In transit
That's my current situation. In a previous post, I
described in the best words I could how I moved out of my house. At the moment,
I'm using the hospitality of my friends E. and Y., both Frenchman
working in the same department as me. This situation has been lasting since the
first of December and it's going to end soon on the 17 of December. Although I'm
more than very grateful to my friends, I'm quiet eager to go back into a house
on my own. (it will be a shared house with total strangers).
From the last 13 days, I have been learning why I
couldn't leave with my mates.
Don't get me wrong, I love them to pieces, they are
very nice human beings, I spent already most of my day with them and could
hardly imagine my expat life without having their continuous friendship and
support.
The first thing I have some problem with is
(naturally for a French) the way they are eating. I have some gastric reflux
matter and I have to be disciplined in the way I'm eating. One of the best way
to avoid burning, is to avoid being hungry. So trying to reduce carbohydrate, specially
at dinner is a good way to prevent hunger appearing while you are sleeping. It's
also better to go to sleep after letting enough time to your stomach to get
empty. My friends tend to eat at 10 pm and the routine is pasta - sausages.
Extra can be potatoes, but they are quiet anti-vegetables. I have to say that my
stomach is hurting me worst than before.
The other thing is the presence of a fourth
occupier, namely a cat. Of course, Ramses like to scrap the doormat at 5 am, of
course he like to claws the cat door or anything noisy when I'm sleeping. I like
cats, but I have found this one not so friendly. In addition, on Thursday, I
realised in the middle of the morning that the cat had been peeing on my
trousers... It was getting even worse because the day was rainy, the smell
become hard to stand while the trousers was drying.
Anyway, it will soon finish, on the 17 of December,
I go for my Christmas holiday, see familly and friends. I haven't been home for
6 months and I'm really eager. At my return, I'm going to move I my new room, in
a decent and warm house.