On and on and on and on

Some pictures from the time that my Finnish friend was hanging out here.

One Monday (or doomsday) we went to Ayers Rock, which is an Australian bar here.

Because it happened to be his last night here, I wanted to buy us some kick ass drinks and these ones were called Long Beach Ice Tea. Well I maybe shouldn't have gotten these because the night didn't end too well haha.

We also met some of my Spanish friends there :)

The night of the Four Year Strong we went to this weird ass rock club I'd been to before and we played some table football. That was so much fun! It was raining, hence the hair.

We also made the compulsory visit to Parc de la Tête D'Or and for the first time ever I saw the leopard up close and how beautiful is that thing! Could I get a cat like this plz? Anyone?


Some photos of my fav animals.


Cutie :)

So I've totally lost track of what I have and haven't blogged about. Our Finnish friend from Spain is visiting us this week and we went out last night and the whole night was such a huge disaster I'm not kidding. We ended up taking a cab around 4a.m. after a long walk in the freezing weather. Lately this whole country has sucked big time. I hope it gets better soon and I can go back to enjoying my life.

A week ago we had lots of snow and Wednesday it was +18'c. Is that considered normal?!

What the fuck have I become?

So during the vacation I visited a safari park that is about 70km away from Lyon. The park is called Le Safari de Peaugres and it's cool because at first you take a car route where you can see the animals walking right there outside your car (really cool) and then you take a longer route on foot where most of the animals are in enclosures. A ticket to the park costs 14,50€ which wasn't really that much in my opinion considering the price level of France.

So first here is the car route part.

One question: WTF is this?? A donkey with striped legs?

For reference, here are the real zebras that by the way I was really excited to see. I don't really like horses or animals looking like horses but zebras are just way too cool not to like!

I don't know what this is either but they were just lying there in the middle of the road and didn't really mind if you tried to get them to move (the car vs. the.. umm thing?).

Emus! Do they really eat all the time?

Bears were lying on the road as well.

I was very excited because I got to see my favourite animal ever: african elephant! They are so cool.

The polar bear wasn't too excited though. But I was really happy to see one of those too because I think I've never seen one before.

Pumba! I loved that one, he was there with the elephants running around ridiculously fast haha.

So that was the end of the car route. I also saw deers, buffalos, a baby zebra etc etc during the car route but I was too lazy to take pics of all of them.

Pelican. Those are so cool.

I liked the penguins too even though they were these small ones that I've already seen in the London Zoo. Seems like animals are way more active on the other side of the globe (reference point: the polar bear). Does someone know in which zoo you could see the real emperor penguins or do they just have those in Antarctica? I'd really like to see them.

This was the house of the reptiles. Pretty thing.

A crocodile. As lazy as always.

A python, eww. I'm not really afraid of snakes but they just disgust me so bad I don't know why. There's just something about not having feet...

Bats! These were so cool, scary and HUGE at the same time. I really hope not ever coming across one in real life.

Umm I don't know what these are in English or Finnish but the French word for these is 'otarie'. Some kind of seals? Well anyway these were really cool and they had their own show a bit like the dolphins have in Särkänniemi. It's really funny how they can walk with that tail.

These I absolutely loved! I don't know the name for these either so I prefer to call them Madagascar animals. They were freely running around, jumping from tree to tree and so on. It was so funny when they were running around us.

Timon! These are so funny too. Seems like I managed to see at least one half of the cast of Lion King there. I also saw Rafiki (I guess I forgot to take pics of the monkeys because they kind of freak me out) and some other animals as well. I didn't take photos of the lions itself for some reason. Oh and I saw the cutest little monkey there! It was the size of a rat so cuuute.

Tigers.

And a snow leopard (?). That's about it. They had loads of other animals as well but I was a pretty lazy photographer that day and I guess this was enough anyway.

I just laughed so hard haha. The quote of the day: "Si et 85% des français c'est des cons qui écoute de la musique de merde lol et la culture française c'est nul. En France il ya que des truc nul les seul truc bien c'est des immitations en moins bien des truc americain et anglais."

My French friend isn't really happy today haha. Loosely could be translated into: "Yea and 85% of the French people are douchebags who listen to shitty music and the French culture sucks. In France there are only things that suck and the only good things are cheap imitations of American and English things."

So the bottom line for today could be that however I might be in love with the French culture, not everybody really is and that some things really can suck here there's no question about that. But today I'm happy because I got the new album of a great French band Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! and I'm going to see them on Saturday wooohoo!

November gets closer and every year it gets a little bit colder

Crap, I haven't posted anything for a week now! I was going to last night but surprise, surprise, the internet didn't work last night.

About a week ago we visited a really pretty place called L'Ile Barbe, which is a really small island not too far from our place in the middle of the river Saône.




It was really pretty and warm that day but it's so weird how all the leaves have already turned red and yellow. Now the weather isn't that nice outside, +8'c which is pretty much as cold as in Finland, right?














We were just sitting on the rocks and enjoying the awesome weather for a couple of hours :) It was so nice!

L'Ile Barbe consists of old buildings and forts. I'm not really that aware of the island's history but some people still live on that island today. Impressive :)

I would have so many things to post about but for some reason I've been really lazy lately with this blog! Hope it gets better soon :)

Don't fix it if it hasn't broken yet

The internet works for now, woohoo! I just came from school (French) and I have to back soon (Globalization) but I thought I'd come here to update a bit first.

Our French friend Benji was here last weekend and because he had never been in Lyon before we thought we'd show him our favourite spots in Lyon.

Of course we had to take him to Parc de la Tête D'Or because it's such a beautiful place. The animals were on a weird mood though...

The pelican was sleeping like that :D I couldn't stop laughing at it.

The other one of the two crocodiles was sleeping with its mouth open.. don't know what was up with that either :D Comfortable?

To quote my dear friend's excitement about going to the park, I have to put this here: "I will be so disappointed if I won't see that fucking lion!" :D The first time we visited the zoo the lion was nowhere to be seen but now we spotted it sleeping in a very... interesting position. He only moved his paw once or twice and that's it.

And what the heck was the elephant up to? The pigeon approves :D

Found some grass! Om nom nom!

A fun visit, I'd say. But going to a zoo can never be too boring anyway.

Guess it was a weird day for the zoo visitors as well :D

Us! Sorry for looking so awful. I felt a bit sick and lazy in the morning so my hair is totally horrible. Oh and what's up with the stripes? :D

Anyways, I'm gonna go prepare myself a nice meal with ratatouille before going back to school. After that I have to clean up this sh*thole and get ready for another huge party at our place! I'm so excited, at the moment there are at least 35 people coming :)

Bon week-end à tous :)

P.S. I've noticed that not many comments have been made on these posts lately and I'm also in a lack of new ideas to blog about so is there something you would like to see in my blog? About my life here, Lyon in general or something? You can suggest almost anything and please do :)