Good memories

So finally the entry, which so many of you were waiting of.  The last week just flew by, having tons and tons of fun with Mathijs, a friend that visited from the Netherlands. He arrived Thursday night and we had an amazing dinner (a very special somebody will know when I say “Tropfvogel”) with roasted chicken and vegetables. We have not seen each other for months so that there was so much to talk about.  The night ended with a great a couple a bars and a club. 

Friday we were both sooo hungover that NOTHING happened that day except for wandering around Chambéry and walking from one café to another and a small hike (2 hrs) to La croix du Nivolet.

 Saturday morning we went to the market and bought very nice goods for a nice breakfast and later on lunch in Geneva. I must say Geneva is nice, but bloody expensive and not for me: TOO many gucci people and watches everywhere. Because we avoided the highway (took almost an hour longer but reduced péage/road fees) we saw a beautiful cenery of Switzerland. All in all it still was a great day accompanied again by Thijs and Demi :)

However, Sunday totally made up for the missed day on Friday. We had already decided on the day before to go hiking, just had to figure out how to get to the foot of the mountain. Already a couple of weeks ago, I always looked at this very funny shaped looking mountain and really wanted to hike up there, but I just did not find the way up. Nevertheless, we found it on Sunday. I hope my Mum won’t understand this part, but I probably never had so much adrenalin in blood due to the fact that we actually did something very risky. Without any equipment we climbed the last bit – the cliffs – up to the cross. 

I cannot even tell you how hard it was and how scared I was at some point. It took us three hours up and one and a half hours down. Surprisingly I did not feel any sore muscles the next day, but believe me yesterday (so Tuesday) I thought my legs got paralyzed over night.  I could barely walk. Nonetheless I went running yesterday to counteract the pain, it worked ;)

Thijs left on Monday (instead of Tuesday) because he slept very badly all nights he was here. I must say I do not really feel sorry (sorry Mathijs ;) ) but he only brought a very thin mattress, so his own fault . It was a shame that there is no snow anywhere yet, otherwise we would have gone skiing for a day.

Ok one last thing. Let’s see what we have in the treasure box of embarrassments for you guys. Ehhhhhhhh found something:

On Monday night Blandine (a good French friend of mine) invited us to a restaurant for her birthday. Sitting over my dinner plate I was really happy with the piercing I purchased early that day (my previous stud was just too long). Nevertheless, all the sudden I hear a small high pinching sound. I looked into my plate filled with pesto gnocchi and saw the ball that usually sits on the stud. I try to cover my little accident by just ignoring it. At some point, however, I was wondering where my stud went and lifted my plate. Blandine caught me doing that and asked me what happened, so I had to tell. Guess what? She bursted out laughing, so that everybody knew an instant later what happened and I had 10 pairs of French people laughing about me. That makes piercing number two that I must have swallowed ;)

I wish everyone an incredible day! Here the weather is nice and cold approx -1 degree.

Happy greeeeeeetz from Chambéry J

P.S. The next couple of weeks will be the hardest that I will probably experience here, two and a half more weeks of school then one week of exams, precisely 8 (!!!) exams.

P.S.2. For any of you, which are interested, I finally got my car fixed last week. Apparently I did not need a new battery and it had to do with the key recognition system why the car did not start. The repair guy was so kind to take the battery back and reimburse me. After all I paid 100 euros less than expected for the tires and putting them on my car. Made me very happy and it is a big relief. My advice: NEVER GET A CAR! Just results in trouble…