Walks and Videos

Let me start off by saying that I have the best friends ever. Plain and simple, best friends ever. This morning, I woke up, ate some breakfast, and checked facebook when I saw that my friends Casey and Chris posted a video on my wall. I saw that it was posted 2 hours ago, meaning that it was like 2am back in Champaign, so I was expecting to see drunken ramblings. However, I was wrong. They recorded a video of I'm Yours by Jason Mraz, which is one of my all time favorite songs. Chris played the guitar and Casey sang. It was amazing. I don't know if you guys read this but thank you both so much. It seriously made my day. This is what I'm expecting to see when I get off the plane June 20th....I'm not joking.

Friday was pretty boring. I went to my last class of 1st semester, and my last 9am class...thank god. Class was good. I ended up getting a good grade on my final test, not that I was worried about it. During our break our professor went down to the offices to get our certificates. She had mentioned them earlier but I really had no idea what she was talking about. It's just a piece of paper from the school all official looking that has your grades on it. She gave me mine and I didn't pretty well. All the grades are out of 20. My lowest was a 13.50 from my cinema test because I really bombed that one test and probably should have participated a little more. I got a 17 in my phonetics class, a 14.50 in my history class, a 16 in my literature class, and a 14 in my art class. Overall I was pretty happy with my grades. After class I went out to lunch with Amber one last time because she was leaving the next morning. We went to our usual cafe and sat in our usual spot. It was nice. I want to try to continue that tradition this semester, we'll see. That night I made some popcorn and watched a movie and talked to Tracey on Skype while she was in some depression class.

Saturday it was really sunny outside, which has been rare here lately so I decided to take the train to the Luxemburg garden to enjoy the sun. However, it was pretty cold so when the sun was behind the clouds it was kind of miserable. I hung out in the garden for a while and read for a bit but then I started to get really cold so I left. I walked through the garden to school and walked down Rue de Rennes and found this little sandwich shop. You could get a sandwich, drink and dessert for 7 euro, and I was hungry so I decided to eat there. I've noticed that at restaurants like this, when people are done eating they usually leave there garbage at their seat and one of the workers will pick it up for them. I think that this is pretty rude so I make sure to throw my stuff out. I have two working hands so why shouldn't I be able to throw my stuff in the trash? After lunch I walked down Rue de Rennes which leads you to the Montparnasse tower which is close to where I live. I thought about taking the metro back to the apartment because it was cold but I decided to walk instead.

I noticed that a lot of roads were blocked off by the police and I really had no idea why. Roads that are normally full of cars were completely empty. As I got closer to the Montparnasse Tower I saw a bunch of people with flags and balloons. I was like oh, sweet, a parade! ha....it wasn't a parade, it was a huge protest. I think it was a teacher protest of some sort because a lot of people were holding banners that had school names on them and there were a lot of young people there, supporting their teachers I guess. I needed to get to the other side of the road so I could head back to the apartment so I cut through the protest. It was sweet. I felt like a rebel. I went to a cafe that's near the apartment and had a crappy cup of hot chocolate. That night Renee went to her friends to eat dinner and dye her hair, so I ate alone.

Today was a really boring day. I did laundry and got in a stupid fight with my mom about facebook. Mom, if you're reading this, I'm not angry you saw my video...I just thought it was funny. I love you.

Alright, my dinner (mac n cheese) is done so I'm gonna eat.

A bientot