Les Poissons d'Avril!

Instead of April Fool's day in france they have Poissons d'Avril (April's Fish) In the good ole days the citizens of france would stick a little paper fish on the back of friends etc. which was essentially the equivalent of a kick me sign. Malheureusement, (Unfortunately) outside of high school french classes this practice is no longer in use : ( but I did see the evening news paper had a cover photo of a kid with a fish on his back so- not forgotten. AND in my bakery today all the little goodies were fish shaped. I decided to grab one! How cute! Hélas (again meaning unfortunately) the little raisin eye fell off during the swim home.  :( 
On tuesday my friend Amelia needed some shopping therapy after her first french exposé at sciences po- and a week full of other projects. We headed over to the Galleries Layfayette- if you caught the youtube videos Lauren did a little update there (Day 3). Anyways we found this gem of a dress. Sequins and what not looked tacky-licious and it costs- wait for it-   595 euros ($788) due to the price tag they actually have the dress and others like it connected by a cord to the rack! 
Tonight Emily, Ashley, and I took up the opportunity to see a world cup qualifying match of France vs. Lithuania! This is the outside of the stadium. It is very big 80,000 people
can't really tell, but everyone has french flags and were waving them it was pretty crazy (think rally flag night at Turner field- except these weren't handed out for free before the game- the fans are that intense.) I even saw some Lithuanians with their faces fully painted- wearing bright yellow and green walking around the RER station. And if you know anything about Parisians you would realize how bizarre this would be. I stand out because I wear a khaki jacket instead of a black one and my pink and green sweaters are a little bright compared to the sea of black and greys around me.
At the game. France won with 1 goal at 75 minutes the whole game was like OOOh no.... OOOOOOh... no. So close. And the people behind us reminded me of Bobby at a Georgia Southern Game- But louder. 

The fans were also throwing paper airplanes- which made me say "Now let's not start that again" 

Bobby- the french people are so much more intense with their wave, I'm pretty sure you would go insane because before the wave reaches them they all look over to the side and wave their hands out in front of them and go Ooooooooo until it comes down the entire side of their stands. Face it-the wave will never die. It also went around like 10 times.

I also got my grades back this week-suprise I didn't fail- GO me!