franglais

i want to write something about being here but i don't know how. i'm a different person here, that's for dang sure. i don't think i'm any more or less different than myself, it's just a strange environment. like cramming all of first year res into five weeks. think: drinking, last minute homework, frisbee, drinking and generally goofiness. but i'm 24 now and a little bit more mature (ha! joke!). i get drunk at least 3 nights a week and we have an ongoing promise to have at least one beer a night. i live in the best residence on campus, in my opinion, and we call ourselves a family and say cheesy stuff like "toujours tout le monde" and "on a gagne dans nos coeurs". tonight our residence is hosting a keg party and i'm dressing up like a 1950s housewife. but i actually really love the dress i'll be wearing, even though i can't really do kegstands in it. the director of the program bought me a beer on wednesday night and we spent about ten minutes talking about when i would come back to the university and working on my pronunciation of the word "but". that one definitely gets me. i have an awesome roommate but when i'm drunk i sleepover with my friend down the hall. sleepover isn't a euphemism for anything, by the way. i listen to french music, watch french tv shows, read french books (sorta) and when i get drunk i go from intermediare 3 to advance 1. and sometimes i sneak into my room and listen to abba with my headphones in. i can drink almost anyone here under the table yet i've only been hungover once. and when i start feeling trapped there is always someone willing to walk down to the kwikway, to the beach or to play tennis/frisbee/soccer/basketball/etc. with. i feel like this is probably the best thing i could have ever done with my life right now. a full on let loose fun time before i jump into a "career". what the fuck, eh? me? career? those words do not belong in the same sentence. but alas, here i am. i'll start thinking about that when i get back. but really. i have one week left here. which is actually a fairly substantial amount of time but it'll fly by and then it'll be time to say seeya later. in english!

anyway, that's the news. i'm loving it. but really, as each day goes by i start thinking more and more about the things i need to do to get ready for china and i'm ready to get that started too. plus, my car and my cat miss me. i know they do!