Monday, August 27, 2007

I'm back!!

I'm back from my vacation! We were in Cologne, then in South Germany, but the weather was bad, so we drove straight to the alps, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Then we drove to Freiburg, in Germany, and attended the wedding of a friend of mine - here are some pictures of the alps!!




cows in a clearing on the mountain - you hear them from far away, they all have bells.




view of the Rhine Valley between Liechtenstein and Switzerland



cute little house in the mountain - we had a beer here on the way down...




the trail close to the top...



view from the top - it was kinda scary and really windy - but hey, I made it up to 2000 meters... The whole hike was 1,2 km upwards and took about 3 hours.



this is me sitting on the border between Liechtenstein and Austria.



cute little door on the trail




Vaduz, capital of Liechtenstein ( has about 5 000 inhabitants - the whole country has 30 000)


This is our little group before leaving for the wedding:





and here we are with the happy couple.

It was a great, albeit short vacation. And a great wedding. I had fun!

Thursday, August 16, 2007

ON VACATION!

Well, I'm off to COlogne to spend the weekend with the bf's family and then we're driving to south Germany, the black forest, the alps, etc. On the 25th friends of mine are getting married in Freiburg im Breisgau.

Be nice! I'll be back around August 27th!

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Just because it's SO CUTE!!!




I have nothing to apologise for, but this was just too cute!

Friday, August 10, 2007

Bachelorette party

We had my friend's bachelorette party on saturday. It was my first ever, so I can't really say if they're different than what we have in Canada, but this is how it went.

We surprised our friend with a pick nick in the park. We were eight girls, had oppened a bottle of the bubbly stuff and were wearing these really cute head bands with hearts on them - she really laughed when she saw this. Then, we got her really drunk and then told her she actually had a mission to accomplish - she had a "letter" from the heavenly council, and she is the lucky winner of a place on cloud 9. The only thing is, she has to finance her way there. She is awaited on August 25th (wedding day). Then, we gave her a basket full of stuff she had to sell on the street to men (home made cherry and chocolate muffins) and we dressed her up as an angel (it was really funny, she had golden wings and all). Since she was really drunk, she seemed to have no inhibitions at all, and not only sold all the muffins, but also all the fruit we had brought along and one of our headbands for a grand total of 50 euros!!

This financed the second part of the evening. We went to the Ballhaus in Berlin Mitte, which is a cool bar where you can dance, and they also serve food. They mostly played eighties music and my friend kept her angel cosutme on - it was really funny. After a few hours of dancing and drinking we then went on to another smaller cosy bar where the waiter offered us cherry vodka shots on the house...

I was tired on sunday!!

But I still went kayaking with the bf on the Tegel Lake, which was great.

Yesterday I discovered a new location close to my home - on top of a mall close to my appartment, they turned the roof top parking deck into a beach bar - complete with palm trees and sand. Last night I went there with the boyfriend to watch the sun set, barefoot in the sand. It was really cool, and there were so many planes taking off from Tegel airport. I wonder if any were leaving for Montreal...

The results are in!!!

I got my results for 4 out of 5 exams....


(drum roll)

Well 2 of them were "A"s and two were "A+"s


yahoo!!!!!!!!!

Happy dance...

Wednesday, August 01, 2007

The waiting game

By this morning, yesterday's euphoria had worn off. Dancing alone in your living room is fun, but waking up and having breakfast alone? Not so much.

I also have to wait a couple of weeks before I get the results of my exams, and even though I know they can't possibly be there yet, I still am already checking on the university's website...

I am one impatient little person!