A working life
Archive for January, 2009
AX-LES-THERMES
Jan 31st
The action of the day happened as I had some turns (fantastic by the way) in some semi-rotten powder snow. I managed to drive the front-end of the snowboard into the snow and tipped over. Three “summer vaults” later I stopped, luckily I was all right … But my backpack wasn’t. My companion through many years was torn apart during the fall.
My dead backpack. RIP
I didn’t notice this until I had continued a few meters, therefore Kristian and the others had to return on a rescue mission to pick up a shoe and a sock that had fallen out during my tumbling. Really sad about the backpack, but luckily I got a suitable replacement for Christmas!
I’m not going to write much, I will just show a few pictures taken today:
Synnøve, Fie, Malena and I on our way in the skilift!
The view from the highest mountain top was amazing!
PS. I have been quoted online for the first time in my life today. Mia Holte, a Norwegian webdesigner used my point of view on webdesign as a part of her article on the subject (in Norwegian). Not much, but I find it a bit fun :)
Oh well …
I hope you all have had a great weekend so far! Until next time!
SKIING
Jan 31st
Therefore I’ve been pretty messed up all day using coffee actively to get through it. The presentation went ok, not too much fuzz. I was the one who said the least, but that’s normal in this country. I hope the teachers liked my pictures. I’ll post the result (my photos) of the course when I get Jean’s USB key on Monday.
Saturday is skiing day this week! We’re leaving from the metro station Faculté de pharmacie at 06:00:00 tomorrow morning!
It’s going to be great!
MY PHOTOGRAPHY COURSE
Jan 29th
I can unfortunately not say that I’ve learned very much new, but I have refreshed my memory with the basics. I found the lesson with the history of photography interesting the first 30 minutes, but when we got to picture 100 to talk about, explain and destroy with talking I’d had it.
Another fun incident was how the architect explained how a sensor works, it was a quite interesting (and not very correct explanation) of how how he had understood electrons to fly around – or something (Yes there are electrons that get exited by photons, but not in the way the teacher explained). His polarization filters also works a bit differently than all the other polarization filters I know … Oh well :)
Today, Wednesday we finished a bit earlier, around 16h. I managed to join Malena, Fadia, Annika, Synnøve, Joao, Roberto, Kristian, Kristofer and Joao to see a movie. We wanted to see the one about Che, but only the second part was shown. Instead we saw Revolutionary Road with Kate Winslet and Leonardo Di Caprio. Not a favourite.
Annika, Synnøve, Roberto and (sneaky) Fadia after enjoying GREAT vegitarian food
Everyone except Kristofer (going to guitar practice) went to “Annika’s” vegetarian restaurant. 12€ for a buffét, we love the place! The group split, Kristian, Joao and I went to meet Nina, Geir, Cate and Thomas (visiting from England) and have a nice cup of tea. We made it back at 23h before the metro closed.
The tea drinkers are Geir, Cate and Thomas
A long day in other words, but really fun!
Tomorrow it’s “grêve générale” in France, meaning that most people are striking. This means no photography course for me (!) and no public transportation. I have still set my mind to go Carrefour’ing, so I’m going to borrow a bike to get there (my beauty has a flat tire).
Good night everyone!
A REFRESHING WIND
Jan 27th
Friday:
FX and I got through our last presentation. During lunch there was a weird ambiance in the school restaurant (RU) because of plenty of “seniors” who had their final day. They had all dressed up and some had already drunk a alot! Hilarious!
Fifth graders having fun and alcohol in the RU
Friday was Boom night! Synnøve and I went to say goodbye to Mélodie who’s leaving for Mexico the second semester. Then we went to Malena’s apéro (pre-party) where we met all the other Erasmus! I finally got to pop my 18€ champagne bottle. It was the perfect occation, as the first semester is over! The bad, stressed out feeling was like blown away!
A really good Boom party! Lots of dancing and fun!
Saturday:
I got home around 05h. Around 07h30 I woke up because of heavy wind banging my window shades. After doing my laundry (and starting to read Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons) I went to centre ville where I got the Médiathèque card. It gives me free entrance to several museums in Toulouse and four sport events (football or rugby). The wind that banged my window shades had done a lot of damage to Toulouse. Amongst the destruction I saw, a shop’s huge window was destroyed in centre ville, there was glass everywhere! When I got back I saw that a few roof tiles had fallen of my residence’s roof onto the pavement :S Several HUGE trees on campus had fallen down, one crushing a car, others bending thick metal fences.
Luckily, the tree fell away from the house!
Sunday:
We initially thought about using our free Cité de l’éspace ticket, but found out that it was closed. Instead we (Nina, Fie, Cate, Geir, Kristian, Joao and I) visited Musée des Augustins before we had a delicious but expensive lunch outdoors! Not bad for the end of January!
Roman columns in Musée des Augustins
17th century art at Musée des Augustins
Fie, Joao, Geir, Cate, Nina and Kristian enjoying appel Pie, cheese cake, lemon pie, chocolate cake 1&2, rasberry & pistache cake AND crunchy mush cake! Loved it!
Then we went for an afternoon cinema session, again with free tickets, watching Slumdog Millionaire. I really liked it, recommendations are hereby given!
Photo: Wikipedia.org
Monday:
The first day of “Semaine CREDIGE” or “Semainte inter-semestre”, which for me means an intensive week of Module d’overture. My course is Photography and digital post processing, a subject I have plenty of interest in. The first day consisted of lots of theory, most of which I already knew, and some history. Tomorrow, Tuesday, we’re starting to take photos ourselves and playing around with Photoshop!
I went to Claire’s goodbye party, she’s leaving for Berlin on Thursday. That means my primary helper in school is disappearing. Thank you very much for the help and have fun in Berlin!
So, a “short” summing up is over, thank you for reading! See you around for the next post!
FREEDOM
Jan 23rd
Today we celebrated Roberto’s (Columbia) birthday! Happy birthday! I joined the others in a party in Roberto’s room. We counted about 35 people in his 9m^2 mansion! It really feels great to once again be in good health AND to have time for spare time! It’s so much fun to finally be with the others again. It really feels like I’ve lost two weeks of our precious time, simply because of exams and sickness (specially with the ones leaving after the first semester. Johannes being the first).
Ooh. It’s one o’clock and I should get some sleep. I’ll add some images from the birthdayparty. Enjoy and Good night!
Tiago’s awesome cup (Secret Santa present)
Kristofer re-appeared in an intimate concert with his “Goodbye” song. The crowds went wild to this soon-to-be classic.
It was crowded. Roberto front right. Synnøve, me and Susana in the back. Happy birthday!
Oh by the way. I came across a weird “social” service called Plinky. Had to try. Something to try! The plot is to share your answer to an asked question. You can check it out at Plinky.com or look at my fresh profile here. :)
Again: Good night!
