I returned to France again in 2005. I travelled to Paris firstly and then to Marseille. I stayed firstly with Marguerite from couchsurfing and I had a great time with her. She took me to the theater in Avignon, I didn't understand much of the performance because it was in French, but I really enjoyed it. We visited also Cassis and Calanques. I met someone in Marseille and a little love story started between us. I left to Montpellier for the weekend but then I returned to Marseille to stay there with the guy and we explored together many places in the south of France, we travelled to Nimes and Aix en Provence. Then I left and the love story was over (at least for some years).
In 2007 I moved to Wageningen in the Netherlands to study there at the university. I had studied economics and management before but I decided to continue my master in marketing there because I found social sciences more interesting than marketing. Wageningen is a small town with only 35 000 inhabitants and there weren't many opportunities to do couchsurfing, so I hosted only a few people during my stay there and I visited also a few people in other cities, I was couchsurfing in Eindhoven, Oss and Rotterdam.
I arrived to Netherlands in August 2007 for the Introduction days. It was quite cold when we arrived there, only 13°C. The very changeable weather only deteriorated my mood, it changed very fast and it could be sunny and rainy again. We participated at several activities during the Introduction days, some of them I enjoyed and the others not so much, but watching the movie on the square by the church was great.
I was very sceptical firstly about my studies in the Netherlands because my study adviser and other students who had been studying there scared me that it the studies there were very demanding and I wasn't sure if I could cope it. However, as it showed up later, the studies of marketing and other social sciences at the Wageningen university were not demanding at all. The university is well known for the subjects related to plant and animal sciences and food technology, but marketing and social sciences are rather marginal, therefore I didn't devote much time to my studies. The subjects were quite easy, it was usually sufficient to study a few days for the exam to pass it and the large emphasis was put on the group work, we had to prepare a project together during the period. One period lasted two months and there was an exam week at the end of the each period. Each school year had 5 periods, the first one starting in September and the last one finishing in June.
I decided firstly to study communication studies, but later I changed it to marketing, however I took some additional subjects of communication and I enjoyed it a lot. The subjects Communication strategies in everyday life and Intercultural communication were really interesting and I learnt some useful things. Subjects related to marketing were also interesting at first but later became a bit repetitive. I passed all exams for the first time.