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February 02 Back in the days with Nilay !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!
"Wanna go back to those simple days
I wanna go back But now we've grown and gone our separate ways Times is hard
And things are a changin' I pray to God That we can remain the same All I'm trying to say is our love don't have to change No it don't have to change" John Legend January 24 Home & connected...FinallyI'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.
"All good things come to those who wait"
English proverb January 01 The first one of 2007!... 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)
"A Nouvel An, nouvel élan"
(for new year, new plans)
Christelle Heurtault December 12 Wanna live with flys & rats.....?....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 !
 "He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the Good"
Jewish proverb December 09 "Finding a job"... File closed!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!!!
"He who never climb'd, never fell"
English proverb November 19 Etern'All Blacks !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 !!!!!!
Here are the words and a translation of the haka performed by the New Zealand All Blacks before matches:
"Ka mate ka mate (It is Death it is Death)
Ka ora ka ora (It is Life it is Life)
Ka mate ka mate (It is Death it is Death)
Ka ora ka ora (It is Life it is Life)
Tenei te tangata puhuruhuru (This is the hairy man)
Nana i tiki mai whakawhiti te ra (Who caused the Sun to shine again for me)
Upane upane (Up the ladder up the ladder)
Upane kaupane (Up to the top)
Whiti te ra ! (The Sun shines!)"
November 13 Marseille, OM, Camille...& Parties !!!!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!
"On craint dégun !"
Sentence in typical Marseillan dialect
Translation: "We fear nobody!"
October 24 My Night's Prom in the cuttiest part of France (..the World?)I'm just back from a huge week end in the South of France, in Nice! Indeed it was the last time all my school's Prom was reunited (before the celebration of our diplomas...next June ) and everybody was there!!! I could meet friends I haven't seen for 1 year and a half! So amazing.
So first of all I had to go there, from Rouen to Nice via Marseille! And when I arrived on Friday, many friends phoned me "hey Djoul what's cracking for tonite? What? you don't know?? Come there is a party in our house!!!". So I arrived in the house my friends are renting, a huge one, with a swimming pool, 7 bedrooms, a huge living room...and more than 40 people inside partying! So that was the "first episode" of my return to the South! (I drank one bottle of Manzana between 2and...3am). After that we went back home to sleep and get ready for the Saturday's celebration!
On Saturday I was obliged to go to Cannes, not to visit of course, but because of my "roomates"....2 girls who, of course, weren't ready with their dressing for the coming evening!!! Typically feminine! So let's go to the "hell" of Zara & H&M and Mango stores downtown Cannes...on a Saturday afternoon! We were not alone... But we (and they) got it easy, quickly and funny, and even Belinda had fun and acted like a movie star on the Beach!!!! LOOL.
Now we're coming to the big part of the week end! The Night's Prom! It was organized in Cagnes Sur Mer in the famous Racetrack! So we had a beautiful and delicious dinner (with as many bottles of wine as we wanted...so we were 9 around the table and we ordered 10 bottles!), we enjoyed 3 horse racings where we could bet on them (I lost), and after we had a party until 6am in the VIP lounge of the place!!!!! There the drinks were not free, but come on....everything can be negociated! So we had 3 other bottles of Vodka for free!!!!! LOOOL.
It is also important to say that during this party we were all dressed in suits and dresses, the guys were elegants and our girls were....amazingly beautiful!!!! It was perfectly the connexion (or the end of it) between thetime of our student's life and our next part, our professionnal life. I was under the impression we have changed (even if we were drunk atthe end of the party and even if some got naked in the middle of the race field!lol), but without loosing our "school spirit"!
The way back to Rouen was difficult, first because I didn't hav time to sleep (back home at 7am and the train was at 10am) and also because I realized that this part of France is mine, I belong to this part, so I was hanging around the beach and thinking of all the things (silly ones) I did there... By the way, sorry Duygu for the message at 9am! LOL!
To conclude it was so nice to go back there, I have been waiting for this event and I think we all enjoyed it!!
The last question: Guéna, under your amazingly beautiful dress.... were you wearing a thong or nothing??? Since you asked me the question I can't make up my mind!
 "O la miéu Bella Nissa
Regina de li flou, Li tiéu vieji taulissa, Ieu canterai toujou." Translation:
Oh my beautiful Nice
Queen of the flowers,
I will always sing the beauty of your old rooves October 01 A Saturday in Paris with ÖznurLast saturday I went to Paris to meet Nilay's best friend, Öznur. She is turkish and is in Paris for 5 monthes with the Erasmus Program. So we decided to spend the day together in order to visit Paris or at least some parts....LOOL!
So after the meeting in the beautiful place...in front of the Saint Lazare's train station(
 ), we decided to go to Pigalle and to visit the Sacré Coeur in Montmartre (yes Pemra, the place you "lost" your ankile during your previous trip  ). It was a really nice day, a sunny and warm one, and that way it's a pleasure to visit Paris...and to climb the 300 steps to arrive on top of the Sacré Coeur!!!!!! But it was worth it, after this "climbing" we enjoyed a wonderful panorama of all the city of Paris! Very nice! More, I met Laurent in Paris, unfortunately I couldn't meet Ugo (too busy with his family) so I'm gonna go another time in Paris to check out if he's right!!! And I'm sure that some poeple will tell me (and especially Leila), what's going on with Belinda? Don't worry she's fine, she was also in the crew of the "Montmartre Expedition", and we did very nice and very funny pics!!! Then we are both (I mean Belinda & me) waiting for the next "trip" or at least unusual expedition... I think the next one will take us to Nice, because in 2 weeks I'm gonna go there for a week end (1200 km away from my parents' place... such a kind of "expedition", for the week end!lol) to celebrate the "Gala" of my prom in my School of Business, so I'm gonna take plenty of pics, and some of course with Belinda!
So I hope everybody's fine and for those who remained studying I wish you a good academic year, and for the others....just enjoy and live your life!
"A blithe heart makes a bloomy visage"
English proverb September 07 Erratum !Hi guys! I have 2 things to add in reference to my last bill:
First,...well for the "post-a-comment" problem, it's not well arranged....But I can't do anything, you have to have a passport.net or a windows live ID. It's not my fault, please trash Mr.Bill Gates' e-mail with insanities, not me...LOL! So if you wanna have those IDs, you have to download msn messenger 7.5 (I don't know if it's the last one but with this version you have the IDs), or go to :
There everything is explained (in english
 ) about those damn IDs! I hope it will be easier after... Fuck it, the former system was working well but they decided to change it!The second part of the erratum is about the proverb I forgot at the end of my last bill.... How come I forgot that???? Furthermore, as Pemra wrote as a comment in the pics folder (about Nihat's picture in the last pics' folder "Biarritz & San Seb") something like "if the picture is dedicated to Nilay and me (yes for those who don't know, Pemra & Nilay are turkish as well as the football player on the picture) why it is written in French below?" So For you I'll put a turkish proverb (in turkish.....
 )Laidies and Gentlemen.....The proverb (lol)!
"Gülü seven dikenine katlanır. "
Who loves a rose will endure its thorns
Turkish proverb September 04 A special one for Leila!Today the post is quite different, it will be a post dedicated to the most prolific "post-a-comment" sender,...Laidies and Gentlemen, please welcome.....LEILA!!!!! YOUHOUUUUUUUUU !!!!!!!!!! Clapclapclapclapclapclapclapclap!!!!!!!!! LOL.
No seriously Leila had a lil' problem with my blog, she has been unable to send a comment for 1 month (incredible,the first time ever !) - this is so unpredictable that I thought something happened to her, come on, 1 month without a comment from leila...Has Portugal faced a surprise attack of "Bacalhau" and now all the country has been devastated by those crasy (and stinky...sorry Leila but that's the truth) fishes????? - and she shouted at me telling "I can't post a comment, DO SOMETHING BLOODY FRENCHIE!!!!". So she sent me a comment by e-mail which I'm gonna write here :
"hola djou, el borracho!
don't tell me about the festivels in spain.. i know them all too well, (although i don't remember everything about them) hehe
i'm glad to hear you had a good time! but you shouldn't make fun of camile, because if you decide to visit me, i'll make you try surfing as well! (it's ok, our sharks don't like french food :p)
also good to know that alex and maika are doing so well...
gros bisous!
****
ps: i like to post my own comments, so FIX YOUR BLOG!! :p"
... I know, that's a useless comment as usual Iwould say (LOOL
), but it's always a pleasure to have comments to read, even if they are as silly as this one (and I have dumber ones... I won't translate Ugo's last one, for his reputation's sake!!!!!) but anyway, it means that at least this person has read my bill! So Keep on doing it, and with that you're gonna make my day folks! LOOLThe second reason why I posted this bill (yes Ugo, THIS is a bill lol) is because 2 poeple (Leila involved) told me they can't leave a comment, because apparently of the new Bill Gates' Live Messenger program, which apparently (again) rejects non "passport.net" or non "hotmail"adresses.... Ugo succeded in posting one without any passport.net adress and from my part all my settings have the configuration able to accept anybody .... May be that's a problem which comes from computers logged in a Third World country, and then Leila, except moving out in a more developped country... I can't advice you anything else...
!!Anyway if some of you still have problems...Don't tell it to me in posting me a comment (ahahahah....bad french humour),but e-mail me, use your phone, your skype, msn, fax, air mail, telegraph, pigeon posts.... in 1 word: technology! LOL
That's all for today, take care folks!
PS: Leila, don't take it personaly, you know I'm laughing at you because I love you...even if you are Portuguese! LOL
PS2: Ugo, the same excuse, without the portuguese joke! Happy One-year-first-meeting anniversary Tic! August 26 Back from holidays !Hi evrybody!
I'm back from my holidays, I spent indeed 15 days between Biarritz, San Sebastian and Marseille... So lovely! I really needed this break, now I'm full of energy to resume my job search! So I'll sum up my lil' holidays, who I saw, what I did and so on!
So I went to Biarritz to see Camille and spend some moments, days, week(s) with her, it was really nice we had so much fun! She wanted to learn how to surf... Personnaly I didn't want to, you know I'm a "real" surfer from Nice... So I don't like big waves! LOL! And when some were asking me "What are you waitin' for Buddy in front of the ocean?" I was answering "I don't know, I won't go surfing today... I'm under the impression that the ocean isn't accepting me today." Yes I'm a poet in front of the sea...lol. I'm not surfing those kind of waves, I was waiting for MY kind of waves...And on the beach I prefered playing football or rugby, it was much more better! lol! So this sums quite good what we did during more than 10 days, beach, football, rugby, watching Camille tryin' to "surf" (sorry Cam
 ), and at night we were going out for an ice cream, some mojitos, pints, or we were staying in the flat to play cards and drink bottles of vodka until 4, 5, 6am... Real holidays!During this stay I had the great chance to see Maika & Alex who were at Maika's place in San Sebastian! They came for one day in Biarritz so we sightsaw the town, talked (a lot, especially Maika & Camille...), laughed at each other, took pics with Belinda.... It was a lovely sunny day and I was so happy to see them again, it reminded me Stockholm! So we were so happy that 3 days after I went to San Sebastian for 2 days in order to enjoy the city first, to see them again and to party together during the Semana Grande! That was really nice! Cheap alcohol, fireworks, pubs, plenty of damn pretty chicas, warm weather... We were drunk at midnight...And we were coming back home at 5am! Damn good, definitely I love Spain! Thank you again Maika for those special moments spent all together, next time I'll come, warn your friends and they will see if Juliancito don't "attack"....
 . And Alex, please don't offer me a "last beer" at 4.30am, not after 1 liter of vodka, 1 liter of Rhum and previous beers...LOL.So as you can guess I spent good and nice holidays, and for those who want to know more about Belinda's trip... Just watch the pics!
Miss You all guys from Stockholm, and the others I don't have the opportunity to see too!
Take care!
"Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends"
Chinese proverb July 31 Officially GRADUATED!!!4 days ago came a big letter in my mail box, a big one from my School of Business. I was wondering why they sent me something, I (ok, my parents) paid the fees and I didn't have to make another year, so no more timetables, no more book list.... Weird. But when I opened it I had a great surprise: it was an attestation of my graduation !!!!! YOUHOU!!!! I graduated with distinctions of the jury!!! It was a surprise because I thought that because of the date of the end of the studies in Stockholm I was going to miss the jury session and go to the session in September with my fellows who got some re-exams... But not at all!!!
Some of you may think "why an attestation and not the diploma itself?". It's a kind of tradition, in fact I will get my diploma next June during a big celebration in my School in order for all of us to be able to attend this event and ...also to enjoy the nearly summer from the big balconnies we have (also part of the "official" explanation)... Just check the pics of my School of Business I put in the pics' folder! And enjoy it, I find it so beautiful and I think you will understand why I'm so sad of leaving it (the geaographic area is part of my sadness and people who know Nice, Antibes, Cannes can understand me...). But I will come back at the CERAM (the name of my School) at least for the celebration explained upper and also I hope for the last party of my Prom', the well known "Gala", where all the fellows of my Prom will be well dressed (yes it happens somethimes, we wear suits) and will party in a open-champagne party may be in the Cannes' festival palace! LOL!
So to celebrate it and to make a break in my job research I'll go on Holidays at Camille's place in Biarritz from August 7th till...let's see! So after that you'll be aware of the new belinda's story, because she'll come with me!!! (this news will make Leila happy I'm sure, more than my graduation news...lol)
Take care!
"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge" Benjamin Disraeli July 23 Belinda's Story & pics revealed !Hi everybody!
Today's a special day, indeed it's been 1 month that I came back home ( that's the "sad" news) and I'm gonna put online my two last pic folders about Stockholm,after that, it will be time to "close" that part in this blog, I mean I won't be cured of the Stockholm Syndrom or the Post-Erasmus dicease... but I will try to get back to reality from now ! lol! What a hard work.
Then, and because many people asked me for, I'll deal a lil bit with Belinda, where's she from, what did she do in Stockholm, why, how and so on!
Belinda was a "new-born" mouse (yes it was a mouse...) when she arrived in Stockholm for the first time in July and then in August for spending the year with me. It was a present from a friend who were on internship for Colgate and this is an important detail because it explains its ridiculous stripped pant... When this friend gave it to me she told me to keep it with me, take care of the little mouse and make a lot of pics with it. so this lil new-born puppet became my mascot for my trip to Stockholm and now it's my mascot for whereever I'll go (yes Belinda was so successful that I'm obliged to keep it close to me... and I'll give a lil secret for the boys...."Belinda is a girl-trap!!!"lol). For the name, also ridiculous I know that, it comes from an old french song from Claude François called Belinda (for some foreigns who want to download it) and this song is about a blond girl with blue eyes... Do you see the link? (not with the mouse itself, but with Sweden....).
Now you know almost everything about Belinda before its trip in Stockholm, many of you met it in my room and had a pic with it, for the others who didn't get one (and you are a lot, no Pemra you're not alone don't worry) you'll have the opportunity to have one the next time you'll see me (and now you're obliged to see me again if you want one...a girl-trap, that's what it is!!! LOL). But for the moment just check all Belinda's pics and tell me which one you prefer, it would be nice to know that :)
The other and the LAST pic folder was hard to set up. Indeed it's a folder with one pic of each of you my friends. I tried to find a pretty pic of you, so some are shooted with me (sometime also BY me, lol) and some are alone but they are all nice. It took me a long time and I had to overview almost all my pics, so I had wet eyes several times, but when I see the result it was worth it. I realize again that I spent an awesome year meeting and knowing you all, probably the best year of my (young) life. I won't put all your names there, first because I don't want to feel writing a memorial and secondly it will be hard for you to check your name, so just take a look in the folder and "find"you. I know that I already wrote it in my previous bilsl but I thank you again for what I experienced with you all!
Now, it's time to finish the Stockholm's part, so just let the pics speaking for themselves....
PS: Tell me if somebody's missing in the folder, I hope not but you never know....
"Elle a les yeux, bleus... Belinda! Elle a le front, blond... Belinda"
Claude François.
July 10 "Zizou le Magicien" is gone....This time the bill won't be about me,but about something I wanted to share....
Indeed, yesterday was the final of the FIFA World Cup 2006 and (yes I know, Italia won, France lost...) it was the last game of a player who has enlightend the football for more than 10 years and also my favorite one since Garrincha.... Zinédine Zidane. Yesterday I was sad because we were beaten at the penalty session which is an horrible ending but I was also sad because at the end I realized that I had seen "El Maestro" for the last time! No more plays, tricks, amazing controls, free-kicks, penalties (for the good of the Portugueses, the Italians, the Brits...LOL!), no more impression that U are like a dancer on the pitch Zidane. For those who don't know him or why I'm doing this bill I'll just quote Thierry Henry when he knew that Zidane just announced he would come back with the French Team: " God is back". Now it is time to retire as U made it published 3 monthes ago.
I've heard today that some Frenchies are quite upset with U because of your bad temper yesterday and your kick to Materazzi... I agree that your act is unforgivable... But come on, can we blame U for this? And "forget" everything else? Everything U made for the team, and as a consequence for us?
Let's resume:
And among all that I don't count what U did in your different teams during your career and also who U are as a man in real life... Now for your last one U received the silver medal and the title of the Best Player of the World Cup. I wish U could stand up like Canavarro with the gold Trophy but history wanted U to be remembered as a hero, not only a winner. Because U are a hero for me, somebody with a gift (or more than 1) but who has one default, your bad temper, which reminds us that U are a man not a God.
"Zizou", I just want to say U thank U. Thank U for giving me joy everytime I was watching U playing, thank U for making me cry in 1998, thank U for making me dream during the last France VS Brazil, and my only worried is that U didn't play for the team U love and for the supporters who love U more than everything: l'Olympique de Marseille. Zizou le Magicien, El Maestro Zizou is gone, good luck for your future life.... I already miss U. Allez, le rideau se baisse sur la scène.... Salut l'artiste et merci pour tout !!!
July 06 Back to reality....Hi guys!
So now it's been more than one week that I'm back home (@ my parents' place) and I finished the tie my pics folders up !!!! It was a real journey, I had so many pics everywhere so the more I finished some folder, the more new ones I found....Pppfffff lol
So now that I put all the pics from Stockholm I'll make later a special folder with all the pics of Belinda (and God knows that I have plenty of them) and also a special folder....It will be a surprise ! (Don't worry Lo I won't set up a special folder with all your pukes' pics (and God knows that.......lol!!!)).
One last thing, still don't forget to enrol in www.mylappisfamily.com, it's really great and a real way to keep in touch !! Check this out guys !
So take care U all and please leave me some comments !
Love U all folks!
June 23 The last one, live from Stockholm!Hi everybody!
This is the last bill I'll write down from Stockholm, indeed I'm gonna leave in a few hours..... I'm so sad about it, my room is now empty (and clean...it's been a long time lol), but I realize that I have so many memories that I can be happy and glad to leave with this kind of present. Of course I'll miss U all my friends but I deeply know that we will see each other later on, and some sooner as expected... We don't make the erasmus' spirit disapear like that!
By the way, as U saw it my bill is in english, because this blog just changed its status: it was built inorder to make a connection between France and Sweden, but from now, this connection grew widely, I mean this includes the connections France-Sweden, France-Spain, France-Italia, France-Portugal, France-USA, France-Turkey, France-... From now this blog's gonna be international, and I hope U'll enjoy it (some will inprove their english like that...:) ).
Now it's time for me to close this Stockholm part, I'll put the last pictures as soon as I'll arrive in France, time for me to tie up a lil bit my pictures folder. Just want to add to my Stockholm's "family" that I'll miss U all and from the bottom of my heart I love U !!!! I was glad to meet U all, U changed my life and I thank U god everyday for this blessing. Take care and for the ones who will stay here some more time: ENJOY and drink for me !!!!!
Puss och kram, muchos besos, kisses, baci, Öptüm, gros bisous !!
"Everything which has a beginning must have an end.... I love U all my fellows"
Personnal feeling. May 25 Putain il reste un mois...Voilà, on est le 24, bon là le 25 parce qu'il est minuit passé (ouais la faute au film Ice Age 2...) et je m'aperçois qu'il me reste un mois à Stockholm... Et oui j'ai réservé mon avion pour le 23 au soir, ça veut dire que je suis déjà en train de vivre mon dernier de mes 9 mois en Suède et ça c'est le bad!!!! Hier j'ai eu mon dernier cours en amphi de TOUTE ma vie, et il ne me reste plus que 2 ou 3 seminars pour en finir avec ma vie étudiante.... Tout fout le camps mes amis, tout fout le camps.
Je suis actuellement assis sur mon lit, l'ordinateur posé sur ma petite table Ikea (ouais j'achète local) et j'arrive pas encore à me dire que je vais devoir quitter ma chambre, cette chambre que j'occupe depuis presque un an, cette chambre que j'ai décoré avec tous ces trucs que j'ai volé un peu partout... un cône de chantier orange, un panneau avec le nom de ma rue dessus (??!!!???), et tout et tout!!! Bref.
Je pense qu'il est temps d'arrêter le passage déprime, il me reste un mois il va falloir que je profite au maximum et que je ne pense pas au départ,il me restera les derniers jours et le moment du paquetage pour déprimer un bon coup.... Mais ce moment n'est pas encore arrivé !!!
Allez, je vais me coucher.
Bonne nuit, have a good night, dulces sueños, iyi geceler, buonanotte, gute Nacht, boa note.
"Prolonger des adieux ne vaut jamais grand' chose; ce n'est pas la présence que l'on prolonge, mais le départ"
Elisabeth Bibesco May 21 C'est parti pour les dîners débiles n'importe où!Hello tout le monde!! Le temps passe vite, là il me reste un peu plus d'un mois en Suède, ça commence à sentir un peu la déprime, mais bon c'est pour ça qu'on va faire plein de choses drôles et débiles pour les derniers temps !!!lol
1e épisode, Vendredi dernier on a fait un dîner un peu spécial... Alors pas du tout au niveau de la bouffe, on a même fait classique avec des pâtes au saumon, mais c'est plutôt au niveau du lieu où on a dîné... Ouais on a dîné dans un ascenseur!!!! Mais attention, avec tout prévu, les chaises, la table, le vin blanc (un petit cubi de 3 litres), les verres, couverts, serviettes, on avait même de la musique avec l'Ipod et les enceintes !!! Bref on s'est installé, et on a attendu que des gens appellent l'ascenseur, et là ça devenait drôle!!!Entre les étudiants qui ont kiffé le concept,qui sont rentré avec nous et ont bu un petit verre, et les autres qui étaient apeurés et nous disaient "bon enfin je vais peut être monter à pieds..." c'était très bon esprit et très folklorique...
Alors ça c'était les plus du concept, maintenant les moins (parce que ouais y en a quelques uns): le premier inconvénient c'est quand même la chaleur dans l'ascenseur. On s'imagine pas mais quand les portes sont fermées et que tu restes plus de 20 secondes, il commence à faire chaud dedans...alors en plus si t'as un plat de pâtes chaudes et un coup de vin dans la gueule... ça commence à être les tropiques. Le 2e inconvénient, c'est que tu sais jamais si des gens vont appeler l'ascenseur et comme c'est un peu le concept du truc... Sinon, à part bien sûr que l'ascenseur monte et descende tout le temps ce qui peut entrainer quelques envies de gerbes.... On a bien kiffé!!!!!!!
Prochaine étape: soit un dîner "intervilles" dans le champs à côté de Lappis au milieu des vaches (s'il fait beau et si y a des vaches, parce qu'interville sans vache c'est tout de suite chiant), sinon on a pensé à un dîner dans le métro, ça, ça peut être pas mal pas mal !!!!!!lol
Autres news, c'est qu'il a fait beau pendant 2 semaines complêtes ce qui m'a permis de prendre des couleurs de ouf (ouais je suis presque noir par rapport aux suédois, en gros un des plus bronzé de Lappis! lol) et je suis allé à Birka une île viking avec les turques, c'était très sympa!!! Bon là il pleut, mais je ne désespère pas !!! Et en plus dans pas longtemps, genre entre le 2 et le 8 Juin je vais faire une grosse fête pour mon anniversaire (c'est le 18 au passage), ça va être bien sympa, en plus ça sera une des dernières GROSSES soirées tous ensembles, donc ça promet!!!
En attendant, take care & enjoy !!!!!
"C'est au cours d'un dîner copieux que la spiritualité de l'homme se manifeste avec le plus d'évidence"
Somerset Maugham
May 03 Back from Russiaaaaaaa !!!!!! Da !De retour de Russie, et là un constat s'impose: PUTAIN QU'EST CE QUE C'ETAIT BIEN !
Tout d'abord, le trip: départ de Stockholm en bateau via Turku en Finlande, puis bus jusqu'à Saint Pétersbourg et Moscou, puis retour par le même chemin! 9 jours de voyage, on a mangé du bus mais ça valait le coup !
J'explique, en gros les 9 jours se sont résumés à: visiter les villes (qui sont superbes, j'y reviendrais plus bas), marcher des kilomêtres pour tout voir (et accessoirement chercher desr estos que t'avais l'impression qu'ils étaient cachés), boire de la vodka comme si c'était de l'eau, aller en soirées en boite après avoir démonté les chambres d'hotels en y organisant des préchauffes (et encore une fois c'est bibi et sa chambre qui ramassaient, aaahhhh le goût spécial des french pre-parties..), mater de la russe (qui entre parenthèses déboite bien !), et surtout dormir 2h par nuit !!!!! Ouais ça fait un programme un peu chargé...
Pour ce qui est du groupe avec qui on est parti, il y avait des étudiants de partout en Suède, Göteborg, Stockholm, Vaxjö, linshöping (pas sûr du tout de l'écriture, je pense même que je me suis planté, désolé) donc on a rencontré plein de monde de partout, Mexique, Espagne (tiens pour changer), France (idem), Italie, USA... Bref très bon groupe!
Pour les villes, y a pas 36 mots, St Pet et Moscou sont magnifiques toutes les 2! Alors bien sûr j'ai une préférence, et c'est Moscou sans hésiter! Pourquoi? Simplement parce que St Pétersbourg c'est beau, y a des palais, mais c'est quand même très posh et très occidental, tandis que Moscou ça continue à sentir le communisme avec des faucilles, des marteaux et des étoiles soviétiques partout ! C'est un dépaysement constant, et puis les couleurs!!! Le Kremlin, la cathédrale Saint Basile sur la Place Rouge.... C'est fou ! La Place Rouge (qui au départ signifiait "la belle place" puisque rouge et belle sont les mêmes mots en russe) est magnifique, le mausolé de Lénine est imposant et ces couleurs rouges partout... Handsome!
En plus j'ai pu me replonger dans mes cours de prépas en visitant la ville, pour tous mes amis préparationnaires, je crois que j'ai jamais autant pensé à Bervas que pendant ces 2 jours à Moscou ! Entre le Goum, le Kremlin, le mausolé de Lénine (d'ailleurs on était sur place le jour de son anniversaire, on a eu droit au défilé des communistes lol), le quartier général du KGB, l'Armée Rouge, les tombes des différents dicateurs soviétiques... Il manquait plus que le transibérien et c'était le grand chelem !
Bon alors Russia by night ça vaut aussi le détour ! Après une petite bouteille de vodka quotidienne, on était chaud pour partir en boite, et là, entre le "Métro" à Saint Pet (où à l'entrée ils te demandent quand même si t'as un flingue sur toi) et le "Hungry Duck" & le "Propaganda" à Moscou... Dingue! D'abord, des russes partout, de toutes les couleurs (de cheveux) ce qui change un peu de la suède, mais aussi toutes super belles !!!! Une folie! En plus dedans,les shooters de vodka à 2 euros... Je peux vous dire qu'on s'est fait plaiz! lol
Voilà, j'espère avoir fait le tour même si je sais que j'ai oublié plein de trucs, mais si je commence à vous raconter toutes les anecdotes, j'en ai pour des heures, donc le mieux c'est pourvous d'aller voir les photos !!!!
Peace! & Vive la Russie!!!!
"Quoi? Préchauffe ce soir? Bon bin ok, c'est dans notre chambre que ça se passe, prévient tout le bus!"
La phrase habituelle pour annoncer la soirée chez nous! Partyboy forever. |
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