25 Thousand People came to hear a DJ. What nonsense!

Yep, I know that feeling.

Just a Little One

It was raining when I got out of class today, and as much as I wanted to do some shop shoppin' I'm trying my darndest not to blow my money in the first couple weeks. SO I got the guts to go to a bar. I ordered a blonde Belgian and I guess the quiche and the cookie I had eaten for lunch were not enough because it gave me that muzzy allover feeling you get when you have one drink on a principally empty stomach. The barman was so sweet even though he could tell I didn't speak french he let me pretend. When I left I could no longer remember where I had parked my bike. Finally after I wandered around for forty or fifty minutes the city started to make sense. I found my way back to my bike, (less than 50 meters from the bar, that's right, it's meters now), and it was a real pity my camera gave its life for me to see clearly because it was exactly the moment that I began to notice how extraordinary everything is around me, on the same route I have taken now a week.
All I needed was one little drink.

True it is that the moment we would stop searching, we find it.

Mariée ou pendue avant la fin de l'année.

For some reason I don't get sunburned at this altitude. It is probably because it's Elysium. 

Nouvelles week-end

On Friday a relation of my host family visited from Germany for dinner and it was a really great chance for me to hear them discussing politics and philosophy. Very quickly it became a question of the differences between the sexes, a doorstep for strong views, and incomprehensibly fast speaking. In class I learned a euphemism for interminable disputes which is "Il y a de l'eau dans le gaz", comparing it to the physical phenomenon which changes the color of the flame and recalls the sound of an approaching explosion.

On Saturday the weather finally picked up and I took a shopping tour of the city. We passed a group of bachelors in the street wearing matching homemade t-shirts and my host mom told me they were honoring a pre-marriage tradition where the men and the women are split into teams and the bride and groom dress in a ridiculous costume and have a mission to complete. We were lucky enough to witness a sexy bunny, in the case of the groom having to persuade women to kiss him. I don't doubt there is something like this in the U.S. nowadays but I've never heard of it!

 I brought home this fish ring from Bijou Brigitte. Too cool.