Theatre

So last night Alison and I, along with probably 20 other IES students, went to the play "Les Trois Souers", or "The Three Sisters" at the Grand T Theatre. Turns out its actually like a block away from my house, I walked it in ten minutes wearing my black stilettos. The only bummer is that I've been wearing those shoes a lot, and I must put more pressure on my left foot, because the heel is already worn down to the nail!! Anyway, the play was very good, but difficult. They spoke quickly, plus I was in the back of the room. The women were very hard to hear, though the men weren't too bad. They were just hard to tell apart. Alison was in her element...whereas I loved the printing museum, she LOVED this. She's a theater major at Kenyon, but not an actress, she's much happy doing behind the scenes work or directing.

Today we had conversation club after a SUPER busy day of classes. Alison and I got paired off with two boys and three girls, who are studying everything from communications to engineering sciences. It was really hard to hear everybody because we were packed into a little tiny room with four other groups and had the windows open, but it was a really fun time. Julie (one of the assistants) passed out newspaper articles in both French and English which we took turns discussing in our respective languages. They talked about racial slurs on primetime television, the international air band competition, the Nantes student who drowned in the Loire after drinking, and national regulations on children's backpacks. It was really fun. Afterwards, Christine went to eat with her family and Caitlin, Alison and I went to get kebabs..which are turkish sandwiches and very good. The restaurant guy was flirting with Caitlin, and so brought us samples of the meat and their special white sauce....which was ranch dressing. It was fun though!

Afterwards I made maybe not the smartest decision, but I didn't realize what time it was. I walked with Caitlin to Commerce, then walked back up to my normal bus stop, not realizing that it was late enough that we were on the night bus schedule. I walked past Derek as he was walking somewhere, but he and I are still a little bit on the fritz and he was flirting with the French girls from conversation club so I let him be. I ended up walking for about half of an hour along the route my bus normally takes. I figured I'd walk to the Cathedrale, the stop I KNOW has a night bus stop, then wait there or keep walking along my normal bus route. I lucked out though, at Place du Cirque there was a big crowd waiting at the night bus C and D stand. I take C, so I figured I might as well check to see when it came. According to the schedule, I'd missed the bus by 3 minutes, but there were a lot of people standing there and it said on the schedule that the C and D come right on top of each other. Plus, the buses are almost always at least three minutes late. Sure enough, a minute or so later up pulled Night Bus C. Woooo!! I was really afraid I'd have to walk home!