It has been about one week that I moved to my new house, and till now, I think it was a great decision of mine: Indeed, I like this new place quite a lot, although my new room is about twice smaller than the room that I had :D.

The first thing I like about this house is that it’s much closer to school. Instead of 30 or 45 minutes, it takes me now 5 or 7 minutes to drive to school. I even can walk to school if I want. This change is noticeable, especially sometimes, you just have to go to school for a mandatory coaching meeting of 30 minutes with your teacher with the teacher. Moreover, these few days, there is a sudden cold: it was sunny last Tuesday, then snowed the next two days!

The second thing I like about this house is the conform. My room is smaller, I still have to share the toilette, bathrooms, kitchen with a dozen of people, but I have my room very near to the kitchen, the bathroom, the toilette; I have a place to put my kitchen stuffs within the kitchen, thus, don’t have to come back and forth to bring my stuffs every time I cook. Furthermore, unlike my former house where you can go everywhere within the house once you get inside, in this new house, every corridor have a clocked door that only the ones of the corridor can open. Thus, I don’t have the feeling that the little door of my room is the frontier between my private place and public place anymore. The evening is calmer, I feel safe to let my door unlocked every time I go in the kitchen or the bathroom and I feel that it’s more “home”.

The third thing I like is the clean kitchen. Indeed, the kitchen is a shared place for only the people from the corridor instead of a public place for whoever who come inside of the whole house, the student manager of my new house are also more exigent and my neighbors are very willing to keep the place clean. Moreover, we truly have a common eating room with nice couches, a table and a television. I can feel very comfortable now to invite my friends to have dinner :D.

I think however that the most important thing I like about this new place is my neighbors: they are very nice and interesting. In the corridor, we are 1 Finish girl, 2 German guys, 3 Spanish girls, 1 French girl, 1 South-Korean girl and maybe some others that I don’t know yet.
Nina – from Finland- is always smiley. She is always patient to listen to my story with a lovely smile, and really loves to come to Paris.  She studies the Communications in the University of Groningen, and focus on Communication within relationships – doesn’t it sound great?
Nicolai and Florian are from Germany. Nicolai studies Psychology and is the person who says something to me like “[…] I know you are Vietnamese and not Chinese but […]” at the second time we talked to each other. You might don’t know but a simple sentence like this really makes me have another look at a Western: he should at least cares and knows sufficiently to remember the name of my country since the first time, and acknowledge that “Asia has more countries than just China”.
Florian he has a very interesting profile: after his high school, he spent one year in Argentina for social service, half of a year in England, hence his British accent. He has finished his bachelor in Germany and is doing now his first year of Master in the Netherlands on Industry engineering management and plans to go to Barcelona next year.
When I first met Alix, I didn’t think that she was French: she doesn’t have the “typical French look” in my eyes, nor the “Frenglish accent”. I was even more surprised to know that she was from Dauphine university and was even younger than me: she looks much more mature than her age. I haven’t had many occasions to talk to her but will definitely find more. 
So Young is from South-Korea. Like Nina, she is always smiley and studies the Journalism. I’d really love to discuss with her, as I’m curious about the real South-Korean society that I’ve just known about through their music and cinema.  I haven’t talked a lot with the Spanish girls, but I have a very good impression about them: they are smiley, friendly and kind. 

To conclude, since my arriving here, I eat much healthier, go more to the supermarkets, to the kitchen. I don’t know much about my neighbors, but I feel warm being with them. Yesterday, there was the match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, the guys were watching on the television in the common room while I did my kitchen duty and discussed with Nina about the trip to Paris. We talked and laughed a lot. It was a lovely evening.