Weekend update!

This is from last weekend. After our adventure up towards montmartre we went to a café called the ant.

There was a spider so I caught it in my glass and we drowned it.
This weekend.. sorry for lack of updates, I've been so busy! And in a weird funk. Anyway, Friday I promised I would stay in. Instead I went out. I wrote about 8 pages single spaced and missed Ellen's bday dinner because I needed to work and wasn't feeling well. Then randomly at around 12:30 I decided I wanted to go out. Nicholl happened to too, so we went to Chez Moune and it was packed. The girls next to us ended up giving us a bottle of vodka because they had a bottle but were leaving. The strangers a bottle attracts.. people tried to bribe me to get a drink.

We left an hour later, Nicholl wasn't feeling well.

Next morning Jacob and Priya and I went to my fav place, Rose Bakery

Stuck with my tried and true cheese croissant with scrambled eggs.

Jacob walked me home to pick up an umbrella then we went to the train and took it over together. I went to Nassim's and Lindsays, originally to do work with Nassim but at 4 I was supposed to film with Lindsay anyway. Paige came and met us and at 7:30 we finally finished our Magic Toothbrush movie for our advanced spoken class. Tomorrow is my appointment for the editing.

Then that night, shit got complicated. We ended up going to Carmen, then we went to Le Tigre and ran into these guys: Aris & Chris

Stayed out until about 3-4, I felt sick, which always happens at Le Tigre, that place is NOT meant for me. I really wanted to go home, I was in a bad bad mood. In the cab back I was hiccuping and the driver kept looking back at me and asked if I was going to vomit. I said no, that I was hiccuping, but I didn't remember the word for hiccup, so I asked if he understood the english word, which he said no to, so I pointed to my mouth and said "like this like this" and hiccuped and I think he understood.

I do NOT remember going back home though. Oh boy.

Next morning we woke up pretty early, Nicholl asked if I wanted to get some lunch at le Select. I got a croque madame without the jambon.

Then slept for 6 hours, got up, did some work, went back to sleep for 4 more hours, went to school, classes all day, a presentation, a paper due, and a quiz today. Oh boy.

Priya and I presented our project to our advanced convo class on McDonalds and Starbucks in France, what works here culturally, what doesn't, we presented the issue of globalization and the destruction of culture, or perhaps, a creation of new culture. This reminded me a lot of my globalization class I took in Shanghai, which essentially asked, what is "Authentic culture" anyway, is there even such a thing? is it determinable? and the end answer is there isn't such a thing, so globalization isn't destroying anything but instead it's creating a new culture, and that authentic culture encompasses a fluidity, a change, a mobility of culture rather than a static period of time, since culture is always always in flux.

Anywho, afterwards, to celebrate, we decided to go to McDonalds, which is so much better quality here. The McDonalds in Passy across from school looks like a boutique. This is what happened

me: "Priya, is it just me or does it smell like poop in here"

Priya: "no it smells like poop"

me: "I'm gonna barf. Can we leave."

.... 5 mins later

me: "It really smells like poop"

Priya: "yeah it does.. it's disgusting... Oh.. I think I know what it is.. There was a sign on the door that said their bathrooms are broken...."

me: "OH MY GOD WE'RE LEAVING"

then we went to Priya's apartment which is like 2 mins away from school and we talked for an hour or so. Now I am at home. Blah blah blah. 11 days. 10 days because 1 day is all traveling. Yikes.

i secretly taped the convo I had with the cab driver on the way to Carmen. I was NOT drunk at this point so my french is not as good as it is later in the night when engaging in a discussion with a cab driver. I'm much faster and deeper when I'm drunk, I swear.