You can never party too much (or can you?)

Hello, friends and enemies and whoever reads this blog!

There was a lot of text in the last one so now I'm trying to tell as much as I can with pictures (woohoo)! This post is about what I did before the vacation.

So after the amazing trip to Cologne we went to the dune du Pilat with our university friends. By the way, it's the biggest dune in Europe! Climbing it was awf... delightful, especially when there were no stairs! We finally made it to the top:

The beach!

Katie and I <3

The dinosaur rain forest. 

It was super steep...

...and coming down was super scary... and awesome :D

If it doesn't look big, I can assure you it was!!!

Janina and Katie!

Ah, yeah, this is the real dune.

Our victorious trip back to Bordeaux ;)

The next Monday I celebrated my first St. Patrick's Day. It was pretty cool, we even had Irish people with us. The pubs were so full. By the way, I couldn't wake up for school the following morning but I wouldn't probably have learnt anything anyway.

Honestly, this was the best picture from that night...

That weekend we celebrated Mira's birthday. Mira, Nina, Kaisu and Sohvi came to our place and we had such awesome time that I didn't remember to take any pictures (pretty well-thought excuse, huh?). This is a picture of an elk I drew the next day in Musée d'Aquitaine. I know, I've got talent!!!

We also went for kebab. As you can see, I was satisfied and Heidi... well, she didn't want to go there at first. But she liked it anyway. But I gotta say, you still get the best Döner from Germany!!!

That weekend we finally got our freedom since Sam moved away. This freedom lasted for almost a day, when I decided to invite Katie to live with us. She moved the next day. I knew she was awesome because she liked FOB :D.

The next week we had the Soirée finlandaise, the Finnish party!! It was super awesome, there were a lot of people and the neighbors threatened to call the cops! A real house party that is! Plus I got to talk about Finland which has become my favorite subject :D. After Fall Out Boy, of course.

The next day (Saturday) we went to see a play where some of our friends from university played. The importance of being Earnest. It was pretty funny :D. 

On Sunday, we had a movie night, watching one of the best movies ever: 21 Jump Street!!! Because Jonah Hill. Did I mention that Katie has the best taste in movies as well? :D

The next day, after judo, we discovered that we didn't have any more water. Or it came drop by drop from ONE of our taps. SO I COULDN'T TAKE A SHOWER AFTER JUDO! I swear to you, the next day was the most horrible day here in Bordeaux. I just kept thinking about shower. AND! It was the 1st of April, so Heidi sent me a text that we wouldn't be having water for another week. Luckily, it wasn't true! And she put paper fish everywhere in our apartment. I mean EVERYWHERE! Even in all our groceries (except hers) XD.

On that Friday we had an awesome sleepover (girls only!) and we got to try our bathtub! Apparently, five girls fit it there at the same time. The pictures are on Facebook :D. The next day we were exhausted but went still on this French guy's party. I met a lot of cool people in there, from such places as Norway and, get this, Cologne! Also a sweet Italian girl, Gemma.

Needless to say, I was really sick after all that. And I mean like fever and stuff.

On Thursday we went to Ikea to eat meatballs with the students of the Swedish language. I'm serious. And it was a long trip! 

By the way, I was still sick. On Friday we went to Gemma's birthday, it was really fun.

On Saturday, I was really sick! Probably because I hadn't rested the whole time. Still, I had my exams during the following week so I had to study... which I didn't do because I had to update my http://falloutspam.tumblr.com/ blog. After all, it was my blog's anniversary and Brendon Urie's ans Save Rock And Roll's birthday. How could anyone study on a day like that?!

So, I still had fever on Monday, but I had to do my Chinese exam... after which I went to a judo belt exam. I got the belt, now I'm a 5th kyu (so, basically nothing special).

Our vacation started on that Friday and I was still sick. Plus I had this dissertation to write about 3 books that I hadn't read. I didn't even start it. I ended up doing it on Monday, just before I left for Toulouse.

But we're not there yet! That Saturday we had a bagel picnic in front of our house with Gail and Katie. It was epic, of course. Heidi joined us later, but she didn't get to see an alpha computer geek who was showing us his macho skills by falling down from the balcony. He was trying to take a picture for us :D.

We made truffles (or Heidi made them) and watched a movie. It was a good day :).

Okay, now I see that this update was super long but at least it had pictures :DD. I still have a few updates to post since I've been lucky enough to experience some amazing stuff. I really hope someone still reads this thing XD.

Good night, people!

See you very soon (Finland!)!

-Batman Metromies 

The truth about Germany

Hi!

It's been too long and the exchange is almost over! I'll be leaving in four days, still can't believe it! I hope someone still reads this blog because I have some amazing adventures about which I want to tell you. So I'm trying to make it short (hopeless, I know!!).

This story is from March. So, after three days of exams (like 6 or 7 of them), I slept good two hours and jumped in the train that went to Cologne. Okay, actually it was two trains and it took like 9 hours. I was pretty nervous since I was exhausted, I didn't really know Alex or Céline (I'd only met them once, in Paris) and my neck hurt a lot for some reason. 

Anyway, when I arrived in Cologne, my awesome friends were there, smiling, with their friend Roxy. I told them I was tired so they took me to a coffee place. That's right, you don't need sleep in Cologne!

The coffee was really good and I fell in love with Cologne which is a beautiful and lively city. 

The next morning we went to the concert. We had to wake up super early so that we could be there by 7 AM. So I slept 5 hours. We had a problem since Alex and Céline had an exam that morning so basically I should have waited there alone. BUT!! Here comes the amazing part: Roxy, whom I'd just met, volunteered to come wait with me. ON HER DAY OFF! AND IT WAS FREEZING! Seriously, we couldn't take a lot of clothes since they slow you down when you're trying to get in the front row.

So this sweet girl stayed there with me, I was number 15 in the line. Eventually, Alex and Céline came there too, they were 37 and 38. Then we got Currywurst which is amazing like all German food!

Then some douches broke the line and we ended up being like the 50th in line. Which kinda sucked because we'd been waiting for ages. But, then again, Germany blew my mind. The people in the front started calling people there by numbers. So I was the 15th again! Such sweet people!

I was still worried because it was only my second concert and I didn't know how to get in the front row. Also, I didn't know if Céline and Alex had the chance since they were so far behind. And it wouldn't be as fun without them!

Finally, THE moment was there. We had to get in. I chose the right door and got in pretty quickly. Then I ignored the "don't run" commands and ran as fast as I could! I GOT IN THE FRONT ROW!!!!!!!!! 

Then I heard Céline yelling my name and she got there too!!!! She made sure there was room for Alex who, finally, got there too! We were too happy!!! 400 people in the audience and WE WERE IN THE FRONT ROW!

It was amazing! Pretty Reckless was cool but Fall Out Boy was epic!! We were just right in front of Pete who dropped the microphone at one point. It was cool XD. And Patrick was a god as usual! Just! A god!

After the concert we bought cool stuff and I went back to Céline's place which was more than comfortable. It was like a 5 star hotel. And, get this: she gave me her Fall Out Boy T-shirt!!! I love these people <3<3<3!!!

The next day I slept until 12 :DD. And woke up when Céline was knocking my door, apparently for the millionth time!

We went to see their town Neuss which was cool and got the best Döner ever!! Then we went to see Cologne which was super cool and beautiful. At the Kölner Dom (which was epic) some guy asked us if we were emos. That's hilarious!! :DD

We went to have coffee while we waited for Roxy. Then we went to this huge gay party. If you didn't know, Köln is the gay city of Germany! Rainbow flags everywhere! So cool!

The party was great. We didn't want to wake up early so we stayed there the whole night dancing! They even played Fall Out Boy when they heard I'd come all the way from Finland (which I hadn't done, by the way XD). I was super hyper after it!

Finally, on Sunday morning, we had to say goodbye! It was really sad because the girls were simply awesome!!! Then I went to the train and fell asleep like a million times. It was cool to come back to Bordeaux, because for like the first time in ages the weather was actually good! It was like summer, over 20 degrees and sunny! In march!

Oh, and the reason there are no pictures is because I was more than stupid and didn't charge my camera battery before I left. But this all happened and it was epic!!! Go to Cologne, it really is a wonderful place!

More updates coming soon! Let me know if you still read this blog :D.

XXXX

Love you all!!

-Roosa the adventurer