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Sorry for the incredibly long hiatus!
A few explanations: our internet was broken for a few days, I've been busy, and also, I haven't had anything particularly interesting to write about. I still don't have a ton to write about, but I guess I'll keep you folks at home updated on what has happened in the past couple weeks or however long it has been since I last wrote.
A few important updates:
1. I bought a train ticket to Geneva for the last weekend of October! And so, I will be seeing one of my best friends from Wellesley, Bisno, very soon!
2. I don't like French men, but I've made some French friends.
3. Carmel likes to buy crazy crazy crazy food at the marché so this week we've had prickly pear, cassava fries, and Jersulaem artichoke.
4. I'm handling for my frisbee team (??????)
5. I might be going to a beach tournament in the beginning of November!
6. I miss Wellesley.
7. I miss my friends and family.
8. Saint-Tropez is super boring. Here's a picture of it. I don't know what those American celebrities are thinking, buying vacation homes here. Why not go somewhere more interesting?
So, for the first time since I've been in France (2 months now, CRAZY) I have friends outside of the Wellesley-in-Aix program! I went to this thing called La Cave which is a weekly dinner in the basement of a Catholic church for international students and French people who like to learn about other cultures and countries. It only costs 3,50-euros and you get an appetizer, water, a main dish, and dessert, and great conversation. Our table happened to be AWESOME. Claire and I sat at opposite ends of the table and we met Simon and Nathalie, two people from Poitiers in the Masters program at La Fac, and a Swedish girl named Johanna who doesn't speak a word of French but speaks English pretty well, and a French guy named Axel who is starting up a karoke club or something. Everyone was super nice, and then the next night, Nathalie and I met up to go to Cafe Polyglotte together (a bar/cafe event for people who want to practice speaking in different languages), and our entire table from La Cave was there! So we all sat together, and it just felt nice feeling like we had a group.
It turns out that Nathalie is like in love with everything American, the accent, the clothes, the movies, the music, the men (her boyfriend is a grad student at the University of Arizona, we talk about missing our boyfriends, whose time zone is 9 hours behind, us all the time), the food, EVERYTHING.
Sooo I'm going to go back to my Art History reading about abstract expressionism, kitsch, and modernist painting...I swear the next update will come sooner!