Studying in Montpellier, France

Life in Montpellier

2009-09-23T12:19:00.000-07:00

I wish I could write this entry in French...after 2 weeks in montpellier I am used to the life here. I have made a few friends from the school, as I mentioned earlier, in this case I don't need to be a lonely old lady sitting in the park having my lunch alone. Instead, my pals and I walk for 20 mins everyday to an university cafeteria as it has the cheapest lunch in Montpellier - 2.9 euro for une entree, un plat principal, une dessert et un pain! Imagine, walking everyday for 40 mins (including return) then I have to walk another 15 mins home, now I don't want to walk anymore! However, from point of view of a very poor student, taking tram is a very luxurious habit!

(I wrote this entry one week ago and now I resume again..)

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This is my last week in Montpellier, woo, oui, time passed too fast, the 2nd week I found time passed actually quite slow, as I did the same thing everyday, on top Montpellier is a petite city so there is not much to explore after 2 weeks. However, right now, since I have made some friends here and we see each other after class more often. And unfortunately it is the last week, almost everyone is leaving end of this week. sniff sniff....I wish to get to know them better before we head off to different directions. C'est la vie...

salut, mes copines.....peut-etre je dois ecrive en francais, car j'apprendait le francais depuis trois semaines a Montpellier. Pourtant, qu'est-ce que je dis......umm...Sommeil? Alors...En fait je ne comprends rien toujours quand mes copines parlent francais, de temps en temps, j'essaye comprendre quelque choses, mais parfois je me suis perdu. Une fois, d'apres une berre, ma copine a dit qu'elle a eu sommeil. Je a pense, umm..peut-etre elle voulait sortir apres une verre, donc je lui a demande que "Sommeil" comme sa, comme-si elle voulait danser. Tout le monde ont ri!! Sommeil en fait signifie "sleepy"! Alors....D'apres cet incident, J'aime Sommeil~~

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A map showing my daily walking route

雜記

2009-09-12T12:05:00.000-07:00

星期六晚上，天晴

今夜鄰居應該有喜事，回家時看見隔離鄰居聚集了很多人，當中一個男人身穿芭蕾舞服裝！現在傳來不休的聯歡音樂，似乎進行一個大型嘉年華般。

昨晚跟AF的同學外出，算是到步後第一次跟同學相聚。我們首先在一間酒吧聊天，酒吧在Rue a la lodge向the Arch方向行100米轉左，轉入一條小巷，內有數間酒吧，甚是熱鬧。我很喜愛Montpellier的小巷橫街，左轉右柺，永遠記不清在什麼地方，但轉了幾個彎後又回到大街。

昨夜出席的同學有來自英國、瑞典、意大利、德國、kazakhstan及香港的代表，平均年齡約22，我已經把這個數字提高了不少。

來自各方的同學們都很努力將自己懂得的法文通通搬了出來，我當然是一個非常落力的例子。說真的，我對自己的表現已經很滿意，在香港時我的法文爛得說完Bonjour之後就口啞，在這𥚃非不能表達自己的地步都不準自己吐一句英文，雖然我認為他們都不知我在說東還是講西，每次我開口時他們都投以一種很疑惑的眼光。哈哈，謝謝他們對我這爛透法文的耐性。

在Le Foch酒吧逗留至差不多12點我們就移步到discotheque。但是我們當中只有德國代表知道discotheque在哪𥚃，但她回家去，留低我們幾個連路名都未搞清的新移民。我們一直行，轉來轉去終於到了傳說中的Panama Disco！𥚃頭真的水泄不通，狂歡者數以百計。這時候我應該說說與我同住的Kazakhstan代表，她只有18歲，離鄉別井，每天我都覺得她很迷惘，她跟我說不知應該在法國留一年。我跟她只可以用法文及少量英文溝通，所以很多時我會選擇沉默，她亦是一個說話不多的女孩。為什麼我刻意提及她，因為她煙酒不沾，我以為她不喜歡夜遊，誰又會估得到她一踏入的士高即刻揮動全身，很很很投入地跳舞，我第一次見她很樣寬懷！

過了第一個星期五後，我總算結交了好幾個朋友，包括兩位可愛男孩，其實我本人認為只有一位可愛，但我又不想太過苛刻，所以都稱兩位皆是。今午我再次跟這兩位男孩相遇，節目是...睇波！無奈....但因為我必須過群體生活，唯一投其可好一齊睇波！

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星期日的下午，天繼續晴

昨夜我的法國同住邀請我和Kaz女孩一起夜遊，終於有機會跟本地人練習法文！我們坐電車到了Place De L'Europe，那邊有間Australian Bar，真的很像Australia!亦又是人丁興旺的代表，我非常自信認為我已經去了Montpellier最紅的幾間夜店！其實我可以形容的事情真的不多，因為我們的活動只是跳舞，有沒有調情場面？有，不過不是我在身上.....-_-，那些騎哩中年男人當然不計算在內。

Montpellier雖然細，但夜遊後我們都要步行一段路程回家。我老人家跳到3點已經筋疲力盡，還要我行20分鐘返家.......我會否因此減磅？

過了兩晚夜鬼生活，星期天應該做一些健康身心的事！我和寄住家庭到沙灘享受家庭樂！感覺就好像帶著格仔枱布手㩦basket齊唱DO RI ME，沒錯....就是這樣。

沙灘位於Palavas les Forts，由Montpellier市駕車需時大約30分鐘。我們所選擇的沙灘原來是赤裸沙灘！不是無上裝，是全無裝！我在這種情況當然是保守派，跟我一齊的家庭亦是。話雖說全無裝，但通常以女性居多，我金精火眼環觀四周有沒有型男露械.....可惜年過50的一大籮.......還是一小籮？？

南法的海水出名冰冷，就算太陽猛烈程度有多強，冰冷的海水滲入毛孔內法國人都大叫Il Fait froid!!!我不管有多冷，un deux trois跳落水不停游，海水清澈見底，身心舒暢！

Cooking mussels is a great pleasure

2009-09-10T11:14:00.000-07:00

Cooking is a great pleasure here as food looks much fresher and varies when it comes to french cuisine.

My lunch and dinner today!

Petit update of what I did these two days

2009-09-09T08:00:00.000-07:00

Life is getting slightly better and better each day, though it is nothing extraordinary. The Kazakhstan girl arrived two days ago, is staying with me at the same house. She is just 18 years old, it is very interesting to hang out with young people. I feel like I am 10 years younger now.

The class is not very easy, actually, it involves a lot of reading, and listening of course. We have now more people in the class, say 10-11 people. Most of them including me are quite quiet while there is a guy who is super talkative, too talkative. Sometimes I would like to say something but he always responses to the teacher immediately and it is hard to interrupt after..haha..anyway.

What did I do so far....I went to the beach yesterday with the german girl, the beach is nice enough to me, Super! This is called Carnon. We had a little problem going there as we didn't really pay attention to the bus schedule, so we had to wait for 2 hours after class. How did we get there...We first took a tram to a station called Port Marrianne, and then we took Bus 106 going to Carnon. It costs 3.1 euro for single bus trip.

Carnon

I swam and did sunbathing as usual. Nothing is exciting mais j'etais content! The only weird thing is when we were about to leave, there was an very old man approaching to our direction and suddenly felt down as if he was shivering. I asked him "comment ca va?" and he responded "ca va.." but it didnt look like so. I was a bit scared and we started wondering what to do, finally I caught three people who look like having a holiday at the beach resort and told them what we saw (in french bien sur), of course with a lot of body languages to show them how he felt down etc. Finally we got to catch the bus and left but I felt so good that I could start communicating with locals and they understood me :)

D'accord, c'est un peu note pour aujourd'hui.