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| Victorine and family Eating Indian food! |
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| Dani's Crémailler party |
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| Eating Spaetzle at Biljana's house |
Its been a while since I wrote..a bunch of updates to give you Ive moved into my new place but have not unpacked yet..it took me 2 days to clean it all up scrub the floor vacuum disinfect…but now its livable. No internet yet. The rain screwed it up so me and my neighbour are getting a new connection and share it. We share a wall so the network will be strong.so im unable to send long mails . though I check my inbox like once a day at school. My neighbour is indian and he s from pondycherry. His name is Fernand Gaston. His family has always lived in paris apparently. We ve found an indian restaurant called “ PENJAB EXPRESS “..we are going to try it
out in the coming week .
And ive got a cycle to ride and a helmet..yay..(for chotu : its got gears ! :P:) so im going to join victorine and her family on their cycling expeditions. ! plus she found a microwave for me which is grt. But today I plugged it in and the electricity for the whole building got cut off! That’s cuz the water from my shower seeps intot he wall and it got shot I think.
Its starting to get real cold here. Already 5-6 degrees and winter has not started yet…in another 3 weeks it might start to snow…ugh…I wear 2 layers of thermal on top and 1 at the bottom and then pile on normal clothes.plus monkey cap plus neck warmer. I cant wear just one bulky
sweater because once I enter the school the heater is on and I need to take off a few layers or ill cook.
The other day I ate dinner out with friends at the one place which serves veg…I spent 5 euros and I felt so bad…it ll take another month before I can spend euros without batting a lid. And then we all went to a bar. Before u get scandalized know that everyone here drinks all
the time girls and boys…with breakfast lunch and dinner. And I was giving them company. So I sat with them and we chatted . they drank I dint so relax. I would not spend money on something I don even like the smell of. They explained to me the different types of beer that
exists and from which countries they come and which are the best. So my bar visit was an enriching experience ;p Also my classes at the school are going great… the students are very
nice…and today I started at my second school too. Here its 13 and 14 year olds…some look nearly as old as me tall too..but they very sweet very curious about india…the school s there…one even asked me if we had houses in the school meaning like in harry potter there were diff houses Gryffindor, slythrin etc..:P I said of course. The class is
going to be divided in 2 and im going to be handling one half by
myself. And when there are breaks between classes…I have to go to the
teachers lounge and talk to old people …..
And I cooked for the first time after having come to france…and how ive cooked !! I cooked for 5 people !! vic and her family. I made pulav, and raitha and alu ka paratha ! it came out awesome !! but not at all easy I tell u. cutting veggies took almost 2 hours..im slow
of course…then I realized none of the vessels I got from india work here because its and electric stove. So to make the pulav and boil the alu I had to fill a pan which worked on the stove with water and then put the cooker in the water, it took 2 hours and the rice was just
half boiled. Then the electric cooker than vic gave and I din know how to use came to my rescue. I just used it and the rice came out fine but the pulav looked like dal chaval..watery…I tought wot the hell it tastes good and wot do they know….
by the time I wanted to bake it it was all stuck and ripped when I pulled at it. But then The parathas I “ latisified “ them all together and like a fool laid them one on top of another. So I baked them all ripped and holey but it tasted great. Then packed it all and took it
to their home. Made the raitha and when I opened the pulav dabba miracle it was nice and dry !! not watery at all! Perfect. and the paratha I cut In halves and they din look bad at all. They loved the raitha the best bcause they used to eating yoghurt with sugar and
fruits never salt and veggies. They ate it all!! And they clapped for me…ha I took in all the praise. Its such a good happy feeling when u cook and everyone cleans their plate and asks for second helpings too. it makes me wanna slave over the stove again. :P
so finished this dinner by 7:30 yesterday and went to a friends place…Lisa.she s Italian and made pure Italian coffee…(everyone drinks coffee at night too..black that too.) and I
din get sleep till 4 in the morning. Now I know to be careful of her coffee’s im getting used to black coffee now..i like mine with 2 cubes of sugar. So I get both a caffeine and sugar rush…or so they say. And then we both went to another friends place. Another assistant.
Biljana pronounce billiana. German. All the assistants were there. 10
of us almost. And ti was like a pot luck. She d made pasta and cheese called spaetzle..from the south of germany..i had my pulav with me..the spanish guy jesus pronounced hesus had got some canapé s but I din taste cuz it was not vegetarian…then the Italian got her coffee
and the russian got her wine…it was a lovely evening..
We were eating and chatting till 11 about our diff cultures and languages it s similarities..they were very curious about Sanskrit and how many European languages draw inspiration from it. Then I wrote one girls name In hindi and they all like the script so much they all wanted their names written in hindi for them..lol..:Pits always very lively when we all get together…all languages are being thrown about..a bunch speaking in French and replies in Spanish..
Today I had leftovers…I have more left for tomoro too…the alu sabzi left from the paratha became my stuffing for a sandwich and I have some pulav left for tomoro too. And 2 boiled potatos. The flask I got is so useful. I made hot chocolate and its so very
nice to sip it now and then. Today there was a freee movie screening at the cinema here and we all went very excited..it was called la citadel asiege meaning the fort
under attack…so we all went just to discover that the fort was indeed a termite nest and it was not a typical war movie but how grass hoppers and tarantulas and snakes attack an ant and termite nest and how these insects cope with the natural forces like rain…and its not
animated…it was like a discovery channel rip off. So ugh…I love discovery but I never ever watch insect shows…now we spent 1.5 hours watching creepy things on the big screen and unwarranted sound effects which din go with the insect theme. So we came out all disgusted and having learnt a lesson. “ there is a reason why some screenings are FREE “. So im sitting here on my desk and its 11.30…and im going to say bye
and mail it tomoro from school..
So byee….
Ill post more soon…
Love
aishu
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