For Lore’s 24th birthday

Hi, pequeña! You've made it! I can’t believe you got this far! Hahahaha I didn’t think you would. I hope you could make it without using extra tips. I've posted many messages here, in sequence. You need to press "Leia Mais" to read every post entirely. Well, the purpose was to make a “Birthday card” more interesting. You needed to “conquer it” hahaha. I would love to be there with you today to wish you many good things and celebrate this important date with you. However, I got many things to tell you.

First, let me explain everything. This game was all based on technology. I mean… if you haven’t noticed, I used many things for it: social medias (whatsapp, instagram), video streaming (youtube), music streaming (Apple Music), a website (this blog), a driver (google drive) and an editor app (Pixelmator). I also used many things I appreciate (like Porta dos Fundos and Apple), but that I’m sure you noticed hahaha. The idea was to be myself, the guy you know: using technology and showing you videos I like. Hahaha. Also, I wanted to make it as a challenge for you, one thing leading to another, until you finally get here.  Like I said, I have many things to tell you and I would rather do that face to face for a simple reason: the final part. The ending of my, let’s say, “speech” would be a really good kiss, our kiss! This final part is actually really important, so we’ll postpone it to June, okay?! Nevertheless, not being able to do so, I will have to use technology in my favor....

Lore, today is your 24th birthday. I just know you for 1 year and 7 months more or less, but I can say that I know you already and I love the Lore that I know. I don’t know how you were or how you will be, I just know who you are and I love you. However, despite knowing you, I don’t really know you. You are still a mystery for me sometimes haha. I can’t really read your mind in some cases. You are not obvious in many occasions: choosing a film, laughing about a joke, enjoying a song, deciding where to travel to… But that’s actually amazing, I’ll need a lot of time to know you better. Okay, it’s true sometimes it’s really easy to say that you’ll like something. I can make a list of things you would obviously like: A song: Golden Dandelions, by Barns Courtney A film: The Sixth Sense (have you already watched it?) or Number 23 A serie: La Casa de Papel A beer: Thornbridge Halcyon A trip: Croatia A Porta dos Fundos video: “Ele está no meio de nós” See… some things are obvious...

Lore, you know how much I like to talk hahaha that’s why I’m saying many things and I’m not going straight to the point.  Lore Lore, you are an amazing person. In July 2016, at Phoenix Brewery Halls of Residence Block B, in the elevator from the ground floor to the 2nd floor, I met someone incredible. I took some time to notice it, I confess. However, you didn’t make it easier in the beginning. I thought you were a crazy girl in the elevator trying to get in the common room. Only then I found out that I was wrong and that you were just a crazy girl trying to chat up with me. Then I used Antonio to organise a party with you and the Spanish group. I noticed that it would be necessary to try many times to set something with your group. As I didn’t want to waste time and energy, I used Antonio and his addiction to women. On a Wednesday, July 16th, we could finally go to a party together. I was okay in the party… just having fun and getting crazy with the colour powder. But… there ...

Okay, okaaaaaay! I admit it wasn’t like I described. The truth is that I fell in love with you really quick. Everyday I was anxious to see you and excited (in both senses) because I was gonna see you at night. We lived many moments in Brighton together. Big and small moments, but every detail is still in my mind: the feeling of going out in the afternoon and wondering if I was gonna see you walking in the streets, or the anxiety of waiting for you to answer my message, or the excitement of going out with you, or the funny moments together in the room… I can remember these feelings like if they were from yesterday. 

After Brighton we had so many experiences. Good and bad ones, but all amazing cause we were together! That just showed me how much fun and love I can have by your side. That’s why I know I will be with you in your next birthdays!  Pequeña, you have a really good personality and you are a wonderful person. I can see many good things in you, many precious values. You deserve all the best from this world. I really admire you. You are strong, determined, smart, pretty, friendly, lovely, funny, enthusiastic. You fight for your dreams and that’s something I value a lot in you. I feel really lucky for having met you in Brighton. You are one of the best things that has ever happened to me. So… in this special day I just wanna wish you one special thing: keep being yourself! Don’t ever let anyone say who you should be, you are perfect the way you are. You are original and unique. We all have defects and things we can improve, but I can say that I fell in love for Lore Lore for who she ...

Lore, the game is not over yet. You were able to get really far, so I think you deserve a prize. However, don't think I'm just gonna give you this prize easily like that. You'll need to discover where it is. It's in your flat, that I can assure you haha.  Well, now you'll have to put your memory to work. If you haven't noticed yet, all the riddles of this game are connected somehow to our relationship. We have photos together, we talk by Whatsapp all the time, I share Porta dos Fundos' videos with you very often, I try to convince you about Apple, I share playlists with you... So for this last riddle, you'll need to remember 2 things: first, a conversation we had many months ago about a country we could try to live at; second, another conversation that we had some days ago about countries we could visit together. You'll need to try to remember some of these countries to get to your final prize. The game now is all about languages.  Lore, soo...