I now have a new number one moment of my life contender. Sensation White; goddamn incredible. I knew I was in some serious shit when I met people who had come all the way from Georgia to come to it. Not the state; the fucking country. We danced. We talked in French because her English wasn't good enough. We thought about how we couldn't ( Read more... )

My couchsurfer, Wil, is one cool dude. A few hours ago we had cheese fondue, discussed the differences between various cultures over wine, and got shtronken (the Dutch term for ''crunk''...stoned and drunk). Thankfully the past few days here were better than the first part of my vacation. I explored the Dutch suburbs and concluded they almost ( Read more... )

Ik bin in Nederlands. Ik begrijp het niet Nederlands...but many people here speak Engels, Duits, or Frans, so navigating the insanely confusing layout of Amsterdam isn't impossible. I was in Belgium for three days before coming here, that was pretty amusing. I was always confused about which language to use...from an outsider's perspective, the ( Read more... )

...that's only gonna make it harder to leave. Went to Olivier's apartment and smoked with various amis français Thursday night. I don't even remember most of what we were laughing at, but I remember it was a LOT. I love that moment at a party when you think wow, wtf is going on, everyone is super high and this is hilarious. We watched some girl ( Read more... )

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Me and my two best friends here. I am the one who is not female. Some guy drew on our cheeks while we were waiting for the bus...and then his friend informed Hilary: "You are very pretty. I would like to fuck you."


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So I've finally cracked the mystery of the hidden French gays. It rocks. I went to l'Emblème again last night, all by my lonesome. Like I said, I'm not a fan of being the only non-French person there because I feel like such an outsider, but I know it's good practice. I HATE having to ask them to repeat something in French...but I have to do it ( Read more... )

Finalement ahhh! Last night I went to a bar called l'Emblème with this girl I met at a party named Elodie. I was a bit nervous because there weren't any other English-speakers coming with me, so I didn't have anyone to rely on if my French sucked. Turns out Emblem is a gay bar, and it's très chouette. Black lights, electronica, the whole ( Read more... )

Donc, St. Patty's Day à Rennes was pretty excellent, except that all the Celtic bars were stupidly packed and we had to wait an hour before snagging a place to sit down. There's this 18 year old Indian guy in our program named Prateik, and he was trying to explain to these French guys his name was PRAteik and not PaTRICK, so I ran over and was ( Read more... )

So, yesterday I was still mega bummed about losing all my stuff, but I'm pretty happy today since last night was great. My ear piercing dissappeared...but that was a result of vigorous shower sex, so it was worth it ( Read more... )