My (second)first month in France

Sera enjoying herself at the beach

Well it's more like one month and a half but anyhow B)

I decided which university to attend in September and I've wrote them. I'm waiting for a reply but they have said earlier that I can attend their courses so I'm not worried ;) I decided to finish a degree in physics.

The family I live with is on a vacation so I'll be alone for the next 2 weeks. Time flies fast so I hope to get a lot of things done before they come back.

I visited Bretagne in the west of France with a couple of friends 3 weeks ago. We were shooting a pilot music video for a friend. I've never seen a drone and it was really exciting. The west of France is breath taking.

In Bretagne I lost my glasses. I tried to go and buy new ones but in France you need a paper from an optician to buy glasses or contact lenses. Luckily they sold me contact lenses under the counter.

I made a video about it on my Youtube-channel: MoonedBoots (and her little minions)

I'm really happy I started the channel and I'm hoping to have lot of fun while making the videos :)

What has my second first month in France been like? I'm learning to speak french all over again since I haven't been practicing for 3 years. My French family told me this week that they can hear the improvement. They told me it sound like I think in French and it's effortless. It's actually pretty accurate and I'm happy they notice it too :)

I've gained some weight. I don't know how much yet but man I love the cheese here. I can't bring myself to stop eating it! We started jogging with Sera and I'm still gaining weight so I guess it's time to cut back with the yummy stuff.

The heat is lovely. I actually enjoy it a lot more than I imagined I would. The poor dog is not at all used to it and we have changed our walking schedule accordingly. In Finland I took her out for a long walk in the afternoon but here in France we are doing it around sunset. Now when it is +20C I need a hoodie.. It's a pain. In Finland it's usually 15-20C in the summer so I'm loosing my Finnish identity pretty fast B)

Kisses and talk to you later
MoonedBoots

So much joy

Salut!

I'm making myself feel at home here in France :) I'm getting used to the idea of living here again. From time to time it doesn't even real. Then again I feel like I've been here for a really long time even though it has been 3 weeks now. I must admit I haven't been improving my French at all and I should start. Sigh.

I have a lot of time on my hands now so I decided to start making Youtube videos! I'm super excited. I had this idea the last time I was living in Paris and I feel like I'm continuing from where I left. It's like the 3 years I lived in Finland are a bad dream and I'm continuing my life from a happier place. I love every minute of my time here.

Bisous!

I did miss Paris... so now I'm back ;)

Long time no see - long time no ACB! (he he he)

I decided to start blogging again! It has been a long time since but I figured it's appropriate since I moved back to Paris :)

I moved back 2 weeks ago. I'm living at my friend's place and I'm taking care of their kids for the time being. I'm also helping them with keeping up the house and such. I've had a lot of fun with the children and my friends. I've met a lot of new people and I'm enjoying myself.

I didn't come here alone. I have a dog. Her name is Sera and she is a Labrador. She is the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She is my best friend, personal gym and positive influence to my days.

It took us 5 days to come here by train. We took a train from the north of Finland to Turku. We waited in Turku for 14 hours for the ferry. We crossed the Baltic Sea with a ferry and from Stockholm we continued on with a train.

From Stockholm we took a train to Hamburg where we spent one night. It's only 8 hours with a train from Hamburg to Paris. But this is where the things get tricky.

We were supposed to take a train to Karlsruhe and continue from there to Paris BUT we were told that we have to take a train to Köln and continue from there to Paris. No problemos off we go.

In Köln I tried to buy the tickets to Paris and they told us that we can't because the office isn't open. How cool is that. No worries. We need to take a train to Mannheim and continue from there to Paris.

The train to Mannheim was 30 minutes late. We missed the last train to Paris.

We were told that we need to travel to Offenburg and head to Strasbourg from there. We'd have to spent the night in Strasbourg and continue to Paris the next day. Cool.

We came to Paris 24 hours later than expected. But we are here! We are enjoying life!

Bisous B) I'll write to you very soon

Paris, I'm going to miss you

 Oh my I just realized that I've lived in Paris for 10 months and I don't have a picture with the Eiffel-tower! It's something to add to my never ending "to do"-list :)

Last time I told you how I miss Finland. Well, this post is dedicaded to all the things I'm going to miss from France!

First of all I'm going to miss the language. Especially in the beginning I got better and better every day and I really liked that. Now when I start a new conversation with somone they don't even start talking in English like in the beginning. I guess that my French is understandable :) of course I don't have as much vocabularly as I would like to have but I just have to sturdy, study some more and use the language. For some reason I loved to have the lessons in French but if I could chose I'd have the exams in Finnish...

I'm going to miss my job! I've been a babysitter in a French family and it has been such a joy to see the children grow and see how the younger one learns new things all the time. I'm happy that I'm going to see them a couple of times before I leave France and I hope that they'd visit my family in Finland some day like my family and friend have visited them. I'm really grateful for them for doing stuff with me outside of babysitting. The picture of me playing piano is from their place.

I'm going to miss French food. All this pasta, snails, sea food, pain du chocola (that I hated in the beginning and now I love it), French onion soup, baguette and all these delicious desserts. I'm really French now since every time I eat I HAVE to get a dessert :) and oh my God all the cheese and creps that I'm going to miss in Finland. And macarons! All and all the bakery here is so different from the Finnish one that I can't tell in detail all the things that I'm going to miss.

Here I love the fact that I live near Paris but not exactly in the center. Orsay is really safe and I can hop in a train whenever I want and be in Paris in 30min. In Finland I live in the north and the closest big city is like 6 hours away. I can't describe the joy that I feel when living here because I can find everything I need from Paris.

Of course I'm going to miss all the friends I've made here but I miss my Finnish friends too! And now all my Erasmus friends have left for their homes so they aren't exactly here in Paris. But I really with to see them at some point :) I've made plans to go to Germany and Mardrid, I just have to see when I have money and time to do that. I hope that as many of them as possible will visit me in Finland.

I'm going to miss the train and metro system. In Finland we have metros and trams only in Helsinki, not where I live. Of course they have had many strikes here and the trains are late a lot but still. In Oulun we have only busses which go once in 30min or an hour. I've became so impatient here! All my friends laught at me when I go "Shoot!! We have to wait 2 minutes??" because in my hometown we go "Oh nice only 15 minutes to wait". I love living in a bigger city.

I'm also going to miss all the stuff we can do here. In Paris you can just take a metro and go to a new location and there is something to see. In Oulu you call your friends and you are like "yeah... well.. I don't know.. How about a coffee?". With my friends we even drive out of the city to get a coffee somewhere far so that we can pass the time that way. I'm going to miss this city so much...

Oh yeah and then a bit off-topic: They payd my CAF (it was about time..) and I didn't have to pay my rent this month :P Les Halles here I come! I'm going to buy all the books that I want.