Bastille Day, July 14 2009

The scary evil eiffel tower!!



Ok.... So I am a little behind on my blog... so what? NOW i am really updating all of you.

So Bastille day was definitely a very interesting day!! I was working during the day so I arranged with a bunch of people to meet up after work and we would all go to the Eiffel tower together. I thought we would be maybe 4 or 5 but we ended up being around 20. It was so awesome. One of the kids at the hostel decided to make a whole bunch of pasta and charge 2 euros a plate for anyone who wanted to eat before the fireworks. It was a fantastic idea because it got all the group interacting and getting to know each other... by the time it was time to go all the people were friends.
Once we got to the trocadero, we all sat down in a circle. We got there pretty early so there was not a lot of people. We had about 3 hours to wait. People brought beers and some of them were even singing songs. It was very interesting because when you looked at our circle of kids.... there were SOOO many different nationalities Americans, mexicans, canadians, english, chinese, danish, finnish, spanish, french... and so on. We were cool. Actually, I think we were that annoying group that everyone thinks is way too loud and obnoxious but secretly wishes they could be part of :P People were even coming in to join our group. I was wearing my Montreal Canadians t-shirt that night, and some guy comes up to me and asks me if im canadian, turns out he was also canadian and was there alone and when he saw my shirt he wanted to join our group so he came to see me. All in all we had such an amazing time. It was so nice to be surrounded by all these awesome and interesting people. It was fantastic.
The fireworks were brilliant. They were just unbelievably beautiful. La Ronde's got nothing on this. Oh godddddd it was amazing. I will do what I can to post the video. I hope that it will work.
The firworks lasted for 30 mins. The only bad thing was that near the end, useless losers decided it would be funny to start pushing the crowd... so a bunch of people including me and the gang got pushed and we all nearly fell down. It just wasnt cool cuz then everyone was pushed onto others and a little girl who was on her dads shoulder was crying bloody murder and it was just not a nice atmosphere. People just dont have anything to do. It was sooooo crowed that it took over one hour to get back in the metro... really it was awful. We though we would be smart and walk to another metro stop... but apparently a lot of other people thought they were smart too. What a big traffic jam. What a mess!!!
It definitely was a great experience. Bastille day is awesome!!! Not a lot of drunk people like on quebec day or canada day. Not that quebec day and canada day is bad, it was just different.



The Gang Fireworks!More Fireworks!

I QUIT!

So... after being miserable and unhappy at work.... I finally decided to QUIT the job!
I tried to handle it as long as I could... but after talking about it with a lot of people... i decided that it was just not worth it.....
whats the point of being miserable in Paris?? The goal of this trip was to have fun, to live a life changing experience and to travel.... so Far I havent done any of it. I have to say that I will truly miss working at a hostel because it is a lot of fun meeting people from all around the world.. but my health is a lot more important than that. And thus far, my health is not doing too good.... i am EXHAUSTED!
So on Saturday I was working at the Peace and Love and mme calls me on my cellphone and asked me where i am.. i tell her im at the peace and love (the day before she asked me if i was working at the peace and love and i told her yes) she begins to yell at me.. and yell and yell and yell... and I just didnt understand why because i told her..... i couldnt even get one word out because all she was doing was screaming... she says we will revise my contract on monday and if im not happy i can leave....
so on monday i was NOT in the mood to work. I had my arms crossed and i was not at all into it.... at one point she looks at me and says You know if you are not happy here and you dont want to work just give me your notice. So i told her it really upset me that she called me a liar especially since I told her the day before that I was working at the other hostel. Then she began to yell at me so much that I just exploded and started to yell back. I told her thats it.. im giving you three weeks then im out. August 21st is my last day. She looks at me and says no. You can not leave. Not in the middle of the high season you are NOT leaving. I told her Yes.. Yes I AM!! August 21st is my last... then she began mumbling saying she is gonna call the peace and love because they sent me to work with her and its not possible and i will never work at the peace and love again and blbalbala... then I told her... You know what madame.. i am giving you 3 weeks notice.. thats quite reasonable if you consider that your last 2 employees left you without even a days notice.... that shut her up good. Then she came back and told me she didnt understad my descision about why the 21st.. so i told her that my parents were coming and I wanted to go to London with them. haha she said.. OH.. so the real reason why you are leaving is because you want to go travelling not becaus eyou are not happy here... OH NOW I GET IT.. make sure when people ask you why you quit that you mention it is because of that and not because you are unhappy here.... I actually told her.. but I AM unhappy here... ah man!!
Then later on in the afternoon when i was counting my cash she began to yell at me again for im not too sure what and i argued back and she got so offended that she said, you know what how about you make tonight your last day of work.. so I said tonight?? pff sure fine with me tonight is my last night i am not coming back tomorrow.... 3 minutes later she was back asking me to stay until the 21st of august... ahha which in a way sux but at the same time I need the money.. so its good!!!
OH GOD IT FEELS GREAT!! To think that I have 12 more work days left.... TWELVE!!! THATS ALMOST JUST TWO HANDS COUNT!!!!!! and then 2 days later my parents are arriving.. this is just soooo fantastic!!!!!!!!!! YAY FOR MEE!!!
I called the boss of the peace and love after ( the son of the crazy woman).... and told him what happened and that she said I would never be able to work there ever again... but he told me.. pfff..... dont worry I am keeping you at the peace and love hostel!! So once I stop working at friends hostel I will be able to do 1 or 2 shifts at the peace and love.. just to say that I have a bit of money coming in.
I am not too sure what I want to do.. if i want to stay in Paris or go somewhere else... but I definitely think that NOT working at friends hostel will definitely be a positive change. I love the Peace and Love so much that maybe if I just work there one or two days... maybe everything will be awesome again!!! I am not sure.. I still havent planned it all out!! All i know is i am going to london with mom and dad then in september i am going travelling with my sister...... then... a suivre!!

Things have been better since my friend Joe got here. It is just nice to see a familiar face. It is also nice because we do a lot of fun things. We go to the champs elysees we go to the eiffel tower... we hang out at the sacre coeur... all these nice things that make it even more positive. And since we both work at the hostel... we know the same people who live there so we always end up with a big group going to all these places... its so much fun!!! Oh god its fun!!!!

Well I guess that is about it for now i am going to watch a movie
I just wanted to update you guys a little bit!
I hope everyone is well!!
Miss all of you!!
Gen