Would it be okay if I took your breath away?

Yesterday we went to a jazz club. That was my first time in one and I was really excited because I love jazz :)

The dresscode was 30's in New York but sadly I have nothing even distantly ressembling the 30's so I had to put on other clothes.



There was also a jazz band playing, which was nice :)


On Friday I'm probably, maybe, going to a Forever the Sickest Kids concert. We'll see what happens. There are so many good gigs here, I'm so stoked for all of them :)

Today I went shopping, oh no not again...

So we can carry on

Greetings from cold and rainy Lyon. Our French teacher told us that it's exceptionally cold now and that it'll keep on going like this :( Nooo! I hope it'll get better soon though.

I've tried to avoid shopping but there was one thing that I really needed.

A perfect hat for autumn that I found from Claire's Accessories. Perfection! The one I ordered from H&M couple of months ago was so horrible compared to this, I'm glad I decided to return it.

I tried to take a picture of me wearing it but didn't succeed too well. Blah. But I love my new hat, guess that was the point in this entry :D


I also needed some long-sleeved tops because somehow I managed to leave all mine in Finland (along with all the autumn footwear and all that blah).

I found this perfect top from H&M and I could honestly wear it everyday. And you can wear it both at school and in parties if you accessorize it accordingly :)

Feels like Sunday.. I didn't have school today but luckily we finally managed to fill our CAF applications and send them (CAF here is like Kela in Finland, we're supposed to get student's financial aid from there). We also started new healthy life with my colocataires, let's see how long we can resist all the delicious croissants and macarons. My bet is that not for too long :D

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 :)

Time is essence

Hello again. The internet totally broke down two days ago so I haven't been able to post anything once again. But today we have connection which is great.

Last Wednesday it was the independence day of Mexico so the Mexican people arranged a Mexican party at a Mexican bar (wow, so many same words). We had a blast! Here are some pics from that night.

Tequila sunrise was so good :) What a sucky blurry picture though :D

Roomies!

It was raining so I tried to cover my head to avoid curly hair.


Because the bar was totally packed, we decided to go to the American students' place. Going there is always pretty interesting :D But we had a good time. And they had those red plastic cups haha.

I don't know where this is from but it's from my roommate's cam from the very same night and it looked pretty so here we go :D

I haven't really written much here because I'm always so tired when I finally get myself around to blogging in the evenings. But also because I don't really know what to tell you guys, because I don't wanna write about too personal stuff here to avoid conflicts and all that shit that I've had to deal with because of blogging.

Anyway, Lyon is a really beautiful city and there's lots of things to do here. I haven't really felt anything since I came here almost a month ago, sometimes happy and sometimes a bit out of place but that's it. I don't really miss anything about or in Finland, which is weird, and I'm afraid that when it happens it's gonna hit me hard. But so far so good, things are mellow and that's good :) Now I'm off to bed.

Bonne nuit à tous. Toujours essayez profiter de tout sans rien en regretter :)

Collage d'inspiration d'automne

I would have so many pictures to post from the past couple of days but I feel really tired at the moment so that will be put off for some time now. Anyways, today out of boredom I was browsing the new autumn clothes on H&M's website and found some things I'd like to find for my closet this fall. So here we go!

Accessories:

The perfect hat for this season I've been looking for ages and I maybe found a potential one in one store here in Lyon.

I already bought a small brown bag but for some reason I'm so into brown leather now that I'd like to match it with a bigger one in lighter shade of brown. The lighter one in the collage is from Friis&Company and the other one is real leather and from H&M.

I also want black (faux) leather gloves for winter.

Shoes:

I really need some shoes like Vans or Converse because I managed to leave all of mine in Finland. I just don't know which ones to get. Any ideas? I've seen a Vans store here and I really want to go there asap.

New fake ugg boots are a must for winter. I'm thinking about getting the purple ones but I'm not sure yet.

And because of my obsession on brown, I'd like to have some new nice pair of autumn shoes with a heel. I hope I'll find them.

Tops:

I'd love to have a black & white checkered shirt because it's easy to match with my casual outfits. I'd also like to have the same kind of denim shirt.

I've been dreaming of a black cropped blazer for quite a while now because it would be easy to wear in both casual and formal outfits.

I also need some knitted pullovers to keep me warm during winter (our apartment gets super cold at night!) and my fascination for stripes is no surprise for anyone.

The leopard-pattern shirt would be nice to wear with a black skirt and I need more that kind of shirts anyway.

I fell in love with the pink dress because of its material. It would be perfect for more formal events as well.

So that's some of it. What do you think? Any same cravings there? :)

P.S. My english is so bad today. I've been speaking way too many languages lately to make any of those actually sound decent. Blah.

Beaucoup de shopping

I haven't been able to post for a couple of days. First I didn't have time and then the internet didn't work. I really hate it that we lose the connection every once in a while. But yeah, during these (almost) 3 weeks that I've been here I've been shopping way too much. Here's what I've got so far.

In a store called Mim they have lots of basic clothes really cheap (cheaper than H&M for the most part). The striped t-shirt is from there.


And these three also. Normal, long, black cardigan was really welcome in my closet. And cost only 14€.

I also really like Moa accessories. The cupcake bracelet is from there.



And the legwarmers are also from Moa.


My new heels that I couldn't resist at New Look! I love these. They cost 29€.

Shorts also from New Look. They look kind of weird in the picture but they're really nice on.

A black skirt from Zara. I've been wearing this a whole lot since I bought it, it's so comfortable on :) Looks stupid in the picture though.

This bird-print dress is from Bershka and it was in sale so it cost only 10€. The belt came with it.

I've been looking for this kind of jeans for a while now and I found these from Zara. I took them in bigger size because I really like that they're baggy.

This skirt was on sale in Zara and it was love at first sight with this one. I really like the hem.

One thing I was also trying to find for a long time is a brown bag that I could also use at school. I found this one in Etam and I've been using it ever since.

Camaïeu also sells basic clothes for cheap. This red striped shirt cost only 3,95€.

I also went to get some basic tops and shirts from H&M and found something else too. This cropped shirt looks really good with a long black top and jeans.

This is one of my favorites now too. A striped shirt with full-length sleeves is never a bad purchase.

Our French friend from Orléans is coming to visit us for the weekend so I don't know if I'll be able to post that much this weekend but I will try my best :) Bon week-end à tous!

Fourvière

Sunday at Park de la Tête D'Or.

Today we went to see the cathedral at Fourvière in the night light and it was so pretty there.



I really wanna go there again, so prettyyy. Gonna go to bed now, I've been flipping out all day long. I was going to show you my latest shoppings yesterday but the internet didn't work the whole day because some douchebag had unplugged some stupid cord so what do you do.