
Today was a big day, we woke up at 5am and I went to eat some toast, then we took a minibus to the train station to go to Vilnius, we bought our first class tickets and left at 6.40am: 40, we left the station and got on the train and the lady who was checking our tickets told us where we were going to sit, and the train room we were in was literally empty, it was just for us, the train started and the 1st class room was very nice, the seats were orange and very comfortable apart from the dim lighting, and we were on the 3rd floor of the train even I didn't know a train had so many floors and the seats were so comfortable that I fell asleep without realising it, we arrived in Vilnius at 7: 40 almost 8 and as we were all hungry we went to eat at MacDonald's, I ordered a menu with big mac and potatoes, it was good but I thought it was too little, as it was morning there were many menus unavailable, but otherwise it was all good.
When we finished having breakfast, as the museums were all still closed because it was 9 and they only opened at 10, we went to see a little of the city, we saw some monuments and some modern art and statues in the street, I also thought it was funny that there were a lot of crows in the street because I had never seen one before, there was also a statue of an egg that I thought was a bit funny, and next to a cultural center there were some recycled statues of a horse and others that were quite funny.
The first museum we went to see today was a bunker of the Soviet Union's KGB, a secret police group that operated during the Cold War. I liked seeing the museum because it was divided into several floors and the upper floors showed and portrayed what it was like at the time and what the group was used for, I also really liked the underground part of the museum because it was the former KGB prison and there was almost everything there that was there at the time and you could see how the prisoners lived and spent their lives because it was very clear. In short, I really liked this museum.
Then we went to see the Holocaust museum. I honestly didn't like it very much because it had a lot of text and few images and historical objects, as well as having a very massive text that looked like a 3D book, but apart from that I found the story interesting, and at the same time I felt sorry for the people who went through it, but I think it could have been more interactive and with less text, but that's just my opinion.
Afterwards, before we went for lunch, we went to the Coin Museum and had a look at the various coins and their presence before the euro, as well as seeing very old coins and commemorative coins from today, and there was something I wasn't expecting to see, which was coins from almost every country in the world.
At lunch time we all went to eat sushi, and we all ordered a package with 8 types of sushi and 6 pieces each. I got to try all the flavors and I thought they were very good, I had a little difficulty with the sushi sticks because I was all messed up and dropping it, but in the end I was using it quite well, I liked the sins better that had fish on top and with the soy sauce it was even better, after eating we had to rest a little and we went to the next museum.
After having lunch we went to see a rather strange museum because it was about conspiracy theories, in short, I didn't like anything, I thought the things and arguments I read were very stupid and pointless and didn't make any sense at all, in addition to being impossible things and the worst thing is that there people who believe, but if we look at it as if it were fiction, it was even taken advantage of, but now without so much hate, I thought that the museum takes information and theories from the internet and puts it as if they were "historical events", there was a lot old or counterfeit but that was it, I didn't accept it as good at all but that's just my opinion.
We also went to see a castle in the city, just to climb the stairs to get to the castle to see it was almost 30m and I was already very tired when, we paid the tickets we went to see the museum, there were rooms and to go to the next one we had to climb some somewhat curly and steep stairs, but the outside of the castle was beautiful but inside it was more of a museum of medieval things that I found very interesting, more because I really like almost everything to do with the medieval period.
When we finished seeing the museums we all went to dinner and to give us time to catch the train we went to a MC nearby. I ordered a menu with beef and chicken which I think is exclusive here, because I've never seen it in Portugal, I really liked it. , then we went 2nd class on the train to kaunas and as it was late I slept on the bench, when we arrived we took a bus from the station to our house, when I got home I lay down on the bed and went to do the website and then went to sleep .
31/12/2023
We spent most of today at home, because in the morning we woke up late because we were tired from yesterday, our lunch as we were in a hurry was pasta with some strips of meat, we were not hungry, then we all agreed to go for 2 hours to a LanHause near the apartment, as it was the birthday of a colleague of ours, there I had to play a little with them and then a game I had there that can't be played on my PC.
Afterwards, I went with Raul to a supermarket nearby called Acropolis and I bought some sweets to eat on New Year's Eve and some dried grapes and some biscuits, while we were returning, Saint called me and told me to delay Raul as they were preparing a surprise for him and when it didn't happen, Bruno went downstairs and found an excuse for us to go buy things that Silas was missing, we bought the things to take longer, and we went home then we threw him a surprise party and sent some 4 pizzas for dinner.
The pizzas were all different and I liked them all, we went to tidy things up and played a tense game called gartic, we stayed almost until midnight. Then I went to call my parents and family to wish them a good year and I went to see the fireworks, I didn't think it was a big deal but I think that in the part of the city I was in the apartment it wasn't very well visible, and I went to sleep which in the meantime It was already two in the morning.
1/1/2024
Today we woke up late and decided to go eat ramen which was very good and I really liked the flavor, it is a kind of soup with boiled egg, pork, carrots, green beans and small onions, it was the first time I ate this food and I really liked it, I had only seen it before in films or series. The rest of the day until we almost went to dinner we had to walk around the city and see the structure of the buildings better before leaving and we found a museum to go and see tomorrow more calmly, and as it was already 10 pm we returned home there was no time to do it. a big dinner so I ate about 7 pieces of toast and went to sleep.
2/1/2024
Today we woke up and went to school, when I arrived I drank a coffee from the machine in the room and went to do the project, today I had to fix some bugs in the backEnd, and I had to add values to the Api which gave me a lot of work because I had to I was researching while doing the project so it took a lot longer, and I was also improving the Html and Css part but the part of sending the Html test to the Api I still couldn't do, I had to try to do it in the afternoon but it was always giving bugs or not working.
At lunch time we all went to Silas and I bought a sandwich, a corasan, orange juice and a packet of chips, then we went to eat near the school where there are some benches there and it started snowing, in the meantime we ate and went to the room to continue the project.
In the afternoon when we left school we all decided to go and see an animal and fossil museum, when we entered, at the reception we bought tickets to enter and we went to the top floor to leave our coats in a safe so as not to leave him behind, me, Leandro, Raul and Bruno accidentally went in the elevator to the 4th floor where the offices and the museum's warehouse were located, we immediately went back and no one saw us.
when we entered the right floor of the museum which was the 3rd floor we saw that there were 2 paths, first I went to see a section that had the heads and bodies of stuffed animals as well as crocudile skin and also that of another animal that I don't know exactly, there Nearby was a wall with boars' teeth and there were also some shelves with the animals' skulls already in bone. When I finished seeing the room, I immediately went to see the others because the museum was still big.
The next room of the museum that he went to see had shelves at the entrance with shells and busios that never ended, and a lot of panels with butterflies, there were also some showcases with some birds and crabs, also in the middle there were some resin things that were there mosquitoes, after seeing this I went down some stairs to see more parts of the museum, this next area had several reptiles, I was quite surprised by a snake that was on display almost three times my height, I then went to see a room of ancient fossils. I liked seeing almost all of them, I continued to see the museum and entered a room that had plastic fish and others in canned jars, there were almost 2 full rooms. I liked it because I think the size of the plastic animals was the same as their real size. , then there was a corridor that I went to a flap that had birds on display and I was shocked by the size of some birds, especially the crows and ostriches whose size was scary, I went down other stairs and went, I think, to one of the last areas of the museum that were mammalian and terrestrial animals, for example, there were wolves, lions, hippos, monkeys and also some cheetahs and pumas, some elephants and other types of animals too and I was in doubt because I saw some that looked fake but others looked like many that they were stuffed, at the end before we left the museum there were some display cases with spiders and scorpions, after seeing the whole museum we went to get our things downstairs and went to dinner.
Dinner tonight was very good, the soup I didn't like very much because it was beetroot and I think I've had enough of that, but the main course was very good, rice with spicy meat which I loved as I love spicy food. We then went to buy some doughnuts, I had one with a Christmas theme, after we'd eaten we went home and I went to write my blog here to go to sleep.
3/1/2024
Today we went to school and they told us that it was the last day we had to do the project and that it was okay not to be able to finish everything, I finished the frontEnd, and I almost finished making the connection between the API and the website but it was giving an error that I couldn't solve, also in the text generator I almost finished but I had a problem which was that the text was generating infinitely, I couldn't solve it, but I was already registering the IDs of the prompts, but Everything else was working fine, the problem was that I had never done anything with the API or connect anything to HTML, apart from JavaScript, I think I was able to learn a lot of new things.
At lunch we went to eat pizza at a pizzeria nearby, I ordered a Havana pizza that had cheese, pineapple, onion and some tomatoes on top and it was very good, I ordered the medium size and I was really satisfied and then we went back to school.
The afternoon after leaving school we were supposed to go see a KGB bunker but we didn't know how to go and see if there was a reservation, as we didn't know we took the bus to go there and when we arrived it looked like it was closed and the sign said open, so We called them and knew right away that it had to be with a reservation and we made an appointment for tomorrow. As it would still take more than 1 hour for the next bus, we went to a go-kart park to ride around 15 minutes. The bus arrived, we got into it and went instead of going home straight away, we went to dinner as it was almost time but before we went there was time to go to an anime store to see some things that were there and to a donut shop where I bought one and then we went to dinner.
When we went to dinner today I was a bit surprised by the main course which was breaded fish with cheese, potatoes and salad, I especially liked the fish because I hadn't eaten fish here before and I really liked it, after having dinner we went to a supermarket nearby to buy some things to take with us for the trip on Friday to Vilnius and then return to Portugal on Saturday.
4/1/2024
Today we went to school by bus and as it is the last day at school, yesterday they had told us that today we were not going to do anything on the project but rather we were going to see some museums and areas of the city with a teacher, when the teacher arrived he started us taking him to a museum that he had thought about going to see with us, but when we arrived he said what the name of the museum was, it was the war museum that we had already seen, so he decided to see an area of the city that had art orbana and I thought it was quite beautiful because it was an art that was more abstract, this part of the city was an alley with buildings almost all painted with different patterns and with some cultural figures from here or jokes from the region, after seeing this street we went to see the coin museum in kaunas what we had seen was the one in vilnius, but when we arrived we only discovered at the time that to enter you needed authorization and advance notice, so as there wasn't much to see, we said goodbye to the teacher and were dismissed to go away.
After saying goodbye to the teacher, we went for a coffee to make up time because it was still 11 pm and we went to a pizzeria to order 4 medium pizzas for 6 people, but we went home to eat because a colleague of ours that day was sick and feeling unwell. , so we didn't go into the afternoon. see the KGB bunker, we had to call there to cancel. When we got home we set the table to start having lunch, I liked all the pizzas and tried them all, but as we stayed home late so that our colleague wouldn't be there sick and alone, we took the opportunity to pack our bags and see if anything was missing. and we also left the house more or less tidy to give the cleaners less work, we only finished when it was almost time to go to dinner.
Dinner today was the last day we had dinner at Bernelios, and I think it was the best food they had served us during the month because it was a steak that was very crispy, some fries that were very good and they also brought us a soup that was very good, it was potato soup, in the end, after saying goodbye to those who served us during the days we had here in Kaunas, we went for a last tour of the city, saw everything we had already seen and new things too, only after that, almost at 10 pm We went home to make sure everything was packed and went to sleep.
5/1/2024
This morning I woke up at 8 and left my suitcase and backpack by the door ready to leave, I had breakfast, a bowl of cereal, an apple and almost 1L of orange juice, then we got together to go to school because the teachers wanted to say goodbye to us, but as it was already 10:30 and we had to leave at the hotel and we had our things there and the teachers were late, 2 colleagues stayed there to talk to the teachers and tell them why the others left and receive their diplomas and give the others to the rest, but as we went straight away to take things from the hotel we took their things straight away.
When we left the hotel and they arrived we asked for 3 Bolts to go to the train station and take our bags too, when we arrived as we already had the ticket we had bought yesterday we had to wait for the train, when it arrived we took our bags and got in, I I left my bags next to me and it hurt to sleep, I only woke up when we arrived.
When we arrived in Vilnius we went to eat a few things at the station while we waited for the professor who was responsible for taking us to Portugal. When he arrived we spoke a little with the professor and called 3 Ubers to take us to the hotel where we are staying today. When we arrived at the hotel, we checked in and left our bags and backpacks in the room, I stayed with Raul, Leandro and Arturo in the same room, the room we stayed in has 2 rooms each with two beds, which I and Leandro we chose, it has a TV and a table as well as a closet to store clothes, the bathroom was in excellent condition and there was shampoo and shower gel in some pots for us to drink that day, there was enough for everyone and there was even leftovers. , then we left the hotel and went to have lunch at 4pm at a Lithuanian food restaurant. I ordered a steak with robes and spicy sauce and everything was very good. When we finished we went to pay and went for a walk around the city so as not to spend the rest of the day in the hotel. When we got back to the hotel we spent a little time organizing things and preparing everything for leaving tomorrow. As we were already hungry at 11 and it was too late to leave the hotel, we ordered a menu for each of us via UberEats from Macdonalds, after eating I went to write the blog and when it was finished I went to sleep.
6/1/2024 Last Day
Today was the last day of Erasmus we had, we woke up at 7:40 to prepare things, get dressed and go have breakfast, breakfast at the hotel had several things but what I ate was a sin of bread with butter and fiabre , some pancakes and a corasan, after eating we went to get our bags and took 3 Ubers to go to the airport, when we arrived we waited until it was time to send our bags for our flight, we arrived at the airport at 9 :15 and at 11 we went to hand over our suitcase to go to the plane, after leaving our suitcase we went to check-in or, in other words, we showed our ticket and passport or identity card to enter the already clean area of the airport , but before we entered we went through security to see if there was anything dangerous with us or in the backpack I was carrying, then we entered the protected area and went to eat something, I bought a sandwich, then at 1 pm we got on the plane to take off for Paris.
The trip to Paris took about 2:30 hours, when we arrived we went to get our bags and left the safe area to go back in to board the flight to Faro, at Paris airport they were about 20 minutes late, check-in and the luggage delivery took almost 2 hours to do both, when we entered the safe area again I went to buy a cane sandwich and a chocolate moffin to eat, after eating we waited for half an hour to get on the plane to go to Faro, the journey was an hour and a half and when we arrived we picked up our bags and went to the airport exit to talk to Professor Paulo Ribeiro and Julio who picked us up from Vilnius, then we said goodbye to the teachers and officially finished Eramus: )
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