Social Life

So, this past week was pretty solid.  I had a bunch of really good classes and did some fun stuff.  My living quarters are thirty times cozier now that I hung up my tapestry and pictures and a Gustav Klimt poster that I found.  Although it is a bit mismatched.  Sadly, my duvet cover is of the New York skyline- haha!!  I bought rainbow sheets at the market in town on the second day I was here because I was depressed by all of the white in my room.  Then, I went shopping for duvet covers and the only neutral choice was a black and white New York skyline print - which doesn't seem that bad.  Until you are an American girl, who actually lives sort of near there and it looks like you are obsessed with yourself. :o), sweet.

Last weekend, we went to Paris and stayed over Saturday night.  Ceci and I went to all our favorite places and the weather was absolute perfection- 70 and sunny.  We met the most adorable American couple from Baltimore in our favorite quiche restaurant.  They take a month a year to go to Paris together and rent an apartment on the left bank.  They each got a coffee and a lemon tart and you could tell they just loved being together.  So we all went on and on about how much we love Paris and then they left holding hands. Wonderful.

We did some shopping and Ceci bought super euro kicks with little stars on them, which I offered to remove, hahaha. Then for dinner we got fondue at this great place where they serve wine in baby bottles- where mine was actually an inverted nipple so I had to get a replacement bottle, no joke.  After that, we went to Rue Princesse for some hanging out and then to Le Mix- where it was gay night, unbeknownst to us.   We danced to the likes of Madonna's "Holiday" and Britney Spears' "Crazy".   Very, very interesting experience.  There was a lady there making balloon hats for everyone, which was a little added bonus.

Cecilia came here this weekend and we did some exploring.  As it turns out, Beauvais has some secret gems for meeting people/live music/ tasty drinks.  Like an Irish Pub called "After Hours" which plays really loud taped live shows all night like Foo Fighters and Red Hot Chili Peppers--- and a Harry Potter bar/restaurant with live music on the weekends complete with a full out themed menu including a drink named, "Vous savez qui" in English, "you know who"- yes, yes- voldemort.  too funny.

On Friday, we met some British guys who were in town filming a video for what they described to be "The John Deere of France", which I laughed at for probably too long && on Saturday we met some interesting French characters at the harry potter joint.  

There was a beautiful artisan market that was in town for just this weekend- with red and white striped tents in the town square near the carousel- so picturesque. Yet SO impractical.  This nice Belgian man was describing to us about this dehydrated, not dried, fruit- which keeps in all of the natural vitamins and sweetness.  Well, we were pretty impressed by the sample he gave us.  Annnnd we each picked up a little box to fill- pears, strawberries, mango, kiwi, ginger, etc.

Mine cost 11 euros.  Cecilia's was 7 euros.

I decided after that, that I need to familiarize myself better with the metric system.

Bon Appetit!