3 weeks of vaca La Rochelle, Bordeaux, St Emilion, Paris, St Brevin, Majorca (font de sa cala, Palma etc...)

WELL....................

I have just done some marathon travelling...

My sister just left today after 2 fabulous weeks. We started off our vaca at my host families beach apartment at St Brevin. It was amazing! The next day we left for Paris. I put Nicole through Paris marathon style: We walked from the Latin Quarter to the Eiffel tower...then we walked around looking at the sites: Champs Elysee etc. Next day off to Versailles, then the louvre, Notre Dame etc. and the last day a last marathon trip to Pere lachaise cemetery to say hello to Jim and then a marathon trip of the Louvre before catching our train.

The next day we left for Majorca: All inclusive baby...

There was a group of people our age. We partied together all week. We met a nice couple who drove us around Majorca one day: Through the mountains etc. We also did a day trip to Palma. The weather was crappy the first couple of days but then we had sun, sun, sun!!!

Upon our return Nicole got to meet all the girls. We did a good old bar night at the John McByrne.

Nicole last night was spend at the beer gardens - My prof from Canada came down and the girls had a nice little night out with her and our Canadian prof. Me and Nic got to bed at 2:30 am after a little incident.

We slept through our 4am alarm, and thank you to Pam, managed to still catch the flight!!!!!

I LOVE YOU NICOLE, thank you for visiting me. The 2 weeks were fantastic. Also Priya thank you for visiting, and Elodie it was great seeing you again! My vaca was fabulous (except maybe for the quick sand incident!)

Quick update!

Well I just got back from a few days in Bordeaux...now anyone reading my blog might say but Tara you hated Bordeaux. I'm a strong believer in second chances, and in fact I loved Bordeaux so much that I stayed for 3 days this time. It helped a little that I got to do a private wine tasting at St Emilion - where I bought my 'wedding wine' for me, Christina and Meghan. I'm also enjoying my travels because my friend Priya came to visit me from Canada. The other day we had a picnic on the coast of the atlantic with Champagne, rilletes, cheese, baguette and some lovely french deserts! I also got to see my friend Elodie again, who lives in France but stayed in Canada for a year. She met up with us in Bordeaux for a day.
All in all everything here is good. Nicole will be here on Saturday and I only have one more week of classes after my holiday. My year is coming to an end. I'm going to miss this country so much, I know I can always come back but I'll never get this year back. The girls here have become like family, and I've met a lot of people that it will be really hard to say goodbye to. This year has been the best experience of my life to date. I know I have grown so much this year. I can't wait to come home and see everyone and share the stories and the pictures. Enough sob stories! I still have a month left.
I love you all, stay tuned - i'm sure i'll have lots of eventful stories after me and Nicole get back from Majorca!
xoxoxo
Tara

week from hell

Well this week has been fun! It's super stress time in the semester and of course I get sick! I have a million exams and papers due, and a million places to go for my cultural report. The good news is that after this week of hell I have my friend Priya coming for a week, and then my sister for 2 weeks. Me and Priya are going to check out some places here in France, me and Nicole are doing Paris (i'll be doing the touristy stuff for the 270000 time, but it's always cool to see other peoples reaction when they see the eiffel tower for the first time). Then me and Nicole have a week at an all inclusive resort in Majorque (Spain) booked! After Spain we will have one full day in Nantes together so I can show her the stuff aroud here. I can't wait to see her.
Some more good news to kick off my week: I got a house for next year in Waterloo. It's an 8 month lease which is awesome because I won't have to worry about subleting in the summer!
Now I just have to figure out whether or not i'm doing my course this summer, this will decide the date of my return to Canada!
Anyhow, i've got to go finish my laundry write a paper for history, do some reading responses for Philosophy and study for 2 exams before my 5pm class! Oh the life of a student!

Dublin for St.Pats

Well I know I still haven't given my detailed account of my trip to Germany (i'm at the crazy busy point of my semester), but I thought I would tell ya'll a little bit about Dublin on St Paddy's day weekend.

We arrived in Dublin on Friday morning and headed straight to Dublin castle to make an appearance on Canada AM. I bought a lovely green cowboy hat at the airport to wear for the occasion, and I also brought my Canada flag along with me! It was pretty cool, but it was cold and the other girls were hungry so we left before we got to say hi to our parents on the air!

after a nice little lunch we made our way to the Guiness Brewery to do a little tour. Because it was St Pats every floor (there are 5 floors) had beer samples and food! we got to try all the different brands of guiness and had salmon and cream cheese on Guiness bread! On the fourth floor we you could pour your own pint and drink it (you get a perfect pour gift certicate) and on the fifth floor you get yet another pint of guiness. There were three live bands playing throughout the building, it was quite great!

A few facts about guiness that I found interesting:

-The guiness book of world records from guiness the brewers. The book was created to help barmen settle disputes in their bars.

-The creator of guiness signed a 2000 year lease for the brewery in the 1700's, so we will be able to enjoy guiness for a very long time

-Guiness beer was actually created by accident, they accidentaly burnt the barley and thus created guiness beer!

next stop we went to dinner and called it an early night.

Saturday:

I got my st paddy's outfit on, and cracked my first beer at about 8:30ish am, we headed to the parade (which kind of sucked)then we went to some free outdoor concert and then off to get ready and pre drink for the night (not that it was really pre drinking since I had made sure to pack some travelers in my purse for the day!)

next off the pubs - we attended a sports bar to watch the rugby match. Later we went to Temple bar, and random other pubs. Lot's of live music and lots of drunk people in the streets!

At one bar I convinced a young gent in a leprechaun costume to lend me his costume for a couple of pics! He even helped my drunk ass get the costume on!

Sunday:

We went on a bus tour of the foothills. Which would normally be a great idea except for A) it was an am tour B)sitting on the top deck of a double decker bus going through the 'hills' of Ireland Hungover is NOT A GOOD IDEA!!!!! The tour was great, the sick feeling....not so much!

When we got back we went to another pub for din din, had a last couple of pints and then off to our hostel (the other nights we had the chance of staying at a friends house - THANK YOU KRISTEN!!!!!)

At the hostel the lovely people who worked the desk told us it was unecesary to book our cab the night before, that they would call for us at 4am when we needed to get one. At the said 4 am when we went to call the cab we were told that all cabs were friggin booked!!! Heart attack central....luckily we were able to hail one in the street and catch our flight back to Nantes in time.

All in all a very great weekend, one for the books!!!

Finally a little bit about Germany

Well my trip was amazing the brief recap is

Frankfurt, random street party dancing with strangers in costumes

Heidleberg - random castle and beautiful little town

Berlin - HELLOOOO THE WALL Friggin amazing

Muncih - beer beer and more beer ( I stole a couple of steins)

Dachau - very informative and moving

Neuchwanstein - Disney Castle - I want to be Cinderella and I wish I had a room dedicated to Tristan and Isolde

Salzburg - SOUND OF MUSIC TOUR AND the premier of Carmen (opera)

Vienna - Random sightseeing and Sissi museum

I will give actual details in my next entry - but for now here is the gist!

It's not about how many times you risk your life, it's about how many times you live to tell the story!

Ok, so I'm exagerating a little bit, but I feared for my life climbing up the side of one of Scotlands rolling hills. I have about a million nettles in my hand from grasping the bushes in fear!!!!! The second pic is the before climb picture, the bottom is the after with the nettle bushes. I was too scared to step to the ledge to give the full effect of the fear I experienced. Kate had to talk me up the hill. It was so friggin steep that you couldn't really sit. But now that i'm all calmed down it's not that big of a deal.

The top pic is of the castle that I didn't 'really' get to see, because I forgot to account for what time the damn thing closed. But that night me and my friend Pam went out for our last bedtime cigy, we were in our pj's : I was wearing pj pants, a T and sandals (yes the weather is fantabulous here). We walk up to the castle accross the draw bridge and the gigantic castle door starts opening up for us! LOL it was a guard asking, we just said we were looking around. He was really nice about it.

I hit up about 8-12 pubs during the weekend. I even met a girl from Milton who is in Scotland studying for her masters, who happens to know one of my friends from Waterloo (small world after all)

I got an authentic scotish pub T from Deacon Brodies, I went on a very corny dungeon tour. We met Carolyne Crawford from Tennessee, who joined us in Glasgow and accompanied us to Edinburgh.

Food wise I went for the whole cultural experience again:

Haggis, neeps and tatties

Black (blood) pudding

bangers and mash

Fish and chips

Stake and ale pie

etc.

I also tried some Scotish whiskey, some tenants ale and even bought some Whiskey flavoured condoms !!! I heard some live dropkick songs - got a random boy to sing some songs to us in a pub - fields of Atherny and a band at "the Scotsman" played the black velvet band.

All in all it was a great weekend, it felt like a little taste of home.

Next trip - Germany and Austria (Switzerland will come later)!!!! Sound of music tour here I come!!!!!

so.....

So long, farewell, auf weidersehen, goodnight!!!!

Change of plans!!!!!

England etc. is still happening. Amsterdam has been cut out for now. I got a seat sale to go to Scotland next weekend .01€ so it should be a blast. Had ourselves a little drunken French party the other night!!!!! drank a box of wine with the girls.....let's just say never assume some things are just cultural!!!!! lol.
I hope all is well at home, I love you all!
tonight I am going to a bar called "la maison" all the rooms in the bar are set up like normal rooms in a house, so if you end up with the bathroom, you sit either on the toilet or in the bathtub!!! Should be a blast!

ITS OFFICIAL - DUBLIN FOR ST PATRICKS DAY!!!

I'M SO EXCITED!!!! I just booked my ticket to go to Dublin Ireland for St. Patricks day (don't worry uncle John I'll take lots of pics). Probably like the most expensive plane ticket ever, but at least I have a free place to stay once i'm there.

More exciting news: IM GOING TO ENGLAND THE WEEKEND BEFORE I GO TO DUBLIN!!!!!!

Then more exciting news: before I go to England or Dublin IM GOING TO AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND, AND GERMANY!!!!!!
I'm doing the sound of music tour in Austria!!!!!! I so want to dress up.

But before even doing all of that, this weekend i'm GOING TO DO A TOUR OF LES CHATEAUX DE LA LOIRE!!!!!

Then in 2 weeks I'M GOING TO AMSTERDAM!!!!!!!!!!
--I swear i'm just going to check out the museums...well after i hit up the cafe, if i can still remember that i wanted to go to a museum, or if i can still remember what a museum is


Anyhow, i'm done bragging. I hope everything is going well in canada!!!!
Love y'all

BACK IN FRANCE!!!!!

Me and the Girls - 01/02/07
Well I'm back. My vacation passed by so fast. I was so happy to see my girls again though. The only thing that sucks is our courses as usual. My 19th C. Lit prof is trying to screw me (figuratively).

I realized upon my return that I really love this country. I deffinetly can see myself back here one day.

School wise over the holidays I figured out that I am going to carry on with my masters!!!!!! and maybe even more...

I guess I'll just be one of those professional students.

More exciting news: I'M GOING TO DUBLIN FOR ST.PATRICKS DAY!

I can't wait, that will be one for the books. My next vaca will be in February though, and I think I'm going to Austria and Switzerland. I'm alos going to do a weekend tour of the Castles in my region.

Now I have to pack in as much travel as I can seeing as I have to be back for a summer course at the end of may.



Other random news, i'm sort of pissed today. I was supposed to teach this morning, I wake up early go to the school I work at and there are no students. It was a P.D. day so I came here to the university, now i'm just waisting time until my class.

I hope all is well at home (or in Alberta, or in B.C. etc.),

Tara

xoxoxo

HAPPY NEW YEARS

AND GOOD NIGHT!

Merry Christmas, Happy New Years and all that jazz

To everyone who may read this I just want to say that I hope you had a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and I hope you have a magnificent New Years.
My Christmas was great. Quite traditional for the Hargrave family. I jumped in my parents bed at 6:30 in the morning to wake them up, put on a pot of coffee - Had some Bailey's in my coffee (GOOOOOD MORNING!) woke up Grumpy went out fed the dog and cat - had a smoke. Came in the house had coffee and Bailey's #2. Went down stairs to open presents - half way through presents grabbed bottle of champagne #1 - a ten year old bottle from France. Finished opening presents, finished bottle of champagne - went up stairs started making breakfast grabbed a beer, finished beer - breakfast ready bottle of champagne #2 - Played with my Marie Antoinette action figure with the ejecting head - checked out my new nano then beer, beer, beer - blur. People came over - Bobbie, Jay, Hayden, Grace, Jeremy, Jaime, Meighan, Phil - big turkey dinner more beer - Leshelle, Cameron blur, blur blur - was supposed to go out, it was 10pm but I was still in my pyjama's and was in no state to see people - so a few more beers and I fell asleep on the couch! It was quite the happy drunken Christmas as usual at the Hargrave house.
So here was my x-mas day, I hope you all had a great one too.
Happy Holidays, and to my Berlioz girls I'll see you very soon
Tara

Home for the Holidays

my title is deceiving - because this entry has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I am home right now. In fact it is a telling of my last week in Nantes.
Where shall I start....
1)my gnome Gnorm got stollen from me and I received ransom notes along with pics of him. Apparently he went to the north pole to help santa. The good news is he's back. In fact Christina is babysitting him for me, he will be going to Prague with her on thursday!
2)Me and the Berlioz team - went out on thursday night and did some christmas caroling at our host families houses. It was good times. Let's just say over the course of the night our singing got a little bolder as each fam had us in for cookies and wine!
--just a side note - when christmas caroling on public transit in france, remember that there are a few people who can speak english - therefore when you start singing your own rendition of the 12 days of christmas that is rather obscene - some people may understand you! Luckily the woman was hillarious and had just got back from a little trip to canada, she had been visiting her sister who is the newest Much Music VJ! She ended up singing with us on our bus ride.
3) My newest most efficient teaching strategy has become throwing chalk at students!! I could never get away with this in Canada, but I'm in France so meh!!! My little french students like dropping in random profanities while they are speaking in class so I just throw stuff at them. It is a highly effective method of handling the little buggers.
4)My last night in Nantes was great - me and the girls did our own little x-mas party with champagne etc. it was great. We also did our secret santa. I had a blast.
Now I have to go, because Jaime is summoning me on MSN - so demanding!
love ya'll
Tara

Jaime, Jaime Jaime

You have no patience girl! Remember I don't have the internet. So I can't post every second of every day!

My weekend was amazing. Friday night I did nothing (well I watched Monty Python) Saturday morning I left for Mont Saint Michel. Let's just say that Tara almost kicked out of the Abby....OOOOOPPPPPSSSS. I said to my friend Karen: Hey look at the random ladder sticking out of the wall let's climb it and see what's up there. She said Ok. She climbed then I got scared (shut up Jaime I hate heights). Then a little anal retentive French rent a cop - historical monument security came up and starting yelling!
Number one he said that it was the second time he had to yell at Karen - so not true (he said that he caught her on top of the alter in the church - didn't happen!) Then started calling her an idiot etc.
I don't like it when people yell at my friends! Or when they falsely accuse my friends of something. So I start to argue with the anal retentive rent a cop - historical monument security guy - in English - which he understands very well.
I point out to the fact that there is no sign indicating that that it is not a continuation of the tour etc. And that if it's the fourth time he's had to yell at someone within the last hour that maybe a sign would be beneficial. -- All of a sudden like magic the anal retentive rent a cop historical monument security guy can't speak english? hmmm - so what does Tara do?
Tara starts screaming at the anal retentive, rent a cop, historical monument security guy in French!
Once he realized that there was no way in hell is was going to get anywhere with me, he walked away grumbling under his breath, while me and Karen were pissing ourselves laughing. Then the Anal retentive, rent a cop - historical monument security guy turns around so I give him a little smile and wave ------ WELL this made him a very angry little elf - he said "Come with me, let's go" of course I just said no, I hadn't done anything etc. Somehow I just argued and argued until he went away!
-After the abby we went down to the little church. Then we had absolutely nothing else to do for about 3 hours, out in the freezing cold - on a fortified rock in the middle of nowhere!

Next we go to Saint Malo - It was cool - but they only gave us 1 hour and 15 minutes! and there was tons to do. We ended up concentrating on the beach area.

Sunday morning I left on train to go to some x-mas shopping in Paris until tuesday morning.
I went to:
Invalides
Arc de Triomphe
Boat cruise on the Seine
Notre Dame
Pantheon
Eiffel Tower
and then shopping on the Champs d'elysse!
All in all a great weekend - and since I already have about a million pics of paris from when I went back in the day - I didn't need to do the whole touristy picture thing.
Anywho gotta go
Tara

Playing hookie on a random thursday!

Laundry day (French drying system!)

Me and my travel buddies Christina and Meghan

Carcassonne at night (I stayed in these walls!!!!)

Well I didn't quite make it to school today. But I made it to commerce to do some shopping!! I bought my return ticket from Paris for Tuesday morning, and a purse (brown, fake leather quite nice and 50% off). We had a lovely lunch at McDicks (very unhealthy I know) where I got a beer with my extra value meal!!!! I love France. Now I am sitting in my cafe having a beer and writing this blog (for the second time since the first one deleted uuuuggggghhhh!)

that's all for today. Must go more 1664 to drink!

Another 'nuit blanche'

-here's another pic from my trip

Well, Tara went on a little drunk fest Saturday night. Turns out the 2 salsa dance lessons I showed up to payed off (well not really, i'm sure I still looked like an ass). Me and a few of the girls went to a chinese buffet, then to Jackies for some pre drinks, then to a bar called the tower. Why did we go to the tower you may ask? Because the random strangers we met on the tram were going to the tower and they got us in VIP - which means no cover! Anywho, Gist of the story is Tara can't drink, because when Tara drinks she thinks she can dance.
At the end of the bar night, I said goodbye to my temporary french lover/salsa dance partner and waited until 7am to catch the tram back home. I ended up waiting in the virtually empty train station, which has toilets but pay toilets...and they were closed. I had to get the friendly security guy to get me into the bathrooms.
All in all, it was pretty entertaining.
The plan for this weekend:
Saturday - Mont St. Michel
Sunday/Monday - Paris
why? because I can. and because I don't have to teach on monday because it is a p.d. day!
Later, love ya'll
Tara

OK here's the story

1. La Rochelle:
I was very excited about La Rochelle because it is the home of my ancestors on my Peperes side. I have no idea why they left France, but I'm glad they did otherwise I wouldn't be seing it now. La Rochelle is gorgeous. Right on the water, their are two huge beautiful Towers that protect the city. I also had my best meal of the trip in Bordeaux - I had a huge plate full of seafood and then a steak - fantabulous. We took a 2 boat rides to get around the city - the view was amazing. Total 8 out of 10

2. Bordeaux:
YUCK!!!!! I'm sure if it was the first thing I saw in France it might have had more of an impact on me, but I hated Bordeaux. In all fairness I didn't see the waterfront, but I don't think it would have made much of a difference. The one good thing - I saw the church (or cathedral with flying buttresses and all) where Eleanor of Aquitaine married the future Louis VII (whom she later divorced to marry the future king of England Henry II). The Musee des beaux arts was extremely dissapointing, but they were doing renovations. So in total Bordeaux gets about a 4 out of 10.

3. Périgeuex: WOW.........Jaw droping amazing. I must admit it's mostly due to the fact that it was the first medieval city that I have ever seen (fortified walls don't remain, but you still have the small, narrow path ways filled with shops!) The morning we walked through the medeival part of the city (it was damn cold), we also checked out the natural history museum that housed a gigantic mammoth tusk and other crazy stuff like a mummy and a burial crown from the 1st century!!!! In the afternoon we took a guided tour of the roman city (or the remains of) it was very interesting and informative - we saw the remains of the amphitheater, a roman house that they had excavated - and housed it in a glass building - you could even see how they lived! (or at least how the wealthy lived). Then there was the Tower! with one collapsed wall - the myth states that St Etienne found and beat a dragon to protect Périgeuex and the wall collapsed. Also during our tour we met a lovely french couple Solange and Patrick who fell in love with me, Meghan and Christina and offered to have us to their summer vacation house in Arcachon near the Dune du Pila!!!!!!!! I love France people are so nice! The end of the day we took a train back to Evil Bordeaux to sleep.

4. Toulouse:
Doesn't even look or fell like your in France. They call it la ville rose for a reason. The use of red brick throughout the city offers a brighter image than the rest of France. Also it is a bilingual city French/Spanish so all the signs are in both. I ate Horse for the first time in Toulouse! Apparently i'm being adventurous with my food choices - so far - raw oysters, rabbit, duck, horse, Kangaroo - and random sea creatures that I wouldn't even think to try. In toulouse I saw the Capitole and I couldn't even tell you what it is, but it was pretty!!!! Toulouse had an amazing art gallery. I was in awe the hold time - 3 rooms were dedicated to statues from churches (the outside of) - from the 10th-12th Century I was in awe at how much detail remained and how even the smallest pieces would tell biblical stories from begining to end! Also their were some amazing paintings including some by Toulouse Letrec! We went at night, and they turned the lights off, which made us very sad but we had time to go in the morning. We also hit up a nice market and bought some food for the train ride.

5. Carcasonne:
Well for starters. They sold too many train tickets so me, Christina and Meghan had to sit in the aisle with our huge packs. But once we go to Carcasonne I thought I was in heaven. Total jaw dropping amazing!!!!! It is deffinetly my if I win the lottery I'm moving here place. When you get to Carcasonne you are in the lower part of the city - as you keep walking you see an old bridge when you look out you see the pyrenees mountains off in the distance. Then perched up on a hillside is a medieval cité protected by two fortified walls!!!! Our hostel was within this walled city. Once you walk in you see the little narrow, small streets full of shops and restaurants. and then their is the castle! absolutely amazing. We walked around the cité between the fortified walls and you look out over the rest of the city and see all the mountains in the distance. AMAZING!!!!! we ate in a little restaurant at night and had the local specialty Cassoulette, which is white beans, sausage, duck etc. all mixed and baked together in a bowl. to start we had French onion soup in France! This was the best place to just mosey around. It was great. At night, we left the city walls and climbed the paths on the hillside and checked out all the hidden little entrence ways! it was magical. The next morning we all split up and had solo time before we left. I just walk around the city and took some more pics. I think I will deffinetly have to go back before I leave this country.

The ride back to Nantes was exciting. Our train was delayed, and we thought we were going to miss our connection in Bordeaux. But we somehow made it. All in all a great trip. I can't wait until the next.
on the 18th of November I'm doing Mont st-Michel et St Malo!!!! I can't wait. Then maybe a weekend in Tours, who knows.

Until Next time
Tara

Back from a Fantabulous Trip

post to come soon. I forgot my laptop today and am having trouble loading my pics from my camera - so for all those waiting there will be something coming this week. AND NO TREVOR I WILL NOT SHOW YOU MY HOOKER BOOTS (UNTIL X-MAS) but you won't be here...maybe I'll send you a special pick....lol

The Sky is Falling - Tara bought HOOKER BOOTS!

That is correct I am the proud owner of a brqnd new pair of hooker boots that go up past my (and can be folded down under the knee). I know it's crazy, but it's true! I still haven't loaded my haircut pics to send, but I will try to soon. France is till great. I'm on my break now, but i'm not taking off until wednesday - so essays here I come! I know it sounds boring, and it is....
I gotta go - It's laudry day!
Tara

I GOT A HAIR CUT

I really did, and it's sort of pointless that i'm telling ya'll this because I can't even show it to you. So I will describe it: side bangs, layers etc. and maybe next time i'll have a pic to post, but for now I got nothing! Except for this beautiful picture of me and my host mummy. DON'T WORRY MOM SHE WILL NEVER REPLACE YOU. But she is very sweet and kind, except I look kinda SPECIAL in this pic! In fact i'm regretting having posted it, but am too lazy to do anything about it.

Anyways, all is good here in France, i'm trying to watch my carbs and stay away from cheese which is next to impossible to do in France! Last night I didn't do either, because I ate galettes and crepes on a boat! Me and the girls went for a stroll and found a little floating creperie on the river, so we thought eh, why not have an authentic french experience - so I ordered the galette Nantais (named after the city I live in) with was a form of a crepe with cheese, onions and sausage and with Muscadet the prized wine of the region. and for dessert to keep with the whole french thing, and being as cultured as I am I ordered La Canadienne - you guessed it, the canadian with maple syrup, toasted almonds etc. It was fantastic (although I am dissapointed in myself for having something I could easily get at home, or make for myself. I also had a double shot of expresso at about 8pm which kept me up half the night for my homework! Canadian coffee is going to suck when I get home.

Anyhow, enough random babbling, I have places to go, and people to do!
till we meet again,
Tara

I never get on the internet!!!

Turns out, Internet is not at all a big part of my life!!!! I thought I would want to get online everyday, but really I have been damn lazy. Too much effort to carry laptop to school....cannot do it captain, I don't have the power.
Well, I bought the bestest thing ever yesterday.....it is a French cultural dictionnaire (think encyclopedia and dictionnary all in one) in 4 volumes. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the only problem, it weighs 12.86kg, more than half the wieght I am allowed in my suitcase....OOOOPPPPSS! Besides that I have bought like 20 other new books, and still have a reading list from one of my profs that I want to buy while i'm here. I AM SCREWED.....Why do I have to be such a geek!!!
Anywho, aside from that, I had a very interesting night at the bar on saturday....Apparently Tara thinks she can dance, especially after much beer and shots....Tara even thinks she can dance well enough to hop up on little stages! I suck....The good news is, when I ran out of Euro's a lovely couple at the bar who found out I was canadian were kind enough to supply me beer, which in turn kept me dancing.
NOTE: EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TO SALSA DANCE WITH STRANGE FRENCH MEN - if you catch yourself in this situation DO NOT PANIC - when your dance partner decides to try and spin you - keep spinning until you find Doug - our amrican boyfriend who comes out dancing with us.
Also to note at the bar:
The bartenders here unlike in Canada will offer you volume deals on shots - so buying ten rather than six means excellent deals and more drunkeness for you!
OH YEAH - I forgot, this is a complete side note, but there are lizards here
gotta go .....ahhhh class - and no i'm not drunk right now
bissous,
Tara