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.