How long will I be waiting?... Until the end of time...

So... I don't have too much to update but I haven't written in a while, so I figured I'd put a few things on paper before they get too too old.

Last Saturday night, Heather, Kelsey, Nick C., and I decided to go to the mall in town to see a movie, and based on the choices of what was playing in English, ended up going to see Dream Girls. It's... ummm... a musical. The story behind it is a good one, but there's... well.... a lot of singing... and they even talk in song sometimes... so ya. When we got back, John reminded me that there was a lunar eclipse, so we all went outside to watch it. I also got to meet John's lovely girlfriend Erin who was here for a bit visiting. Highlight of the eclipse was undoubtedly one unfortunate, confused young lady watching the show from her dorm room window while talking to us down below. After looking up at it for a little bit, she turned down and asked, in all seriousness, "So what is it exactly? Some kind of asteroid?" Hah.

Then on Sunday, myself, Chantale, Heather, and Kelsey went to Paris for the day as the first Sunday of every month is free museum day (meaning it's free to get into pretty much all the museums). We started off at the Musee D'Orsay, which, for those who didn't know, is an impressionist art museum. We spent 3 hours doing pretty much the entire museum, seeing lots of Degas, Monet, Manet, Van Gogh, Matisse, and other such artists' pieces of work. Included in the collection was the series of 4 paintings that Monet did of the Cathedral of Rouen. I actually felt a glimmer of pride in seeing them there. Well hey, that is OUR Cathedral after all. We LIVE in Rouen, France. It's where we're from. Represent, yo.

After that, we moved over to the Louvre for another 3 hours of museum touring. We started out by seeing the Napoleon appartments, which were very ellaborate and fancy.
Other stops in the Louvre included an Ancient Egyptian section, and the Code of Hammurabi. Then finally, tired and hungry, we exited the Louvre by the Holy Grail (aka the inverted pyramid), which is in a mall-type place (they don't show you that part in the movie or mention it in the book The Da Vinci Code). We decided to do dinner at the Caroussel du Louvre food court, where I was able to get some delicious chicken nachos (it's a real North American-style food court, with restaurants of pretty much all types of food. oh and to clarify, nachos means chips with all the toppings. cheese, sour cream, tomatoes, etc. otherwise they're just called tortilla chips. hey, you learn something new every day.).

Oh oh, also in the Louvre, we saw these little statues. And ummm, they taught us that Coppertone actually stole the idea for its ads from some ancient art. Here is a side-by-side comparison of the Louvre statues and the Coppertone baby. See if you can tell which is which. I know it's tough for me.

After that great day, and a crazy train ride home featuring getting scared by opposite direction trains and discussion of aliens, it was back to Rouen and back to school.
I had an exam in International Marketing on Monday which went pretty well. Then Tuesday I went into town myself to do a bit of shopping, and opted to spend the night chat chitting in cafet ango.

Wednesday meant a morning class, and then at night, Heather and Nick S. came by and we booked Barcelona. Oh right I hadn't mentioned that yet eh? So next Wednesday, myself, Heather, Nick S., Jordan, Anthony, and possibly Katerina and Alicia will be going to Barcelona, Spain for about 5 days. Barcelona is supposed to be really cool, and they're all good people, so I'm very much looking forward to it. I'll be sure to come back with pictures and stories to share. And oh, we're flying RyanAir again, so wish us good luck.

Then last night. Ah Thursday night. What a time. Myself, Heather, Kelsey, Chantale, Stephanie, Katerina, Alicia, and others went to a house party at the place of a French student here. That after pre-drinking quiiiite a bit, of course. It was amazing. There were tons of people, lots of alcohol (free of course), some decent music... So much fun. But I'm gonna try not to go into more detail, because the more I try to think about last night, the more I realize that I don't remember parts of it. Like for example how we got there. Or what I was drinking all night at the party. And I usually remember everything, so this is a new one for me. But I do know I was enjoying myself, and that we couldn't find a cab home so we walked it up from the train station. Oh and that Heather and Kelsey were dancing on a table and then it broke. The walk home is not that bad. Half an hour or so, the beginning is up hill, and it was like 3.00 AM, but other than that, not a bad walk.

So that brings us to now. Not much goin on. I'm definitely gonna take it easy today, try to get some studying in for my one exam next Wednesday. I finished my first 4 classes that I'll take out here (well other than that exam), so starting from when we get back from Barcelona, I'll only have to be taking 2 classes, and both of them are on Tuesdays! I can't wait!

Rightio. That's all for now chaps. Have a lovely morning/afternoon/night.

Your man Dan.