Nearly murdered ! 10/01/2014

I have not written for a while. It is that I 've had a near murder in my sleep experience which let me emotionaly quite upset. I am recovering....

For the good comprehension of the story, I have to mention what happened last sunday evening, when I went back from my little dowtown tour. I asked Cristina if I could have a cup of tea, because I was very thirsty and I was NOT GOING TO GO TO THE MALL for that ! She winced but accepted to boil water for me, provided I actually had my own tea bags. Then I took the cup in my bedroom, because I was not welcome in the kitchen, and there is no living room. Doing that I actually broke two rules in a row; a student is not allowed to make a cup of tea, and is not allowed to have a drink in his bedroom. However...

 

Monday was my first day of school. The school is located in the center of dowtown, next to all the shopping stores you could dream of. It is settled on the four first floors of a tower. It is a little bit outdated and narrow, but well organised. And the staff seem to be quite serious, professional, and comprehensive regarding my personal host family situation. Kitty , the person in charge of students ccomodation, found another host family for me I could join in the next couple weeks.

All the new students had a written test to evaluate their level in the morning and I had my first English class in the afternoon. The sudents are mostly young under 25, we are very few over 40. Most of them come from Japan or South Korea in Asia, Germany or Switzerland in Europe, Saoudi Arabia in the middle East. As you can see mainly rather economically privileged countries.

I had dinner with my two house mates at night at Cristina's. Manuela, a very sweet and easy going girl in her 30s, is from Switerland. And Naoko, an also sweet girl with a very low level of English, is 29 and comes from Japan.

Naoko was treated like rubbish when she went home and had a hard time with the key, not being capable to open the door.

Tuesday, Kitty told me she had Cristina on the phone who complained about me, and that I was to move next thursday to a temporary family.

In the evening we attended this Yoga class that Manuela told us about. Manuela texted Cristina to tell her we might be late for dinner. So we arrived home at 8.30 pm instead of 8 pm expected. We supposed Cristina would be angry and would make us wait for the dinner to be ready.And guess what, not only the dinner was not ready, but there was none, so she sent us to the mall because we were not clear about the fact that we would come back for dinner! We ended up eating tasteless lasagnas at the mall and came back home at 10 pm nearly after the curfew!

At 11pm, I heard somebody knock at my door. It was Cyrus, Cristina's husband,  I had not met him yet. "Hi Cyrus, nice to meet you!" And I see this tall, wild black haired and wild shouldered guy telling me : "You upset my wife, I want you to leave my house... tomorrow morning. You are Lucky I do not ask you to leave now!" That was a nice introduction! He is this kind of guy you always agree with, so I said "ok . I understand." And I packed my actually unpacked stuff (because I felt at the first sight the stay would not be long). No need to say I did not move a toe during the night, fearing the anger of the big guy, who I felt capable of murder...The next morning, I went to the kitchen to have my last breakfast, and Cristina popped up to tell me "You are leaving today so breakfast is not included, you cannot have breakfast here". That was the last benevolent intervention of Cristina. When I said goodbye to them, Cyrus told me something like "when you ask for a blanket, you get a blanket, and when you ask for a pilow you get a pilow" I did not get wether this was supposed to be philosophical or merely practical (I had actually asked the night before for a blanket and a pilow because I was cold and uncomfortable). And Cristina did not even turn her back to say goodbye.


How I ran away from the wicked witch and her barbarian's house...

Well I am making fun of it but I was actually very upset the whole day. I felt like having been mistreated, being thrown out like rubbish. It was not that cool!