Hello jim morrison!
bonjour!
so i am back on my blog! how are things? ah yeah, i wanted to thank those people who really wrote me a mail after my last blog! it is really great to read from you and i was surprised, that there are really people out there who read this blog!
so i actually dont know what to tell you! maybe that i finally have my bankcard and my mobilephone! it feels so good, all of a sudden i am connected again!it does sound sad, but living one month without mobilephone sucks! but everything is settled now and i really can feel a changing, imagine! yes i know, there was a time, where people lived without a mobilephone, but with the world is so much easier!
but anyway, what have i done these days: we finally did our riddlething today, or at least we started, the one i tried to explain last time. actually we wanted to do it two weeks ago, but as soon as we (we are actually Jonathan and me)were in the metro i realized, that this book is not in my handbag where it should be, but at home. so we restarted today and it is so much fun. but solving french riddles is really difficult, because there are so many sayings, a foreigner can not know! for example: “dos d’âne” which litterarly means “back of a donkey” is the name for the bumps on the street to slow down the cars, but i think it is cool to get to know this kind of vocabulary! but then it started raining and we headed back home..
yesterday we had some friends over and it was a lot of fun!and wednesday i was on the tour montparnasse. it is, for those who are not familiar with that tower, the highest building in paris and even the eiffeltower does look tiny from the top! it is really a nice view. i’ve been there at night, so it does look lovely with all the lights and blinking stuff (and christmasblinking eiffeltower) in paris. i did actually a similar thing last monday with jonathan. we went up the arc the triomph at night (it is open until 10pm) and enjoyed the view of champs elysée by night (but compared now to the tour montparnasse, the arc de triomphe seems to be really tiny,thihi).
ah ja..today was this semi-marathon in my street. it is kinda weird, when you get up in the morning, you open the window and you hear people screaming and shouting in the streets (our appartement goes on the court, but you still can hear people)! so you only think of coffee and there are thousands of people running too many kilometers, i was like, welcome to the city little village-girl!
yeah..im tired, so i stop!
biiiisous
ps: i try to take and upload pictures from my university tomorrow..
It started raining so we are forced to stop our “riddlegame” before we could end it..but we discovered nice places..marché d’aligre for instance!!! We are enjoying a beer before going home and bake a cake..you’ll hear from me sooon!!! Xoxo nadine et jonathan
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Ailé et doré, le génie relevera harmonieusement le pied, t’indiquant ainsi la direction du drapeau qui débute la première rue de ton parcours…let the riddlechase begin, starting at bastille!!
university and other weird stuff..
ok..its sunday and i had my first week of university in the ghetto..:P first i want to make clear, that it isnt as scary as everyone tries to tell you..i even took my mobilephone out of my bag between metrostation and university..(although i guess this doesnt count, because i dont think anyone would steal that old thing) but it isnt creepy at all…
in general, classes are really cool, at least most of them..or lets say, if the professor is around..they show up whenever they want, if they ever show up..they are delayed up to 30minutes! yeah, i am swiss and i am ponctual, i dont understand this kinda behaviour yet..but i guess it is gonna be harder to come back to switzerland and get used to ponctuality again..:) the classrooms are really cold, there are no heaters and if you are not moving you start shaking after one hour and it feels like your lips are turning blue..but luckily its warmer here than in switzerland..yesterday it was even 12°Celsius, although i didnt quite believe that! furtheron there are never enough chairs in the rooms (and this although i always were in small classes of about 20 people)..so actually i am glad to be on time, because i would have no idea where to look for an additional chair..
but i must say that i love the university already..it is really fucked up, but i feel at ease there…i met a lot of cool people and they are really easy going..for example did i have class on friday from 15h00 to 18h00..afterwards i took the metro and all of a sudden i saw a group of students from my class i barely knew..i said hello and asked if they were living near me..but they were going to have a beer and took me with them and it was a lot of fun!!
yeah..i started also to do some museums..i have been to the louvre and to the “maison europénne de la photographie”..today we (jonathan and me) are doing a game in our “arrondissement”..its kind of a paper chase but with riddles about the french history in a particular “arrondissement” (every arrondissement has its own chapter)..we have a book which will lead us and test our knowing!! :)
what else is there to say?! ah yeah, i still got no bankcard which means i still have no mobilephone…yeahi!! and i bet with every blog i write my english becomes worse and worse, because im just speaking french all day long..(although yesterday i spent my day with a swiss friend)…
here a list of my three favorite things to do in paris so far:
1) to be lost anywhere in Paris and keep on walking cool and feel like as if i were a real parisien!! i am to proud to take out a map!!
2) to buy a fresh baguette (which is still warm) and bite in it with a big smile as soon as you leave the bakery (although it is meant to be for the guests at home)
3) going to the cinema during the day and pay just 4,9 euros!
send me mails about your lifes…would be cool!!!
take care..bisous
1st week in Paris
dear beloved family and friends
first i would love to apologize not having given you any news so far..but we still have no internet in our apartement and to write anything from my bf’s mobilephone just takes me hours that i abandonned the idea before i even started..
actually i must say things here are not so romantic as everyone think they might be in paris!! since i am here i am running behind papers and you cant imagine how annoying french can be..for example i wanted to open a bank account (without you litterarly do not exist)..but i couldnt finish openening it, because i dont have the electricity-facture to prove that i live where i live..(i dont know why, but obviousley this facture is so important here) anyway, we just moved in that flat and for obvious reason we dont have such a facture yet…we gave all the papers we had to the man who worked at the bank and he didnt even make the effort telling me if there valuable or not..so i wait for my bankaccount for more than a week now..
so i am still a nobody in paris, because without a bankaccount you can not do anything!! this is why i still have no mobilephone or a transport pass for the metro or whatever and i am blocked in my living..but anyway i still try to do the best out of it..
yesterday i’ve been to the university to check out classes and stuff and i swear it is the ugliest and filthiest thing i’ve ever seen..after my first choc i kinda started to think positive about it..you see a lot of different nationalities and people are really friendly and come on, its kinda cool to say..hey im going to an university in the ghetto, right?? not really..but i keep on thinking it is!!:D i gonna survive there, lol..
but i heard some weird stories of how you can protect yourself:
- always have 2 wallets with you..the real one and one with a bit money in it, that in case someone is threatening you, you can give him the fake wallet..
- never wear jeweleries in the metro (not real ones at least)
- never take out your mobilephone between the metrostation and the universitiy..someone might grab it (its a 3minute walk)
we’ll see how it is going to be..maybe those are just some worstcase-examples and happen in reality just really seldom, i dunno..the only thing i didnt appreciate was the fact that there was a sick pigeon in the stairway and it was such an ugly thing, luckily two guys saved my life..:)
but thank to my other swiss friend who is here i met some other girls who do erasmus..they really seem to be nice and tonight we go to a “welcome to paris”-party..a party for erasmus-students..luckily the club is just 30min by foot from where i live, so i could convince my friend to come sleep at my place and we can walk back home together (yes mama, i take care of myself, dont worry :) )
the appartement on the other hand is really cute..it was empty and really filthy in the beginning, but after a huge cleaningsession and some additional furniture and pictures and other decoration it starts more and more to look like a place you can call home..we are cooking every night and i try to eat healthy..i even started baking my own bread..but this was also because i was kinda bored (i know i could go to see museums and stuff..but after everything we bought i was broke and for a walk it was way too cold)…
what else to say..hm…i dunno actually..i am really looking forward for tonight and for my mobilephone and for everything to be settled that i definitely can start my parisien life..
ah yeah, yesterday in university i found out, that classes start already on monday and not on monday in a week..haha..silly me..but im really looking forward for the semester to begin and to meet all the parisiens!!! :)
take care and keep me up to date..you have no clue how much i miss you guys!!!
bisous
