Not sleeping is the beginning of failing (A.K.A. my day at the beach)

Hi, you lovely people who actually read this crap!

It's been a long time and a lot has happened since... Thursday the somethingth? I think I'm going to tell first about my school life and then about my real life (yes, I do have one :D).

So after having the easiest school week last week, I now had the hardest school week ever. And the difficulties were caused mainly by me.

Dear diary, I might be the worst student my university has ever had. And that's quite bad because it's a pretty crappy school. Anyway, since my rhythm has been totally fucked up - every Saturday I go to sleep at 7 AM - I woke up too late on Monday and was late from school. Which started at 15.30. Yeah, I know, great. Luckily, the French system makes it easy to be late from class since there are no breaks. So when one lesson ends at 15.30, the next one starts at 15.30, making it impossible to be actually in time.

On Tuesday my school was going to start at 8.30, so I had to go to sleep early. Of course my vampire life style made it impossible so I ended up staying up whole night. And by whole night I mean THE WHOLE DAMN NIGHT! I didn't feel so good at 6 AM when I had to get up. And I really wasn't feeling any better at 13.30 when my last 2 hour lesson started. I literally kept falling asleep during the lesson. Embarrassing. I kept waking up realizing that the noise that had woken me up was the sound of my head hitting the table. I really didn't want to fall asleep. But I did, even in the middle of writing down a word. There are weird lines in the middle of the unfinished words in my notebook. I honestly don't have any memory of writing them down.

This wasn't the only proof of my bad studenthood (yes, I know it's not a real word). I was so tired and messed up - I had been awake for more than 24 hours - that I went to a wrong classroom, only to notice that the people were speaking German instead of Chinese. So I was late from that Chinese lesson too. And I skipped a lesson, due to the mistake a lovely tutor had made. Even though I had chosen the lab lesson for Chinese, she didn't add me on the course. So I spent that time at the International Affairs office where my all time favorite tutor (the annoying guy who neither speaks English nor knows how to use computers) tried to sign me in on the course. It took him an hour to find the course online. Or it would have taken for him to find it, but after the hour he let me find it for him. Took 2 minutes. And I suck at those kinds of things!

So on Tuesday I came home, said one word to my roommate Sam and fell asleep. I woke up in the middle of the night, went back to sleep and guess what! I overslept! On Wednesday I looked at my cell phone which said it was 10 past 10. My lesson started at 10.30 so I was only half an hour late. Too bad it was my first lesson of Chinese characters and I missed the whole "How to use a dictionary" thing. Luckily I have an amazing friend who offered to help me the very same night at 3 AM. It's a good thing I'm not the only one having a twisted rhythm.

Needless to say, I was late on Thursday too. And I only had one lesson! Not only am I the worst student ever, I'm also the one idiotic foreigner who speaks awful French. If I speak at all. By the way, my French literature teacher is awesome! He has travelled a lot and he thinks the French system is idiotic! I already love his lessons. And I've had one.

After that, I was late every single day. More or less. But at least I've done my homework.

So this was the long part with a lot of text and little pictures. Hang in there! There will be even a video!

So much has happened since last time I updated.  On the Friday after the last entry, we went to meet Heidi's tutor Florine. She was super cool, we talked about everything (in French!!) and walked through the whole Bordeaux center. It's a nice city. And she bought us macarons, my first macaron ever! It was really good. There were like a hundred flavors, among which also salmon flavored one!

So here's why I don't have any pics from that day: I took my camera with me but had left the memory card in my laptop. Yeah, I'm a genius.

Since we had super fun, we decided to spend Saturday night with Florine as well. There was also her friend Léa. She was great too!

Here I'm hanging out at the Place de la Victoire - once again.

It's a place for students so there's a lot of people during weekends.

Hôtel de ville and the cathedral.

A movie theater and Heidi.

I just love cities at night!

This reminds me of Jyväskylä :D

Place de la Bourse. The thing that's in most Bdx postcards.

These artworks won't be here much longer :(

Léa, Heidi and Florine. So pretty!

Then this weird castle thing again.

And some kind of arc.

The night was fun. I'd waken up at 6 PM that day.

I didn't get anything done on Sunday. Or Monday, except being late from school. Yeah, that's "something done". 

On Wednesday, after a horrible starting of the week at school of which I told you earlier, our friends from the soirée asked us to come to the beach. They were leaving at 17 and that's exactly when our last lesson started, so of course we were late from that, too. Luckily they are super nice and waited for us. I was super tired but I'm glad I went anyway.

The beach was at Lacanau and it took more than an hour to drive there. Since it was by the ocean, it was huge. And it was really difficult to walk in the sand. 

Awesome people. And me.

My jeans are not wet yet for running away from the waves.

Apparently I can jump :D

Me and Heidi.

The beautiful beach. Think about that, friends in Finland! It was the end of the september, the very same day it kinda snowed in Jyväskylä! :D It was 30 degrees!

It became really dark. It was like the winter in Finland. And the heat was like the summer. Weird.

We got hot dogs and marshmallows!

The day was great and I really needed after the horrible school experiences. I got some new friends and got to speak French, maybe I'll learn it a little better some day...

On Thursday evening we went to an English lesson arranged by the FACasso (the same people with whom we were on the beach). I'm saying this with all my love but French people really don't know how to speak English. At least the ones I've tried with. The lesson was like Finnish elementary school. It was still fun, though. Meeting friends and all.

After that, we went to a café to talk more in English. It felt so good to speak English without feeling guilty for not speaking French. I ended up explaining my views about the World War Two for hours. Weird, I'm not even into it that much! :D At least I didn't bore people again with linguistics.

On that Saturday we went to the Musée Aquitaine -the museum of our region- with Florine. It was free for students on that day!

I proved how mature I am starting from the first room.

There was lots of old stuff.

This was a chain for slaves.

This ugly statue thing resembled something Celtic, if I remember correctly. I'm not really into this kind of art. 

My favorite language! Oh, Latin, how I've missed you!

Some Roman stuff.

There has been an amphitheater in Bordeaux. Now there are only the awful ones at the university.

I like this fish thing :D

Many statues were missing their heads. Jupiter still had it.

A tombstone of a child.

Ancient French! :DD I know this isn't interesting for all of you guys but I was really excited to see this!

Probably the ugliest thing I've ever seen.

Bordeaux used to be a port for selling slaves. Such a sad part of history.

There actually were some beautiful things in the museum but it just isn't my style to put them here. That's not how I roll! So go to to check out the museum by yourselves if you're interested!

It was a rainy day so we went to Fnac! FNAC! <3

Yes, a manga about wine. So French.

I bought two books Florine recommended. They are in French and I'm pretty happy to be able to read, it has been such a long time since I've actually read something worth reading.

I also bought sports clothes so that I could finally start karate or judo again. 

We arrived in our beloved hometown Talence and took a picture of its center just like a minute before it started raining.

And when it rains in Bordeaux, it actually RAINS! It was like swimming home. Perhaps this amazingly made video will tell you more about it (if the uploading is successful, somebody please tell me how to use this sh*t):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpWKM4h--KA&feature=youtu.be

(I gave up and uploaded on YouTube, enjoy!)

If you managed to watch the video, I apologize for the Nobel winning crappiness of it. I also apologize for my transparent shirt (it kinda was raining...) and my bad accent, I'd been talking French the whole day. :D

I sacrificed my Sunday for doing homework. I get tons of it but I've got to admit I kinda like it. It makes me feel like I'm actually doing something useful for once. And even though I'm the worst student ever, I love Chinese. It takes a lot of work but I really wish that we could learn even faster. There's so much to do and so little time. Yes, I'm a nerd, haha.

I'm quite sure that I haven't told you everything but I guess it's OK. :D 

I wish I could update more often (OK, I could if I wasn't so lazy!). By the way, you are allowed to share this blog if you think it's worth reading. I love getting readers! And comments! 

Thank you for commenting, by the way <3

I'm starting to get used to the French environment but I can't help missing Jyväskylä and my awesome friends there. And some of them are around Europe. :D

So make sure to come visit me!

This was all, maybe some day you'll know what happened in Paris!

Thanks for reading

<3: Roosa

a vampire geek and a lousy student