arrived at Geraldine's (where she was throwing a fete) thoroughly flustered, frazzled, and sweating if i remember correctly. only to burst through the door indiscreetly in front of a crowd of twenty-something twenty-something year olds staring curiously with frozen smiles. epic. drinking, shmoozing and neuron-frying frenchifying commenced... didn't sleep till after 2am...
Friday morning:
woke up with a million mosquito bites. three on my face. hells bells.
drank tea, ate a bunch of "petit dejeuner" biscuits.
avec charlotte, walked around the center of Lyon, rained periodically and temperamentally. ate sandwiches at Brioche Doree and Enyi arrived in Lyon and met us there for food. popped into Gilbert-Joseph to buy the La Rousse copy of Moliere's "L'Avare" that I needed for homework due on Monday... back to geraldines apt, marc and claire met up with us and we trained it 20 min down to the country village where geraldine's parents live. slept the whole 20 minutes. probably bothered the poor neighbor next to me as my arm kept slipping off the arm rest every few minutes/ few bumps.
had dinner with geraldine, marc, claire and enyi. headed out to someone elses country mansion for a birthday party/bbq/joint going away party that lasted late into the night. think: american music, french oldies, dancing, boozing, really awesome hamburgers sans ketchup and attempted teaching at beer pong (which inadvertently failed due to general rule-breaking on the French end).
Sat morning:
somehow made it back last night to geraldines house for beddy-by. woke up feeling only 40% rested. played billiards with enyi, gege and marc. the boys were terrible. gege and i carried the teams. ate a 6-course lunch meal with geges parents and co. somehow waddled out of the house, drove back to lyon center with geges mom. marc, enyi and i all slept in the back seat for the 15 min drive. felt 50% rested. contemplated hugos party, opted out.
hit the bars with marc, enyi and gege. lots of cocktails, lots of dancing, lots of singing...zzz.
Sunday morning:
woke up feeling even less rested than the day before. barely slept for fear of mosquitos. wore sweatpants for fear of mosquitos. sweat during the night all because fear of mosquitos.
felt 25% rested. took some tea and a bountiful feast of croissants, baguette and bon maman preserves.
took train back at 3pm to Paris. met some americans on the train who didn't speak a lick of french. gave them advice about where to go and what to expect. have 3 new brittany carson fans.
arrived at the empty apt here in Neuilly around 545/6. took a shower, unpacked about 1/8 of my bag. downloaded a bunch of new ipod apps. useful french-related ones of course. didn't touch moliere, too tired. somehow think im getting up tomorrow at 6am to do the moliere hw before my 9am class (which i hafta leave the apt for by 8 15am).
still dont have a durable tote bag for all my school things. keep using plastic grocery bags. feel like a homeless person way too often...
off to bed, i dream of a future when i'm not tired, not a human-croissant, and able to type real sentences with enough energy to capitalize letters appropriately throughout a blog post.
cash Euros spent: 110
billet - 86/55 + 49 for the carte de jeunesse (80 cash euros + cc)
metro ticket - 2
sandwich - 4
moliere, 2 cahiers - 7
train ticket - 7
taxi - 4
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