Wednesday, September 22, 2004

ziegermans


ziegermans
Originally uploaded by doctr_zaius.
the german kids who were leaving so i got nice and drunk for them as a going away, Nice styles.

not alot to report, yesterday i increased my class load for next week because im still feeling pretty scared about my capabilities, im sure ill be fine by the end of the semester, but during will be a rough ride; its about an extra 80 euros to up from 20 to 30 hours a week,

someone from my class back in perth has introduced me to a couple who live in strasbourg, i have been writing to them (in frnech which is really hard!) and they are being rediculously nice, at first i was going to stay with them for a few days, but now that im not getting there until a bit later i've said thanks but i dont need to anymore, but they have told me that they will give me some strasbourg-specific advice, help me with finding a job and claire has even insisted that im not allowed to buy sheets in town, she will lend me some, im very lucky to have found such nice people before i even get there.

last night was a complete right-off, lots of people from school are leaving today so we had to celebrate, but somehow i think i was celebrating more than most. i can barely remember a thing, last thing i remember is drinking a lot of tequilla, then at some stage im pretty sure i was vomiting a little, and thats it, somehow i managed to get home, with my phone camera and wallet, and all my money is still there as well, im going to try to find some people to ask what happened. im pretty sure i was so drunk i didnt even have a kebab on the way home, but not 100%

ive moved back into the appartment, the hostel was too expensive; no kitchen, no washing machine etc. and this time im paying a tiny bit less as well, all of which im sure you'll be glad to hear. there is a mexican guy staying there; bruno, he's pretty cool , very relaxed as you can imagine for a mexican, he came out with me last night; so maybe i can ask him, but im pretty sure i would have lost him at some stage, i looked at my phone this morning and cyril had written saying; "where are you, ive lost you."

by the way, im sorry if my english is a little off; between a rather severe hangover and all this french, im probably writing a little strangely, i have already made several corrections.
when i first got here it was all german people everywhere, i sometimes felt a little isolated because everyone would speak in german, now its the same thing with spanish, i have met 2 columbians, 3 mexicans and like 7 spaniards, incidently i think im learning more spanish than french, which is probably a bad thing because it will confuse me, but i think once i have mastered french i will start to learn spanish, its a really nice and easy language. awevo! (that is a really strange mexican word that literally means egg, but it is used to describe testicals, but people mainly use it for just about anything, kind of like saying "hell yeah!" eg. -do you want to go see a movie? -awevo!
probably my favorite word so far, also i have learnt t'quero (i love/want you) and chingala which basically means fuk/shit/damn etc.

bruno told me a really great mexican joke:
everyone thinks of mexicans as lazy, the french are romantic americans are stupid and english people are ugly, thats just the way people think, but everyone thinks of mexicans as being lazy, agreed?well picture your typical mexican household, there is the husband sitting there in the corner, very drunk, wearing a really big sombrero, a bottle of tequilla in his hand and he's wearing a poncho, suddenly he yells out to his wife who is in the kitchen making some tacos "quick! bring me the scorpion antidote" and his wife says: "why have you been bitten by a scorpion?" and the husband replies: no! but i can see him over there and he's coming towards me!
and people think that mexicans are lazy....

trust me its a lot funnier when someone tells it with actions and a mexican accent, and according to bruno its even funnier in spanish.anyway, thats pretty much all i have to report, . cant wait to send all my photos home and tell the stories behind them, although they all involve alcohol.i hope everything is at home and i miss all you guys, also i hope i havnt made you worry too much with my stories, at least you can take comfort in the fact that im being very economical, last night i mainly drank other people's vodka.

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