i smell freedom... i smell vacaaaation!

its been a while. ive forgotten what i wrote about last time around... but i know a bit has happened since. damn, its been a LONG week. where do i start... so i finally met all my roomates and theyre all between 20-25, with the exception of Kenza (15). So the other night, my neighbor yohann stopped by my room (hes in school for electrical engineering of some sort... hes learning how to wire elevators) and asked if i had rolling papers. hmmmm. "yessss, may i ask what youre going to put in there?" "du shitre" (hashish), heh. remind you, id asked him before if he smoked anything and hed said no. Well, his buddies from school are always stopping by his spot after class, in the evening to game it up. so i went by and burned with them. then the following afternoon, his buddy abdul stopped by asking for papers again, and he invited me over. that evening, yohann ended up cooking dinner for about... 10 people!! me, yohann & 2 of his friends from school, my neighbors kenza and her sister ikram, icham - my neighbor on the other side, and the german assistant Thang came by with 3 of his german friends. we ate good, we boozed up, cheefed up, and then headed out!

it was about 1 when we left and didnt make i to piiiiimps until about 130. hah, can i just say it is absolutely obligatory from now on that i kick it with germans. fuckin WILD! i believe at one point this guy alex was approached by 2 french girls who asked him for a cigarette, to which he replied, "we my friend an i have 2 big cigarettes right here..." but he looks so fn innocent!!!
so we got turned away from pimps, im guessing cause the germans were wearing jeans and thats not cool. so then we had to walk to old town tours which is about 45 minutes back the way we came. but we made it to this small bar that had a dance floor downstairs and a stripper pole right in the middle of the floor. and that night in particular there just so happened to be a "safe sex" group there giving out free rubbers, and check this, FEMALE CONDOMS! i mean, ive heard of em, but never in my life have i been showed one, then explained how to use it. its like a fricken trash bag!! and the instructions manual, DEAR GOD! it was descriptive! i mean, i think we could get the gist after 3 pictures, but there must have been about 3 pages with 10 different images showing how to insert it. i mean, pubes and everything. i had a good laugh at it.

AND THEN! if that wasnt enough, there were this one butch lesbian and her friend (who strongly resembled Atlantas own clermont lounge star Blondie...). well, Blondie decides to get up and dance on the pole, go figure, and Thang (bless his heart) gets up there and is dancing with her! so im trying not to make it obvious that they look ridiculous, but i guess she thought i was diggin her, so she reaches out for me to get up there with her, "no thank you man"... so she gives me a rose instead! and i hate it when offensive people get all in your grill and are tryin to talk to you when youve never met them before in your life.. well, her breaf was rank and she said, "you better hold onto that rose!" yea, i still got it... its a rose for cryin out loud! plus i didnt want her to find me later that night without it and have her confront me about it.

what a night. i left kinda early with the germans, around 4 (cause european clubs dont close till 6am!). i got invited out the following night, but i cant hang like that man. no way jose. i mean... i can, but nah. yohann and his buddies invite me over to play playstation fromtime to time and burn. the other night, abdul came and knocked on my door asking if i had any hash. i didnt, so he went downstairs to buy some ciggs at the store and asked one person on his way... the second person asked him if he had any papers and he said, "i have papers if youve got hashish!" so he scored some free hash for just some rolling papers! damn. i told him that didnt happen too often in atlanta. theyre cool guys. they kinda... but no where near, remind me of my homies at ford factory. yea. 1 charles gille is where its at!

last monday and yesterday monday i had the chance to talk in portuguese at the cafe des langues. in fact, i do believe (and i was super stoked about this), i had conversations with people in every language i can handle- french, spanish, english, portuguese, and japanese. i went home feeling very satisfied ^_^. i even learned some dirty german, "mochten sie essen meine muschi?" mmm, try and go figure that one out. *snickers*

stephanie wrote me and told me she bought her ticket to come to europe!!! so... IM GOING TO BERLIN FOR CHRISTMAS/NEWYEARS TO MEET UP WIF MY HOME GIRL!! peeeee! im bummed i wasnt able to get to amstedam this weekend to meet up with mateo and valerie. i just didnt have enough of and advance notice and it was expensive as hell! the only way that would happen is if i can catch a ride with Pascal (weed man)... thats IF hes going. hmm... i should go call him btw. yeaaa.

i did my lessons today on halloween since french people know jack shit about it besides costumes and trick o treatin. haunted houses?? hay rides?? maize mazes?? bobbing for apples?? so i educated them about that stuff, then had them play a 10 questions game. each student chose a character and then the other kids in the class asked them questions to guess what character they were. vampire, warewolf, invisible man, the guy from scream, a pumpkin. i have one student who out shines ALLLLLL my classes combined, out of both schools. his name is Etienne. hes very witty too. ill have to think of way to keep him interested in the class. but it was a success because i got all the students talking and asking questions. we had fun. i just wish id brought them candy. i went to lunch after class with one of the teachers to this traditional creperie restaurant. it was really good.

soooo, now im chillin. im going to call pascal now so i can get my high on. no school tomorrow. friday afternoon starts the vacation- YAY! fingers crossed ill get to paris, or maybe back to chinon to scope out more castles. thatd be the cheaper option. and yea, i gotta strap down now frrreal. hope amerika is doin yall well!
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