So I started the classes...all french and us the 4 foreigners, fede,francesca,miquel and I...Luckily im (up to now) understanding all that the teacher sais, even though he speaks at 400 words per minute. Will see how things progress... One of my courses "marketing research" (yuck) is in english, so that is great!!! Everyweek the schedule changes, but i have officialy holidays from the 26th of october till the 4th of november :D Planing a trip for at least a couple days during that week!! :D Some classes begin as early as 8 am and some finish as late as 7:30 pm..tsk!!!

Marlene has taught me to drink who knows how many liters of water per day which is making me run to the toilet every 10 minutes. I guess its healthy,plus it has made me walk around uni to discover every single corridor in search of a toilet...found a couple in very hidden places..

In the meanwhile i opened two bank accounts, one cuz i needed it, and another one cuz they were giving you 155 euros for free for using it. Read the small captions in the offer and it seemed fine so once i get the 155 euros im gona close the account :D I still dont have a french mobile, as to have that i first need to recieve some papers from the bank which i didnt get. Frustration. So tonight barbecue at the lake, yesturday shows made up by students and drinks at the bar, tommorrow Mindas party in Versailles, friday night club in Paris...Its hard to get a rythm here with all the partying of the last few weeks...but things should get a bit more quiet in the next.

So far the library in this uni suxs. Small and noisy, cant study there. The level so far of one of the courses seemed very low....but hej, its just the first class. We will see how things go. The food of the cafeteria is nothing extraordinary, relatively repetitive. The meat is always quite raw and the fish quite dry..but its cafeteria food so what can u expect?

No sabia que hi habia tot un moviment per ferme tornar a BCN...

Què hi has perdut a París? Saps que Barcelona mola mil vegades més que París (i Sant Cugat ja no diguem) i el Pi d'en Xandri ni et comento, i la cantonada dels dos carrers de ca nostre no és pot expressar en paraules!Podríem fer milions de truites de patates amb ceba, podríem anar al Joan Pros a comprar gelats, podríem anar a l'Altaïr plegades, podríem culturitzar-nos (i el més important fer intercanvi de culturitzacions), podríem recuperar gespeta i hores d'estudi, podríem anar a Manlleu, a Berga, a la Patum, podríem celebrar el 23 d'abril plegades i Festa Major de Sant Cugat!, t'estalviaries calers en economia domèstica... però el que és més important de tot... gaudiriem dels menjars gratuïts del poble plegades!Mil i una raons més per elegir Sant Cugat i no París.

----Mindru

I Xixi torna de París (o de mig del bosc on et trobes jajaja) torna a Catalunya, enlloc més del món trobaràs la nostra gresca, el nostre caliu i sobretot sobretot el nostre pa amb tomàquet, acompanyat d'una bona truita de patates o d'un bon bistec adobat, d'aquells per llepar-te'n els dits!

---- Marià


wau...potser si s adereixen mes de 10 persones torno...hahaha pero espero que com a minim em vingueu a buscar al Prat.

Paris

Paris,Paris,Paris....wow! Last nite was my first nite out in Paris and what a great city. Being here actually feels like being in Barcelona. Up till now i have had sun everyday...how amazing is that!! To continue the city is bigggg full of cars,people in the streets, big trees like in BCN and lots of food places open till late. And now add this to it, the city reminds me of Prague. Cablestone streets, churches,bridges, A RIVER!...So Paris is basically the best of Prague and the best of Barcelona together, I guess it couldnt remind me more of home. So so far a magnificent city! I have discovered almost nothing,but i love it! Yeah, in a few weeks i might be complaining about the french and about france, but this city seems impossible to be despised...

I did a bit of a cultural visit a couple days ago with Marlene and Miquel. I have to say that the uni is not sooo far away from Paris if you are lucky to get the trains on time. We missed two trains and thus it took us 1.45 h to get to tour eiffel, but on the way back we made it in 45 min..not bad!! The city is good, unfortunately Im not behind the bar anymore and thus have to be spending this year,which is quite impossible when you are not saving..tsk! I cant believe they didnt have Lonley Planet France/Paris in cambodia,cuz now i must go in the search for a new one...

Classes are starting next week, so these are my last days of holidays. Cant exactly complain after an around the world trip of more than 3 months...looking forwards to the start of classes and meeting new classmates. For the moment I have been hanging around with all the exchange students (Cems,Double Master, Normal exchange) that appear around my builduing...its cool. I dont think I had spoken this much Spanish or Catalan in the past 10 years. Always sorrounded by all nationalities but Spanish/Catalan its completely awkward now to live two doors away from catalan people....!!! The uni seems to have lots of parties...every thursday there is a big party, and today its the big one. I have heard the library is ridicolously small and that you cant study there. Thats not that handy as I dont really want to be sitting in my room studing all the time,specially since walls are thin and you hear every individual that walks through the hallway.

And Im listening to dutch radio relatively often, hahahaha im losing my dutch though :( But its always funt o have an update on the verkeer (however thats meant to be spelled...) of the Randstad and on the weer...! :)

So yeah I still havent seen Paris...and I do attend what they call HEC PARIS...My university is officially in the middle of the forest. If i hadnt said it its 20 min walk uphill from a town which only has a church,2 banks,a post office, a bakery and a train station...We dont have a common room which means parties happend in the hallways of the residence (not nice when u must study or want to sleep)...but its cool to bump into the same people all the time. Did I say that the uni restaurant made for lunch today the same they made for dinner..TSK.. by june I will officially be exhausted of eating cafeteria food...yuck! Plus they only open about 1 hour per lunch 1 per dinner...! But besides all the complaining life is good, enjoying my last summer beers and last days of holidays as I see how some have already begun classes. Getting to know more and more people and geting extremly confused as I hear and "talk" catalan,spanish,english,german,french,italian daily...this happens when the CEMS ppl live in the same appartment as you do.

Currently wondering who is in the party downstairs, so loud and im tiered, hopefully I fall asleep soon ....Next week I promise an update with how a class taugh in french is, and how my french class mates are. HEC is a very elite school in france, making its students belive that cuz they are in HEC they are the kings of the world..we will see how my classmates turn out, for now I have already met Fede (italian),Miquel(spanish) and Francesca (italian)the only 3 other foreigners that I think will be in my class...

New Home - Paris,France.

Wow!! I cant believe I left this in Singapore....after Singapore i had a 20 minute visit in China (running transit in HK) and then headed to Tokyo...then NL and since yesturday I officially live à Paris! Ulalalala too much to catch up on a blog. Japan definately deserves an entry and will soon come...but for now Paris.

First of all my good bye from Holland was very intresting, i didnt remember that mariastraat had so much alcohool stored in their house, trully suprising. Also being 5 and the last day 6 girls in a flat can be an experience.... As well I was well unaware of the disco that Irum had hidden in her room...but seems like things have changed a lot since the Womans have all formal jobs and are finishing or have just finished their internships. You can already imagine how things went if i mention that the last day in NL was spend in Ikea...but we had a nice celebration in Fiddler too...dinners and dutch traditions were involved in all days....

Paris, well i love to say i live in Paris but lets face it i live in Jouy en Josas.... No, sorry I live uphill from Jouy en Josas...but jouy en josas is a nice small town, tranquil and beautiful. Nobody would say this is close to Paris. Its basically 5km from Versailles...In fact by public transport it seems to take a long time to go to Paris they say about 1 hour...to be seen and soon reported. Well i officially dont have a kitchen, dont even have a shared kitchen or fridge, so I must eat all the time in the school restaurant. The restaurant opens from 7 to 9 for breakfast 1 hour for lunch and 1 for dinner...so better not mis the eating slot! The room is big, and im happy as I had to bring all my things from the Netherlands... A lot! Even unsufull things....but who knows when ill need them..i just dotn think im going to live again in NL so no need to leave things there. I still left a few behind that I shall pick up soon. So far the people ive met are quite nice so im not all alone, a lot more must come this week so lots more to know... Cant complain about the campus either, nice. Unforutnately there are only 3 toilets for the entire floor of rooms :S But everybody shares a shower and Ive got my own, so ive been lucky! Everybody has a balcony and I dont...but Whatever! :) So far only been to Versailles and just for a walk, had to take a train...you start valuing NS once you see the trains here but must say that so far so good...

aurevoir!