This is dumb......but i'm posting a convo btw Prachi n me(ya!!!!the Super Girls!!!!!!)
Latsyre dit : helloooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Latsyre dit : meri maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Latsyre dit : pehchan kon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prachi dit :hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Prachi dit : hows it going? comment ca va?
Latsyre dit : pls hindi mein baat karo
Latsyre dit : mein french se pak gai
Prachi dit : it's a bit difficult for me
Latsyre dit : im so happy 2 see u
Prachi dit : but i can talk in english
Prachi dit : me tooo!!!
Prachi dit : so what's happening?
Latsyre dit : nothin
Prachi dit : u back from camp?
Latsyre dit : we're leavin for paris on tuesday
Prachi dit : oooooh
Latsyre dit : tommoow is the show
Latsyre dit : ya
Prachi dit : kya laogi hamare liye?
Latsyre dit :batao,ill get that
Latsyre dit :pls
Prachi dit :milta kya hai shops mein????
Latsyre dit :i seriously dunno what to get.................;
Prachi dit :i don even have ne idea
Latsyre dit :jo sab india mein milta hai.............;
Latsyre dit :.....;wahi to prob hai
Prachi dit : ummm.... get something we can't eat
Latsyre dit :i kno
Latsyre dit : july tak mar jaega
Prachi dit :lol
Latsyre dit :an eiffel key chain???
Prachi dit :yeah sure
Prachi dit :neting u want
Prachi dit :as long as u don frget us out there
Latsyre dit :of course not
Latsyre dit :yes only i was countin the no of ppl i hv to get gifts for
Prachi dit : can ur hosts speak fluent english?
Latsyre dit :its éé
Latsyre dit :22
Prachi dit : huh
Prachi dit :oh
Latsyre dit:not fluent.....;thodi bahut ati hai
Prachi dit :acchha... tum logon ki assembly to parson hai... i so wish u were here
Latsyre dit :me to
Prachi dit :r u keepin a reg diary?
Latsyre dit :the food in the hostel suks
Latsyre dit :no
Latsyre dit :dont get time
Prachi dit : oh... will u be able to remember evthing?
Latsyre dit :im online if im free which im not often
Prachi dit : what do u do d whole day?
Latsyre dit :in 10 min i have to go to some ppls place
Latsyre dit :my hosts neighbours
Prachi dit : what time is it?
Prachi dit : in france
Latsyre dit :nothin.......;show us around
Latsyre dit :i got a digi cam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Latsyre dit :i got a digi cam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Latsyre dit :i got a digi cam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prachi dit : uh, yeah, got the message
Latsyre dit :a 6mp for 4800 only!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prachi dit : so u must have been taking loads of photos!!
Latsyre dit :i got it on sat only...................
Latsyre dit :this sat
Prachi dit :form d angouleme market?
Latsyre dit :2 days
Latsyre dit :ya
Prachi dit : wow
Prachi dit : just realised... is it smthn like 4 o'clock over there?
Prachi dit : or 5 rather
Latsyre dit :some super market chain called E. LECLERC or by us e leckleckleck or eleckleck or by me e leckleck
Latsyre dit :its6:20
Latsyre dit :ill hav to go at
Latsyre dit :6:30
Prachi dit : ohkay
Prachi dit : jaldi jaldi baatein kar lo
Latsyre dit :their neighbour is sorta givin a party or"aperatif" where lots a neighbours are coming
Prachi dit : aperatif???
Prachi dit : ur vocab must be gigantic by now!
Latsyre dit :non.............
Latsyre dit :but i did learn a word pronounced as "pikule"(dunno the spelling) is slang for toilet paper................
Prachi dit : lol
Prachi dit : hows our dear hm?
Latsyre dit :u read my blog????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prachi dit : it's pretty quiet in school nowadays
Prachi dit : i chked it yestrday, nt today
Latsyre dit :i kno u must b happy without her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Latsyre dit :oh.............there's a new entry
Prachi dit : ok, i'll jus go open it
Latsyre dit :did u read "of kissing guys and toilet paper????????????"
Latsyre dit :u kno she seems more human cause i see her eatin and drinkin and buying things
Prachi dit : arre yaar abhi to khula hi nahin
Latsyre dit : kya khula nahi?????????
Prachi dit : ok, ab khul gaya
Latsyre dit : kya???????????,
Latsyre dit : bware of what u say..............
Latsyre dit : im going to post our convo on my blog

Vous avez envoyé un wizz.(sent a buzz)

Prachi dit : oh ok, bas padh rahi thi.... what time r u coming back?
Latsyre dit : raat ko around 11 at sat
Prachi dit : ok.... have u got ur cell with u?
Prachi dit : what happened, have you left for the aperatif?
Latsyre dit : no...........
Latsyre dit : i'll say bye n go................;
Latsyre dit : no
Prachi dit : yes, i thought so
Latsyre dit : wasnt allowed
Latsyre dit : i would hv called u na..............
Prachi dit : yeah.... btw who r d ppl in d photos?
Latsyre dit : can u put text under the photos sum how??????????
Prachi dit : why dont u just put it after ur html tags?
Prachi dit : as in, [text]
Latsyre dit : naa..............
Latsyre dit : ok
Latsyre dit : a person with me is claire,my host
Prachi dit : oh, i thought she ws the teacher
Latsyre dit :we were in the zoo n we're standing "devant" le pelicans............;;
Latsyre dit :no...........
Latsyre dit :she's in premiere.......in other words......;;12th
Latsyre dit :oh,oh, do u kno we're in troisieme????????
Prachi dit : kind of, literally translated we'd say we're in CLass 3rd
Prachi dit : lol
Latsyre dit :yaaaaa;....................;
Prachi dit : do u get ANYTHING veg over there?
Latsyre dit : ya......salad
Latsyre dit : but this place is shit for veggies.......
Prachi dit :
im worried about amrita
Latsyre dit : .........that day in the hostel we got beans............all the veggies took it and just before they were gonna eat it,they found out it had meat!!!!!!!!!
Latsyre dit : *shock* *horror*!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prachi dit : omg
Latsyre dit : i was gonna have pork..........;;without knowing
Prachi dit : i thought beans were plants
Latsyre dit : bloody rudrath even said sum crap and as i'd already freaked out abt the pork,i dunno y i started cryin..............;
Latsyre dit : no...beans is veg.but they had added really small unable to see pieces of meat........... Prachi dit : they're trying to convert u all
Latsyre dit : lol
Prachi dit : waise u seem to be meeting soooo many ppl out there
Latsyre dit : grr...........
Prachi dit : are the french really so unfriendly?
Latsyre dit :arre...;sum host r takin their ppl 2 meet all their relatives,even boyfriend ki behen ke pati ka ghar sorts..........
Latsyre dit :sum
Prachi dit : lol
Prachi dit : n they all have bfs n gfs out there
Prachi dit : ??
Prachi dit : i mean really, serious kinds?
Latsyre dit :i went to e leckleck(lol) and asked the lady at the counter if ne1 could show me a camera and she seemed so bored and irritated that some1 had disturbed her......;she slowly looked up.;she was chewing gum and looking like 1 of those arrogant ppl in movies who bacome nice in the end............;
Latsyre dit : ya all of them hav bf's and gf's.........
Prachi dit : ??
Prachi dit : i mean really, serious kinds?
Latsyre dit :i went to e leckleck(lol) and asked the lady at the counter if ne1 could show me a camera and she seemed so bored and irritated that some1 had disturbed her......;she slowly looked up.;she was chewing gum and looking like 1 of those arrogant ppl in movies who bacome nice in the end............;
Latsyre dit : ya all of them hav bf's and gf's.........
Prachi dit : where did u go fr camping?
Latsyre dit : read carefully in my blog............;
Latsyre dit : bye........................
Prachi dit : ok
Prachi dit : au revoir
Latsyre dit : cya
Prachi dit : njoy th party!!
Prachi dit : tc
Latsyre dit :luv u............;;
Prachi dit :(L)

i luv that girl..........

Of Toilet Paper And Kissing Guys

Yes.....I'm posting another entry today because I don't think I'll get another chance till Saturday.
I'll continue with my description of things:
5th of may;Saturday:I woke up to find myself in Claire's house.That day we talked and talked and talked.Then after lunch we went shopping in Cognac and I realised that you can find all the things here in India and they cost a lot less there.We (Me,Claire,Marion,Sukriti,Estel and Manya) shopped together and then later even went to see the places in Cognac,like some garden and the town hall.
6th of may;Sunday:I woke up quite early as we had to go to the beach with Claire. We had breakfast and then all of us(Me,Claire and her parents) went to Marions house. Then we left together for the beach. We had lunch at a restaurant where I and Sukriti ordered chicken while the others had coquillage.The chicken had other things with it which we didn't know about and they gave us some yellow rice and prawns which had their head still on and we had to break them off to eat them. I got disgusted and lest them. I already don't like prawns and here they had heads and legs which I had to break off!!!!!!!I know all the vegetarians will be disgusted.
Then, we went walking on the rocks and explored it.We saw some really pretty houses near the beach and we also went on top of these rocks right beside the ocean where the wind was blowing hard. It might have been 20 knots, god knows, but I was almost blown away. Sukriti grew cold and her ears became red so we left. In the evening,Claire's neighbour,Beatrice came over for a minute and met me,she invited me over for a drink, and when she was leaving she jokingly said she could give me some secretly. I just yelled "mechante!!!!" as she left..........
Later at dinner, we were discussing Indian food when I asked them if they had ever eaten pickle. I was shocked as all of them burst out laughing. When they stopped laughing they told me pikule was toilet paper in french slang..............
7th of may:I woke up at 6am and we left for the school at 6:30am.We picked Marion and Sukriti up on the way and reached school at 7:30am. Then, we went to see the chateau de Rochfoucauld where the cold and impolite owner who thought too much of herself but had 2 cute dogs gave us a tour.She thought Indians were dumb,didn't know anything and shewas damn irritating. I aws so happy to leave that place. That evening we went to Beatrice's place for the"drink". Her house was in a chaos because had been doin babysitting and the baby's parents had to pick it up. so they were 3 people leaving,4 entering and the other 4 fixing the house for us. In the mess,Beatrice's 15yr old son popped out of some place to greet us and was cheek kissing(normal way of greeting anyone in the whole world in France) Claire's mom. I didn't notice him and was looking in another direction when he leaned towards me suddenly to kiss. I freaked out. Firstly, I had told Claire I don't like kissing people so she warned them beforehand not to. And then this guy suddenly leans towards me.ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!! I put my hands up and fell backwards making a face showing utter disgust. CLaire's mom quickly stopped him from leaning more forward and told him I didn't like being kissed. He looked at me normally and went to kiss Claire.

En France

YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am in France people!!!!! I am in France!!!
I am sorry for not writing. Whoever was interested in reading my blog must have left till now!!!!
Well, it isn't my fault, I didn't get the time at all.
firstly,its tenth and they are giving us a lot to study. secondly, for some stupid reason, I took up JSTS which just added to my burden of things to do. thirdly,we had to practice for the show we're going to present here. also, i had to do tons of shopping and was in a mess when i left.
I was packing till the last moment of leaving................
Well we left on the 3rd of may at 0:40 but had to go to the airport at the 2nd. It was Budh Purnima on the 3rd so I had the whole day to do my packing.The flight was 9 hours long and really bored me to hell.
They had boring games and movies which would start from the beginning if you left them for a while. The food like all plane foods was horrible................... :(
Now I'll give you a day by day description of what we did till now...........
3rd:we came....;we got our rooms........we kept our stuff and for the first time tried the hostel food which was HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4th: We met our hosts* in the arts plastics class and talked to them. then we attended a class with them** and even went for sports during which we got bored and went alone to look around the school.We saw a lot of weird things....we saw a guy and a guy sitting in the full open field,kissing.
well,kissing isn't a big deal here, they do it all the time....when we arrived at the school gate there were dozens of them sitting around the gate on the walls and half of them were kissing. They were having their break and were, well......taking a break?????
but shit...these were guys and i freaked out.....I ran from that place!!!!
After lunch(I think) we went to visit Angouleme. We saw some castle where lady Marguerite was born(after which the school is named Lycee Marguerite De Valois),a cathedral,a weird statue and the buses we travelled in.
Then we met our hosts parents our family or whoever had come to pick us up and we went to their house.
*Claire Baud-Berthier is my host and shes damn sweet.She doesn't know a lot of english. She's pretty, has a cute boyfriend and is an only child. She's in premiere and loves the color purple. Her best friend is Marion***.They both live in Cognac, more than 45 kms away from Angouleme. Its good because I get to see more of France then others.I like her father end mother. Both of them are very polite and nice.I had a problem talking to Claire in the beginning but later everything became fine.Now we talk in finglish involving sign language also...........
** I met a guy in this class,Clement who knew quite a lot of english and we talked a lot. He and I sat together and talked. I thought him quite nice but later got disgusted as I saw him making out with his gf near the gate a few days later.
***Marion is Sukriti's**** host and pretty and sweet. Her father owns a wine yard and makes wine. We're camping at her house tomorrow evening.
****Sukriti is in K section and pretty sweet

I'll write rest of the things later as I'm tired and its 10:16

luv...............miss u all!!!!!!!!!!

My First Post

I usually don't know what to write.

There's no use writing about the past. Firstly because it is gone and secondly, writing about things in the past years will take, well, years.

There's no use writing about the future because I don't know what lies there.

And I don’t know what about the present is worth writing.

It's strange, when you actually sit and think about it, that life is quite meaningless until someone gives you us an aim or something affects us in such a way that we get an aim. Mostly it’s because of our parents. Every parent, even beggars' just wants their kids to be successful. It might change in terms of perspective. To one, success may mean money. To another, fame. For me, it's to be famous. I want to be famous for my writing. It's not that I write well, it's just the ideas. I have awesome ideas, but I just can't put them down properly on paper. I can’t write, I admit it.
People say my vocabulary is good but, sometimes I think it’s inadequate to express the stuff I feel.

For example, a few days ago, we had gone for a picnic to Lodi Gardens. We have been there a lot of times, but today for the first time I actually admired the tombs. I was shocked to see that all this had been in front of my eyes before but I hadn’t really paid attention to it. That’s why people should be observed because important things may pass before your eyes and you won’t even realize it and may regret it later.

Whatever, it was so pretty, something so picturesque, I was so unhappy I didn’t get my camera.

I and my friend Espera went exploring the place. That’s why I like her (sometimes). Unlike other people, she doesn’t sit around and is ready to break the rules. Well, not exactly, whatever, little adventurous. I tried to climb a wall around the tomb but stopped because I was afraid it was a thin wall and that I’d fall and also it was a bit high.
Later we saw that it wasn’t that thin but had a steep drop on the other side. We found an iron gate which was locked with a chain.
We kicked it and tried to open it because there were stairs behind it leading to a part if the terrace. But we found another stairway leading to another part of the terrace.

*** Sorry, I just went to see what my mom was doing. She was watching Kyunki Saas Bhi Bahu Thi. I hate those serials. I don’t know what horrible things Ekta Kappor has seen as to have come up with such concoctions in which every person has married at least 5 times and got plastic surgeries done dozens of times. ***

So we went to the terrace and sat on the wall with one leg hanging off. Surprisingly I wasn’t afraid of falling off. It was nice, the trees, the tomb, reminding you, hinting at you of something about the past and the wind … I wanted to fly, and I’m serious. I feel awesome when it’s cloudy, the mind is cool and it’s blowing fast. It blows against you or brushes past you and you just want to fly away with it. I was on the seventh heaven when I went paragliding. But I was wearing a full-sleeved shirt and trousers so I didn’t feel the wind but it was fun.

Then, I somehow dragged Espera down to go exploring more. She thought we’d seen it all, but there was more than meets the eye. We crossed the bridge to go to this fortress thing. You had to climb up the stairs to reach the gate. It was surrounded by a wall. In the corners of the wall, we saw a small passage leading to a circular area which had 3 windows but was open to air like everything else.

It was small but so awesome. The sun was up and part of the circular wall was casting a shadow inside the area. Espera sat at the window and it seemed a perfect location for a photograph. We were listening to the iPod, looking lost, immersed, the area, partly shadowed, partly in light, symbolizing the good and the bad sides of stuff, the window behind us showing a path with pretty bushes alongside it, full of flowers. And of course, the wall itself reminding you of an essence gone, of forgotten things. It would have looked timeless in black and white. But I find it so weird; people have memories attached to the strangest o places. A bus stop. A bus stop to us may have been important to someone else. If I’d have to be something, in my next life, I’d be a place where tourists go a lot. Then I’d be loved more than hated and so many people would have memories attached to me.

*** Ok, I saw something really weird on TV. A monkey has been carrying a puppy along with him. He sleeps with it on a tree and takes care of it. It’s weird. ***

Later, we decided to see what the rest of the class was up to. We just saw that some girls were playing lock-key. But I dragged Espera away, horrified when I saw this girl, running in a weird fashion, shrieking like mad with her hair open and skirt billowing. Espera just burst out laughing. When we came back near the end, they were playing a game of truth and dare and the girl seemed to have regained her sanity and was sitting nicely. One guy got a dare to pole dance. He selected a tree which was really thin and had a few branches only near the top, so was something like a pole only. At first, he stood uncertainly, clutching the tree trunk, looking around to see if anyone else from any other class was watching. Then, suddenly, without warning, swung around the tree and it started to bend a little under his weight, wrapped his legs for a second around the trunk then quickly got off. It was a six-second performance but had me laughing for hours.