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Amazing Moments

Hello all-

Today was day four of university…I’ve had all of my classes now, so it’s just a question of settling into the routines now. Today was Critical Writing, where we reviewed the first four books of Homer’s The Odyssey…party time. Then, it was on to Advanced Grammar, and finally Prostitution and Film.

I have had a crazy week in a lot of different senses, and one of my crazy moments from last night was simply too great to pass up sharing with you all. I was hanging out with an awesome group of friends last night, and as we headed into the métro at Saint Michel, I was absolutely bouncing off the walls with energy. If you’ve ever had the…opportunity (read:privilege, duh!) to meet Adam in one of those moments, you likely found yourself rapt with fear, elation, and absolute confusion…at least, that’s what I’d guess one might feel. I feel entirely normal in those moments.

In any case, we were waiting in the métro, standing around talking…whilst I did acrobatic jumps and acted really crazy. My friends were laughing, because the man and woman in the ticket office were totally laughing at my insanity.

Anyhow, after about twenty minutes, I made my way over to the ticket booth, as I needed some passes for the métro. I acted totally normal as I asked the woman for the tickets, but I started moving around a bit, as I do when I’m fuuuuull of energy. Imagine my surprise, when the woman in the ticket booth started DANCING with me! Oh buddy, it was crazy times. She was rolling her arms, doing disco moves…and it was pretty much my favorite thing ever.

I started laughing and said, “Oh goodness! Sorry, I just have so much energy!”

She responded and said, “That’s evident! So what are you on? Drugs?”

I looked at her like she was nuts and said, “Oh noooo! It’s just the joy of being aliiiive! I promise you, I just spent the entire night with a group of friends from church, they’d totally vouch for me…I just LOVE life!” The woman started laughing, and handed me the tickets, and I joyfully wished her a happy evening. It was the best moment ever. I made a new friend, in the form of a forty-some year old woman at the métro station.

Pluuuus, today in French class…my instructor handed back our diagnostic essays, which we wrote the other day to gauge our levels…and she said, “Oh, you’ve been studying French for a very long time obviously, your written expression is superb.” I was so happy I could have burst, but instead I said…”Oh no, I’ve only been studying for a few years, I just love the language and hang out with lots of French people.”

“Well, it shows. Keep it up.” she told me. “You definitely have one of the highest French levels in this course.”

Oh yeahhhhhh! PARTY!

Final thought for the day….I thought I would want to do the spring musical, as it would a time to have fun and be crazy…and today, I saw the posters up at school…RENT. Hmm. I have reallllly mixed emotions about that one. Any thoughts?

Hope you guys are doing greeeeat!