Voilà, je suis en France!
I've been slacking off writing my blog but
first: I left India and somehow life seems normal and usual in a confortable country
second: not much time to write, and a little veil of lazyness after my indian rush
third: i'm making an effort to try to think in french and i haven't been thinking/speaking in english in a while and it feels weird now!
fourth: french keybord messes me up! they have to be unique in everything, even keybords!
But no excuse now, a little update about myself for those "two cats" (italian expression that means few people) who still want to read my blog even if i prevent everybody, it won't be as exciting anymore!!!
My trip to Goa was amazing, spiced up by two scooters racks (luckly i wasn't in any of them but my friends were and they scared me to death!), the boys had to bribe the police while us girls had an amazing scooter ride around the green and fertile Goan countryside, a weirdo who was trying to sell us coconuuuuuuuuuuuut (exactly like that!) and when we refused he threatened us to set our scooters on fire! violent monsonic rains, old hippies, wild ocean, two stops in the cosmopolitan Mumbai with girls in miniskirt and clean streets with no animals, missing the train to jaipur (and almost missing my flight back to London!), and almost missed my bus to delhi cause i was burning cds with photos!
On my flight from Delhi i fell asleep before taking off and woke up in London...very nice! In Heathrow I had a "Love Actually" moment when I saw Landon again...man, I missed him a lot! We had a really great time there, a lot of sightseeing and a lot of beer! The last night we "slept" in Heathrow before he took off to AIESEC International Congress in Poland and I to Italy. My 4 days in Italy were super (c'est un peu franglais ça?;), got spoiled by mommy and sister, went out every single night with my crazy friends and came home always veeeeery late! Davide got a new car that he loves more than a woman and wants to be with "her" all the time, so we were driving around a lot, just chatting and having a good time without doing much...it was amazing! it feels great when u have people with whom u're just confortable like that.
then my train to Lyon. I had to stop in Milan and i knew that Raul (my friend from Madrid) was there at some point. I texted him and we ended up having a half hour chat in Milan train station...how random!
and right now I'm in Lyon, settled here until the end of December. this time getting spoiled by dad and stepmom;) i've already started a week of prep-classes, very easy but in french! my french improves every day, it's impressive and it gives a great feeling...learning always gives me such a pleasure! i already made some friends, met a lot of new people, all the étrangers who study business in Lyon...from everywhere, of course! I miss my friends a lot, but each time I go somewhere I feel like I'm more or less in the same kind of international environment...it's nice, i feel confortable in it and somehow relationships seem to form much faster. I already went out clubbing on Saturday night...fun fun! Lyon is such a beautiful city....sooooooo beautiful! It's famous for its night illumination, and walking around at night it's really an experience. It's funny, I haven't met any "real" french yet....or let's say "white french" of my age...of course my parents' friends but they don't count. In the club french guys are much more "aggressive" than americans: I kind of missed the times in Generic when I was walking around to see if anybody was even talking to me and nobody would!!! French guys talk to u all the time, which is great to meet people and hear some good french with some argot and verlan (such a crazy slang with backwards words!), but gotta be careful not to give expectations and mostly phone number! But so far, as I said, no white french. Only algerians and tunisians, who probably have never even been in algeria or tunisia before...a very interesting phenomenon! But I'm too tired right now to talk about immigration! I've got a little french test tomorrow to be placed into a french class of my level, and of course i'm very ambitious and i wanna do well!
Gotta be fresh for the morning...hope to hear from my readers more;) keep in touch people, tell me also what's up with u all!
Au revoir!!!

2 Comments:
hey alex!!! sounds like you're settling into Lyon well! I really love to walk around the city at night, it's soooo beautiful!!! Hey, I don't know if you know about this, but there is this weird modern art light thing in the city center where the two rivers meet. It's kind of interesting, but I don't know why it's there. It's kind of a a fun place to take a walk with a boy late at night *wink*wink* , I dunno, just in case you were wondering.... ;) I'll talk to you later!!!
We finalmente sei riapparsa!!!
In bocca al lupo con la nuova vita in Francia!!!
Chauu!!
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