Hey there stranger...

Hello, it's been a while. how are you?
i'm doing alright thanks for asking.

So... the past week. here goes

let's start by saying we no longer are going by the schedule on a sheet of paper that's been guiding us around for the past two weeks. kind of a cool milestone- done with orientation!

Monday
fridge works!! and they changed the angle a touch so now i REALLY like the setup of my room. those fixit guys must be interior decorators in their spare time
we took a lovely ride on a batobus (and by lovely i mean i slept the whole time). i knew i would, moving vehicles and sitting too long in one place does this to me. so i just shifted to a seat where i could lean on something and enjoyed the relaxing feeling of being on the water
that afternoon we learned about how to write disseratations for our classes- which is basically the same as an "Essay" or a "paper" at home, but the format is fairly specific. so that's good to know. we won't have to write very many though YAY

We had a family dinner monday night :) lena, samantha, sam's boy person, neta, and myself. it was nice :) as we all know, i LOVE my crepes. so in an effort to be economical, i bought a pack of 12 premade crepes, some fake nutella (better than the real stuff i promise), and some bananasssss and made me own!!! i'm sure there are better ways to make them because they're crazy crunchy when i do it but they taste yummy and it keeps me from spending 3 euros everytime i want one :) yay me!

Tuesday
We had class with Ioulia again oh my fucking god. sooooo boring i can't take it. but she's nice :) i wrote letters while she talked to stay awake. i have nothing more to say on the subject- except according to the schedule she talked about the EU. great
that afternoon we took a trip to see les passages couverts. which are like small side streets of stores that have a roof- like a tiny tiny mall with 10ish stores and cafes each. sometimes they're pretty expensive stores but they're fun to check out
we went into this one and after a second i realized I HAD BEEN THERE BEFORE! that was really fun :) i found this awesome adorable store there where i bought my mom a bag and my brother a toothbrush holder over the summer. it had the coolest cutest strangest most useless yet useful things :) so that was fun
it snowed :P
that night we had a special dinner with the 4 of us and hélène- we chose mexican YYAYYY!! i had fajitas and my first alcoholic pina colada- i prefer it without hahah. then the waiter brought us a tray of tequila shots on the house :) before this trip i could not physically take shots... this particular one was a touch difficult, i got 3/4 down the first try and the rest the second try haha. they invited us to a special party on saturday but no one went. but maybe another time :)
and i got to do sam's and lena's nails that night!! i loveeeee doing nails haahahah duh.

Wednesday
We went to this dumb thing at the regional conseil place. i played a smoothie game on my ipod. it was like "paris is great! this is what we do for it". and so boring. don't care. but i got a reusable grocery bag out of it.
that afternoon we had nothing to do. so it was a weird time, i tried to nap and i felt kind of upset so i didn't want ot go downstairs. so i got lonely upstairs. and i couldn't nap but i was tired. i watched lost. anddddd i didn't sleep well that night. c'est la vie

Thursday
First day of classssss!!!!! this is the 2 hours a day 5 days a week uber grammar and language class. we all were placed in the same level and i'm in the same class as haley janne. we loveeeee our professor he's this adorable man who makes really silly jokes but i can tell he'll make sure we learn and will be available and stuff so that's cool. i'm really excited :) i just have to work really hard to keep myself awake. the best news: 5th floor, no elevator. FML. ughhhh it's awful but whatevs ill survive. the bathroom is ALLL the way downstairs too so it sucks if you have to go. i may make a point of getting up after an hour each class. we'll see.
i found out the word laminate is plastifier in french. i have to laminate my valentine's day gift :) so that'll be fun i think- laminating in paris :) how exciting!! it's the little things really...

Friday
class again :) that afternoon we went with hélène to take a phonetics placement exam- the lady said i have an american accent. no SHIT sherlock. she was nice though :) we talked about my italian last name and how it cracks me up that here im "nee-nAh sheel-bare" etc. :)
i had an interviewish thing with the theatre i'm supposed to work at for my internship. i said a whole two sentences, otherwise she mostly just talked to Thomas who accompanied me from IFE. it's a very small franco-italian theatre that focuses on contemporary stuff that shows the power of words- basically. so they do poetry and art and things also. pretty interesting
and that nighttttttt.... drumroll..... DINNER WITH LISEEEEE!!!
lise used to live in marseille, and was one of the hosting students from the theatre conservatory. her best friend julien as my host and lise was laura's host this past summer and laura's here right now too so we wanted to meet up with her since lise lives in paris. so we went out to chinese and we got to meet her friend and cousin who were hysterical. it was so cool to get to see her :) and i got my juju's number!! so i can make plans to go to marseille and visit himm. she's so sweet and funny and i can't wait to see her again!!

Saturday
grocery shopping to the max. i stocked up on snacks and stuff so i have things to bring to eat for lunch and i bought MEAT for a CHEESEBURGER OMG. one of my favorite things. so i made that for dinner last night with potatoes. it was AMAZINGGG i love meat. can't wait to do that again :) hung out with lena for the better part of the afternoon and evening then went upstairs and videochatted like usual for hours <3

and now it is Sunday WHOA.
we are halfway through february. pretty cool :)
i watched cloudy with a chance of meatballs today. best movie.
"YOU SEE THIS CONTACT FLINT?! THAT REPRESENTS YOU. AND YOU SEE MY EYE? THAT REPRESENTS MY EYE.
AND I'VE GOT MY EYE
ON YOU." Hhahaahahahahahhaha

"we've got carpe to diem!"

i cut my thumb really badly while eating an avocado the other day. i dropped my computer on my foot. my leg is cut in multiple places from my new boots. and the list goes onnnnnnn so all is normal with me :) and i knocked over an eggroll and two chopsticks during chinese the other night.

looking forward to class next week.

looking forward to june 1st.

but i'm ok for now :)