Another month passes by...
The second semester of my stay here started with a couple of heavy financial disasters and bidding goodbyes to some friends I have made here over the past 6 months. I met a few americans here, who were in France for a year long assignment of teaching english to primary school students. I was pretty bad with spoken french for the first few months of my stay here, so they were the only people I could interact with outside office hours.
Alhough our friendship has been mostly about asking stupid questions about how things functions in each other's country, but I never knew I can get so attached to them in such a short period of time. They've changed most of the misconceptions I had about Americans.
Their departure has reduced the size of my socializing group here. So now, I am in the process of reforming my friend circle again.
I had planned to buy a car as soon as I got back here but I kind of set-backs i had with my bank account didn't allow me to go ahead with my plan and so i bought the next best thing.
An all terrain mountain Bike !!!
7 Rear gears+3 Front gears+ Digital odometer + ultra light weight = WOW
Gotta see how much I can make out of this newly found passion of mine.
Went to Bordeax for Bastille day to see the parade and fireworks. The day long plan included Sushi at an neat Japanese restaurant, visit to the Cathedral, Evening parade and enjoy fireworks late at night next to the Gironde River. The fireworks were truely amazing but the best part of the day turned out to be a surprise. There was a live performance by a band called "Heptagone", which started after the fireworks got over and went on till anyone in the crowd could stand on his/her feet. I have never enjoyed a rock concert as much before.
Plannig a short trip to Spain next month. The French go crazy in the month of August. All my colleagues are taking a month off in August and its the same every where. I took 3 weeks off to go home in june and as a result I guess i'm going to be the only person working in this office next month :(
Thats the life status so far....
Alhough our friendship has been mostly about asking stupid questions about how things functions in each other's country, but I never knew I can get so attached to them in such a short period of time. They've changed most of the misconceptions I had about Americans.
Their departure has reduced the size of my socializing group here. So now, I am in the process of reforming my friend circle again.
I had planned to buy a car as soon as I got back here but I kind of set-backs i had with my bank account didn't allow me to go ahead with my plan and so i bought the next best thing.
An all terrain mountain Bike !!!
7 Rear gears+3 Front gears+ Digital odometer + ultra light weight = WOW
Gotta see how much I can make out of this newly found passion of mine.
Went to Bordeax for Bastille day to see the parade and fireworks. The day long plan included Sushi at an neat Japanese restaurant, visit to the Cathedral, Evening parade and enjoy fireworks late at night next to the Gironde River. The fireworks were truely amazing but the best part of the day turned out to be a surprise. There was a live performance by a band called "Heptagone", which started after the fireworks got over and went on till anyone in the crowd could stand on his/her feet. I have never enjoyed a rock concert as much before.
Plannig a short trip to Spain next month. The French go crazy in the month of August. All my colleagues are taking a month off in August and its the same every where. I took 3 weeks off to go home in june and as a result I guess i'm going to be the only person working in this office next month :(
Thats the life status so far....