As Benhameen so bluntly reminded me, I have been slacking on updates. And now as I sit here in the library attempting to update, my mind is blank. So in the future I'm going to make a list each night of the things I intend to put in my blog.
A la une this week, Liz is coming to visit. She arrives tomorrow at 14h00, which means that I'll be sleeping til about noon. Then I'll head down to the train station to meet her when she arrives. We've been trying to plan out some activities while she's here and now I think we have it all planned out. Tomorrow night we're going to go to a traditional Savoyard restaurant. Wed. will be a tour of Chambéry day including a tour of the Château. As you well may know, Wed is Halloween and one of the nightclub's is actually having a Halloween party. Not too sure about Thurs., maybe a day-trip to Annecy (the Venice of France). She leaves Friday morning and then it's off to Aix-les-Bains to go to the hot springs.
In style news, Claire put highlights in Jean and Angelica's hair yesterday. That was pretty much an all day affair. My role was very important in the whole ordeal. I laid on the bed and supervised, which means I studied a little, read HP6, and played Snake Xenxia on Claire's phone. They tried to put highlights in my hair, but I refused. However, I am letting my hair grow out. At this point I think it is longer than it ever has been and it's about to drive me crazy. I don't know if I'll be able to make it, but we shall see. Anywho, I can't really think of anything else to post right now so I'll stop writing. I promise the next post will be much more interesting.
Ciao
17 October 2007
La nuit tous les chats sont gris...
So obviously it's been a while since I've posted. Thanks for reminding me, Beckey. Anywho. I have a little time to kill while I'm sitting outside the class that I just decided to drop. Yes, that makes two classes that I've left after the pause. What is wrong with me? I'm tired. That's what it is. I guess. Monday I decided not to take the lit class over the Middle Ages, because I would seriously all asleep every class period if I stayed in there. The teacher was so freaking annoying. He's one of those professors who really doesn't like his job and he is not enthusiastic about the subject at ALL. I was in the front row and it was still hard to understand what he was saying. Plus, he likes to ramble A LOT. Normally, this isn't a problem for me. Most of my teachers back home get off on tangents, even in HS. Beckey, all I'm going to say is "castles." But something seems a little strange when we're studying lit of the MA and a student asks a question about lit OF THE MA and the prof responds, not to the question of the aforementioned student, but rather by talking about his love of German pre-romanticists. Don't get me wrong. I love romanticism as much as the next person, but in the wise words of Mary Poppins, "there is a place for everything and everything in it's place."
Ok. Enough with that. What's going on this week? Tonight, there is a potluck dinner for all of the foreign students in one of the bars downtown. We're all supposed to bring a dish that is stereotypical of or from our country. What is stereotypical of the US? Initially I thought hamburgers, but then was yelled at by the germans :-). So as per the suggestion of my French roommate, Pierre, I am taking pancakes. I do believe I have the easiest dish ever, except for the fact that whenever I make pancakes, I use Bisquick. Therein lies the problem. It doesn't exist in France. Ugh. They have crêpe mix (mmmm, crêpes) out the ass; but alas, it's not the same. So I went to monoprix and found some prepackaged pancakes which I hope will do the trick. I also found maple syrup (mmm, maple syrup). It's no Aunt Jemima, but it will have to suffice. As for the other Americans, Jean made like 50 grilled cheese sandwiches (to which my roommate insisted we add some ham that he had in the fridge which would just make it a French croque-monsieur) and Claire made a green bean casserole. And to answer your question, apparently you can cook a casserole in a toaster oven.
Tomorrow is a big ERASMUS party at the RU and afterwards I'm sure we'll all end up at Charly's. As for the weekend, which I would like to take the opportunity to remind you starts on thursday night, no big plans. Just a tour of the cathedral on Saturday.
Now it's time for lunch so I have to go beat the line. More later.
Ciao
Ok. Enough with that. What's going on this week? Tonight, there is a potluck dinner for all of the foreign students in one of the bars downtown. We're all supposed to bring a dish that is stereotypical of or from our country. What is stereotypical of the US? Initially I thought hamburgers, but then was yelled at by the germans :-). So as per the suggestion of my French roommate, Pierre, I am taking pancakes. I do believe I have the easiest dish ever, except for the fact that whenever I make pancakes, I use Bisquick. Therein lies the problem. It doesn't exist in France. Ugh. They have crêpe mix (mmmm, crêpes) out the ass; but alas, it's not the same. So I went to monoprix and found some prepackaged pancakes which I hope will do the trick. I also found maple syrup (mmm, maple syrup). It's no Aunt Jemima, but it will have to suffice. As for the other Americans, Jean made like 50 grilled cheese sandwiches (to which my roommate insisted we add some ham that he had in the fridge which would just make it a French croque-monsieur) and Claire made a green bean casserole. And to answer your question, apparently you can cook a casserole in a toaster oven.
Tomorrow is a big ERASMUS party at the RU and afterwards I'm sure we'll all end up at Charly's. As for the weekend, which I would like to take the opportunity to remind you starts on thursday night, no big plans. Just a tour of the cathedral on Saturday.
Now it's time for lunch so I have to go beat the line. More later.
Ciao
05 October 2007
Excuse me, sir, but do you realize that you're sleeping on the street?
So this has been a fairly eventful week. Let me start off by saying that I love not having classes on Friday. Especially considering that Thursday is the main party night in Chambéry. So let's start with last night.
After getting out of our perfectionnement de français class, Claire, Jean, Angelica and I went to the RU for dinner. Apparently NOONE eats there at night. There were literally 3 other people eating in there. After that, we went back to our apts to get ready to go out. Sandra (the German) came over at 20h30 with Jean and Claire. This obviously mean pregaming at Eric's. Oh, Captain Morgan, how I miss you. I went to the grocery earlier in the morning to get some liquor. Yes, liquor from the grocery store. :-) Claire and I were craving Capt. When buying rum in France, don't be fooled by what appears to be the Captain, because believe me...it is NOT. What I ended up with was Rhum ambré.
Horrible liquor aside, it was a good night. After pregaming, we went into town around 22h30. We met up with Annika and Christoph (the other Germans) and Peter (Slovakian) at Charly's. We had a few drinks at the pub and left there about 00h30. OMG!!! Let me just say that drunk, nasty French guys piss me off!!! Especially when they vomit on me and Annika. :-( Yes, this is correct. Some random French guy was walking by us and just let it fly. That was not cute. So after that drama, we all went to the Cocktail Club. This was more like an American club than Opéra. There was a lot of American music. Particularly 80s music. Oh and the biggest shock was that they played Cotton-Eyed Joe and that every European seemed to know the words. We left the Cocktail and went home around 03h00. PS. Claire gets very talkative when she is drunk, hence the title of this blog. We saw 3 students passed out on the street and Claire tried to wake up all of them. But all in all, it was a good time, but that's enough about drunken times in Chambéry.
Today has been rather uneventful. I slept til 12h00 and then went to eat at the RU with Claire. And now we are in the library so that we can help Sandra with her English homework. How is it fair that her English homework is watching an episode of Desperate Housewives on the net? Well, I should probably try to be productive now and go to Carrefour or something.
Ciao
After getting out of our perfectionnement de français class, Claire, Jean, Angelica and I went to the RU for dinner. Apparently NOONE eats there at night. There were literally 3 other people eating in there. After that, we went back to our apts to get ready to go out. Sandra (the German) came over at 20h30 with Jean and Claire. This obviously mean pregaming at Eric's. Oh, Captain Morgan, how I miss you. I went to the grocery earlier in the morning to get some liquor. Yes, liquor from the grocery store. :-) Claire and I were craving Capt. When buying rum in France, don't be fooled by what appears to be the Captain, because believe me...it is NOT. What I ended up with was Rhum ambré.
Horrible liquor aside, it was a good night. After pregaming, we went into town around 22h30. We met up with Annika and Christoph (the other Germans) and Peter (Slovakian) at Charly's. We had a few drinks at the pub and left there about 00h30. OMG!!! Let me just say that drunk, nasty French guys piss me off!!! Especially when they vomit on me and Annika. :-( Yes, this is correct. Some random French guy was walking by us and just let it fly. That was not cute. So after that drama, we all went to the Cocktail Club. This was more like an American club than Opéra. There was a lot of American music. Particularly 80s music. Oh and the biggest shock was that they played Cotton-Eyed Joe and that every European seemed to know the words. We left the Cocktail and went home around 03h00. PS. Claire gets very talkative when she is drunk, hence the title of this blog. We saw 3 students passed out on the street and Claire tried to wake up all of them. But all in all, it was a good time, but that's enough about drunken times in Chambéry.
Today has been rather uneventful. I slept til 12h00 and then went to eat at the RU with Claire. And now we are in the library so that we can help Sandra with her English homework. How is it fair that her English homework is watching an episode of Desperate Housewives on the net? Well, I should probably try to be productive now and go to Carrefour or something.
Ciao
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