Insomnia.

Threeee more days and I'm a freebird. In the meantime i fill my days with staring at my purple wall, turning some pages of Géologie des aquifères, making some refreshing fruit salads, doing my laundry, solving some exercices for "Hydraulique" or "Génie des Procédés", trying not to think about all other erasmusninja's in holidaymodus and every now and then I stretch my legs for a walk in the garden. As you see, I'm more passive than a retired grizzly bear on Prozac and still I can't sleep at night. So annoying, it happens to me all the time in exammodus. I feel as zen as yogateacher during the day but then when I try to sleep I start stressing out. For example stressing out about: "will happen if I don't fall asleep and I will be to sleepy tomorrow to study" or "what if my box of oatmeal will be finished before the exam on tuesday and I don't have time to go for groceries..."  Ridiculous I know, but it's tough material for thought (especially the oatmeal-issue).


 So what to do in examperiods to find sleepiness back:




- physical activity (example: Jogging, very effective but very impossible in this blistering-lazymaking-Montpellier heat)
-watching series (I'm the kind of person who wants to watch 3 episodes in a row if I have access to the whole season, so I fall asleep eventually but somewhere between 2 and 3 am...)
-new since my stay in France: a glass of Muscat before sleepytime! was effective 2 weeks ago but now I think my body got used to it and since I decided to wait with becoming an alcoholist until my midlifecrisis, I refuse to double my Muscat-dosis per evening


So my solution for this insomnia night to come is...              blogging!
I allready apologize for the language errors caused by lack of sleep of previous days and this useless post, had to write some anger off. I maybe think sleep gives me a chance today so sweet dreams and I promise, more interesting news to come after this period of  boredom.


Ps. For all other little silly billies (in exam or holiday modus) who appreciate a new tune every now and then, these music blogs will keep your ears from bleeding:

http://disconaivete.com/

 http://www.gorillavsbear.net/

A little tornadoooo.

Round 3 of the most annoying exam period ever is happening right now. Studying makes me a bit twisty so folks be warned and walk in a circle of at least 500 m around me if I cross your path. The last exams went "comme ci comme ça" so we keep or fingers crossed and hope for miracles and forgiving professors who are mentally incapable to read my scientific epistels in Erasmus french.


So what did we do in between these periods of nerdmodus lifestyle?


Visiting the FISE (festival internationale des sport extrèmes every year in Montpellier!) and extreme it was!

"holy guacamole"

wakeboarding or as Lien calls it "watersnowboarding :-)"

And it rained in Montpellier and if it rains it rains for a loooong time so...

Little raincloud above my room

... let's go to town and buy weird second hand stuff

Sarah tried on the granny hat

...or a Kazoo and scare the hell out of innocent people or try to start a conversation with a pigeon

... and rain or no rain a bbq is always possible

awesome garbage bin construction

Theresa thought it was all fine.

Sebastian and Jenny

Sofie and some FISE fellows

Mexicans, how awkward

 And if you order " un petit steak pour le bbq" in a hallal butchershop this is what you get...

I still feel sorry for the cow.

And in the meantime seven more days waking up with the thought of starting a carreer in the fruitsection of Lidl's supermarket and never ever studying again...

And after that only five more days of Erasmus cause I'm going home the 21first of june... I'm getting nervous if I see my lonely planet standing silly on the bookshelf above my head cause there's so much stuff in it that I still need to do.

And still many people are leaving... but some come back like Anaaaa (crazy supagroparadisewomen who turned her room into a bar/hotel/restaurant)... So happy.

So my brain needs some sleepytime cuz the next days are gonne be legen -wait for it- dary, boring. (yes I finally started watching HIMYM)

Note to self...

Proof is here!
When temperature raises above 30°C my stresslevel reaches more than astronomic heights.
Nothing more to do than keeping calm (or cool) and grow a moustache!

Insane in the membrane.

We're back in Ghent, that is my sister and me. After the christmasdays at home we moved back to studyland. My concentration level during exams has always been at an artic level (read: far below zero). My day goes like this:
I plan to wake up at 8 am, but mostly I wake up around 10 and then realise: "holy moly I already should have studied for two hours now." And then after a superfast poppin' breakfast (love vanilla oatmeal) I start "studying" like a crazy turbo nerd. Around 12 am my brain goes into stand-by modus and decides to take a break. A loooong break mostly. In the afternoon I'm a disaster if it comes to concentration. And by night when it finally get's dark again I can concentrate again. So I stay up too late again and wake up the next morning also way toooo late. So this goes on and on and on. Luckily my sister has a more productive way of studying and we decided to study together in the appartment she lives in (her roommate is at home during the holidays). Crazy hilarious scenarios here during our studybreaks. We brought a longboard from home and sometimes longboard through the hallway (we had to stop it because the neighbours from the floor below asked us what the heck we were doing at 1 am in the morning. woops.). My sister also has this constant urge to clean the appartment, so if you don't mind your step you fall over the vacuumcleaner or get suffocated by a whelm of "Mr. Proper" when you enter the bathroom. And then there's the cooking part of our studytime together, if we don't dance on crazy music during our breakes we create funny recipes in the kitchen. Really we should write a cookbook for (wannabe) insane students.  Ok, now that I've update the world about my new living situation,(Wich is in fact still pretty boring because studying IS boring.) I'm gonna try to stick my eyes to my book and study!

Cheers,
and to all fellow students: I know how it feels (bad bad bad!),
so goooooood luck!

ps. I need a party