je n'ai pas écrit depuis longtemps

well kids it has certainly been a while; i have been in strasbourg for over two weeks now and in truth, its not quite as fun as Nice, but its still good and very good for my french, last night i spoke french while i was drunk, now thats a milestone.

anyway this update will be quite disjointed because my memory sucks so i will try to piece together the past few weeks from emails i have been writing, here goes.

do you have any idea how expensive petrol is here? not that it bothers me but i just thought it was crazy for people to pay over 1euro per litre, thats over $2 ffs ouch; australia is so cheap; we are all so lucky

uni is pretty much as i expected it, quite hard but not too rough, they make allowances for our lack of ability; i think i have been studying french for by far teh least out of everyone, most of the other students have done it for like 5 years+ but of course i still kick ass, what can i say? im thorpedo.my room is small and simple, but clean new and nice as well, its just a bed,fridge,desk, cupboard and sink,

i still cant send photos, french people suck at organising things, i am supposed to have the internet in my room for my laptop but no go; they basically just told me to wait, doofuses. at first they said one week and its already been two, i think it might be whinging time.

carla, a girl from my class back in sunny australia introduced me to this professor here;claire dupuis and her husband marc, she has been so freakin nice its not funny, shes has lent me sheets and pots and pans and all that stuff, i have been over to her house a couple of times for lunch such good food! although once it was tripe, that stuff is nasty! but they have been so nice i sucked it down anyway.they have been to perth like six times and know it all well, it was quite strange to talk about perth in french to french people, but yeah, its really good to be able to talk with some french people.

getting everything organised is a real pain in the ass, in perth we have one student card that does everything, i already have 4 cards here and have at least one more

i have been to germany a few times, pretty strange there i discovered i can go for free with the bus pass i bought to a city called kehl, its the closest one to strasbourg anyway, its quite strange there, the keyboards are even stranger than the french ones. i thought a lot of people smoked in france!, every computer has a used ashtray next to it. everything there is so much cheaper as well, i think i might start going there just to do my grocery shopping. and the weather is still quite crappy, but im getting used to it, i might have to do some clothes shopping in germany as well, very cheap indeed:
as i have told mamma of course i am here to further my education but remember this: alcohol makes me happy, and a happy worker is a hard worker,

the other night ireland played against france in football so a few irish people went down the pub to watch the match, was a pretty good atmosphere, turns out i know a bit fo teh french anthem, allons enfants de la partrie, la jour de gloire est arrivée...


the weather has been up and down but its steadily getting colder, something like 8degrees during teh day at the moment,i think i need to buy some more serious winter stuff, at teh moment i have practically nothing.

classes here are pretty hard, in my first one i could barely understand a thing, but another where i think i got just about everything,

monday nights are erasmus nights at java (erasmus is the exchange students system or something) i thought i had classes on tuesday but turns out i dont, luckily for me, last week i felt absolutely useless and today not much better i think i might buy some slightly more expensive beer in future, this cheap stuff is killing me.

even though its a really long way away, im really looking forward to meeting up with mum,dad,amy,lee,trsitan and the 2 bens, snowboarding in france over christmas, man thats going to be swoit.

anyway, last night i had yet another big one, seems that mondays are teh way to go, this place called java gets really packed and its fairly cheap (for france) but before that luke had a party on his floor in his building and we all spoke french most of the time which was good because i have never really been able to do that while ive been drunk,

at about 2.30am we left the place and started wandering around looking for a kebab place, NOTHING arg, so frustrating,only in france i say i really couldnt be fucked walking the 40mins back to our place, so i crashed on sara's floor;

this mornign i was too hungover to make it to any classes(the optional ones that are repeated all week so no big deal), although one thing about teh cold weather, i think it helps hangovers, nice crisp air in your face

tonight im going to cook some mexican food and then i think a bunch us are going to the movies, mainly polish people; sounds good to me, seems like i wouldnt be capable of much more. and thats all my news for the moment, i think i might to home to bed for a little while, feeling like poo atm, i hope thats enough info to keep you all happy for a while; keep the emails coming everyone, its really nice to hear about home and what everyone is up to, im missing you guys alot, be great to see you all again next year, although you'll all be tanned and buff, but ill get over it, im just that pretty,

ciao princesses!