hmm,adress: Champs Elysée...doesn't sound too bad!

I visited an appartement this morning, at Rue Washington. It's a street crossing champs elysée. It's an old couple that has a flat on the 4th floor, and they also own a 5th floor which is connected to their appartement, but it has it's own entrance.
It's really cozy. It has a real kitchen, a bathroom, with a bathtub, but there is also a shower, so no queus! There's a german girl living there and a french guy.
The landlord said that if I was interested in the room he would stop the visits.
So monday morning I have a meeting with my bank, to discuss papers regarding caution and all that.
I really hope everything works out. If I can live there, I wouldn't really complain. I mean I would literaly live 2 seconds from Champs Elysée, and it's really calm.
The landlord is really funny, it's an old couple. I got my unexpected coughing attack and he asked me what I wanted, I said water would be just fine, but he got so stressed and all he could find was a bottle of wine next to him so he poured me a glass of wine and said " hmm, this could do well too you know"
Anyways, now im just wondering what I'm gonna do theese 2 next months...live ont he street?

Race problems

I don't think I have ever talked to so many anonymous racists as I've had this past month...I never hear anyone saying racist comments even as a joke when I'm in Sweden. but here OMG, I get to see a racist France, and it's not pretty, it's not necessarily to me it's mostly to black people, but it doesn't matter, it's kind of disturbing and shocking, and I don't even know how to respond to it. If they think they are being funny, they are wrong, because I seriously don't get the fun part of it!
I decided to go to the swedish church the other day, I wanted to look for appartement ads. Of course most of the ads on the bulletin boeard was from people that was looking for appartements and not renting it out. BUT I found this guy that said he had a room. There was no phonenumber, just an email adress. He responds to my email by writing

"attention, je ne veux pas de personne couleur africain ou cameroun.."

I was stunned. So I didn't respond to his email. Then I get an email from him saying he was waiting downstairs for me to come and visit. And I write him back and said I never confirmed the visit and that I was disturbed by his email. Then he says:

"If you are swedish or asian it's fine, as long as you have white skin!"

HUH???!! Like that's gonna help!
And the funny part is, his french is much worse than mine!
I'm feeling weird....

gingertea+toast

I'm going on my autumn diet now when I feel slightly rusty.
I bought this amazing ginger tea in a chinese store. It doesn't taste very good, but what do you expect, it's ginger.
I'm just looking forward to an afternoon where I can spend in my bed watching a stupid tv-show and just drink gingertea and have toast with honey and cinnamon....
Today is the last day of Salon de Marriage, I love going through Bois de Vincennes now when all the leaves have different colours, green, yellow, orange, red. I just love FALL!
My vacation is starting in 24h...And I'm looking forward to be doing all the homework we have, but on my own rythm. Although I'm a bit afraid I'm going to shoot everything up til last minute...NO, I can't!

Salon de Marriage

This is the fashionshow of Salon de Marriage, which me and some friends from the class are helping out with.


The world is very tiny! Laetitia and me went to Ballet Junior in Geneva together, and just by coincidence we're finding each other at the same fashionshow...

A long evening

Yesterday me and Adrien went to see Ruban Blanc, a very dark movie.

We were walking down the street and saw a 2 seat couch by Place de Clichy. We sat down, watched the people pass by, We ordered Pizza. Then we decided to take the coach with us. In the metro. Lucky there are nice and helpful people in Paris, to help us lifting it up over the grill.
So now we have a two-seat couch, for free!

courage! J-1

I haven't been sleeping for 2 weeks now, all I look forward to is vacation!
It starts friday evening, although we have A LOT of work during the vacation, I'm just looking forward to be able to sleep until 11 and then work in my own rythm.
This weekend I'm assisting a bridal fashionshow. Although it is going to be interesting I was looking forward to be sleeping this weekend.
Appartement searching is going soso. We visited a nice appartement this evening, we thought we had it, until a couple of families and another man came to visit the same evening. So we'll just have to wait and see.
I need to continue working for the TEXTIL class tomorrow.

huff! It's amazing how little you can have luck on your side...

This day have been no more than a waste of time.
During the pause I ran to the art supply store to get a white board. I felt a bit stressed because it was during lunch and I didn't have my breakfast so I really wanted to have a calm lunch.
You know how when you get to the cashierpoint, you have two cashiers on each side, and you don't really know which one to choose...
Well this lady before me had like 50 markers up on the counter, and I was about to say "well the cashier is not gonna tic every single o.....when she started to register each single marker, and continued.
So I changed cashier, and this lady was as fast as a dead snail. I couldn't believe it, and she really had to be superpolite to the lady infront, helping her with her bag and waiting until she was gone before she started to take my stuff. "
3,50€, s'il vous plaît" I take up my card and she goes: No c'est trop peu.
URGH!! No sign in the store there is a card limit WTF....she shows me where the nearest ATM machine is, I run over to the other side of the street, have 2 cars beeping at me because I was about a milimeter away from my own death!
I reach the ATM machine store and it says: PAS DISPONIBLE
OK!...
I ask 2 women about the closest ATM machine, they don't know.
I see a small Societé General sign far away, I go there and I wait for a while for the traffic light to turn green and finaly it does, I stand in line to the ATM, and I see a BNP banque across the street, yey I cross the street again, and I finaly get my money.
I run back to the art store, stressed and everybody looks at me like I'm the most evil person in the world. I ask about my stuff that their colleague put aside for me, and they go "well, you should know where she put it!" huh?? Well, ok, i'm not even gonna go there bitches...
I pay, I show my student ID card to get my 15% reduction, the lady behind the cashier take a long look at our handmade student card(seriously the school could make a bit more effort to make us real cards...)
I run back to class and arrive just in time, and I have a banana for lunch!

Our TEXTILE teacher has a bit of a hard time explaining to us what we're doing, which makes us not very concentrated in class. No one is prepared with the right materials and so on. Which causes us, tired in the afternoon walking around in the studio talking instead, I think she got pretty tired of us, but I have to say it's not totaly our fault. This class is apparently new, and our year is the first one that has this subject, probably why it's a bit vague. So not being productive in class leads to even more HOMEWORK!!! ugfh....I feel like my eyes are popping out soon...very soon...

First model we have to hand in

I sat up the whole night last night making my "thing" for the modelisme class.
As I've mentioned we had to make a top out of 3 XL t-shirts and the theme was gathers.
So my first top that I've showed you wasn't at all in the theme, and my teacher Tuan said that it just didn't have anything to do with what we we're doing...I seriously felt hopeless.
So last night I spent 7h coming up with this thing...:P

drawing of american apparel window

A missinterpreted week :(

All work I've been returning this week has been just bad, when I've been looking on my grades...
I seem to think my work is pretty good, then when I get to school there's always something I have forgotten or missunderstood, and it's driving me nuts! I guess that's for going to a school in a country with a foreign language. But I also think the teachers are a bit bad with explaining what they really want, because even the french kids don't get 100% of what we're suppose to hand in every week.
Right now, I'm just overwhelmed with work, I can't even think clearly. It's really fun, and I'm learning so much new stuff, new techniques which I love, It's great, It's just a lot a lot!
And this weekend I'm suppose to work at Cojean both saturday and sunday :P Stupid SALE!

An Angel In My Room

So the mannequin is what I've been working on. That is the 3 t-shirts I got from TATI.
I'm not done yet, but soon. I'm saving some things to do, because we are suppose to finish it after class on tuesday, so I can't be doing the whole thing at home.

Nuit Blanche

Its Nuit Blanche right now. And not Nuit Blanche because you're in a cool gallery or museum looking at art. No, Nuit Blanche, because you're tired but yet you can't sleep because your exited, stressed and slightly panicked and overwhelmed to say the least. I was suppose to sleep, to get up early in the morning tomorrow and try to be productive, but that's not the case right now because I'm way too exited and stressed at the same time.
Antonin (classmate) told me his grandmother had a studio she is renting out in Levallois, and it's free at the moment, so I would be soo happy if I could move there.
And then Tomoko wrote me to say she has 2 passes for the fashion tradeshow Premiere Classe. It's been fashion week in Paris this past week.
Me, Antonin, Charles and Victoria tried to get in friday, but it didn't really work. Then we had organized ourselves to go and draw mannequins, but the addresses Emanuelle (our style/illustration teacher) gave us, were either wrong, or the boutique didn't have any mannequins, or we could just draw from like a 10m distance! So we all agreed it was an unsuccessful afternoon. Anyways, so the question is who I'm gonna take with me to the Premiere Classe since I only have 2 passes...
And in the middle of all the mess, things I need to do if I move:
Change my adress for everything I'm in contract with: cellphone, banque, school. Change insurance, get assurance d'habitation, get money back from my last assurance d'habitation.
Get a NEUF/Free BOX :P
Can't believe I'll have to deal with them myself. After been having so much trouble with the internet last summer I was hoping I would never ever have to deal with them again. But I guess you should never say never...

I've been working on my drawings for illustration class. As I said, it's hard to work with ink, if you don't really know what you're doing...I've never liked to work with it, but here I'm forced to do it, so I'm posting one that I thought turned out OK.