Day 17 & Day 18

Day 17 & Day 18:

Monday, April 6, 2009 & Tuesday, April 7, 2009: Because Monday was so insignificant, I included it in Tuesday. Yesterday, the only cool thing that I did was go to the Rhone after class to work on a paper. I went with Lance, Zoe, Melissa, and Shawna. I discovered that there was wireless access there so naturally, little work actually got done. I went home and wrote the paper and did my homework after dinner. Also important to note, today marked the end of the students’ greve (strike).


Today (Tuesday) was pretty insignificant as well. The only interesting thing today was that after I returned home from 6 hours of classes, Jacqueline and Bernard had a friend and her daughter over for an aperitif. It was the daughter’s 5th birthday. The mother (I wish I could remember her name) lived in England for nine years and married an Englishman; the girl’s father. She could speak both English and French but was too shy for either.

We talked about American and French politics and when she had to go, she invited John and me over for an aperitif another time so that we could meet her husband. In France, it is a huge deal to be invited over to someone’s home.

Tuesday night, Lance and I went to the bar to meet Melissa’s correspondent. She was born in England to English artists who moved to the South of France to work and raise their daughter. She is 25 and bilingual. She wants to work as a translator or books after she graduates. She also has an American boyfriend and wants to move to the U.S. to live with him.

She was rather boring and not very social. So Lance and I kept drinking until the rest of our friends arrived later. We stayed at this bar for a while before moving to the Pub on Rue de la Republique – our usual watering hole. We decided not to stay out too late because we had plans for tomorrow.

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