It is the 4th n final week of our stay in Paris n i knew i will dread leaving France. It is like, everytime i enter a foreign country, i alwas hold back some of my feelings coz i noe sooner or later, i will have to leave e country. But this time, i cannot help but feel like a Parisian after staying here for a month. Paris has its charm tat is indescribable,esp after u noe both e good n bad parts of Paris. It was actualli scary tat i got used to e urine smell in Gare De Lyon n not hold my breath at all.
This feeling was so bad tat i did not even had e desire to explore France anymore. france is so big n yet a month is not enuff. I had a day free of euro travel free coz i did not get caught on e train when i entered Nice. even when i left Nice, i almoz did not get caught. but i did not use it n juz spend e days mostly in Chatelet slacking ard n daydreaming. It was fun juz sitting at e central fountains of chatelet looking at e pple moving to n fro.
E final week of sch was also exam day. it went fine, with INt obviously trying to pass us. i think i did pretty ok n found myself enjoying e french oral test even. i am truely grateful for e lessons INT gave us as they had been enjoyable to say e least. my interest in e french language grew n i made a point to learn french once i get rid of my mess in spore first. tat nite, we went clubbing. e locals there were rather bold as they attacked e girls aggressively. it is a culture shock for me to c them so feirce. one of them was dancing so close behind a sporean friend tat e gap was less than a finger tip. i "danced" with her n pulled her away from him, n i tot e incident would be over. NO. behaving like he was on drugs, he simply went to another friend juz next to e first target n did e same attack. this tiem all i could do was open my mouth n ponder over his directness n boldness. well, Chris , a haiwaian friend of ours was also in his flirt mode, as he seperate away from us to go hook up e french girls in e bar. it was quite fun, but i think we were like a rock there,a bit stoned compared to e rest.
E highlight of e week was obviousli bastille Day, whihc was france national day. e parade was in Champs Elysee. with mainly m,ilitary vehicles passing by. we went shopping after tat n i took e chance to draw money for e upcoming trip to austria n italy. was stressed e whole day carrying 500 euros e whole time. ate quite a number of macclourons(spelt obviously wrongli) along e way n bought a zara pair of jeans. tat evening, we joined many pple to further celebrate bastille day under e effiel tower. there was a huge concert there with many famous singers singing. quite a special moment but a little too squeezy. been there, i somehow miss e times in spore in my jc days tat nite whereby me n some jc friends were fooling ard n dancing at e music of ofuntain at suntec. man those days. at midnite was e moment we were waiting for, a full 45 mins display of music. the fireworks at e effiel tower was a good way to commerate e end of our stay in France.
after tat was e moz exciting moment of our GSS stay- reaching INT on time to take our luggage n rush to e airport on time for our trip to rome. dun forget it was super packed n e unreliable french railway system,anxiety is a factor we cannot avoid. talk abt stress. it does not help tat our group later broke up into 3 different groups due to human traffic. also things did not look even more promising as e station was closed. we had to squeeze on to e next station at INvalids, hoping tat it would be open.
along e way,some blacks tried to hook up with helen n took picture with her. Helen was freaking out. it was highli unlikely they were sincer abt making friends hence i followed my instinct n grabbed her by e hand n pulled her away, n giving a silly grin to e blacks. i was relieved they never followed up as i was vulnerable,not forgeting my 500 euros in my pocket. probably e worse day to draw so much money,n i did. must not tell my parents abt it. e invalids station turned out to be open n it was soon clear my group will make it b on time. we started worrying abt e rest hu split up with us. after all, we all need to gather eventualli to head to e airport. another sleepless nite with so much worries. when we board e last train to evry at Juvisy, we saw Shaun n jiajun dashing to e train n juz making it on time. yes! they were running n e train door closed after tat. talk abt amazing race! later we realised tat wei shiong n harold managed to squeeze through e train as well.
to italy! tired n we cannot afford to feel tired for next few days.
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