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We talk about our experiences as European Solidarity Corps volunteers here in Salzburg.
You are here today with me Vicky and my co-host Marina.
Hi everyone.
I love how you mentioned that the program is in English because otherwise it's not obvious
at all.
Yeah, it's not obvious.
Yeah, and usually we have guests here.
We're doing the interviews with volunteers who come to Salzburg.
But today we decided that for our last program, last ever, ever, ever, it's just gonna be
us two.
Yeah, because we just love to talk and we don't want to talk to anyone else.
Just the two of us.
No, I think it's actually funny how we're two introverts.
I mean you're probably more introverted than me.
Yeah, but we just like love talking and we had guests for a few months and now it's finally
just us two interviewers.
Yeah, I think it's gonna be quite funny.
Yeah.
Two introverts doing radio.
Yeah, because we usually just can't shut up.
I mean we're leaving in less than three weeks I think.
Oh wow, the time flies.
Yeah, 31st of August.
It's around the corner.
I actually don't have a ticket back home yet because I'm not even sure if I'm going straight
back home because I'm so unsure about my future plans.
Yeah, I think that's also the case with me.
I didn't tell you actually, but today I had an interview for a job after I finished this
volunteering and it didn't go that well.
Really, what happened?
No, like it was fine, but the job was a bit different than they described it on the application.
Is it the influencer job again?
No, it's just a marketing job, but I'm more into online marketing or I have more experience
in that.
And this was like, they didn't specify, but in the interview they told me it was more
like offline networking and connecting with schools and people and I was like, oh wow,
that sounds like a job for me.
Real life networking.
Yeah, so I was not sure about it at all when we finished.
So I'm also unsure about the future.
Yeah, that's perfect.
But I think, I really think that influencer job will do.
Yeah, I'm such an influencer, you know, spending all my time on Instagram doing reels and shit.
Not at all, unfortunately.
Yeah, is it time to play our first song?
Yeah, I think so.
You're going to hear a lot of songs today because we're like not sure if we can speak
a lot.
So we're going to play a lot of music.
Yeah, we basically talked too much here in the past half a year or how long have we been
doing the program?
And now we have nothing else to talk about.
Yeah, we're also kind of like close friends.
Yeah, so we know everything about each other.
So the first song is, oh, it's actually a wrong playlist.
It's Vicky's Bosnian Vibes playlist.
I need to switch it.
And the first song is?
Oh, the first song is for me actually.
It's called The Color in Your Heart and it's by Rue Payne.
I had to check that.
I'm sorry.
It's a really nice song.
It's not color.
It's color.
Color in your heart.
We're gonna color in your heart.
You and me are like a daydream.
Floating through a window lately.
Who knows where we're going, baby.
The color in your love is bruising.
It has never been your choosing.
You feel like your beauty's losing.
We're gonna color in your heart.
Oh, we're gonna color in your heart.
Been leaving it in style.
Been giving the color in your heart.
Gotta get wise to realize.
Gotta ask why to feel alive.
Even if it's tears that clear your eyes.
So if it's gonna rain, then we'll jump in puddles.
If it's gonna rain, then we'll jump in puddles.
If you look a little deeper, then a puddle can hold the stars.
If it's gonna rain, then we'll jump in puddles.
If you look a little deeper, then a puddle can hold the stars.
We're gonna color in your heart.
Been giving the color in your heart.
Oh, we're gonna color in your heart.
Been leaving it in style.
Been giving the color in your heart.
Oh, we're gonna color in your heart.
Been giving the color in your heart.
We're gonna color in your heart.
Been leaving it in style.
Been giving the color in your heart.
Oh, we're gonna color in your heart.
Been giving the color in your heart.
Oh, we're gonna color in your heart.
Been giving the color in your heart.
I'm gonna color in your heart.
Yes, welcome back. We just listened to Color in Your Heart by Rue Paints, if I pronounce it correctly, and I really hope I do.
Yeah, we're back to our pretty hot studio because Austrians apparently hate air conditioning.
Yeah, sadly.
Yeah, I mean, guys, it's not gonna get better like...
Yeah, it's only gonna get worse.
Yeah, thanks for climate change, old people.
Old people. I think it's not just old people.
I know, I know.
Also buying a lot of stuff online.
And do other bad things for the environment.
No, but I would say in general we're pretty conscious.
Are we?
Well, at least I try to be.
Take the trains, you know, climate ticket and stuff.
Right, you got the climate ticket.
I don't think that makes me eco-conscious in itself, though.
It's just, yeah, taking the train instead of flying.
But I wouldn't fly anywhere.
Yeah, I don't know, like, I realize that next year, because I got so many international friends here during my program,
I would love to travel and see them and see their countries and their cities.
But I'm probably gonna live in Regensburg,
so it's easier to take a plane from Munich to go somewhere
than riding the train for like 12 hours or something.
For sure, yeah.
But, I mean, don't feel bad taking a plane now and then.
I don't think that's the most problematic thing.
I mean, I think the people that take the plane to pop into Paris for lunch, that's the problem.
You know.
It's probably the big corporations, Coca-Cola, fuck ye.
Yeah, basically.
Anyway, okay, what international friends, where are you planning to go?
My first international friend is Vicky Kakosheva.
Oh, yes, close enough.
No?
Kakosheva.
Yeah, I'm sitting right next to me.
Hi.
That lives in a beautiful country that is called Slovenia.
Slovakia.
And in a beautiful little city, Bratislava, that I would love to visit.
Yeah, it's quite little, but it's the capital, yay.
Yes, you're very welcome.
Yeah, I mean, some of my friends from my university are also living in Europe now,
so I might go to Spain next fall.
Yeah, Spain sounds good as well.
Maybe Belgium, because I met a nice girl from Belgium here in Austria.
Yeah, I think I would love to travel as much as possible while I'm young, you know.
And in Europe.
And in Europe, and have a scholarship.
Yeah, for sure.
Germany is pretty central.
I mean, Regensburg at least is pretty central, so you won't have to travel far to any corner of Europe, kind of.
I mean, if I take the plane.
If you take the plane, yes.
But, you know, like, sleeper trains are also pretty good.
I was checking them out.
This one train from Vienna to Bregenz, I think, because I want to go to Bregenz,
this lake on the border of Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
Yeah, there's a big lake and it's pretty, and I was thinking how to get there.
Yeah, and there's a sleeper train.
Sleeper train.
Are they really called sleeper trains?
I think so, maybe not.
I don't know, but you sleep on them.
They have these like couchettes.
That's just like an interesting name.
Yeah, it is.
Sleeper train.
Sleeper.
You can wear sleepers there.
Actually, in Russia, if you like, sometimes it depends on a train, but if you take a night train, sometimes they give you free sleepers.
They're probably called night trains, yeah.
I mean, you can also call it a sleeper train if you want to.
I don't mind.
I think I prefer night train.
I just couldn't think of the name.
Yeah, but they're good.
I mean, it's like I traveled to Germany to Hamburg a few weeks ago and I didn't take the sleeper train.
I just took the regular one and it was so surprising for me that they didn't even turn the light off.
Like, people want to sleep during the night.
At least I want to sleep during the night, even if I'm taking the cheap train that I can't even lay down.
But yeah, please, Germans.
How long was the ride?
Eight hours maybe.
Oh, shit.
And you were like sitting the whole time with lights on with six other people.
With six other people in Europe.
With six other people.
Like in the compartment.
Oh, no, it was just like a regular one.
Okay.
Hmm.
That's crazy.
But yeah, living cheap.
I mean, it wasn't even that cheap.
It was like 90 euros or something.
But it would have been more expensive if you booked the couchette where you can actually sleep.
Sleeper train.
And get the sleepers.
Yeah.
It's probably because of the sleepers.
Like the price is rising because of the sleepers.
Oh, the sleepers?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, they're the most luxurious item ever.
I mean, yes.
Have you seen the hotel sleepers?
I would so steal those.
But I don't go to those kind of hotels.
Unfortunately, I go to the cheap ones.
They don't have sleepers.
I don't even go to hotels.
I just go to hostels.
Yeah.
But hostels are nice to meet people.
Better than cheap hotels anyway for me.
Wow.
You just publicly admitted that you're not an introvert.
Meaning people in a hostel.
What?
Bastard.
I'm half extrovert, half introvert.
No, but I don't do that so often.
Going to hostels and meeting people.
Just, you know, on special occasions.
Okay, I must admit that actually the last time I was in a hostel, it was not very nice
because it turned out that it was in like a very party area and the whole night I could
just hear tuts, tuts, tuts, tuts, tuts, tuts, tuts, tuts.
But I was so exhausted that I slept through it.
But yeah, I met a girl from England and she was really nice.
But it was also like two introverts meeting each other.
In a hostel for party people.
Yeah.
I mean, we were just, there was just two of us because everyone else was partying.
So yeah.
See, you can also meet introverts in a hostel.
Yeah.
She gave me a shower gel.
Oh, wow.
That's so nice.
Because I didn't bring any soap because, you know, I kind of expect if I pay at least
25 or something euros for a night, I expect soap to be there.
In a hostel?
Yeah.
I don't think I've ever found free soap in a hostel.
No, they have like body wash or in like soap dispensers.
Usually.
Yeah, yeah, you're right.
Because I didn't have any like small versions because you have to go extra for like 2DM
and buy one.
Who has time for that?
Not me anyway.
Not me.
I mean, I don't even have like 60 euros for a hostel.
You don't have six euros for a body wash.
Come on.
Six euros?
I don't know.
Okay.
Wow, you're rich.
Two euros.
I don't remember the price of body wash because it's so long since I last bought it.
Okay, that's not true.
That's not true, guys.
That was a lame joke.
I do wash myself.
Was it a joke?
No, but like, you know, when like relatives give you presents for like birthday and Christmas,
but you don't really know each other so much, so they just give you like body wash.
Yeah.
My, actually my aunt, who I knew pretty well.
I mean, I know her pretty well.
And when I was a child, we visited her apartment a lot.
But I think four years ago, she gave me a face cream for not birthday, but for New Year's.
But it was like a face cream for people 40 plus.
She's getting it started.
I'm really thinking about your skin.
Yeah.
Thanks.
No, but yeah, these kind of presents are not the best, but at least you can use the body
wash or well, the face cream in 20 years.
Yeah.
I hope it will still be good.
For sure.
Yeah.
Okay.
Maybe it's time for a new song.
What do you think?
Yeah, I just thought about it.
Wow.
You're just reading my mind.
Yes.
It's not that we sit in front of the same thing.
No, no, we're in two different rooms.
We're just very COVID conscious.
As we should be.
So the next song is Havana Burning by Dan Reader.
If I had a pistol, I could join a revolution just like Trey.
Imagine me hunkering down low in the sugar cane, watching Havana burning.
They might say, listen here, we got no soap and we got no beer.
We fight for the truth and the truth is clear.
Say who you got to know to get a gun around here?
I want to see Havana burning.
And if they let me join in, me and Che would be the best friends we'd wait for the day.
Someone to say, put on your camouflage vest and your black beret.
Let's go watch Havana burning.
If I had a pistol, I could join a revolution just like Che.
Imagine me hunkering down low in the sugar cane, watching Havana burning.
And we're back.
We just listened to Havana Burning by Dan Reader.
And while you were listening to this beautiful song, I mean, we were though, but we also started talking about our, can we say dinner plans?
Is beer dinner? Yes.
Yes, I would say yes.
Okay, we decided to go celebrate or maybe mourn our last radio show at Augustiner.
But I'm also pretty hungry and I want to pay like for overpriced chips.
Yeah, that's the only problem with Augustiner.
The beer is really good.
The vibe is impeccable, but the food is expensive.
Yeah.
We as volunteers don't really have money, don't really earn so much for those beautiful chips that you can buy in a store for one and a half euros.
For those, yes, but not for the ones in Augustiner that cost seven euros.
Yeah, that's what it meant.
But you know, we get paid in other ways, like experiences and good fun and good friends.
Yeah, yeah, we could definitely.
I mean, are you denying you got some good friends out of this?
No, I'm not. I'm not saying that at all.
I'm just saying that it's different.
Yeah, it's true.
I mean, it is not a lot of money that we make as volunteers.
We have to disclose that.
But it's still good.
I mean, like we can afford ourselves to live in Europe.
Yeah.
I mean, you have been living in Europe since you were born.
Yeah.
One of the lucky ones.
Yes.
Yeah. No, but I enjoyed this year quite a lot.
Today, actually, I had like my closing meeting with some of my colleagues and my boss and people like this.
They were asking me like, how was it?
What could we have done better for you as a volunteer? Blah, blah, blah.
You just said everything was shit.
Yes. And they cried.
No, I mean, I did tell them some good points because not everything was like perfect, as I told you before already.
So like, yeah, some communication and stuff.
And they were like very nice about it.
They were like, yeah, yeah, we're going to try to do it better by the next volunteer.
So it was nice.
They listened to some feedback.
But otherwise, I was pretty happy with this.
I mean, I would do it again.
Would you?
Yeah, I would do that again as well.
I really enjoyed this year.
And not only my work as a volunteer, but also, as you mentioned, like friends experience and other stuff, because generally I would say this year was really helpful for me in terms of understanding how to manage stuff, maybe like life.
Yeah, how to manage life.
Yeah.
Yeah. And I think a lot of stuff changed inside of me.
I mean, also in my life.
But, yeah, good change.
Inside of me.
We'll see.
No, I mean, like inside of me.
Yeah, I think I got because I get to know so many people from pretty different cultures and with pretty different backgrounds.
I got to understand what I want and what I don't want.
How, like, for example, even how to say no to stuff.
For example, you and Mael, another volunteer from France, whom we had on a show.
Two shows ago or one show ago?
One show ago.
Yeah.
It was the last one.
I was kind of introverted and you can easily say that you don't want to go out tonight or that you're tired or whatever, that your social battery died.
And before that, I always thought that I have to say yes to everything, even if I'm tired, even if I can't do that anymore, I just have to be there.
Otherwise, I would, I don't know, have FOMO or whatever.
And knowing you both kind of taught me that I can just say, actually, I'm tired.
Let's do it next time.
Yeah, I think it's pretty important.
But also, I mean, I have it quite easily to say no, because I'm just like, I want to stay home and listen to music.
But it's also quite important for me to sometimes just say yes, because if you just say no, then I just stay in my flat and then I wouldn't have met anyone and just spend a year in Salzburg in my flat.
Which doesn't work.
Yeah, I mean, I also quite enjoy being in my bed, staying in my bed, listening to music or watching TikTok.
Sorry.
Instagram Reels.
I mean, they're both bad.
I don't know, Netflix, chatting with friends inside of my room.
But yeah, sometimes I'm just like, I honestly can't stay in my room just by myself longer than two days.
No, I just go outside by myself.
Like, I actually, since I was in Austria, actually, I learned how to be comfortable with going hiking by myself, because I like hiking quite a lot, as you know.
But before that, I was usually, no, I was always going with someone.
Because it's like such a big thing.
I mean, it was such a big thing.
Like, oh, let's go hiking this day.
But here it's just like, let's go hiking.
I'm going by myself and enjoy the day by myself in the forest on some mountain, which is pretty nice.
Yeah, I actually was thinking about it recently, maybe based on your experience, that I don't really know how to spend time outside by myself.
Because it's much easier when you're staying in, because you have basically everything to occupy yourself with.
But when I'm outside, I'm like, OK, I can go to a coffee shop and get a coffee.
What am I going to do after I get a coffee?
Yeah, that's more difficult, I guess.
For me, I was once, like in the last week, I think, I went to a coffee shop by myself.
And I like to write like a journal, not like religiously every day.
But it's just when I have a lot of thoughts in my head, basically, I just like to write it down.
And I find it's really nice to just take it with me and just like have a coffee and write down my shit.
And then when I'm finished, I'm like, OK, time to leave. Bye.
Yeah, I get what you're saying.
But I always do that, but pretty rarely.
Because I usually either have someone with me or I have work to do.
And it's almost never just me reading a book in a cafe or writing in my journal.
I'm not sure that I even have a real journal now.
I think I have a very mixed up notebook where I had like my schedule, my thoughts, something else, some random stuff.
But that's good. You have it all in one place.
You don't have to take like extra notebooks and books and papers to plan yourself, write your diary or whatever.
I'm not. I mean, I also have it on my phone, in my Notion, on my computer.
And you also know how messy and disorganized I am pretty often.
So I'm not really sure if it's that good.
I think writing like, I mean, your thoughts like a journal in the phone.
I don't know. I don't like it so much.
I like to write it down more on paper.
So maybe, OK, I'm going to get you like a tiny little small notebook.
Thank you. That's sweet.
See if it helps, if it doesn't lose it.
I prefer a five.
You prefer what? A five format maybe.
A five. OK.
OK. Any tiny, tiny small one.
Any preferences as to like design, you know, with lines, without lines?
That's complicated.
OK. I would say I would say something minimalistic because I'm so hip like it's 2013.
Very hip.
Yeah.
But yeah, it's nice.
I actually write something down in my phone, sometimes in notes.
Also not really often. How is it in English?
Often.
Often. Yeah.
German, get out of my head.
Yeah. But actually I won't be able to let German go by now because now we're going to listen to a song that Vika chose for us.
It's called Nimmst du mich mit by Raketa.
I've never heard of this band, so let's hear it.
But.
Yeah.
I'm back.
United in Europe, the European Solidarity Corp community in Salzburg.
We just listened to Nils Dummechmit by Rakete.
You're listening to United in Europe, where we talk about our experiences during the European Solidarity Corp project.
And now we're going to continue sharing our thoughts about German language.
Oh, by the way, I was also thinking about it today about German.
What about it?
Like, I went to a course and I usually speak in German at my work.
But I still realize that I can't really do small talk in German.
No, really. But your German is quite good.
Like, you are planning to study in German.
Yeah, but small talks.
But, you know, I think I know what's the problem, Marina.
It's the small talk. It's not the German.
I think it's both, actually.
But also in Russian, we don't really.
You don't really do small talk.
Yeah.
It's just going deep or nothing.
We're just going like straight deep.
I think that's nice.
You don't have to do small talk, you know.
Let's change it up.
Fuck it. Don't ask about the weather.
Ask me what's my trauma from my childhood.
I hope your parents are going to listen to that.
Oh, wow. I really hope so, too.
Okay, here's some money for a therapist.
Yeah. Thanks, dad.
But no, for example, now I'm looking for an apartment,
I mean, for a room mostly in Regensburg.
And I could not have imagined that it's going to be so complicated.
Because I, you know, guys, I was planning to go either to Regensburg or to Hamburg.
And I had to make a list of pros and cons, yeah, to understand better,
which suits me the most.
And one of the four pros on the list was that it's going to be much easier
to find a room in Regensburg.
But it's absolutely not.
Like I wrote to the dorms and they said, oh, we're probably not going to get the room.
Although I applied in April, which is pretty early.
There is, yeah.
Yeah, and I'm trying to find a room and I'm only getting like,
I only got five responses out of, I don't know,
40 applications that I sent out or even more.
And they were no thank you.
No, I got some invitations to interviews and I'm actually going to have one today.
But the first one, I think it was a bit of a failure.
Why?
Because I can do small talk in German.
Oh, so we come back to this problem.
Hi. Sorry, my German is a bit shit, but I'm nervous.
And I was obviously extremely nervous.
But I mean, the people are going to understand that if German is not your first language
or even your second language, I don't know,
which you consider your second language, English or German?
It's complicated because it's a long story.
But when I was in school, the first language that I was learning,
I mean, first, French that I was learning was German and the second was English.
But my English is obviously much better.
I mean, my spoken English is much better than my German.
But also when I was in the kindergarten, we learned words like dog, cat,
maybe the numbers and the colors.
Like in English?
Yeah. So maybe English is my first language.
And that's the reason why I suck in German.
You don't suck. Come on. Your German is pretty good.
But yeah, anyway, I wanted to say like they will not hold it against you
if you just like don't really, you know, express yourself well in German
on the first time you see them through an online interview.
But you probably want to have to live with someone who speaks good German.
Yeah, but you know, they express what they think.
That's their loss because then they won't be living with you.
True. Okay. Is it time for the third song?
And now we're going to listen to a song that I chose
because I think it's very representative of my life right now.
Not really knowing what to do after all this volunteering year and so on, moving on.
And you probably know it. And if not, then you should know it.
It's called What's Up by the Four Non Blondes.
What's up?
I realized quickly when I knew I should that the world was made up of the scruplehood of man
for whatever that means.
Into a crisis times when I'm lying in bed just to get it all out what's in my head.
I'm feeling a little peculiar.
Into a wake in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath and I get real high
and I scream from the top of my lungs what's going on.
And I say, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
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Oh, my God, do I try
I try all the time
In this institution
And I pray
Oh, my God, do I pray
I pray for sing all day
For revolution
Into a grace of times
When I'm lying in bed
Just to get it all out
What's in my head
And I, I'm feeling
A little peculiar
Into a wake in the morning
And I step outside
And I take a deep breath
And I get real high
And I scream from the top of my lungs
What's going on
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25 years and my life is still trying to get up that creepy hill of hope for a destination
and we're back now we just listened to what's up by four non-blondes and we talked about
kind of what i've learned during the last year and now i'm gonna ask you vicki what
did you learn did you learn anything from me like you like how to be cool how to be
hip how to be the funniest person ever yeah actually i think now i make more like a video
like sarcastic jokes because you're all sarcasm and like am i that's that's your joking style
like you just say something so seriously that people are not even sure if you're joking
sometimes like people that haven't met you before something like that and i think before
i didn't do so many sarcastic jokes i mean i don't do it now so much as you but i'm most
definitely do it more than before so i totally got that from you thanks do you really do
that that often not like often that it's annoying but like often that people notice
it i mean it's good so it can be annoying yeah like like for example this i mean it
was not a joke or anything but you were like you know just saying it so seriously and yeah
but like okay apart from that because there must be also something good that you learned
not only that that was good okay that was good another good thing more maybe like serious
yeah yeah yeah no i mean in my year here i learned quite a lot of stuff i think i like learned to
basically nothing you know it's hard to like describe it in one sentence or what but like
just to try out new things because i was working in an organization where they were doing a lot of
like events and different stuff with young people talking with you know older people younger people
adults colleagues blah blah even doing this radio like it's totally new for me i never set foot in a
studio before and i just think i experienced so many new things that i learned to try everything
and then if it's not for me like that's fine i mean just experience it but oftentimes i
learned that there are a lot of things that i actually like which i never thought i would have
liked so example the radio i mean i don't know i didn't think about it seriously but like i'm not
an expert and i just always imagine radio being just for people who are effortlessly fun and you
know just like good with talking to people which i'm sometimes not and i actually like enjoy doing
the show quite a lot so yeah but jokes aside i think it doesn't really matter for radio if you're
an extrovert or introvert no no that that was just like my stereotype like maybe for like very
popular programs that play music at six in the morning and you have to be like hi everyone good
morning it's me vicki on the studio today i hope you're all having very good day wow marina you
would be such a good person to do this 6 a.m program but not me one problem yes you don't wake up at
six yes i don't even wake up at seven or eight you could maybe like stay up late until six a.m
yeah also because when i don't sleep i just go mad so it might be the option so that would have
been very funny program yeah but actually yeah you're you're right i was also not thinking that i
can do radio or that i will do radio during my volunteering year and i quite enjoyed it
yeah it's really nice i enjoyed doing the workshop as well just like learning new stuff we did the
workshop at radio fabrique which you're listening to now which you're listening to now in february
and it was really interesting yeah i would recommend it to anyone i mean even if you don't
think you are in for the radio i think i mean just try it out yeah i think i like was pretty maybe
i wouldn't say shy but i could not imagine myself in the studio carelessly recording stuff like i'm
doing now yay so success okay but our time is quickly running out i mean we are having so much
fun talking to each other like we're friends so maybe we should listen to the next song so we can
fit them all in yeah the problem is we prepared too many good songs and so we want to play them
all for you to hear and the next is halfway house by bonaparte no actually he used to be one of my
favorite artists now i don't really listen to him that much anymore but i still enjoy his music
yeah in the crowd you were waving at me i know you weren't really waving at me
you were waving at someone else well i used to be someone else now these days i'm feeling more
like being myself and that's a good thing maybe you should try it yourself i feel cool with that
yeah i'm cool with that
there is homecoming after the madness satisfaction after the pain you thought that you were a firework
of a mess well i'm not even remotely impressed come on come on come on come on just a party at
the halfway house there's a party at the halfway house there's a party at the halfway house
now we're laying in the gutter looking up at the stars maybe halfway through life they say
there's life on mars i'd be cool with that yeah i'm cool with that
yeah
okay listen i get it it's not easy being you but i'm cool with that
yeah i'm cool with that
oh down the fire escape to dwell we're really standing next to each other
our desire is to sleep ourselves come on come on come on come on there's a party at the halfway
house there's a party at the halfway house there's a party at the halfway house
there's a party at the halfway house there's a party at the halfway house
there's a party at the halfway house
it's not a midlife crisis we're just having fun
yeah
come on come on come on come on there's a party at the halfway house there's a party at the halfway
house there's a party at the halfway house yeah there's a party at the halfway house
there's a party at the halfway house there's a party at the halfway house
oh there's a party at the halfway house there's a party at the halfway house
there's a party at the halfway house
oh
and we're back again we just listened to bonaparte halfway house very nice song i liked it
haven't known it before put it in my like songs immediately yeah i think i've already done it you
ask me too yeah so is there anything you want to say to our listeners before we say goodbye probably
forever yes thank you for listening to our rambling no thanks for listening to our show
even if you just listen now and have no idea what show we are talking about it's the united in europe
show and yeah i don't know it was really nice to be here yeah i totally agree i really enjoyed
doing that show and being able to talk basically everything that is on my mind and hope people are
liking it and realizing yeah realizing how funny i am and you always knew that yeah but they didn't
always know that i'm grateful you let other people experience your sense of humor you know i think
it's very important that people experience can't agree more if someone wants to be friends with me
then just write me something somewhere you'll find me yeah yeah we all know the young people
are stalkers so you know just ask someone and they will help you with social media don't stalk too
much because just a little bit yeah that's kind of creepy if you do that too much but yeah it was
really nice doing a radio show i'm gonna really really miss it what else are you gonna miss about
your year here besides from me obviously yeah my friends some of them already left and it's quite
sad because you know when you're young you just live in the same city or the same town the same
area and you see each other pretty often yeah and then at some point you just grow up and everyone
is going somewhere i mean not that happens to everyone but so it is in my life and at the same
time it's really nice because i'm meeting so many wonderful people but at the same time i don't see
them quite often yeah that's a problem with like traveling and moving to like different countries
and stuff you meet a lot of cool people but then it's hard to stay in contact like come on if they're
living in a different country oh well yeah i'm also pretty bad and like calling are you and you're
pretty good at texting though and sending audio messages that's that's because we're like talking
every day but once once you leave i'm just gonna be like you're just gonna ignore me forget forget
about you forever but yeah i'm just hoping that my friends will initiate this conversations like
online conversations or calls because i'm always like yes let's do that but doesn't really happen
okay thanks for the hint yeah no but i know what you mean like sometimes it's difficult to like
when you don't see a person a long time it's difficult to just be like oh yeah let's call
because you have like stuff to do in your like offline life with your friends that are maybe
closer or just you want to go outside for a run or i don't know what the hell a run me never okay
for a walk yeah it sounds more like it calling is just it's just so awkward sometimes with the
phones i don't know yeah but anyway thank you vicki for being in my life for this whole year
oh i'm gonna cry and thank you for being here and doing the radio program with me thank you too it
was really nice to do it with you thank you so as our last song we're gonna listen to let's get out
of this country by camera lovely lovely choice
country
oh
slept
berries and
let's hit the road friend with mine wave goodbye to the thankless jones
what does
just can't see
let's get out of this country i've been so unhappy smell the jazz with my head
feel like getting confessional
well finally to be just so you can convince me i am pretty
what does
i just can't see
oh
so
you