My greatest strength is seeing the best in you. My greatest weakness is remembering the best in you.

Don't think for a minute that my lack of posts means I've forgotten all of you....I miss you all like crazy, including the one I 'yoinked' the title for this blog from.

My school

here are the halls of the school...but the part where I only walk through to get to classes. And yes, that is the bar (the room w/strobe light)

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Start in the main lobby, then goes down a hall...you can see the cubicles where we slept when we were kicked out of the residences because of the fire...how fun!!! :D :D

I go to school with a beauty queen!!

Virginia, from the Philippines....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrjHYXIMmMA

who knew!! Little Virginia, with her great sense of humor....

Sometimes I look at certain paintings and the clouds always look retarded. I realize now they are French clouds, and aren't retarded at all. The clouds really are that different over here.
And the homeless get to pitch tents where they want, and the train stations are patrolled by guys with automatics and german shepherds with muzzles. Different stuff, never seemed noteworthy til now. Strange...

Finally!!

I Finally got to complete a full circle on a roundabout!! Yes, we missed our turn, and yes, the driver got dizzy from it, but we did it!!
And there were more fireworks today...not only do they have a lot of holidays here, they make sure they celebrate them in style. And yet we still have class on holidays.

Speaking of Light Switches.....

Love the 2 or 3 way switches back in the states...set one in the middle, and the other(s) don't work. Beautiful way to annoy the hell out of someone. ;o) Also, the phone number that you could dial and it would call you back--turning the house phone into an intercom of sorts. hehehehehe....

ILVTOFU

No, not vegetarian, and not in love. But it would have been a great license plate, stupid Colorado!

I don't think I'll ever get used to the light switches in this country. Up is off and down is on. Still get it wrong 7 out of 10 times, in my own bathroom!!

Went into Paris yesterday after class (yes, on Saturday!). Met up with my friend Verena (German), had a beer with peach syrup, then went back to the apartment she's staying in. You have to go through a door, then a little alley (maybe 20 feet) into a courtyard, and then to the building where the apartment is. Pretty standard for france, but these courtyards can be so beautiful! We had dinner, then rode bikes down to the river and met with some friends. Everyone drinks in public here, and yes, I peed in a public park. As did a lot of others. Am almost French now, except the language issue.

Have been spending today trying to communicate with a group, very frustrating. One girl did all the work, then sent it to everyone. Unfortunately I was not at a computer during the day, and they had all divided the work before I had a chance to respond to the first email (22 by the time I checked my email!!!!) Now I've sent them some work and entirely revamped the power point as they like to put EVERYTHING on the slides and then just read them. Asked for input/opinions/disagreement, and everyone seems to have conveniently ignored the issue. Dorks.

Still need to write about the fun that was Italy, but first, Hotel Real Estate Finance problem sets, reading 10 chapters for the week, preparing 2 presentations, and 1 case study. Who says school isn't fun?!? ;o)