Bye Nantes!

(note: This is part 6 in a series of my trip to France, please read "Let get this party started", "Are you hungry", "Game over prettyface", "the tables gonna turn", "We are talking!" and "Traumatic memories" to get the whole story in chronologic order)


Day 6; 7th May
This is the last day in Nantes, kinda sad really since I just got to know everyone (my family and the other french students). I still regret until this very day that I didn't take a picture of the family, I couldn't find the right oppurtunity (blah, whitewash). After breakfast we took my luggage to school, his mother woke up to say goodbye and then we went by car to school. I didn't even say Goodbye to his brother and sisters! (They really are the cutest siblings ever XD)
At the school we jammed all our stuff into this small room by the reception and then we had free time until 12 o'clock when we were taking off to Paris. So me and a couple of us decided to go into town one last time.

It turned out that Kristine, who we went out with, had lost her camera since yesterday and she suspected that it was when we were at the grassplot. The stores weren't open anyway so we decided to have a look, I thought from the very beginning that there were no chance at all that we would find it but I had to be encouraging anyway. XD We looked for anything shimmering on the grass and suddenly she burst out THERE and pointed in the grass, one of us were even about to step on it. LUCKY! Omg, if it would have been me, never that we'd find it. XD Then we continued walking around in town, being very very careful while crossing the streets.
Walking in the centre this early was really nice, not many people were out yet and we could take it easy.

We came back to school and said goodbye to everyone. I wanted to take as many classmember+frenchman pictures as possible I was like hunting everyone down. Then we went out to the mainstairs to take pictures, which is a tradition for the SPEU classes. (the first picture)

I think the whole exchange experience have been great. I've done language travel and that's also with host family and that but this is pretty different, you get to know the host family so much better with a exhange student about your age (hmm, he was 15 going on 16 but anyway..XD). And you know that everyone with you are there on the same terms. Everyone have their own french exchange student, it's cool because everyone has their own story to tell and it's cute in a way. :D At first it's really awkward and all but that's the interesting part, really. Prove to yourself that your'e a grown-up that can handle tricky situations and practice to be open-minded and polite.
It was also specially fun for me to see how my friends get along with their frenchman, I don't know why really it was just cute. :D

Then it was BYE Nantes and HELLO Paris again. It took forever to come back to Paris and it didn't help when we drove right through the whole city while rush hour!
Luckily we (me and my friends) still had time to go out before it was too late. We went out to Hôtel de ville again to go in BHV(big mall). My friends found a couple of things and about 9 o'clock the thought came to our minds: Shouldn't we eat? Basically we hadn't eaten anything since the baguette for lunch (around 12 o'clock).
We looked for places nearby and it was just like fancy restaurants but we thought since this was our last evening in Paris we deserved a fancy meal so after some minor quarrel we decided to for a restaurant.
It took some time to order, we were figuring out what was on the menu. XD I took a pizza just to make it simple. The food was ready surprisingly fast and we could eat almost immediately. It was great! It was long time since we had a proper meal.
(the third picture is the view outside from our table) And how about Richard talking from the toilet, huh guys? XD

After the restaurant we just walked for a while, strolling the streets of Paris in night time wonderful as ever. We somehow found this Irish pub and the boys insisted that we'd go in. Lucky for them the pub was about to introduce their Live band and that was what I thought would be interesting. It was much like how I always imagened pubs would be, loads of older people and football. XD The live band however was kinda awful. XD Yet quite an experience. After a while we began to go back to our hotel.

This time three of us had to share a room and it felt p-r-e-t-t-y crowdy but it was ok. After watching some TV we all fell asleep.