Welcome to the House of Wax – not the Paris Hilton scary one

This weekend was quite exciting!

On the Friday, a friend and I went rock climbing. This was my second time rock climbing (as last week my host mom and I went on the wrong night, but the French people were so nice that they still let us climb the wall for free) so I felt comfortable downing 3 glasses of wine at an aperitif my host mom and I went to. I wasn’t driving – which was what the party guests told me, so hence why it was ok for me to drink that much. The wine really worked in my favour! I wasn’t afraid of the heights whatsoever! I just felt awesome – like Spiderman!

                                    “Spiderman, Spiderman

He can do what no one can

Oh yeah, here comes the spiderman”  - My version of the spiderman song, and yes I am too lazy to look for the actual lyrics of the song.

And the people there were so wonderful – French people are very nice, contrary to popular stereotypes; as long as you are outside of Paris.

The next day was quite exciting as we went to see the Hunger Games movie! I’ve been receiving loads of snapchats and updated statuses on facebook about people going to see it, and so I of course have as well. Let’s just say I can’t get “Are you coming to the tree” out of my head – aka IT WAS AWESOME!

We also did some shopping – aka lots of money spent (no, not on me) – but at least I have a Christmas gift for everyone back home (except for the cheese and wine – that’ll have to be last minute purchases).

The next day my friend and I hit up the christmas market at Champs-Elysee where I bought more Christmas gifts....

....and then I dragged my friend out to a meet-up that was happening in Paris. We met some really nice people, it was really nice to change up the scenery of people. After our little aperitif (I’ve been to several of these now; verdict: French people love wine; “Quelle surprise!”) we headed to Musée Grévin, which is the Parisian wax museum. While it did not have the largest amounts of celebrities as I am sure the American wax museums have, it was still fascinating. In one day I met my favourite artist of all time Stromae, I became a child of Bragenlina, I tried to blend in with the “crowd”, I refamiliarized myself with Einstein’s theory of relativity, after which we took a selfie to celebrate our wisdom, and then I met Putin. 

And now thanks to Lina I have 100+ awesome songs to download, which I wasn’t able to do today as our internet in the house wasn’t working…. that’s what you get when you live in the middle of no where; I know this feeling too well as it’s the same problem back home. At least I am almost done the Game of Throne books, cannot wait for the new season to start up again as I’ll finally won’t be in the dark about who dies and who lives – I am still recovering from the “crushed head fiasco”.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Last week I went to a chocolate festival thingy at Vaux le Vicomte - a beautiful castle in Melun.

Now while I do not like chocolate (pause for shocked silence/ comments of "you're not a real woman" and "how can this be") I still really enjoyed my time. I did try the white chocolate, and some of the milk chocolate. I also bought some chocolate for peeps back home... I hope it's good.

Clowning around in Germany.

Welcome to Germany, where 50% of the population speaks Russian. It was so wonderful, while I could not communicate with people in their foreign language I could still communicate with them in something other than English. 

Getting to Germany was a breeze. Although my ears have never hurt so much during landing.

My first impression of Germany: “wow this country is so clean!”. Seriously it was spotless! Although they could make their transport a little cheaper… seriously 30 euros for a train ticket for a whole day! Compare that to France prices, which are 9 euros for the whole day (maximum 16 euros if you are over 25) – this is all within a region; I don’t even want to know how expensive it would be to travel in Germany into different regions.

My first trip was to Düsseldorf. That was where I landed so my friend – whom I met while au paring in France – thought it was a good idea to stay there and explore. The city was very nice. We went on a spinny wheel thing (not sure how to call it, but it’s a mini version of the London Eye) so we could see the city from a view.

The day after was Halloween! Yes a got to spend this wonderful day in Germany. Although first my friend and I explored Paderborn – a small student village “ish”. We did visit a beautiful church. 

Getting ready for Halloween was nice and easy considering I had packed all I was going to wear – the beauty of travelling all your outfits are ready for you. Guess what I went as.

We went out to a German student house party, which was awesome. Confetti was everywhere – thanks to me, but no one has to know that.

Party was amazing, people I met where even better! I had a lot of fun, I don’t believe I’ve yet had this much fun going out in Europe. I can’t wait to come back to Germany!

The next day, after sleeping in for quite some time, my friend and I headed of to Köln (pronounced Cologne in English), which is one of my favourite cities so far! It even has a bridge with locks, similar to the one in Paris. Cologne is a beautiful city, I wish I could go back.

All in all, my time in Germany was fantastic, I really enjoyed the new places and the lovely people I’ve met.

Also a new post on chocolate will come soon.. maybe tomorrow. The more things that have happened to me that I haven’t posted yet the lazier I am to write about them.