PARIS!!

Paris, here I am. Back to my own country :)
Already more than 10 days that I am back to France and 2 weeks that I left Norway. I still feel that my life is really strange right now. I am looking for a job and I am having interviews everyday. I still do not have my own place; I am staying at the flat of some friends. But since I am here I am enjoying a lot being back to the French life.

Last week it was quite warm in Paris (at least for me coming from Norway) and a lot of sun!! I even went for a jogging in the Parisian streets lol. Different than running in the Norwegian nature… Unfortunately I am waiting to find a job before subscribing to a Capoeira club again. I really miss playing Capoeira… but hopefully soon I will start again.

I am meeting my French friends most of the time here; so great to live in the same city as them. Some of my friends have already tried the Norwegian waffles (see I am bringing the Norwegian culture until Paris). 
I did my first “after work” this week in Paris. Great concept: young people go to a bar/club after work and we just eat, drink, dance and have fun; and of course we have to be well dressed. We went to one located in the Champs Elysées with my friends from the school in Grenoble. Almost 4 years we were not all together at a same place  :)
Last week we had a party in the flat where I am staying and I felt it so different than the Norwegian parties. Here in France, people bring alcohol/drinks and put everything on one table and we just share with everyone. I was a bit shocked to see that again and I was really feeling uncomfortable to take a glass of wine in a bottle that I even didn’t know who bring it. In Norway, it is not usual to share your own alcohol (probably because there it’s too expensive). So I can say that I lost a bit of my French culture… but I am sure it will come back ;-)

What about my interviews? I already did a lot… I am learning to be really patient… Processes take for ages… but I am still confident. Actually I cannot wait to start working again in a new environment, and to start a new life in Paris!

Paris is really a beautiful city. I am keeping my eyes opened every time I see the Eiffel Tower. I am enjoying so much to walk on the Champs Elysées and see the Arc de Triomphe when I am on my way for some interviews. Every where I go in this city I find something beautiful :) Important to say that I am from the Alps so I am a bit like a tourist here :p

A road trip from Norway to Paris

I am right now in the train to Paris, writing this post. I left Norway 2 days ago after a great farewell party on the Friday 13th. Bernd (a German intern in Norway) and me finished our internship the same day (on the 10thof March) and decided to organize our goodbye party together.
It was a great evening and I really enjoyed my time with my friends. Of course it has been really hard to say “ha det bra” to a lot of them but I know that I will be back to Norway to visit them. So after saying good bye, cleaning the party room and walking back to my flat, it was already 4.30 am. Departure from Oslo planned on the 14th at 9am!! So after 3 and half hours sleep, I packed my last things, gave back my keys of the flat and ready to leave! 4 German friends of Bernd arrived by car in Oslo on the Thursday 12th to pick us up :) So around 9.30am on the Saturday 14th we left Oslo by car… really strange feeling at this time. I think I started to realize that I was leaving Norway… Then we drove for hours… until Sweden… we made a stop and a quick sightseeing in Goteborg… and then drove until Copenhagen. There I met two friends of mine from Brazil. We had some drinks at their student house and then we went for a walk in the city center. Copenhagen was a bit empty for a Saturday evening… it was raining. After 5 hours sleep I woke up to continue the road trip: direction to Germany! After some kilometers, we took a ferry from Denmark to Germany. By the way, Bernd and me throw away a bottle with a message inside:) Something we wrote almost one year ago, once we were sitting at Aker Brygge in Oslo. Let’s see if we get a reply one day :) And then Germany… back to Europe… we drove for hours… dropping some friends of Bernd on the way, and then around 9pm we arrive at the house of Bernd’s father. We had a relaxing evening and a good night sleep. That was yesterday (Sunday 15th of March). This morning I took a train from a small town in Germany in direction of Dortmund. There I had to take another train to Köln. It has been really exhausted: I am traveling with 4 big bags, my laptop, and other small bags… :s but German people have been really nice with me and helpt me a lot to carry all my stuff :) even some people working at the Köln train station took care of all my bags for around 30 minutes, just the time for me to grab some food, print my ticket to Paris and see really quick the Köln cathedral. In 3 hours I should be in Paris… back to my country after months being away. Of course I have been in Paris and France quite often during my stay in Norway but today it is not the same. I am really going back to my own country. Back to the French language, the French culture, the French food :) I am really happy and excited!! Now I need to prepare my interviews. I am having several job interviews during this week in Paris. I hope I will find my dream job really soon :)
I still not completely realize that my experience in Norway is over but that was my own decision to leave Norway and move on. Today I am thinking of all my friends who leave in Norway ; I am already missing…
No more battery on my laptop so I will stop the post here. But soon I will come with more updates about my life in France :)