It's like Harry Potter, only French...

It turns out that Troyes; the place i'm living, doesn't have much things to do since it such a small town, so today Tatiana and I decided to randomly go into the city to search for... well anything lol.

Derpina is hiding from the camera

We started the day by have a very sophisticated breakfast, which we bought from the supermarket yesterday.  P.S the picture is super dark, because my room has very dim lights.

special K with fruit

After that we finally learned how to take the right bus and ended up in the city, where we walked around for a while.  Troyes has a lot of really old buildings that look like the ones from Harry Potter, but not as magical and not as English.

Then we went to a music/ book store called FNAC.  I wanted to buy some french CDs to practice, but it turns out that the stuff wasn't very good.  As Tatiana says, French music is so bad, that not even French people will listen to it, so I bought a Led Zeppelin CD and anime DVD instead. Wait a second...

We also found a few weird things there too such as the manga version of the bible, a board game on wine and the gay movie section.

Old and New Testerment

Tatiana says "It's so French, it hurts"

Yes, there is actually a gay movie section

After all of that decided to go find food, because we were hungry... Why else would we do that? Then we stayed in the restaurant for so long, that they actually locked us inside and we had to escape through the back door.

If Tatiana wasn't there I would not know the name for steak

Why do I look so creepy in this photo?

The other creepy girl and her beer

So we walked around for a while, getting lost in 'Knockturn Alley' and walked past 'Serious Black's house', like the Harry Potter nerds we are until we magically found ourselves at an art gallery.  Magically...

'Knockturn Alley'

Serious Black's house should be between these two houses

Outside the art gallery

outside the art gallery

Visiting an art gallery in France; my art
teachers would be so proud

The Holy Grail??

A church next to the gallery which looks like Notre-Dame 

After that we went home and decided to cook dinner for the first time, which really wasn't a good idea.  First of all, the window is colder than the fridge...

...So we kept the meat there

And secondly, the kitchen doesn't have any pots or pans.  Not even a kettle, so we couldn't even make instant ramen.  How bad is that?  You can't get much worst than that.

Luckily for us, the university cafeteria was cheap and open.  The people there probably think i'm a total derp, since i'm only good at speaking Japanese and English and I pretty much forgot all my French on the spot.  Either way it was good enough to buy food and that's fine with me.  (It feel like when I was back in Japan for the first time again).

Pretty good for 3 euros, and probably better than
window meat

I was moving in this photo, that's why I look like I
have a crippled hand (-_-')

That's pretty much all for today, smell you later!

the day after yesterday...

Today I meet Tatiana, who came over from Switzerland, and like the geniuses we are; we ended up talking Japanese the whole day (which probably not the best time, since we're in France) and took the wrong bus and ended up all the way at the other side of town.

Then after 2 hours we finally made it back.  We then went of a different adventure to the supermarket to by food and pretended to be real adults, who can take care of themselves (which is debatable).  Then we went to dinner at this weird serve yourself restaurant.

That French girl, who can't speak French

That non- French girl, who speaks even less French

Poisson means fish not poison (which I wrote on my French test lol)

Finally here in France

Hey everyone,

I finally got my internet hooked up, so I can upload my photos now.

I left Sydney airport on the 20th at 9pm and flew to Dubai, i'm not sure how long it was exactly, since the time zone changing thing is really confusing, but I think it was around 15 hours.  It wasn't too bad though, since I had plenty of things to do, such as sleeping lol.

First of all I did the usual strip down at Sydney customs.  They even had a new lazier scanny machine.

I also got a new nintendo 3DS (big screen) at duty free.  That stuff is mind blowing, however I only got Professor Layton, which is a 2D game, so I wasn't able to test whether I got motion sickness yet ;D

On the plane I watched the Space Bros (uchuu kyoudai), Thermae Romae and himitsu no akko-chan... all Japanese movies (-_-' ) (shouldn't I be practice my french instead? lol)

drawing of my character Lapis, which I did on the plane

Dubai airport, ps. that's a waterfall behind the elevators

Dubai

Plane at Dubai

After waiting at Dubai for about 1-2 hours, we took off on our way to Paris, which was about 7 hours.  On the plane I meet two nice guys called Florian and Nassim, who were going back home from Thailand (Pop, that's by you (>o<)). 

We arrived a bit late, because it was snowing.  Apparently it doesn't snow in Paris very often, so everything was delayed that day.

At the station I met a guy called Sylvian from UTT (University of Technology Troyes).  Then we took the RER train and metro to some other station (forgot the name), then he went back to the airport to meet some more people and I took another train by myself.

train station

train station

The train ride was pretty long and I was worried that I might miss my station and end up in Germany if I fell asleep, but I managed.  There was even an old school train conductor who clipped your train ticket.

In the end, the train terminated and everyone had to transfer to another train (probably because of the snow), I didn't understand this at first so I asked one of the passengers  who explained that we need to transfer to platform 3 (he showed me three with his fingers).  Some of the people there were laughing, because some of the trains in Paris were stuck and couldn't go.  I just thought that we were lucky that it wasn't us who were stuck.

train window

inside the train

After the train trips I meet up with Ben, who took me to my accommodation.

my room

the cupboard where Tatiana's going to sleep, just kidding

My own shower and sink, but I have to share the toilet. 

Fridge, but there isn't enough plugs to plug it in.

3 & 2

3, 2...

4

5

Mon 14th of Jan

Just updated my header image (excuse the poor editing, I'm not using my usual computer).