I finally got back to town and I see Arya. I was soooo happy. Since Seppy was so adamant about studying for his finals, I took Arya around the city. I won't bore you with the details but pretty much did the same things I did with my sister (Sacre Coeur, Louvre, Eiffel Tower, etc etc.) But check out the cool picture I took from inside the Louvre
You can see Eiffel, Louvre, and Champs-Elysees |
Super hood.
OH also the was an Arash restaurant which brings the "Arash" sightings to 2.
New Years:
Prelude:
I want to start out by saying that I am a bitter old man and believe that new years is one of the most overrated holidays ever. Reasons being
- It starts way too early and everyone wants to be drunk by midnight which causes people to over drink.
- Its like your 21st birthday. You expect too much but the problem is that EVERYONE expects too much.
- Pressure of being with someone, makes you feel lonely.
- Everyone has plans so its really hard to have all your friends with you.
I have a new idea. Lets boycott New Years next year by sleeping before New Years. Okay stopping bitter and explaining why this new years was soooo much fun.
Song, but no one listens to them:
The beginning of the song makes me kinda sad about not living in NYC.
Back to NYE:
I will have to say that the best thing about NYE in Paris, is that the metro is free ALL day. This is great cause we had to take the RER which would have been about 12 euros and since I had 25 euro in my wallet, that would have been BADDDDDDDDDDD.
We meet up with Miriam and take the metro to Lillian's friends place (same Lillian from Aachen).
Now you might be wondering, what is going on? Well like most things in life, it all starts with a kiss.
When I met Miriam, she had red lipstick and she kissed my cheek.
Normal right? But when we got into the metro with these Moroccan boys
They see the kiss and start joking with us. They asked who kissed me(this is all in French) and one of us told them. Then they starting asking Miriam for a kiss. They offer her 10 and she accepts (kiss on the cheek) more talking blah blah and the boys of course say no. Then they tell Miriams friend that if she gives one of them a kiss on the cheek, they will give her 40 euros. Friend accepts. As Miriam's friend is going in for the kiss, being that Miriam is Moroccan and know boys wont give the money she lunges after the 40 euros
She grabs it but cant get all of it so it rips in half.
And thats how we go to here
The boys were really convincing and at one point Arya, Seppy and I thought we were going to lose Miriam, but like all good things, it came to an end and we were at our location.
Blah blah blah, get to Lillians friends place, Isebella (?)
Boys take shots |
Get excited when we see this on the fridge. Take it as a sign as we were flying out the next morning to go to Barthalona. |
Start walking towards Champs-Elysees for new years and see people going to a masquerade party
Take cool picture :). Parisians are so classy.
New years happens
Meet the coolest homeless looking man ever. The guy on the right takes out picture before new years. Being that I am classy, I am walking around with a bottle of wine. He comes up to me gives me eiffel tower filled with whiskey and then I give him my bottle of wine. I love Paris. Sharing is caring.
We get on the metro and see this kid stumbling around and the dad trying to hold him up.
At this moment we realized that not only do French people dress their kids like adults but they also have them drink like adults.
We go to Social Club which is a super hipster club
High light of the night, at least for me was that randomly these guys started to fight. Being that all French guys are suppeeerrrr skinny, and me feeling like a badass I got in there and semi broke up the fight. Honestly I don't know why I did it, and how I didn't get punched in the process, but the fight was broken up and the party continued.
Song:
We leave around 4 AM ish and get back on the metro.
Then it happens again.
You again might be wondering, what is going on in this picture. WELLLLLLLL Miriam is standing in the metro and this white guy comes in to look at the map in the metro car but gets really close to Miriam so Miriam tells him to back off. Not really sure what happens but then the white guy's friend comes in the car and starts talking to Miriam. From what Miriam told me, the guy was again Moroccan (she apparently gets attacked by Moroccan guys all the time).
This is what I think happend
Mohammad (this is what we will call him): Where are you from?
Miriam: America
Mohammad: No you're not, you're Moroccan
Then some how Miriam sits on the group and the guy is talking to her
Mohammad: You should be proud of your heritage. <- somewhere during this talk hes playing with her cheeks, I know such weird people
Below is Miriam explaining the situation
Apparently not all the lines were working so we got of far from Vicky's place and walked (mind you that it was 4:40 when we got out of metro and the trains start again at 5).
This is the route we took
We get to Miriam's friends place at 5:20.... should have just waited for the Metro to open up again.
Over all Impression of New Years:
Okay fine. It was lots of fun. Good stories. Exciting and meet some interesting people like
This guy that spoke perfect American. If you want to compliment someone tell them that they speak good American (that means they have a good American accent). Its funny cause they learn English with a UK or American accent.
Update on me:
I am in Madrid. I had no internet in Barcelona. Will be going to Valencia tomorrow. I need to go to bathroom so I am pressing Publish Post.
YES! FIRST!
ReplyDeleteI actually listened to a song this time. It was pretty good. It was the Barbara Streisand one.
Miriam is probably hit on by Moroccans because she is nice and topol. Middle eastern men love that. I love it too.
Arash you look skinny man. Come to Vancouver, we'll eat like Kings again.
Loved the map of your route.
read. i was soo close to being first. your commentary on the metro video is hilarious
ReplyDeleteread. how did i come in third? and how the hell did arya manage to not get in any of the videos?
ReplyDeleteRead.
ReplyDeleteI went to Morocco once...it reminded me of a shitty version of Iran
ReplyDeleteread. bet it was hilarious to see skinny guys in a fight. i would have laughed.
ReplyDeleteHey Arash, I hear you are coming back earlier than I thought. are you going to keep your blog updated after you come back? what the name will be then? after TSPing Through Euroupe?
ReplyDeleteoh by the way; am I one of the Urkels?
@Sepanta Arya is elusive brah and hes trying to be hipster and not get in any of the pictures.
ReplyDelete@Milad still want to go
@Neda super funny. I felt like a giant
@Rostam I am not sure khaleh. I might make another blog. I think I will make it kickinitinus or something. might jsut keep it cause I have so many followers. :)