After Czech Republic and Belfast, follow up on these blogs : 

http://www.hellasbutnotleast.com/ 

and

http://alhambracadabra.blogspot.com.es/ 

See you there !

Grande nouvelle !

Après avoir végété 5 mois, j'ai enfin trouvé une nouvelle expérience de vie sur laquelle créer un blog, et cette fois-ci ce sera en Irlande du Nord, à Belfast !

Donc, pour savoir à quoi ca ressemble, l'Irlande, si le climat est conforme aux clichés, comment est la vie d'un expatrié là-bas...

Cliquez CI-DESSOUS :)

At last, after 5 months of worries, doubts, cries and so on... I eventually found a new experience to make a blog about !

I've found a job in Belfast, North Ireland !

What does Belfast look like ? What is the weather like ? What is my new job about ?

To learn more about it... CLICK ON THE PIC

Voila.

Mon SVE est fini.

Mon blog aussi.

Repas d´adieu hier soir au U Pastyře.

Le compte a rebours a commencé...

Jarda - Věrka - Moi - Linda - Ilonka

Linda - Martina

Last visit to Olomouc.

Invité a un match de hockey, hier soir, a Pardubice. Histoire de voir l´équipe locale (HC Moeller Pardubice) se faire dezinguer par le Slavia Prague (1-4). Les spectateurs jetaient des pains d´épices sur la piste pour manifester leur mécontentement :) Et pour balayer la glace, ils ont leurs soubrettes. :)

Comme un peu partout, c´est aujourdhui la Saint-Nicolas, et DDM etait aux avant-postes pour organiser hier soir les festivités. Photos :

Olomouc thursday night, and Prague from Friday till Sunday. Christmas time is well engaged now, they were just installing the Christmas Market and the Xmas Tree on Staromětska Naměsti, under the vigilant eye of Jan Hus, whose statue is now visible avec six months of cleaning. And it is even better by night. Of course, there are also a lot of nativity scene everywhere, as this one at the foot of the South Tower of the Prague Castle.

Also, i took the time to go to the exhibition Wallenstein and His Era, about the famous XVIIth century general, born in Bohemia, and set quite judiciously in the palace he had constructed for himself in Mala Strana and which bears his name. More pictures of the exhibition to see on Prague´s album photo. This weekend Prague hosted also the third Film Asia festival, and I was lucky enough to get tickets (merci Jana!) for the new Park Chan Wook movie I AM A CYBORG, BUT THAT´S OK. Unfortunately, the movie is not so ok. Review to come on www.cutlarevue.fr

And of course, some volunteer party here and there in the evenings. As you can see, too much beer, but not enough sleep.   

Saturday night, invited to ČESKÁ Třebová by Nora, the new German volunteer who took over the post of ZOÉ, to celebrate her birthday ! Quite a nice evening and night ! There were four other volunteers, from the same ´prom´ as Nora : Valeria (Italy), Cristina (Finland), Jana (Austria), and Nara (Armenia, who is also Nora´s flatmate and co-worker). Yes, it is all a story of A !

On the 1st pic : Jana + Nora + Cristina. On the second : me and Valeria.

It was first quite weird, because obviously they didn´t know I was EVS and French, they told me they thought I was Czech, because I looked like a Czech ( !! ty vole !! ) and also because I spoke English without the French accent (good!). So, as soon as my true identity was unveiled, the party could get started. First, in the famous Modry Trpaslik... But it was considered too noisy, and 70 Kč the entrance !

So we went to Pod Skalkou, 40 Kč. However, it proved unbearable there, with the techno music, and the youth in the place made me feel sooo old ! So, we stayed only 30mn, and went back to Modry Trpaslik to watch and listen the marvelous locals bands as you can see on the picture :)

It was fun to see the new generation of EVS in Czech Republic. Funny thing also to be able to tell that Valeria is replacing a volunteer I knew, and Cristina also ! I feel like the Memory of 2007. The (not so) funny thing is that probably no one will replace me in Lanškroun in January. The three candidates considered eventually gave up for one reason or another... Sad.

Here : Nara is expressing her dislike of the noisiness in Modry Trpaslik.

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