I decided
to post the Angers
series only in English, because I think it makes more sense. If you want to
ever participate in RSSA, you have to speak English anyway. And these posts are
so long, I’d die if I wanted to write them both in English and Czech. And I
speak English all the time, since we’re only 2 Czech girls here, we often start
talking to each other in English or French, since it’s just so crazy. I’ll post
the articles about every other day from now (I finally got my internet login
details), and I hope you’ll like them! I pray my writing skills will get better
during the two weeks.
The first
day of my journey was actually very adventurous. When I arrived at Airport
Ruzyně, the queue for check-ins was about a kilometer long. However, when the
crowd became so nervous, that the possibility of us marching to the gates and
taking down anyone trying to prevent us from doing that arose, they opened 4
more counters and I managed to board on time. I happened to be positioned
between two foreign gentlemen (a French one and an unknown one). My right
neighbor, that is the French gentleman, was really nice - he offered to help me
with all kinds of things, chatted to me in English and he gave me his cookies.
I must have looked really hungry, because the other gentleman offered to give
me his as well.
Unfortunately,
nothing interesting happened during my journey via TGV.
When I
arrived to Angers,
there was already a small group of students from other countries - two Croatian
girls, a fellow Czech girl, a boy from Malaysia and a Spanish girl. We were picked up and accompanied to the dorms by two
awesome and super sweet French students, who have been really helpful, even
though we keep pestering them with annoying questions and requests.
Here are
some pics of my room. It’s certainly unusual. Especially the bathroom is very
futuristic. (I certainly hope I won’t live to see this kind of future though.)
After getting used to our
cells, trying to persuade the fridge to not just get super warm outside, but
also at least a tiny bit cold inside and asking if we could get any pillows and
being told we should have brought ours, we decided (that is, the Spanish girl
and me) to go out and get a dinner, because we were sick of sandwiches, which
is the only thing you can buy at Sunday in Relay shops. We found a nice
restaurant and ordered some pasta, which was delicious but the portions were
way too big and I tried L’eau de sirop violette as my drink. It tasted
basically like a bubblegum lye. I know I look like a ----- ---- in these pictures, the light is horrible and so is my regime.
Skirt: New Yorker
Cardigan: H&M
Pumps: Mixer
Necklace: inherited
Bracelets: Bijou Brigitte, second hand
Bag: Carpisa
Afterwards,
we went around the city for a bit. Everything was closed, but there seem to be
some major sales going on. One of the first shops we encountered was an otaku
and japanophilic paradise. I promise to go check it out later. I also took some
pics of pretty buildings and parks which I plan to explore later on.
The most
adventurous thing today was actually getting back to the dorms. You can go
there with several bus lines - 1d, 4 and 6. Seems pretty cool, right? However,
4 and 6 don’t go on Sundays. 1d comes only twice an hour after 9 p.m. and only
once after 10 p.m. and then it stop until morning. We sat at the bus stop,
waiting for the first 9 p.m. bus. It didn’t come. Since that’s something one is
used to from Prague,
we waited for the next one. We were pretty nervous (and cold) though and my
companion noticed a tiny yellow poster stating (in French) that on Sunday 1st
of July, the bus goes through a closure of traffic and we have to go to a
different station. We run there only to see the second 9 p.m. bus leave. So we
waited for an hour, praying the last one would really come. It did, which was
awesome, but we got lost about 10 meters from the bus stop. Fortunately, it
seems that no one has a worse sense of orientation than me, so she figured out
which way to go. I tried to consult google maps, but the disgustingly expensive
and unfair travel and surf T-mobile package refused to work. Awesome.
Anyway, we
got back safe, sound and probably tired enough to sleep well even without a
pillow.
Here is a
bonus picture of the mags I bought to shorten my 4 hours long waiting for the
TGV.
Yours truly
Vita
It reminds me of my journey to Ireland, I went there on my own and it was the first time I flew by plane. You experiences sound like real adventure :D You look sweet. I wish you good luck to other days!
ReplyDeleteThank you! Wow, I'd love to go to Ireland as well...
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ReplyDeleteso nice! I really like your room actually :) is it a students' dorm? I'm gonna look up rssa in my university;)
ReplyDeleteYes, it is. :) I've gotten used to it, so now I kinda like it as well...
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