Light Men and Dirty Soap

This morning I woke up at 8:15 to meet Cassandra to go to the markets at 9:30. I woke up and decided to skip the shower because I am not sure what time is like okay to take them on the weekends. I went and had breakfast and during it Madame came to me with a little micro SD card and asked if I could put it in my computer to see the pictures. I said yeah of course I have an adapter for it but it should have come with one as well when she bought it. She went away and I finished breakfast and she came out and was like is it this thing? And I was like yep. Do you want me to put the photos on your CD? And she was like oh wow you can do that? And I was like yeah it is really easy! So I did that and she was like wow I didn’t know I had that many pictures on it! And I was like yep and you can move them to your new phone too. She thinks I am magic now I swear because I figured out how to do that. She was very happy and I came up with this little gem of Beebow and his mom (who lives downstairs) before he became a meanie cat.

After that I went and met up with Cassandra at the Rotonde. I decided it was cold enough to wear my hoodie which I love! J I also wore my red scarf and felt very fancy. We met up and then walked to the markets. The markets like this are open Monday, Thursday, and Saturday and they have like everything. Lots of clothing and then there is also extra food as well. I bought a lot of gifts today which was good to cross a lot of people off of my list. I only have 12 people left! Unfortunately they are like the hardest people… :-/ But I think it will be good. When you think about how many people I have been able to knock out so far? I think I am doing well! J I found a tiger poster painting thing for Madame that I am hiding for her Christmas present. I think she will like it. I just have to remember that I have it or else I may forget where it is! I also bought a painting poster thing for myself. But I might change my mind and give it to someone else. I dunno! The opportunities are endless! But it was really fun to just look at things. Sometimes we would say HECK no are we going to pay that much for that and then we would just walk by. I also bought myself a 2 Franc coin. They are the old currency of France and it was only a euro and I thought it was cool. So I am happy about that. It was actually my first purchase of the day.

We walked around for probably about two hours looking and poking around. There are a lot of booths. I found some cute hoodies that I was going to buy that said Marseille but then they were actually US Marshall and only the sweatpants were Marseille. So I didn’t do that. It made me kind of sad. Most of the cool looking things here are in English which makes it hard to find cool shirts or anything because they are all US or in English. I want a cool French hoodie but they are really hard to find apparently. But it was still a very successful trip. I had fun.

After the market we went and found lunch at Simply Food. I got a ham and cheese sandwich and tea and a white chocolate mousse with blueberries and speculoos cookies. It was all very good. The tea was nice with the cold. The mousse was also very delicious! After lunch we went to a couple other weird stores including some baby stores. I may or may not have bought something for the Barnetts new baby. The baby stores are really cute here and it was nice to have a reason to go in, because they are some of the nicest laid out stores. We also went to one of the Cathedrals in town and got stuck inside because a couple was christening their baby on the front steps. After that we went home to relax before going to dinner later.

I came home and started to do some homework, first and foremost to get caught up in History. I did most of it but then was like I’m tired of history. Then I got online and talked to Thad before he had to go to work. Madame came up and I helped her set her phone to vibrate and ring together and she thought I was like Steve Jobs or something. She showed me a connect four game that she found at the Red Cross for Paul which I think it like goodwill? So there must be one around here somewhere. I could probably Google it. She told me that on the 19^th they will get internet downstairs so I will have internet that should work through the floor. YAY!!! That is sooner than I thought! Win! 

After that she went grocery shopping. I took a shower. After that I did more history and then finally got through it. I After that I went online to see what was up. I talked to Megan and then Skyped my parents. They seemed in good spirits. Mom and I talked about the cruise ship problems that are going on right now. On the news when I got here was one that had hit the shore and flipped over in the water and just recently one was on fire and one was struck by lightning or something. Mom was telling me about some friends that Grammy knows who had to stay in Monaco for a while because they were on the cruise. But I was in Monaco and it isn’t too shabby of a place to be! There was also one from I think Syria or had people fleeing from Syria and so the boat was way over booked and over capacity by like 5 times and then capsized or something and like 41 people died because there wasn’t enough life boats and lifejackets. I mean you’d think they would learn from Titanic!? After that I said goodbye and went to go meet up for dinner.

I was the first one there and I always feel weird sitting by myself but then luckily Patrick showed up not two minutes later. He was like well it may just be us because I didn’t see if anyone else responded. Then Cassandra showed up and while we were waiting I check with my wifi to see if anyone had responded and Jonathan had so we waited for him. None of us had a preference of where to go so after walking around for a while we ended up going to the 24hour place close to the Rotonde and at the end of my street. It was really good. I had breaded chicken and fries and some sort of vegetable… thing. It was good I think it was carrots and someone said spinach they thought but it looked more like celery but it didn’t taste like it. Jonathan had shrimp salad thing with a frightening shrimp on it, Patrick blindly ordered something that he didn’t know what it was just because it said à la style Provenҫale, and Cassandra had muscles. Patrick and I traded bites and mine was the clear winner. His tasted like what I would imagine wet socks to taste like. The texture was fine but the flavor was just not something that I would want to eat. He seemed to like it though which is good. He is much more adventurous than me.

We got the dessert menu afterward but didn’t get dessert. They had an ice cream with alcohol thing that looked interesting but it was very expensive. Plus then I think it would ruin perfectly good ice cream. But it sounded interesting. We then made the joke that we could go buy some ice cream and a bottle of wine and do the same thing. But we decided it would not be the same and that would be really disgusting. We paid without any trouble such as difficult splitting the tab ourselves with weird change and exchanges going on and then left. Jonathan left but Cassandra wanted a can of beer from somewhere so we set off to find an open convenience store. But then I heard music and was determined to find it. I turned the corner and saw lights moving on a building and being me obviously went to go see what was up. So we went there and on the side of the library were these like people made of stick lights and then with the classical music it made like a little show. We came in at the end of it and stayed to watch it run again.

It was pretty cool and got me all warmed up for the fete des Lumieres in Lyon in December! Speaking of warmed up I also approached Cassidy about the idea of going to the spa together when she is here because I think that might be more fun than going alone and she totally said YES which I wasn’t expecting! So that makes me really excited to have someone to go with! Plus I am excited that I get to go at all!

After that we walked back up towards the school and found a convenience store that was open and Cassandra got her beer. Under the impression that we were going to meet up to climb Mount Sainte Victoire tomorrow, we all decided to call it a night for our early wake up tomorrow. I walked home on the popular streets so as not to be in danger which is nice because all but the last street is totally non-sketch so I feel safe walking home alone. Plus it isn’t too late at 10 so there are still lots of people out. But I be careful and tuck my main card and cash onto my person anyways just to be sure.

I came home and the hallway light was on which was odd so when I went up the stairs I was like this light is going to go off and I’m going to be stuck in the dark. But then Laurence was there smoking out the window in the hallway but she was around the corner and scared the crap out of me! Now I know that she will be there if the light is on. She was like sorry I thought you would know because the light! It was okay though just a little scary after walking the last sketch road home. Paul came out and made fun of his mom for smoking and how it is bad and then she had him go to bed like he was supposed to of twenty minutes ago. I said goodnight and went upstairs. Also I saw her and Jean-Claude walking home today and they didn’t notice me. I think they don’t recognize me out of context of the house. Like this morning Laurence didn’t really recognize me as I was leaving through the main door. Or maybe it is because my hair was down today and I have been wearing it up… Ooooh I bet that is it! Yep. But maybe it was both (though mostly the hair!).

After that I came home and Madame was asleep at the TV but I talked to her for a bit. I looked on Facebook and we decided to move the mountain trip to another day later. Which is okay by me because now I can sleep in and maybe write my paper tomorrow for lit where I have to take one angel and devil from the stories we read and have them have a dialogue. Which is a great assignment if you are into creative writing but I am not… And I don’t really have a good idea of what to say so it is going to be hard… Then we both went to bed and I stayed up and wrote this even though I am not sure I get internet in my room…. But I am so tired I may wait until tomorrow to post it anyways so I can get the video and pictures and everything up. Goodnight!