"Come with me, my love, to the sea, the sea of love."

Bonjour!

It's 4:26am as I'm writing this, and I should be heading to sleep (going to Aix-En-Provence in the morning!). But as per my New Years Resolution (that I decided on recently), I plan to do something creatively constructive everyday, whether it's blogging, learning a language, or learning something new on Photoshop. Shouldn't be as hard as previous years' resolutions that went by unexpected (such as going to the gym more often haha)!

So to continue about Marseille.....

The 4th day I was in Marseille, I went to an orientation at my school, where I met the people that I spend everyday now! There were many people from Canada, US, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Hong Kong, Poland, Greece, Lithuania, Finland, India, and more...




















On the 2nd day of orientation, we took a tour around the city, and visited many of the famous places. Unfortunately, the weather was horrible and the photos didn't turn out that nice (I will upload to Picasaweb later).

On the day after orientation ended, we visit the Calanques, which was beautiful! (wiki on calanques: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calanque) There we had a local cake where there are pieces of crown-related thing inside, and those who got the pieces get the crown and be king for.....a short while. Better than nothing I guess! haha

































This is it for now, more pictures/information to come later!

"I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl."

Hey all!

Haven't posted in a long long time, but thought I should keep a running log of my time here in Southern France. The first few days, admittedly were tough, as I was all alone for real for the first time in Europe. I left on January 5th (Saturday), and departed first to Paris for a stopover to Marseille.

My first impression of Marseille was admittedly, a little unimpressed, as the northern side of the city is quite filled with graffiti everywhere, and some houses were old and run-down. However, the further I got into the city, the nicer the surroundings were. After waiting at the train station for a few hours to go to my hostel, I was way too tired and passed out for the rest of the day (stayed awake for about 24 hours!).




The next day, I met with INTERACT, the group that greets all the international students to Euromed Marseille (no the "med" in the name doesn't mean medical, but mediterranean! for the people that gave me confused looks when I said Euromed). I arrived at my residence a few hours later.

With that said......I'll leave the entry here for now, sleep is more important!