Last night I was walking around town after seeing a movie (Tous les Soleils, definitely recommend if you can find it with English subtitles) with Charlotte. There were so many people out, young and old--more than I've seen since it became cold. Something about the French way of life... going out at 10pm to eat dinner; sitting around at cafés and salon de thés; hanging about by the river sippin some wine out of plastic cups... so cool. This town is amazing; I really can't believe how comfortable I have become here.
Last weekend it rained a little bit, but despite that it was nice. I had a couple couchsurfers over and we went to a boîte (club) with a bunch of people until the early morning hours. After sleeping in on Saturday, I went out and donated blood, which was a great experience and I am so glad I did it. -Only in France would they provide you with a whole meal of quiche and tarts and other delicious foods after giving away a pint. I missed my free t-shirt, but I walked out of there feeling stronger than usual and really needing to pee. Besides, everyone was so nice and impressed that I was a foreigner donating. I had next to no problems speaking with everyone, and I understood the questionnaire completely. After I had finished my nurse started speaking to me in English telling me that there was food on the other side of the tent, I shouldn't drink or do sports, etc etc. Getting englished used to make me kind of frustrated, but now I realize that people probably just want to practice their English, just like I want to practice my French (although I wouldn't really call it practicing anymore). I was actually surprised how much she knew, since we had been speaking in French up until then.- Sunday I walked around Bordeaux, and lucky I did, because it was the one day a year that the Bordelais empty their attics and have a city wide garage sale. I didn't buy much, but I saw a lot of cool things and got a bande-desinee (TinTin au Congo, 1970) in great condition for 2€. Another book to add to my old book collection! There was also a Nature and Bio market happening, and I talked with a couple who work on a snail farm and sell escargot. They showed me some pictures about how they harvest the snails and said I could come out and check out the farm if I wanted to. Definitely want to try to do that if I can!
School news: Finals are arriving at the beginning of May, so I've started preparing for them. My anthropology class already finished, I just need to do the paper for it. My two sociology classes end next week, and then I have the test for one and the paper for the other. Spring Break is the week after next, but I've decided to stay in Bordeaux to prepare for finals and to save money for Greece in May and southern France in June. I enjoy Bordeaux the best when there aren't classes so I don't feel bad at all about missing this travel opportunity (and lets face it, I've done a lot of that this year already).
I pretty much finished my sculpture in last week's sculpture class! I'm going in next week to add some more bottle caps but then it's done. :) All I have to say is that it's amazing how things like this take shape (and I mean that quite literally). I started out with a completely different idea, which eventually turned into this:
-connected a bunch of yogurt cups into arches
-covered those with bottle caps collected from pubs
-attached the arches
-filled in the blank spots
-and voilà!
Donnes-moi ton coeur, et je te donne ma vie.
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