Chez Francine

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18 degrees celsius during winter would certainly mean that frenchies are all out and will be spending their time at the beaches or at the lake. For others who have their own piscine/pool, they’ll have a barbecue and will be inviting some of their relatives or friends to come over. If you’ll take a look at google map, mostly of the bordelais have their own pool at the garden except us :-). Well, more and more people are having a pool constructed here and I find that very reasonable. Why am I saying that? Simple. Summer is really hot and during this season, beaches are ver crowded. I saw my neighbors carrying their own pool supplies this morning. Well, that would only mean that they can afford to build one for themselves. It only shows that winter will soon be over and spring will be coming in.

Will be leaving tomorrow after lunch and will be in Cebu on sunday at 7 in the evening. Bought my one-way ticket already

It’s very nice to know that another friend of mine will be getting married very soon. A close friend of mine sent me an email to inform me about this very great news of her life. She’s starting to get crazy now as she and her bf want to have their wedding by September. It’s getting closer though so I’d understand why she goes gaga at present time. Wedding requires a lot of preparations if you wanna have a big celebration. Papers to process for the licenses, the preparations, the foods, the flowers, entourage and etc. Imagine all these things only for a day celebration? It will be quite stressing for sure but it will be a moment to cherish forever.

Well, interracial relationships are very known at this time. I, myself, is into this situation and I’m going to honestly admit that I’m happily married  with my french husband. My friends and I found our prince charming because of the dating sites. It will be very possible for you too to find your prince charming by joining an online dating site and by becoming a member. One of the newest site will be passionsearch.com. The perfect place to be if you’re in passion search and wanna date and fall in love. You better sign up now coz it’s absolutely free!

It feels good to think that I could function all by myself now here in France. I’ve been living here for a year and 11 months to be exact and so far, I’m able to adjust the french kind of life. The only thing I don’t like is that my pimples are still there and I’m still struggling it from day 1 I arrived here till the present time. When I was in PI (for 3 weeks holidays last month for example), I was pimple-free at all and now pimples are popping up one by one again. Ouff!

For other people, they said that french language is the most difficult language to learn because the way the words are written and they way you pronounce these words are completely different. That’s absolutely correct but I have no idea if french is indeed the most difficult language to study as I’m learning this language only aside from english and my native dialect. I really hate grammars and that’s the fact! I could function and talk to the other frenchies now as long as they don’t use unusual vocabularies that I never met in my entire life. I can talk the basic stuffs nor make a debate with you if you want to but never mind with my tenses ok coz that’s one of my problems as well hahaha. Learning french requires someone a lot of memorizing because you have to conjugate every single verb plus there’s this gender for everything as well. I go gaga over these 2 things but who cares? You’ll always learn something from your mistakes and it will help you develop everyday. Some of the people I know are proud of me because I can talk and understand them already for that short span of time but for my husband, he’s not contented about it yet. Well, I understand him because I really have so many mistakes still especially with the tenses of the verbs and yes, I have to review my lessons once again in order to remember all these things. I seriously don’t have any idea when will I have a very good french grammar and when will I have that french accent. The only thing I can say is that I’m working hard on it. To have that french accent isn’t bad at all but the most important thing I guess is to be able to understand, read and express yourself to anyone whereever and no matter what the situations will be. Besides, people will understand you still.

It’s awards time once again and I am so thankful to Jet and Chairman Marie for giving me these 2 lovely awards. Thanks so much ladies and sorry if I posted it very late coz been so busy eversince we came back here from our holidays in PI. So gals are so kind and very generous :-). Touch naman ako

I’m not going to forward these 2 awards coz I do know that mostly of you got it already

I finally have the time to upload our Philippines holiday vacation photos. At lasts! What a miracle right but it feels good to be back once again. It makes me feel alive and energetic ^-^. I don’t really feel good these last days and even this morning, I was very moody but after an hour nap, I felt better and healthier. Anyways, so many photos to check but here are some of the photos I took when we were in Pura Vida resort in Dauin. You guys should check their resort and my ratings on their resort *wink*

inside our chambre (Pura Vida)

 Posing gihapon maski wa pay ligo ug gakalat amo kwarto sa resort lolz

Mata jud kog sayo ani in the morning just to take this morning shot. Ako bana tapulan momata, mas importante daw iya tulog kesa pictures hahaha!

I’ve been browsing several websites in PI already where I could buy online a printer for my brother. I really thought that it will be a very good idea to have one at home especially now that he has so many projects and printing cost at the internet café is expensive. By that, he’ll just stay at home, he can print, scan and photocopy anything and anytime he wants to plus it will be cheaper for us as well. I like the all-in-one printer coz it will be useful for me as well once I’ll be in PI especially the fax one. So far, the printers that I really love are Canon, HP and Lexmark. That printer above is what we have here at home coz it’s cheaper and I wanna have that too in Cebu.

Talking about hubby’s missing luggage, it wasn’t really missing but a delayed luggage only. We got a call from Manila when we were in Dumaguete already. Unfortunately, it wasn’t possible for them to send the luggage in Dumaguete as my husband has to fill-up the form plus the customs had to check it. Our only choice at that time was to wait till we’ll be back in Cebu (luggage waited for us for 13-14 days). Our last trip was a little catastrophic coz first, AirFrance called us at 2 in the morning (flight was at 6 from Bordeaux) to inform us that our flight will be cancelled so we have to take another flight going to Paris and from there, to take a normal flight going to Amsterdam, second, we were overlugagge for 20+ kilos and every kilo cost 30 euros (our miles points saved us so instead of paying, they just deducted our points), 3rd, hubby’s luggage was missing and fourth, hubby really had nothing except himself so we had to do shopping and buy everything. It was not in our budget at all but no choice or else, he’ll be wearing the same thing everyday for a week.

Days after our holidays in Dumaguete and Siquijor, we were back in Cebu before our big flight going back home. That was the time when we claimed hubby’s luggage and requested for 2 shipping boxes from Fedex (promo boxes). We were disappointed and disgusted with their service coz of so many promises that they’ll be claimingn our box on that day and at that time but nobody came in, so we changed our mind and carried our huge box going to UPS office. UPS is not bad at all. The entire staffs are very nice and accomodating and their shipping rate is cheaper compared to Fedex. We sent it February 6 (friday), we left Manila February 7 (saturday) and arrived here same day (france time) and our UPS box arrived here on the 9th of February. We were happy and contented of course coz everything was there, nothing was lost and the fragile stuffs were intact. We paid 9K+ only for 20 kilos so I’m smiling till now coz I have all the items that I bought from Cebu like the linges (for the bedroom), food mixes, Lipton ice tea powder (ssshhh), native bags and purses, local magazines, havaianas and etc.

So thankful that the items I ordered online were delivered this morning. I first thought that I was really left behind from the winter sale but fortunately, I wasn’t really. There are several stores still that were on sale ’till last sunday and bought some stuffs like a new pair of dressy boots, linges once again for the bedroom and etc. For gadgets, I bought it online coz it’s cheaper plus I have discount coupons that are expiredless ^-^. That’s the advantage of discount coupons coz you’ll surely have a discount even if sale season isn’t around anymore. It’s practical actually especially for a person like me who is trying to save a penny every month.