I got so lucky.

It's about 9:30 PM on Sunday night, and I may or may not fall asleep while writing this. It has been a great weekend. The way my so-called academics work out here, I have managed to not have class on Friday. I fear that I will get very very very used to having three-day-weekends. Regardless, Friday night was a planned to be a normal Friday night. And by normal I mean, go out, have a couple, come home and go to bed. Well it was not quite normal. We met up with the U Crew (I was the only guy, which is kinda getting old, Colin, you can come whenever), and they wanted to go to a Hookah bar. I wasn't opposed to that by any stretch. At Union, we have events with Hookah all the time. It's a good way to wind down on a Friday. However, in Rennes, Hookah isn't that popular, and its off the beaten path. We were walking to the bar, which is about 6 blocks from the rue de la Soif (where all the bars are), and I spent the entire time trying to figure out why we were walking AWAY from the bars. That whole concept baffled me. There were less people (which meant less French B.O., more on that later), but the bars were beginning to disappear over the horizon....NOT COOL MAN! Anyhow, after walking into this Hookah bar, not being able to see the end of my nose, and walking out, we found my favorite bar in Rennes.
O'Connell's is a real Irish pub. The bar tenders are all Irish blood, Irish born, Irish proud English speakers, who have lived in Rennes for about a decade. They opened this bar, and have had spinning success with it. And, by the time I left on Saturday night my world was spinning. No, I didn't drink for 24 hours straight. This place is legit cool, and we went back to watch rugby and drink more.
After this "drinking more" I woke up at about 11 AM this morning to a million little people using my brain as a trampoline and a jack-hammer testing site.We were headed to my host family's house in Saint Malo for the day where I GOT TO KITESURF. It was awesome. The wind was up in the bay and there was some chop and we got to GET AIR! It was awesome. New obsession. That's all I have for today, I'm fizzling. A bientot.