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So blogs finally caught up with me...I don't really know why I'm starting it, maybe out of loneliness...Living and studying in Strasbourg can be quite lonely finally, that is not to say that I don't meet people, I don't go out etc-I do all of that, but I miss a lot Athens, my family , my friends. I never thought I 'd say that, last time i studied in France, I was soooo happy all the time, I wanted to stay there forever!Maybe because I was erasmus...Studying for a Masters isn't the same I guess, plus a really difficult period has preceeded, maybe I hadn't fully "recovered":P

One of the greatest problems for starting my blog was the language:english, french or greek?Obviously greek wouldn't be very practical, too little people could understand what I'm writing about. French would be the reasonable option, since I am studying, talking, even thinking in french this year. It is an absolute chaos in my head, those 3 languages combined...I ended up with english I don't know why, I guess trying to make my blog even more "universal".
French people still think that everyone should be able to speak, write and understand in their language, but I think that they are not fully aware of the fact that their language doesn't have anymore the place in the international community it used to have.I wonder how much until they finally get it...
Don't get me wrong, I love everything french, but I find it really stupid not to be able to communicate in any other language than your own. How is it possible that 23 year old students in human rights can't speak or understand nothing else than french?Haven't they ever come across foreign bibliography throughout their studies?I don't ask about watching american films, because I know first hand that everything here is dubbed, I think this is the right word(meaning not subtitled, but eg you hear Tom Cruise speak in french in the movies...).
I have started liking living here-after 2 1/2 months, it took me quite long-though I don't want to do it forever, until June/July max. I like my small habits, turning on the computer a soon as I get up and then turning on the boiler for my morning coffee...I love riding my bicycle, it's the first time in my adult life I have a bike and it is actually useful, not just for exercise or for promenades, I take it to go to classes or downtown, t's the ultimate experience of Strasbourg for me! I like the fact that I can stay for hours in front of my vaio, browsing the intenret, without being distracted.I like filling my fridge with vegetabes and fruits and finally losing weight!OK from time to time there is a bar of dark chocolate or a pot nutella that enters the house (and they disappear in the blink of an eye unfortunately) but in all I manage to eat very healthy, very little meat/rice/pasta/sweets/bread, lots of vegetables, strong black coffe throughout the day...I am living the images I had in my mind before coming here!I love my small pink cyclamine, my boiler, my cafetière that I bought at IKEA as almost everything in my room, my printer, the small magnets on my fridge, the fotos on my wall...
Living alone and far from my family is surely quite lonely, but there are aspects I just love. Most important is that I finally learn how to spend money, I am not perfect yet, but I think I am getting a much clearer view of how expensive life can be or inexpensive if u r smart about it. It's a pity that I had to reach the age of 24 to do that, but blame the greek family (also) who doesn't encourage u to leave, to find a job and start making it on ur own. I'm not complaining, they have given me everything and even more, but I don't know if I would like my children to be as irresponsible as I used to be with money.I think I want to teach them the value of money and making it with ur proper means in an earlier age...
What else do I love?I love my subscription to the economist, finally forcing myself to read something else than cosmopolitan(in terms of weekly or monthly press, ofcourse I read serious books:P) and discovering that I actually like it! I like the book besides my bed, I bought it in the beginning of summer but never managed to read more than 20 pages. I am continuing reading it and it goes easily, I hope to finish it before holidays! I like my recycling bag, I am recycling at last and not just because my mother is doing it, I like my small box with sugars in different shapes, I like my essence burning...thing, my laundry bag!
What don't I like? I don't like that when I'm feeling lonely it's hard to find someone to talk to and almost impossible to find someone who understands you...I wish I had found persons that I am more compatible with.I wish I hadn't stayed in the beginning between the greeks. I wish some of my friends in Greece would remeber more often of me. I wish my ex hadn't started dating a "friend"of mine. I wish ...