Attnang -> Strasbourg, sans retour!

So, finally I'm in France, in the beautiful city Strasbourg.
But let's start at the beginning:
It was wednesday, July 23rd. I had a nice day preparing stuff and things for my trip to France. At 5pm i went to the train station in Attnang to get a ticket to Strasbourg for thursday. That was the plan, but at the train station they told me that there are no cheap tickets ("Sparschiene") left and i would have to pay ~90€ or go on tuesday. That was a little problem, because my french school starts on monday! Luckily i found out, that there were still tickets left for the sleeping car (Liegewagen). The catch: I had to go today (still wednesday) at 10pm. That resulted in a stressful evening of packing, and then i still had to drink a goodbye-bottle of wine with my family ;).
In the end everything turned out fine.
After a loooong train ride I arrived in Strasburg at ~7am. After one not very restorative night of something not worth beion called "sleep" (don't try that at home! spending the whole night in a train really sucks!) the 2km walk (carrying/pulling all my damn heavy luggage) to the student hostel took nearly one hour. But then I got my room, took a shower and fell asleep. *mmhhhh*

So, enought blabla for today. Everything about Strasbourg (and some photos) will follow...

luggage = heavy! (seriously!!)

I had to stay 8 hours in there:

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Today is July 20th and this is my first blog entry. Don't expect much, I'm still at home in Austria.
I went to the university signed my Erasmus contract today and now I look forward to recieve ~2600€ from EU and the Austrian government. I hate all that paperwork, but in the end i will pay off ;)
What else? I recieved the contract for the residence in France along with some other paperwork and they want everything filled out and signed until August 17th. And yes, of course they want some money too! By the way, on the envelope they called my home town "Attnanz-Puchheim". How evil!

So what comes next... I will go to Strasbourg by train on Tuesday or Friday evening and will arrive there early in the morning. After (maybe) one night in Strasbourg there comes Paris and then on Sunday afternoon I have to go to Brest to my host family from the language school.

And: If you plan to visit France during the next year, keep in mind that I would be happy about some guests in Nantes or a cup of coffee in Paris.

Well, then see you in France!!

Alex