The end of the Toussaints break is Wednesday and sadly I didn't really do anything special the whole time. I did make myself a lot more social though so that's a plus. I went to an assistant's "flat party"on Friday, which was bizarre. When I first got there, it was just a few friends I knew (very chic friends, the type who dress nice and speak French really well and eat fancy food) and then a French guy, an Italian girl, and an Indian girl, all of whom spoke at least two languages fluently which in my mind automatically makes them ten times more sophisticated than me. I was feeling very out of place with this small group of 6 or 7 fancy people until pockets of 3 or 4 American/Canadian/British assistants started showing up, most of them with two or three bottles of wine in tow, and suddenly this gathering went from sophisticated dinner gathering to full fledged Erasmus style wine induced party. It was pretty overwhelming. But not as overwhelming as when all 30 of us made our way to the metro to go to a bar downtown. Luckily I instantly made a friend when this girl announced she wanted to go to a bar near Pigalle (ie. near me!) so I went with her and a few others. This girl turned out to be from Tucson, a graduate of Colorado College, and a friend of a friend of mine from CU. So, small world. But you all should be proud of me because I made an attempt to be social and it sort of worked, as I came out of it with a handful of new friends. And one more funny story - this girl Ernestine was visting my friend Becca and so she had plenty of American money on her and the Italian girl noticed this and was purely amazed to be seeing an American dollar. Ernestine gave her a dollar (since it's hardly worth anything anyway here, especially) and the French guy, the Indian girl, and the Italian girl exclaimed over it for about 10 minutes, gawking at how much it reminded them of Monopoly money. Which makes no sense, b/c Monopoly money is multicolored, and so is the euro, not the dollar. So, foreigners are kinda dumb. :-)
Also, Devon and I went to a tennis tournament on Wednesday and got to see him really close:
Sadly my camera is relatively worthless in this age of digital greatness so poor Marcos Baghdatis is very blurry. We also got to see my other favorite, Novak Djokovic, and then a handful of other cool people like Roger Federer, James Blake, and Rafa Nadal. We sat in on a doubles match and after that match they brought on some players to practice. We were almost out the door when I saw on the other side of the court a yellow racket - Rafa! So that was cool since we actually missed his match.
Anyhow what else. Ate lamb last night at a friend's house. It was really good. And her apartment is pretty cool b/c it's right off the Boulevard de Grandes Armées (c'est à dire, in between the Grande Arche and the Arc de Triomphe.) So it was a pretty cool walk at night with both arches lit up. And I really miss my cat. Not to be the crazy cat lady but I found this video on my computer and I think it's really funny and I'm also very proud of the fact I've discovered how to post things in my blog. So here is my cat watching herself on video. (At the bottom of the tv screen you'll see two little cat ears.) That's all for now.
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