RMS exchange 2nd semester

RMS exchange 2nd semester

 
I'll try to make this summary of my second exchange short and sweet...I will let the pictures speak.

My seconds semester family <3

This semester really surprised me!!! When i finished my first semester in Reims I never taught I could ever have such a good time again! Looking back now, I have to say this semester was better, actually much better...also really different from the first. I have meet a lot of really awesome friends, friends for life!! 

Last international dinner, my last party

Trips

I didn't travel as much as in the first semester but the trips i did take were all really good and I always had a good time with my fellow travelers. 

Amsterdam trip was a really nice surprise, It actually happened by accident. One night i had a small dinner thing i my room and there you see Vane and Andrea talking about how they don't have electricity and that they can't even take a shower without a candle :/ and then Andrea was like...we should go on a trip...To Amsterdam, hmmm...sure why not. Three days later we were enjoying the Amsterdam life. It was a really relaxing trip :P, Really good trips :)...

 haha, milking competition

 Free beer

UK tour

Well this one was for my friends Franklyn from Malta. I had an unforgettable summer in Malta last year and it was thanks to him. I really needed my dose of Maltese :P. I took a tour of London, Edinburgh (where Franklyn worked), Stonehenge, Oxford and Windos castle. I was actually really surprised by how much i really liked London, It's a really beautiful city with nice people and also great for shopping! Edinburgh is a really ancient looking city, looks like Narnia with beautiful architecture! It was really nice spending some time with Franklyn and his friends!Amazing 

 

 Tower bridge

 Frankly, Malta and I

South of France

Out of all the amazing trips I took over the last year, this one was the most memorable. I took the trip with Tianyu, Howie and Aki (my three closest friends). I had such a blast o the trip and always taking about stupid shit or dirty stuff. I was really funny that at the end Aki was totally getting dirty as well :P. haha... I will definitely not forget the BBQ's, the car, mountains and the amazing places we visited!! And we came up with 4 very interesting stories about the future...and much more. <3

 Monaco

 Monaco stairs

                                                                  Last day in Marseille

 

 Parties and International dinners

Where do I start??

Either there was a party or there was some kind of a dinner somewhere. I think I can count the days I was alone without doing anything on one of my hand! From parties in the Cafeteria and laundry room

To BBQ

To Bday parties

 

 

Tianyu and Veronica's party

To my room parties

To dinner parties
 

Sushi time

 Chinese dumplings

Rice night

 International dinner

 

 

A bunch of exchange international dinners

To parties in bars, clubs,...

....

Friends for life

There are so many i don't even know where to start!!It's crazy how many amazing individuals i met this semester and I would probably have even more if I had the time to hang out with every one...but these are just the ones that mean the most to me:

Aki, Tianyu and Howie (My babies)

I guess right from the beginning when they arrived I clicked with them. I still remember the first time I met all of them, well all three at a party (of course, where else). Everyone is different... Aki is really kind, generous and probably the most thoughtful person I met. She doesn't only think of herself but she will always think of others first...something i really treasure!And she is sooooo cute!

Howie is a crazy guy who obviously likes to party, he is the party king of exchange...for sure!!I also really like that it's so easy to talk to him, making random conversation and what ever you say he won't be offended (when joking) and there is never a boring moment when he is around. I really felt relax, like buda when he was around :)

Tianyu is a deeper person i guess, he is always thinking about something and planning every step so it leads him to the right path. The best thing about him is that he knows when you have to be serious and when to party, an open minded person who brought a great deal to my exchange life. I really miss the boxing, gym and the cooking time we spent. He taught me a great deal about China and it's culture and much more...

Anika, Olga, Maria

These crazy "Germans". I love them to pieces, amazing individuals who know to party and to work! Great personalities and amazing souls! Really happy i met them
Anika: She is like my mom, I know that if I needed anything i knew I could count on her. She was always there to help or do have a good time and with her sparkling personality just shined! Really happy all the time, optimistic, smart and above all a true giver (she is one of the rare people that truly cares about others as well and is willing to help at no cost). Thank you for everything!

Lunch beer with Anika and Maria

Maria: This girl can surprise me over and over, there is always something more you discover when you talk to her. Once you get her going it is hard to stop her!haha, At the beginning i always taught she was really shy and a bit distant but i can guarantee that it's not the case. She is also really kind and is always there when you need her and If u give her something you can guarantee you will get double back.  A really warm person... thank you for everything

Olga: For me the personality of the year award has to go to her. Her laugh can be heard through buildings and her amazingly sexy Russian accent! There are so many things about her that I would probably need a book to describe everything. Outgoing, always ready to go hard, nice, kind and really really interesting. I guess you could be with her forever and you would still only know half of the stories...Love her to pieces!

Lol...what the picture...she is the pearl in the middle

The Czech people (Dahye and Dorottya too...of course)

 

I will have to go with all of you. You crazy bunch of people,  you really did show your crazy side and once again proved Czech people are always in for action. Really outgoing people, easy to talk to, fun, kind and always ready to help. Also when really open minded and It's really easy to get close and just have a good time. I really enjoyed all the good times we shared!! <3

 

 

 Tianyu is not Czech...

 

Mariana, Andrea, Vanessa, 

 

These three I will meet again very soon :)!! 

 

Mariana: She was there through my really bad time in Reims, when I was alone at the beginning of the semester, when I had some problems and when I was just feeling blue. I knew I could count on her when I most needed her, she never let me down!!Thank you for always being there...she is also crazy fun...and talks a lot :P

 

Andrea and Vane: The cutest couple I have ever seen by far. Both so different but both amazing people. Really kind, friendly, always ready to party and to party hard!!Trustworthy people and i can feel the happiness when they are around, they are like a ray of sunshine when Reims really needed it :) Thanx for everything 

 Vane and Suzy

 Mariana

 Andrea

 

Edu, Edoardo, Gorka, Jeff, Andy, , Nagore, Maria, Ceci, Xavier, Irina, Lotta, Emma, Michelina, Hacer, Brooke, Corina, Samuel,......

I especially have to Thank Edu for being extremely kind and teaching some stuff. I am really thankful!!

 

 

 

 

Thank you for this AMAZING EXPERIENCE that i will never forget!!Thank you for being with me all these awesome parties, gatherings,... thank you!

 

I hope to see you soon my family!!

Student exchange in Reims, part 1&2

Student exchange in Reims, part 2

Sports

For a change lets start with something else then parties. At RMS you have quite some options to do sports. Except for the broken down gym the RMS has, there is also an option of "paying" 40 EUR and you can do certain sports (rugby, taekwondo, pilates, zumba, soccer, basketball... ) for a whole year. In my first semester I did Rugby with the RMS. It was actually really interesting to learn a new sport and to practice it, the team is quite nice and helped most of the time, since my French is "merde"! It's funny when you have 50 French speaking guys and a English speaking guy, even if everyone knows you don't speak French they would still speak French...cos by all logic I have to understand French...Obviously!!But it's only a sport, even if I didn't have a clue what they were saying, you just do what others do...perfect for dummies like me :)

At the end I actually stopped training since It was a bit too easy, sometimes I didn't even break a sweat, and I didn't wanted be one of those people you see at school with crutches :P

With the exchange student we also had multiple soccer games and basketball matches, the drunken basketball matches (invented by Cameron) were the most fun!Getting a bit bruised was a normal thing, especially when you drink and play sports...but it makes it much more fun :P

 

Dream team...drunken basketball!

Playing Soccer

We also went to two matches of the Reims soccer team, they play in the first French league. But we've seen that we could probably play better then them...and we stopped going! Goooo State de Reims.

Nitin, Anna and Me also attended the semi marathon (21.1 km), I ran it in 1:51 min... :S

Medal for finishing the half marathon

Nitin, Anna and Me, the marathon finishers from RMS

Trips

We really traveled a lot during the first semester!

Epernay

Eperney is a small town near Reims, which is famous for its Champagne cellars and beautiful sightseeing places nearby. I took a trip with Nina from Canada and we really had a nice time and cycled for at least 6,7h around the wines and the neighboring towns. It a really nice 1 day trip to get to know this area with is famous for its Champagne. The best moment was when we had to rush back to the bike rental places (we rode on a freeway since we didn't know where we were and our only shot of getting back was fallowing the traffic signs) and the end part when we bought a baguette, cheese and a Champagne to toast the successful day :)

 

Nina and I on the bikes

Epernay and the huge bottle of Champagne on the right

Bordeaux

What a trip this was!!!!OMG...the best trip in the first semester!What made it so special?Well the combination of awesome people (Senada, Deborah, Toby and Acton), Drum, a slap, ass pain medicine, domino's pizza, dune de pyla, pub "crawl"..Some of these sounds wrong but let me explain.

We decided to go down with a car aka blackberry and on the way we stopped at a famous castle and at Cognac to try some real Cognac. When we got there Debs told us about the famous buy 1 get 3 deal at the Domino's pizza place in Bordeaux...Ohh that was sooo sweet, bought 2 pizzas and got 6!!Awesome!!

Domino's pizzas

Thanks to Deborah,who did her exchange in Bordeaux at the beginning of 2012, we decided to go with her and have our own awesome tourist guide. Since she knew all the Bordeaux we have seen it from a "locals" perspective which was a bit different but really nice.

The first day was also really memorable for the nice apartment we rented which had a drum in one of the rooms...it seemed like a good thing till I got a slap!!Let me go back a bit...Toby's was driving the whole way down, his soccer team lost, Acton and I found the drum, I played the drum, Toby walking up the stairs and I got a SLAPPPP!!Felt really bed back then, but not it's just funny!!

 

 Playing the drum

Debs also took us to some small little sea town which was newly refurbished and looked like Disney city.We also went to Dune de pyla which is a huge pile of sand near the sea. We were actually jumping of on edge of the sand dune for hours (which reminds me...ACTON SHARE THE PICTURES!)...it was incredible!

 

Jumping from Dune de Pyla, sand dune

We also did the pab crawl where Debs took us to a couple of most famous pubs with a task to "borrow" the biggest things you could find. To make the long story short...Senada the crazy two bike ridding girl won and Toby and I lost :(

 

Castle on the way

 

The whole team in Bordeaux

At the beach near Bordeaux

Thank you all for this amazing trip...I will never forget it!

North of France

This was the last trip in the first semester. Raffael, Pilar, Brittany and I went to Rennes, St. Melo, Normandy (Omaha beach, D Day), Caen, La Havre and Rouen. It was a five day trip. Already the first day we through a party in our hotel room in Rennes and kinda destroyed some furniture...nothing that we didn't "repair" before we left. We also went out that day and accidentally came across a gay club. Ohh shit that was interesting, especially for the first 30min when we didn't know!!Sooo funny!  

Next we did a day trip to St. Melo. A small little city next to the sea, where the hole city surrounded by walls. And everything looks really old but well maintained.

St. Melo at night

 

WTF... In St. Melo

From there on we went to spend a night in Caen and left for the D Day beach, Normandy the next morning. The beach is actually called the Omaha beach <3 (another sign), where Raffa decided to go for a swim in the freezing cold water...brave!!So much fun to watch him!

From there we went La Havre, a really nice by the sea city with amazing architectural bridges and buildings. This is where we did the milking video...SO MUCH FUN!!

On the last day we also went to a Chinese restaurant where there was this really nice Chinese men serving us. We talked for many minutes, he also gave us additional spring roles,... and the best part was that at the end he wanted to take our picture to put it on the wall of his restaurant. So if you ever go to La Havre check the Chinese restaurant CHIENGMAI in the center of the city!

We ended the trip in Rouen and then headed back to Reims. 

There was also some drama, but all in all it was a really good trip!Tnx everyone :)

Raffa, Pilar, Me and Brit at the top of the cliffs

View from the cliffs

Lille

This was a weekend trip organized by the BDI (RMS group). Except for the bad beginning I can actually complain about the organization. Well the main part was the drinking and partying as always!I was in a nice group of really good friends (Raffa, Val, Morgane, Ale, Mickey,...). Well since Lille isn't that big of a city, It didn't take time till we saw most of the interesting stuff and then went to do some crazy stuff...Well we started partying in the hostel with everyone and ended up in a great club downtown with some hot Mexican girls and just partied the night!!Great night ;)

The next day me and Raffa went around the town a bit and "visited" the outside zoo and just walked around...good times...and before we knew it we were going back home.

Tokens for the ferries wheel

Munich 

Finally some Malta in my life!!!Finally reunited with my "lost sister" :). Hillary and her mom and friend decided to go for a small vacation to Munich and I decided I would go and meet her. After not seeing Anja for 3months she also decided to come and we had a small little reunion. Since I was in Reims till then,  going south to Munich i taught It would be warmer and nicer weather!!Ooohhh shit was that a mistake, for most of the time It was around -5 degrees and I only came with my jacket and t-shirts like always...this is where I "heard" my mom saying :"dumbass, next time check the weather report!"

Well the most impressive thing in Munich is their pastry...OMG...I had so many for two days I just had that for breakfast, lunch and dinner...SO AMAZING!!<3

Catching up on things from Hills and Anja was so amazing and I'm really happy I have both of you in my life!!Thank you

Hills I hope your enjoying the Carnival in Malta as we speak and Anja I will see you soon <3

My sister Hilary and Anja <3

Parties #2

There were sooo many....

Karaoke

Piggy place

Official place of FLIP CUPS

Best friends
If I wanted to show all my best friends here I would definitely need at least 2 more posts on the blog! But If I would have to name those who had the biggest effect on, they would have to be:

Raffael

Holy shit... A million words wouldn't be enough!!We actually meet after around 3 weeks of the exchange and I initial impression wasn't that good, but after one night he became my really good friend. Well the best thing about him was his funny, crazy, outgoing personality. Always ready for action and was always there :). I felt the most relaxed when we hanged out cos i knew we were kind of similar and he is someone who I could trust with any secret and I know he wouldn't judge (judgginggg). We did have some drama going on the last two weeks, but looking back now I have to say that that was totally stupid!Man tnx for everything and all the awesome memories.

P.S.: Next year we better do Skype Dexter watching

 

 Going to the club in PJs

Acton

What a funny guy!!!As any Canadian he loved ice hockey and all the ice sport...i don't know why but when I hear ice hockey I always think of you!!Weird!!
A really crazy, funny, friendly and trust worthy person. I actually met him while choosing a bottle of to drink!Only in France :)
The best memory with I had was when we were using the Beebe guns and shooting at random things and lets not forget the Old Nick drinking. He always knew how to make me laugh even when I didn't feel like it!!Thank you man!!See you in America :)

 

Acton 

 

The three of us

Dominique and Pilar

These two are like day and night but definitely the most memorable girls I met. Not only are they good friends I also learned so much from them. 

Dominique taught me so much about some important stuff in live and how to go around certain things. On the out side she is a beast (beautiful one) but once you get to know her more she is just a normal girl with a really BIG hart!But let's not forget the party side...ohhh shit she knew how to party! Unfortunately we didn't party much, which I hope we will make up when I come to Holland :)

Thank you for some really great times and some unforgettable as well. Honey I really wish you all the best because you really deserve it! :)

Pilar or Maria del Pilar Rodriguez Roman or Mama Pilar is probably the kindness person I met (when she isn't mad...cos then her Latin side comes out!). She is truly the nicest person!Well we kinda met in drama story of our own and ever since became really good friends. I'm really thankful I got to spend almost the hole January with her doing all kinds off stuff and having a blast (snowman, skitels vodka, Bag sliding, Shisha time, dinners, easy love love shop :),....). She is also a person who I could easily trust with everything and I knew she was would not tell anyone...One of the rear people I can trust!Thank you for being there on all the bad the good and the best memories here :)

 

Dominique and Pilar

Valerie and Morgane

The party animals from Belgium. These two were one of the first people I met here and I'm soo  happy to have known you from the beginning, because it gave me much more time to hang out with both of you. I will never forget the crazy chicken, cows, snakes and all the other crazy animals we acted. Not to forget all the nice parties at Florians and the amazing times at the club. Clubs are not the same without both of you!!Not only are they party animals they are also really nice, kind and friendly persons!Let's not forget gossip as well, but they wouldn't be the same without that and it makes them even more special! I miss you a lot!!!Thank you...see you soon in Belgium :)

Valerie, Morgan and Me

I also can not not mention: Wei Jing, Deborah, Senada, Yi Juin, Luisa, Nina, Cameron, Nitin, Arpit,...soooo many more!

Goodbye :(
I have to say that these were my best 3 and a half months of my life! So much fun, crazy stuff, parties, drama, ... and amazing people! You all are the reason why I love to travel, meeting so many amazing individuals from all over the world really makes me want to discover the world and its' amazing people! It's my honor knowing all of you! Thank you University of Ljubljana and RMS for this opportunity!! <3

 

Last night at the club with everyone :(

Tnx for signing my T-Shirt

-The end-

P.S.: This better not be the end!!<3