lemme tell ya

so giverny...it was a mess lol because it RAINED BUCKETS all over us. ALL over cuz hey i have no umbrella what can i say and i was not about to buy a printed one from the gift shop for twenty euros. oh the crying lol we were super soaked and it was pretty cold on top of that. i mean for france in may anyhow.

so the flowers were nice (and droopy with rain like us) and the japanese bridge was nice and i did take the time in spite of my shivering and dripping to appreciate the ripples in the pond around the lilypads which were, as can be imagined, not entirely in form.

worst part is that my backpack got soaked to including my notebook, my novel, and so when i took out my camera water POURED out of it...so i think maybe it is quite screwed as for my pics...my full camera was in there too so i dunno if that one escaped or not. it was not quite as wet but you never know.

funny how when i finally bother to take pics that they get wrecked but so it goes

basically the trip was this incredible bust. i was very cold and my feet were wet all day, pants drenched halfway up my calfs you know...the works. so then we went to this little town and i had already eaten and had a crêpe at a vacant café with chris and used the bathroom at a funny little hotel and such and such so i went grocery shopping for some soup to heat up when i got home. after that i really just wanted to get back on the bus but it ended up that the bus had to go somewhere else until meeting time so chris and i wandered a bit. we went into the cathedral and stuff. then we found the tourism office and it turns out that there was this cherry festival going on.

this turned out to be the best thing ever.

we went and there were a couple rides but more importantly they were grilling SAUSAGES which made me miss mke a LOT. we got one and the mustard hurt my nose cuz in france their dijon is SERIOUS and you'd better add some mayo to lessen the kick but i forgot about that...lol

chris also got cotton candy which is called barbapapa in france...like the cartoon character...

then of course there were little stands. it really reminded me of a fest in mke. i was pretty homesick lol there were also very expensive cherries that we didn't get to try.

on the whole we decided that that saved the trip and that next year they should plan the trip to go to the festival and have monet's gardens as the sidetrip heh.

funny how today on sunday it is brilliant out and yesterday was so awful.

the only other thing really to mention is that last night all the museums were open till like 1 something in the morning for free so i went and saw some modern art. i was pretty tired though lol they had this one room totally dedicated to this guy who saves tons of money by buying stuff and taking it back before the 30 days is up or that reimburses your first trial of their product or that gives you money back if you are not satisfied. they had tv clips and magasin articcles...kinda funny stuff haha

there was this one exhibit that was all pictures and drawings and stuff done by this lady who seemed to like blood or something. razor blades to her feet, rose thorns sticking in her arms...a bit nauseating when tired

oh you know today was lunch club and we had fajitas. they were terrific! :D we were supposed to watch the first two eps of star wars but of course they were all rented out. planning was not the best...

now i'm hanging out with datif but he is studying cuz i think everytime i come he has an exam the next day. funny how that works lol

tomorrow will be round two at the pool and shopping. my cupboards aren't bare but they don't really have much meal material at the moment so i gotta find somethings. like eggs and bread.

oh chris let us have some of his peanut butter. it was divine. i miss peanut butter.

there are so many things that you miss and you don't even think about at home. some things you don't even realize you liked until you can't have them. like brats. i started liking them more in high school but NOW i appreciate them forever.

things are going ok. i got my e-mail about my independent study project which was terrifying. i hope she will let me change to something about japan. that would really make me happy! :D

i'm reading l'étranger (the stranger) by camus without a dictionary. every time i run into a copy i read some. it's fairly easy to run into a copy tho cuz emanuel has one haha. i read for like an hour while he had a nap.

oh oh oh

emanueru wa hirune shite iru aida ni, watashi wa kamyu ga kaita shosetsu o yomimashita.

shosetsu...if i remember correctly that means novel. if i don't then it may or may not mean anything...grr lol but hirune is interesting because i believe that the kanji for it are afternoon and sleep...heh

i guess i kinda wrote about more stuff than i thought i had to write about

so it goes!

maybe you were slightly amused.

i dunno.

i decided tho that i will study spanish before my (possible) return to russian. it is so important in the states! i refuse to remain ignorant in THAT respect even if i can't keep track of the lebanese civil war...it was lebanon right? see i dunno...1975 ne i am so bad at stuff like that. gotta read books to find out. READ A BOOK! ;p lol (does anyone remember that? eric? lol)