yes i am still alive, don`t worry or don`t rejoice rather: Part 2

Yes long time, no blog. I have just moved into my new appartment!!! Its the best appartment in good appartment town! I live with Nola from Oz, who is a really cool girl, and a really nice non sleazy! French guy is moving in next weekend. My room is at the front next to the kitchen and we are right on the rhone so i have an amazing view. We went to Ikea and bought futons for 130 euros (cheapest option-mattresses are really expensive!) and we had to assemble them ourselves. The landpeople stayed and helped me build mine. It took 2.5 hours with us, two men, a woman and power tools! So imagine my trepidation when we had to build Nolas sans two men, a woman and power tools!! But we managed to do it in 1 hour and it was so much fun! Hammering is my new stress relief.
We had the aussies over on friday and they are so jealous. Their 1 room student accom, with shared kitchen that's always full, shared bathrooms and showers, that are also always full and might also be full of tinea, really pales in comparison.
Then we went to the Down Under: tacky aussie pub number 2. I wish never to return. It was unprecedentally (word?) bad.
Then we had Sheena over for dinner cos she helped us at Carrefour (biggest scariest shop ever. I have the tendency to get overwhelmed by big stores and then get really tired and grumpy and then need lollies or cake to ease the grown upness of it all. Meanwhile, French people are so pushy. They just barge their way through crowds and dont say sorry or pardon rather cos they would be speaking French. They also dont know how to walk. Its a billion times worse than George St when Im running late for uni!) Then the Frenchies came over. It was just me, Nola, Sheena, Remy, Kristof, Romain, Jeremie and Alex who had called me to see what i was doing then I think was a little sad that the others had omitted to tell them their plans. They are the nicest bunch of guys. A really close group who are all really different but just seem to mesh well. It was quite funny though cos they brought their guitars and started singing Renaud and Hotel California. It was so cute! But looking back on it really quite amusing! Meanwhile noone else found the picture of Renaud amusing except me and Sheena. In fact I got the feeling that I had committed some kind of bizarre Renaud blasphemy.
yesterday we had a lovely day of yet again more drinking and lolly eating in Vieux Lyon (just me, Nola and Sheena) then we went to one of the less dodgy kebab shops for dinner. Meanwhile France has been the country for trying suspect meats- rabbit, liver, veal, miscellaneous susages and whatever the hell was in my kebab last night! Meanwhile part 2: have I told you about the lolly shops???? Theres one just near our appartment. Theyre everywhere! They are so good!! So many lollies!!! So many different types of marshmallows including ones covered in strawberry, peach, apple or banana dust, and ones with a huge layer or caramel and covered in chocolate. And the nougat... Anyway, ending on a very sweet note, no pun intended, I have to go now. Love you all. Stay safe and have fun! I will write again very soon, je promets!

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