Thursday, September 18, 2008

Outer Mongolian News Reporters and Chrome Vodka Bottles

So class here at Rennes 2 is legitimately the biggest joke in the history of mankind. Madamoiselle Spruce (6-8 grade french) would be disappointed in the level of difficulty of this course. C'est terrible. Going over how to conjugate simple common use verbs should not be something anyone who can speak french should need to go over. Anyhow, we four Americans in my class were not especially discrete with our unwillingness to branch out or put up with as my dad put it "Mickey Mouse" homework and classwork. Regardless, it turns out that all the women in my class (except for the two Union College girls) are married, not from France, and over 25. The woman who sits next to me is legit from Outer Mongolia (I had my doubts that people actually lived there), and a news reporter. She is learning French so she can become an international interpretor. She already has 2 masters degrees. On the other side of me, sits a Colombian dude who has his bachelors in Anthropolgy, and wants to learn French so he can do his Ph.D. on Latin American's abroad. Interesting characters. Even more interestingly, our common language is French.
Tonight is Thursday, and I don't have class tomorrow. So naturally, I was bound for the rue de la Soif. There is a bar there that is big old prison, converted into the COOLEST bar/discotheque, ever. They only serve topshelf booze (and its relatively cheap), and tonight, international students got in free. The other guys in the group were MIA, so it was me and a couple of the girls here. I either looked like the body guard, or the gay tag along friend. So you know what we did...we just went dancing (Dane Cook, click it). And I mooched off the girls that I was with for their free alcohol. I can't decide if the slimeball bartender was gay and hitting on me too, or giving me the sympathy drinks cuz I was flying solo with the girls. Anyhow, a few free drinks, a couple soul shaking techno songs, and a trophy bottle of ABSOLUT CHROME, and I have one of the girls' rainbow ones here too. Oy, I was the gay friend tonight. Oh well, free booze was good. I'm tired and no class tomorrow. A demain.

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