Today I decided to write in English, because some friends of mine understand neither French nor Swedish nor German. That's when you find yourself in this kind of situation that you get aware of how cool it is to 'speak' several languages :-p What's more, writing in those several languages will make me improve them. At least I hope so.
Actually, I haven't got many things to say right now. Not about my trip. But, well, even though this blog was supposed to let you know about my future year to Sweden, nothing prevents me from writing about something else... so let me begin with a great peice of news! One of my friends and I are planning to travel throughout Europe when I'm back from Sweden. Well, actually, 'throughout' is a too big word. Let's say we just want to follow this itinerary: France-Germany-Poland-Slovakia-Hungary-Austria-Germany-France. Everything by bus or plane. But we should perhaps do this with a third person... Must think about it more seriously.
By the way, today I talked with a girl from my high school about what I was going to do next year. When I said I was going to Sweden, she was just like: 'What??! [...] You know you're gonna be cold, at least?!! Are you aware of it? [...] And you don't even know what subjects you'll be studying?! ' Made me laugh. What's so weird about leaving to an unknown country? I'll never understand why people always want to know something about places they're going to. What's the point? Total adventure is much more fun ;-)
Ok, I really gotta go now. Must revise my latin versions/commentaries.
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I came back home from school about half an hour ago and saw YFU had sent another letter to me. It was only to give me the e-ticket and some precisions about the flight and all. So I'm leaving at 9.30am from Paris (Charles De Gaulle) and arriving at Stockholm at 12.30 or so. But I must be at the airport at least two hours before the plane departure. To make it short, I won't sleep much the night before :-p
By the way, the letter also let me know about the dates of my return: they wrote that it was to take place on march 29th, but precised it was only a fictive date. Hope so. Because it'd mean my Swedish life would last only 8 months. It can't be so. (!!)
Concerning my luggage, I can only take 20kg plus 7kg for hand-luggage. Not much. I still don't know if I'll bring my guitar. It's only 3kg but its height might pose some problems. I'll talk about this next week at the 'YFU meeting'.
I should stop writing now. It's 7pm and I haven't started my homeworks yet.
PS: Yesterday I had an aweful thought: shoud I have chosen Poland instead of Sweden?! Because I want to learn Polish. But it finally appeared to me that I made the right choice, since I could have been thrown in that greyish town called Katowice!! :-O
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Hey!
Today I've decided to write in English, because I had promised to do so. My exams are over! But I failed all of them apart from the English one. Anyway, it's too late now and I'll just have to wait for the results until July 3rd.
Well, I talked again with Helga and Sigrid not long ago, and I still can't believe Sigrid and I have almost the same interests =) It's so cool! I do think we're going to have fun, really!
Oh by the way, she told me I was going to go to her school,Östra, where I will attend the Samhällsventenskapprogramm, or something like this. I can't really explain right now what it is like exactly, but as soon as I'll start, I'll tell you all about it. I just know there are some subjects that are also taught in France, and other ones which are not. Anyway, they're not taught in the same way, I guess...
I've also had news from Léon, who's leaving in 16 days to South Africa. He's eventually got information about his host family, who live in Bloemfontein. He'll be with another exchange student that comes from Denmark. It's weird to see that people you've seen for only 2 days, and whom you get on very well with, are going to the other "side" of the world...
Well, what else can I say right now?...It's just the beginning of my summer holidays, so nothing really special has happened yet... Oh, yes: yesterday I went to Lille with Sophie (my sister, for those who don't know); it was great, we went to the cinema and saw Bled Number One, an Algerian film which is really great but a bit special...Let's say we were a little bored after only one hour, because it was quite slow. BUT I advise you to see it nevertheless, instead of rushing to "Da Vinci Code" or other expensive American films (I'm not criticizing US cinema, but African and Western-Asian films are great)...
Erm...now I'll stop talking, because I know how boring it is to read all that I write...
Par Claire
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Tja, hallo, czesc, hey, ciao...blablabla,
Only eight days left before my departure. I don't really know how I feel about it at the moment. It's quite a paradoxical feeling. I'm both excited and anxious. No, not anxious. I don't know, it's too weird. But I seem not to be the only one who's feeling this way: from what she told me, Magali has opposite feelings too.
Well, I'm realising more and more that I'm going to miss my friends very much. I won't be able to see Marco before leaving, as well as a few other friends. Fortunately, I'm going to meet Delphine and Claire this afternoon ;) But please, all of you, keep on giving me some news when I'm in Sweden!!!
Nothing else to say right now.
Par Claire
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tja!
today I'll write in English so that friends who don't understand French can read this blog...
To begin with, i spent a very good but tiring week. Good because i went to several nice places and did cool things. For instance, on tuesday, we went to Lapland, to a sort of park where there were
only local animals...that was cool.
Erik came too, and I could see that I'm not the only one who's a bit childish sometimes =P
On Thursday, Helga and I went down town so that she made me visit the center. so we went there by bus and had a look at a few stores that was quite cool compared to the ones in France. When we got back home, we met two friends of Helga, and one of them was like...really, really excited when she saw I was there.
She asked Helga in which class I was goin to be, so Helga answered "sam"; so the girl (I don't know her name) said something like "yeah!" she'll be with me!"...But then Helga said I was going in the third year, so the girl was very disappointed, but the scene was quite funny, actually.
Then, in the evening, I went to a festival called "Edge" with Helga and her best friend. Well,it was
both about music and other things. We just hung round there for a while and then we met other friends of Helga's. I didn't understand what they were saying exactly but I could understand the topics of their conversations and guessed what was being said sometimes. So I'm kinda happy right
now, because I understand more than last week.
However, on saturday night, we were invited to friends of Ola and Ingmarie's, and I understood almost nothing. But the food was good and the people were very nice too, so it was ok...! And around midnight,
Sigrid, Helga and I went to "Edge" again to see a concert from a famous group of Umeå named Industri royal. And it was just great, really!!!
Besides, Helga had her first day in High School yesterday, and I think she was a bit anxious, but
finally she is pleased with her class and all... And tomorrow, Sigrid and I will have to go to school too...and I am a little afraid too now...But I guess all will be fine. except that i won't understand anything the first days...i think that can be quite fun, actually ;)
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