Paris

Bonjour :)

I had a perfect day today, my cousin waked me up and she had to buy some presents for her best friends and boyfriend.
We kind of lost ourselves when we wanted to go to the "Galerie la Fayette" because we had to find a Ralph Lauren Polo, after asking people on the street the whole time they told us to go straight through to the Opera and it would be behind, but it took us 45 minutes instead of 15.
We finally find what we wanted, and were happy when we went back to our flat.
I love Paris, I could stay here for ever, everything is so beautiful apart from that there are too much people.

That is the polo my cousin bought for her boyfriend, I kinda like it:

Sorry guys

Hey you :)

Sorry that I didn't post anything yesterday night but my family kinda confiscated my laptop from me...
I had a great day yesterday, everything went perfect and Christmas was peaceful and nice.
We went to this "play" in that "Theatre" it was called "Shéhérazade" and was all about that "Mille et une nuits" story, called "Arabian Nights" in English, it was kind of fun and all of us had a great time.
Our Christmas eve was perfect, the food was delicious and the presents I've got are not bad, I've got money, the MacBookPro, a school bag, this Hugo Boss Scarf, some CD's, a book, and there is much more to come.
I had an early morning today because we had to go to the Cinema with my family to watch the new film of Kaurismäki called "le havre", it tells the story of a shoeshiner who tries to save an immigrant child in the French port city Le Havre. The film was really special but I liked it and it's nice to see some finnish films in other countries' cinemas, even though most of the actors were french.
My grand-mother is finnish that's why we watched it, and why we all support Kaurismäki.
Anyway, I hope that you enjoyed your Christmas eve and that you've got nice presents.
What have you got? Did you do anything special yesterday ? I want to know all of it :)
And btw: Did you know that Santa Claus is based on a real person, St. Nikolas of Myra (also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker, Bishop Saint Nicholas of Smyrna, and Nikolaos of Bari), who lived during the fourth century. Born in Patara (in modern-day Turkey), he is the world’s most popular non-Biblical saint, and artists have portrayed him more often than any other saint except Mary.
I've just read an article about that and am a little bit confused, (I'll post the picture of him on here so you can see how he looks like).
Okey, I'll try to have some sleep now, I'm so tired.

Thank you for reading :)

Matthew



1. Santa Claus




































2. "Le Havre", the film we watched






















3. That "Shéhérazade" play



















4. My new Hugo Boss Scarf

Arrived in Paris today :)

After 2 hours with the TGV or however you call it, I finally arrived in Paris.
I'm so happy to see my flat again, I had so many great memories at this place and I'm looking forward to got to the university in 3y ears time (what is actually a really long time) but I cross my fingers and hope it will happen.
I didn't do anything special today I just played the "fashion adviser" for my mum, she needed new clothes and her favorite Store doesn't exist in Luxembourg, it's called COS! don't know if you ever heard of it but I really like it, apparently it is the more expensive version of H and M but it is ways better you should have a look at it as soon as you are in another country (they will open one in Luxembourg soon aswell though, but you'll have to wait).
I went to my favorite store KILIWATCH later on but I found it kinda disappointing, it's getting more or less boring there, the things they sell are not the same as before and the clothes are not "special or different" anymore.
Sorry for posting so late but I had problems to connect my MacBook to the internet, and we had discussions with my family to organize Tomorrow's eve, Christmas eve.
Can't wait for the presents I will get tomorrow, I will take pictures of them and show you.
So, I'll have to leave you right now because I need to wake up early tomorrow to do some more Christmas shopping with my cousin and Aunt plus I need to play the fashion adviser (yes, again ;) )to find some clothes for them and I need to find a mission secret to go downstairs and smoke a fag without my grand-parents noticing it and waking them up (that will be the hard part, I wish myself good luck ;)).
I'll download some pictures for you in a sec, just need to find the access to internet via my iPhone (hope that will work fast.)

Thank you for reading :)

Matthew



1.COS shop in Paris



2.Let Paris look like this, thank you

Paris

Excited!
I'm going to Paris tomorrow morning to celebrate Christmas in my family's flat.
I love this town, so proud to be french (okey that seems kind of arrogant, but I'm not, I promise ;) )
Finally will hang around with my cousin more often, I kind of never see her because I'm always in England and because if I'm in Luxembourg we never find time or she is hanging around with her boyfriend.
Christmas is one of my favourite time of the year, and I hope that I will enjoy it.
Don't worry pals, I'll be there for you and tell you everything.
Hope that you will have a good Christmas.
What do you do for Christmas? Where do you go? How do you celebrate it?
Would be quite interested to have some answers :)

By the way: you should follow me though, haha xx

Matthew