Almost Made It....

I have 3 days of class left - 2 RER tix/day.....been using the half-price tickets even though you have to be a kid or have a card that qualifies you. Today I got stopped by the police. Fortunately I'd been rehearsing my speech for just this occasion.
I'm a student, here's my student card. No, it's no good. But don't students get discounts? No, it's no good. Hmmm, not a great conversationalist. You pay 25 euros. Uh, ok, how do I do that? (as I'm on the train platform, no ATM) Do you take cards? Yes. Dammito! Then another one of the 15 police comes over, they have an exchange in which I catch that I'm American and I've given a lame excuse. :D BUT, the outcome: You go buy another ticket and no fine. YAY!!! Only now I have 7 tickets that I can't use, and I have 6 more times to ride the train. That's 10 euros! Oh well, better than 25.

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.