the goodbyes are starting....

buhuu...my exchange period is really coming to an end now...we had out first real goodbye party...last wednesday the Swedish guys (Johan&Fredrik) had a goodbye party, since most of the swedes are leaving...

It's an end of an era...and it will never be the same again... :(

Hope to see you all again..

Barbie Party

As you can all probably figure out it was time for wigs, fake eye lashes and an overdose of pink....not that much fun for me, since my hair is nowadays (thanks to the sun) lighter than Jenny Humphrey's. Well I could still take an overdose of pink, which my lovely tights did!!!!!


The place (Karina's, Becky's, Ben's, Julian's and Therese's crib) was soooo pretty!!! 100 pink balloons, it was like I'd stepped into Barbie heaven...and so many blonds hahaaa....so funny looking on some people!!! Aida you rocked the platin blond wig :)



And the guys were dressed so cute...ken oh ken...and pink there too :) Finally a costume party where EVERYBODY dressed up!!!! unbelievable....I actually had to wait at home when Sean was panicking about what to wear...must be hard to be Ken, lol


It was a typical fun party, everybody was drinking and having a good time until...we went outside for a cig...me and my blondies :)then...a group of french teenagers came by and started...you know, behave like asshole teenagers do when they can't be around a bunch of beautiful "blond" girls :) so we told them to F*** off, and stuff...and then just out of nowhere, this guy took out his pepper spray and sprayed in Aida's eyes...OMG...she couldn't open her eyes for like 2 hours..that was the end to the fun party...well, the party still continued but nobody went out...

Farewell dinner 28.11

how sad can that sound??? I hate the word farewell....

I was actually a pretty fun night :) :)

I, Uwe and Seany posted an event on facebook for a farewell dinner at a Thai Restaurant called the Crazy Wok (much better than it sounds) and the plan was to go to Monaco after that..well, you know, plans change...

EVERYBODY was there, except for Lydia who is a f***ing geek, still love her :)

it was so much fun and the food was really good!! (kinda obsessed about the place now, I go there for take-out all the time) We had the whole back of the restaurant reserved for us...the reservation said 30 pp, I think it was about right :) I took forever to get the food, but no worries, more time to mingle :)

When waiting for the check Megan and I went out for a cig...the talk got a little out of hand, and we almost started crying...hahaa..farewells are hard :)

After Crazy Wok we went to La Sansas...a place that has the cheapest alcohol in town, also know as the worst alcohol in town :) but effective in order to get drunk!!! Since we were dressed up for Monaco but it was too late to go there, we decided to go to High Club after La Sansas closed...


The guys didn't want to come, but Karina found a guy who said he could get all the girls in for free...so we started walking...it was raining so Megan and I decided to get a taxi...Megan just had to use the bathroom at the Casino first...but the doorman wouldn't let her in since she didn't have her ID with her...UNTIL...she pulled out her high heels, which were red underneath (not Louboutin's but look-alikes) , they had no trouble letting her in...they actually came up to her and excused themselves and told her she was welcomed to use their bathroom...it's all about money my friends (and labels of course)

As it turned out the guy from La Sansas couldn't get us in after all, not even himself...in the end, it was only me and Megan that went inside...it was time for some cocktails in our Monaco dresses :) but...fat chance...can you believe that a night club, correction the ONLY night club in Nice doesn't make cocktails!!!!!! so we had to settle with vodka-orange instead...

well at least they took our picture and posted it on their website...


FUN NIGHT!!!!!

mamma o pappa hälsade på :)

On Thursday morning I jumped on the train to Milan to meet my parents..they flew there since it's almost impossible to get a direct flight from Helsinki to Nice during winter time..

In Milan me and pappa went for some shoe shopping, for me of course :) Can't believe how much patience he has after not seeing me for 3 months, works like a miracle :) one weird happened...when i tried on a pair of boots there was some sharp f***ing thing on the bottom and my heel started bleeding... did not buy them...

later the three of us went for dinner to the Savini...one of Milan's most famous restaurants..yammmm..... :)


The next day we started driving towards Nice...man there's a lot of tunnels on the way :) mom and dad counted them on the way back, over a 120....

on the way we stopped in Monaco, and pappa fell in love with it :)





we had dinner at my favorite Restaurant La Villa in Nice...and me and pappa had a few at the hotel bar :)

Next day we went to Cannes for lunch...


...and to Eze for a cup of Coffee...



..and dinner at a restaurant on Course Saleya...we had this seafood platter with shrimp, lobster, oysters, crab, mussels, langoustines and other delicious seafood...talk about good food :) I was even too excited to remember to take a picture :)

the next day they had to leave suddenly since Finnair started striking and they got an other flight earlier...

Dinner at Restaurant Megan...

After the holiday week, we had to take it easy (spare our livers ;) ) and save some money...so it was time to visit the one and only, one-of-a-kind Restaurant Megan Michaud.... yummy :)

Paris, oh Paris...

First things first.... at the airport in Milan we bought 2 disposable cameras!!!!!!!!!!!! yeeeey!!!! hoe cHool is that???

In Paris we took the train to Bastille to meet Charles and Thibo!!! and then went to Charles brother to hang out...a few hours later Lydia arrived and we had THE best dinner at this lovely typical French restaurant...yam :) The party was gonna be at this club on Champs Élysées where it was lady's night...sounds fancy huh? Well not really...the place was packed with young girls that were wearing nothing....and a few disgusting guys who only came there to score...and the place....reminds me of High Light (hahaa, maby not that bad) so, we didn't stay for long...Thibo was driving, so we went to a bar for a cocktail, and then to Charles' parents' place in the suburbs...

Next day it was time to pack our belongings and move to Yassin's place..a guy Megan met at the sémi, who seemed really nice, and who offered us a place to stay in for free...who could resist that???

BIIG mistake... it was all fun and nice until we decided to go for a coffee and have a small snack... Yassin suggested a place and Lydia wasn't really sure about the place...after that hell broke down.. it was the most awkward lunch I've had in my entire life, or correction, the most awkward half an hour I've ever had in my life!!!!!!! so after that we didn't really want to hang out with him anymore, so be basically made plans with Charles and his friends all the time :)

We had the best time...we just partied a LOT!!! and lived the typical Parisian life, aka Cafe hopping :) just chilling, taking it easy, not worries, only good coffee in good company!! well that's a life I could live!

And the night life...OMG...soo good!!! I'm in love with this place called Les Club des Saints-Perez!!! It's this really trendy place with a lot of cool people, and they play a mix of old and new music!!! love it!! we actually went there 2 times :) and the food....love, love, looove!!!!!!!

And we met so many cool people...and Paris is actually not that big, we ran into 3 people we knew in only 4 days...and I mean, we really don't know everybody, so that was kinda weird, hahaa...

The drama happened when we were on our way home...so we went to Saints-Peres, and our plan was just to pick up our stuff from our friends place (where we took the stuff earlier so we didn't have to go back to Yassin's place) and then go directly to the airport...everything was running kinda smoothly until we arrived...we were really late so we had to cut the line in order to catch the plane...ones we got to the check-in (a geeky guy let us come before the others) Megan realized she'd lost her passport..so in the end, it was only me and Lydia flying back to Nice...so drunk, so tired and so worried about Megan...

turned out she was just too drunk to find her passport, hahaaaa....funny trip, lot's of memories from THE BEST CITY IN THE WORLD

J'adore Paris!!!!

Ps...pictures coming later, since we haven't developed them yet :)

Milan...

At Sunday night 25.10 I met Megan at Häagen Dazs to book a place to stay in Milan. After a lot of hotels, hostels and ice cream later we decided to stay in a B&B in the center of Milan...the train left the next morning at 10 am...always in time with everything :)

So the train took as 5 hours...huh...boring...when we arrived at the train station we were already amazed...the place was beautiful, so Italian!!! we took the metro to our place, only to find out that ewe were staying at Grandma's. This place was the weirdest place I've ever been too. The woman owning the place aka Grandma was the cutest person ever!!! Every time we left the house she came rushing to the door asking where we were going and when we would be back. She even asked us if we drink a lot :) And the room...it was the typical grandma room....we actually counted 9 different flower patterns in our room!!!!


At first we just stayed at Grandma's since we were so tired...since it was a B&B there were food available around the clock...so we ate some toast with jam and Grandma cheese...oooow I just love Grandma cheese :) After our rest we went shopping...and we both bought shoes :) and some stuff from H&M...the weirdest thing happened at the shoe shop where Megan bought her shoes...this woman came to the store complaining about a pair of shoes she had bought...I kinda got the feeling that she wanted to return them without an receipt..this turned out to a huge fight and the sales person and the other woman were just shouting to each other...at the end sales person started crying...talk about emotional Italians...

The first night we went to the famous restaurant/bat Just Cavalli...the place was totally empty be we thought we'd order a drink and see if it would get busier.. we met some English guys working in Hong Kong and we ordered some more drinks and stayed until they asked us to leave...we continued to this night club called the Old Fashion and the guys got us a table with bottle service...not too shabby.. we danced and drank the whole night and at some point the bottle service really got to us and we wanted to leave...so we took a taxi home, which btw is sooo cheap in Italy :)

Just Cavalli


The next morning we woke up tired and hungover...we were too lazy to have some breakfast so we just went out to find a restaurant to have some lunch at. We found the cutest restaurant with the best mozzarella ever!!! The food wasn't the best though...after that we went to Duomo...walked up the stairs and saw the view...very beautiful building...and ones we were up there we saw a rooftop terrace across from there....and it looked so good!! so we went down and went up again on the other side of the street!!! and had the best (and most expensive) orange juice EVER!!!!

after a little bit of resting again :) we went outside...we were both dressed to impress and went to this place where a lot of students hang out..to our surprise we were totally over dressed...the students were sitting outside, wearing jeans and buying beers from these take away beer places...so we continued walking and found a nice restaurant were we had dinner...after that we went to the nicest place we could find and had a few drinks....this place closed at 2 pm so we just went home afterwords... we would still have plenty of time to party in Paris....

The next day we went to the airport...Paris here we come :) (btw we bought disposable cameras at the airport :) )

Nissa-Lyon 4-1

Today we went to see a football game with the ESPEME students, meaning mostly Britt's.. Nice was playing against the leader of the French league, and Nice sucks...but we went anyway coz it's fun :) And the game really turned out to be totally different, Nissa just kept scoring afters scoring...hahaaa...and won by 4 against 1...The stadium sucked, you couldn't get any warm food...cold onion pizza was the closest thing to food they sold :)After wards we went to old town for some drinks (surprise surprise)




hahaaa...after the game there were a lot of police men and Megan just had to go pose with them :)

Last "real" french lesson

on Thursday 22 of October during our last real french lesson we decided to go to Wayne's since it's ladies night after all...meaning champagne for 1 euro glass....So after the lesson which ended 8 pm we all went home to get ready...at about 10 am I met Aida and we walked together to Karina's place with 4 bottles of champagne in our bags :) Somehow the rumor about the pre party had spread, and the quiet ll girls pre party got bigger and badder :) We went to Wayne's and had some more champagne...since we got there so late I only got one glass coz they ran out after that...

After Wayne's closed at 2 pm we were not about to go home yet...so me, Aida, Karina, Megan and Romain went to Pompei which is open until later...Aida convinced me to take a tequila shot and megan
convinced me to take some drinks :) yes, blame it on the others...we went home about 4 am...

Next day we met with the french group at Café Massena to have a french lunch :)

Computer Service and L'Hacienda

My day didn't start so well..I was hungover from the OB and as I got a virus in my computer it turned out that it had spread so badly that I had to take it to a computer store...I had to copy all my files to an external hard drive...which took me about 2 hours since I had so much stuff on my computer...fun day :)

Well later we were off to the Hacienda, a house owned by a bunch of EDHEC students up in the mountains...In the buss we met Aida, Karina, Carmen, Pilar and Juliane...We were drinking and having fun (since the bus ride was supposed to take one hour...) but at a station the bus stopped and the driver and an other guy came up to us and told us it was illegal to drink alcohol in a bus...so we did what were supposed too and out our bottles away...later the guy came back (still at the same station) and yelled at us for drinking...which we didn't do anymore...he called the police an we had to take all our open bottles outside in the trash...even the police was laughing...this guy didn't work for the bus company, he was just a regular guy with an attitude problem...so we stopped drinking but continued to be loud, or even louder than before....




The guys at the Hacienda came to pick us up whit cars from the bus stop...the house wasn't just a regular house, it was HUGE!!!! and it had a swimming pool and a tennis court in the garden..not too shabby for a couple of students!!!! The party wasn't so good...there were only a few people since everybody was so tired from the OB...we had to stay there the whole night since there's no going back from there..

Charles' B-day and OB at Pink

Me Lydia and Megan were invited to Charles' Birthday party at their place...just conveniently before the OB (open bar) We bought him a chocolate cake and together wit the others a iPhone adapter for his car...We were the first to come so we were also the first to start drinking...we were sitting and chatting and at some point even dancing on the tables :)





At around 1 am (I think) we headed off to Pink club were the OB took place..the place was packed with EDHEC students and everyone we know was there!!! It was so much fun...A OB in Nice doesn't mean the same thing as in Finland.. you don't only drink as much as you can for free, you also spill as much as you can!!! It is sooo messy and you can't wear nice clothes...I was completely wet!!!! In Lille the girls actually wear rubber boots to the OB:s, ours are a bit cleaner....At the end I slipped on the stairs and then decided to go home...