Djoul Conquering Sweden

Last tuesday Nilay left Paris to go back to the Netherlands before going back to Turkey. Indeed she went to France and to Paris for 1 week and I must confess it was with a real pleasure that I've seen her again! The last time was in Stockholm in T-Centralen when I had to bring her to the train, so this time the meeting was happier. Furthermore I invited all the turkish team at my place, and that way they could all see my new flat.

 

Then of course we visited a bit, I mean I joined them on saturday to hand around the Madeleine's Temple, and Haussman's bld. That's right I'm not a parisian yet and still acting like a tourist... Indeed Öznur knows better Paris than me!  But wa spent a lovely time in front of the cold wind we faced in the streets! But anyway it was quite weird to be downtown Paris and with Nilay. I was so used to see her and be with her in Stockholm and right here I was under the impression that we were "out of reality", I mean, Erasmus in Paris.... But that was a very good feeling!

 

After a nice and last dinner in a restaurant (eating cheese fondue before.... a chocolate fondue!!!!) there was the cruel moment to say goodbye to each other... And I had to say goodbye to Nilay, but also to Öznur at the same time. Hard times, we said goodbye in from of the Pantheon... Like in a movie ( you all know one of those which are ending sadly...).

 

So now the turkish spirit in Paris has vanished like the Stockholm's one... But memories are still here! and that's the most important!

Thank you Nilay for coming to see me and I hope to see you soon, may be in Turkey the coming summer. Thank you Öznur also, I'm glad we met together!

 

Breaking news: I decided to go to Portugal to see Leila for a long week end! I took a day off and I'll fly there on the last week end of Feburary. Get ready Leila!

 

 

I'm finally home now, I found a flat close to "Port Royal", a very nice place in Paris, just behind the Pantheon! So my appartment is quite little, but almost customised now, my walls are about to get full of decorations, scarves, pics, and so on... For those who knew me in Stockholm (and my room in Lappis too) you will find some correlations, some objects which were there and now here! Some road signs, bottles of alcohol and other puppets...

Of course I'll post some pics of it (as soon as I will have time to shoot...) but I put some pics of my first expedition around my neighbourhood with Belinda!!!! By the way I'm deeply sure she's getting used to her new life!

 

Concerning my job, everything goes great, I have more & more responsabilities day after day, I already planned to go to Poland for some exhibits (and I think Belinda will join me!) and everybody there seem to like me. So I hope that this will continue! One first good and breaking news is that I'm planning a long week end in February: indeed I earned an extra-day-off (because as far as I'm a pretty good lookingexecutive guy, I'm working more than 37 hours per day but I don't get paid with extra-pay, I have 1 extra-day-off per month,...socialist agreements...) and I have to use it before the end of February. So after a quickly consideration, I decided to go to Portugal for a week-end (from Thursday till Sunday) to see Leila & Lòrenza !!!!!!!!!! It's gonna get great! Another Erasmus meeting abroad!!!! I'm really eager to go !

 

Another breaking news, tomorrow is Nilay coming to Paris for a few days!!!!! She's visiting Öznur to enjoy her last days in Paris and this way we will have the opportunity to meet together!!! Some parties are planned!!!!!!!!

 

 

So you will have more news soon and some pics are going to be uploaded very very soon!!

 

Take care everybody.

 

... And the last one from my parents' place! Indeed I'm gonna start the new year in moving in my own appartment in Paris. I'll leave my parents' house for the 3rd time (yes, already), after Antibes, Stockholm, now Paris! So after a job, now a house, my new life is starting to set up little by little....

 

After announcing my arrival to Paris (and before announcing the party to celebrate the new appartment... No I didn't say to trash the appartment for the 1st time....) I just have to wish you a happy new year, I wish you all the best for this coming year, Iwish that all your dreams come true (and mines too by the way and if it could be possible...), and for sure you're all invited ifyou're coming close to my appartment! (Not all ofyouat the same time, it's not a castle, just a 25m²...)

 

Damn, it's almost midnight, tomorrow I'm working and I didn't even finish packing my stuff to bring to my new appartment.... Time is going too fast tonite (and Laurent doesn't stop telling me bullshit on msn, I think I won't make it tonite... lol)

 

 

....So be my guest coz I don't want to!

Actually I was (and still, but more and more closer to end this up...) looking for flats in Paris since I'm working there, and I had the opportunity to rent one dowtown Paris, 30m², 650 euros' loan, in 1 word: perfect!

 

BUT (because it's always the case, there is a "but" automaticaly somewhere).... After signing the contract and making the check for the warranty, I found out that this so-called "pretty" flat was infested by big black flys!!!! There were so many that first I thought it was a gang! LOOOL. So at first sight I thought "ok, it's because the appartment is dirty, the previous japonese girl didn't clean anything, so let's kill the flys and clean the flat". NO! 2 days after spending 3 hours cleaning the kitchen (yes you just read well, just the kitchen) and exterminating the flying flys, I came back to resume cleaning it.... and I had a vision of Hell: more than 20 of those awful flys in the main room, 5 in the kitchen, more than 10 in the bathroom!!! No way! I hate flys, they symbolize bad luck and death and I can't decently live with it!!!

 

So I called my renter (ex-renter now ) to tell him to do something. First of all he didn't want to call the pest-control, and after a while he also told me that 2 monthes ago there was mice & rats IN the flat, within the walls! And the most enormous part of his speech came as "I didn't call for pest-control too, I just condemned the aerations holes with some rubber".... Implicitely it means "I didn't faced the problem and now there must be dead rats in the walls"! So now I know where the flys where coming from!!!

 

So I immediately dropped it off and started again to look for other flats and you will be soon aware of my "flat hunting", I swear !

 

It's been a while I didn't post a bill but I have a good excuse (not that often the case...): indeed I found a job 2 weeks ago!!!! YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH !

After 2 monthes I found a job I wanted in Paris, I'm now a Product Manager Junior for a company called Brevidex and which deals with offices' furnitures. I'm in charge of promoting the desks of direction offices in France (of course), Belgium, the Netherlands, UK and Spain. It's very nice,I'll have the opportunity to travel a bit, we have providers in Poland, Spain, Turkey (hummmmm) and furthermore the job is very interesting!

 

So now the next episode will be the "flat hunting" game! Actually it's a hard game in Paris, and you can visit some dirty apartments which cost like hell through... But it will be the subject of a following bill.

 

Now I'll go to bed, I'm tired (yes I'm working now, remember...???LLLOOOOOLLLLL), so take care everybody and see you soon!!!

 

Time for revenge is over... Yesterday France lost the second test-match in Rugby against the All Blacks, the New Zealand's team. It took place in Paris (where there are better rugby supporters than in Lyon...) and also one week after the first game...and the BIG SLAP! Indeed, France lost 3-47 against a team which didn't put all the regular players on the field... So for the whole nation this second game was an opportunity to take our revenge !!! Unfortunately we lost again, but not on such an amazing difference: 11-23. Although we were playing like warriors, we only were able to face them during 40 minutes (one half time actually) in scoring a try, but after....the All Blacks strongness and its speed of execution...and finally its talent overwhelmed us. What can be said is that the All Blacks are the current best team, they even "slaughtered" the Brits, the current World Champions, 2 weeks ago, and when you talk about All Blacks in Rugby it's the same as if you were talking about Brazil in Football... They are magicians and warriors!

 

Above ths score, there was a special night, it was the celebration of the centenary of the France VS New Zealand's games, and basically everytime New Zealand plays, it's a special game! First because they are amazing on the pitch, the way they play is incredible. For example most of the players weight more than 100 kilos, but can all run a lil bit slower than the 100 meters-runner champions! That's why they're amazing, once they're running with the ball, it's almost impossible to block them (unless you go with 2 or 3 partners, LOOL) ! I mean, you can be quite impressed if when you see an amount of 120kg of muscles running at 30km/hrs in front of you... I would!

 

The other typical stuff of this team is its "Haka". Indeed all the Islands above Australia have quite the same history which comes from the Maori's legends. So before starting all their matches, the players perform a ritual which refers to their own Maori's legend. It's a song they sing and they "act" in order to remember their roots (and also to impress the opponents I guess). Normaly it's a ritual Maori's warriors were performing before going to war, but surprisingly all thoses are NOT war songs (see below the New Zealand's Haka). That's a great moment in the staidum and on TV, and it's definitely part of the All Blacks' folklore!!!!!!

 

So Mister Blacks, you won this time....but watch out next time and see you in 1 year during the World Cup !!!!!!

 

 

 

Last week I went to Marseille to see Camille & Alex, some friends I have since we met in our preparatory classes! They are studying (still) in Marseille and they wanted me to join them there... So I was obliged to go to Marseille, the city I spent all my holidays and my early childhood (yes I was sick all the time when I was a baby, may be the atmosphere of Paris wasn't for me...)! Too bad! LOOL!

So I arrived for the week end, the swedish way, on Thursday! and it started immediately: time for me to meet the third roomate and we drank a bottle of vodka! What a nice way to start!

We had planned so many things during this week end, I wanted to have some rides in the city because I realized that I didn't have pics from Marseille, Iwanted to go to the Stadium to see my team playing and I wanted to go to "Notre Dame de la Garde" as well.... But I'll explain it later...

 

First I'll tell you my "experience" in the stadium: first if you're not French you have to know that we (the Marseillans) are the best supporters in France and we have also the most beautiful Stadium! A urban legend says that the city was built AROUND the Stadium and some humorists  assert that the amount of people living in Marseille is 11 (number of players) and there is 2000000 supporters !!! So right! I went there with Alex, a friend, we took the apreritif before (some Ron & beers), there was a huge atmosphere....and we lost!!! My God we played soooo bad, probably the crappiest game I've ever watched!!!!!! They were unable to make a "playable" pass or control and after the final whistle they got booed so hard by 60 000 people! But they damn deserved it!

So after the game we went to a party (as usual...) in order to forget it!

 

The second "journey" was the "climbing" to Notre Dame de la Garde, the famous cathedral high in the hill! It's a journey because I went there on foot and if you wanna do that you have to "climb" basically from the sea level and withing 200 meters you climb to 200 meters high! If I'm not clear enough, let's draw it: so you're at the level 0, I mean the sea level and in 200 meters -> you gain 200 meters î ! It's not a christian cathedral (yesin fact it is...) but it's more considered as a place protecting all the Marseillans, and the old people say that the more you suffer to go there, the more carefully she listens to you.... And I had 2 or 3 things to tell her.... . There I took also pics because you can see ALL Marseille and it's awesome !!!!

 

There was my week end (long one) with also PES tournaments, some (many actually) burnouts races with Camille, Alex & Marion, the fantastic 3 roomates!!!!!!! So it was really really nice, and I wanna thank all of them for their hospitality!!!

 

PS: First I was supposed to go with Öznur, but finally she couldn't come (because of financial problems), but see Özöz, you missed something huge & fun!!!!! Next time may be!