Home again home again jigity jig.

Hey I haven't really had time to update in the past few week because of tests and other events were going on. mass chaos and cold cold rainy weather.

But I made it back-barely I was THE last person on the plane they literally closed the door behind me and the guy I sat next to had the nerve to mention a rude comment that he had been sitting on the plane for a long time. Yeah I got to the airport 3 hours before the flight left too mister. I think with the strike the day before a lot of people had missed their original flight and opted to leave on mine-but I made it. 

I home. I've had some Zaxby's and Waffle House already! Life is good.

I'll try to post some pictures of our disney trip when I find the time...

prayerage

If you could spare a few prayers. I would appreciate some being thrown my way! I am trying to conquer the overwhelming homesickness as I get closer to being able to return home/holiday season-ness PLUS I have a couple papers and projects due the last week of school that I need to not procrastinate on doing- I have a plan, now I just have to stick to it! And on top of the work I want to go experience french christmas time. 

so recap:

-that I can overcome my growing homesickness for the next two weeks

-that I can efficiently get my work done- no procrastinating and doing it well!

-That on top of that I can find time to sleep-and actually fall asleep.

What's the good word?

Sporting our team colors and being optimistic before the game.
Us with our american Cheeeezebergurs. 
yum! the burger was enormous.
sad matt stafford.
(there was some confusion on the score)
TO HELL WITH GEORGIA!

Who knew that you could watch the Tech vs uGA game in Paris? Not me until this weekend! But I got to watch the whole game live! (horay for it being an afternoon game!) I witnessed every amazing moment of it! Unfortunately there was no sound so we made our own amusing commentary... such as they cover the sad faces of the georgia fans and the cheerleader desperately holding up her defense sign.

PETA, PARIS, and Pterodactyls

Les Champs lit up for christmas and emily taking a picture of it. 

PETA ads in the metro station- and I thought they didn't exist in france. But this one is shaky it is supposed to be a row of les lapins (bunnies) hanging up.
And the girl is saying I am a victime of fashion just like You! (to the bunnies) while holding a Knife. (makes perfect sense- that vest is ugly) and then 1 vest= 25 bunnies and 1 sac/purse is another amount of bunnies- I cut it off.
Then after saying that they don't allow ugly things inside the middle of Paris I see this! At St. Michel (right next to the Jardin du Luxembourg aka seat of french parliment or something like that and a very pretty park that was in a much older post) 
Then on my way to class I saw this cafe that was celebrating the arrival of this season's wines by blowing up balloons in the shape of grapes ad hanging them on the roof. I thought it was cool. 

C'est hyper mega super cool! 
This is a video of the bears in one of the shops along the champs. They sell everything from touristy trash to salami and instead of hot chocolate they sell hot wine (vin chaude)- because they're french. This clip is not THAT interesting but it comes from one of the bigger little houses built along the street. They even set up an impromptu Bar complete with ridiculous (ridic) high prices commonly found along the champs- even temporary bars for spreading christmas cheer won't pass up the chance to rip you off. Buddy the Elf would NOT approve.

Banking!

I went to the bank today with Samantha and we were going to be all like Look we need to get this money to our landlord! (plan b involved tears.) After we realized that we actually banked at two different BNP locations we first went into mine and we found that instead of the really mean lady that usually works behind the desk there was a really nice one and there was not a long line of customers waiting to be helped- we entered bank heaven- or the twilight zone. 

But within a mere minute of walking in the front door she gave me my debit card! Like simple as that- why had it been so difficult before- no one knows. But this lady is the angel of the bank. She then helped us get the correct form for doing transfers to italy for paying our landlord. She explained everything as best she could so we could understand it- while this sounds like regular service- this is EXEMPLIARY customer service in France. So we try to fill out the form only to discover that we do not have our landlord's bank's address but Samantha remembers that he sent it to us in one of his earlier e-mails. Sciences-po is just down the road about 5 minutes so we decide to stop in there and use the computers so that we could get this all out of the way today. On the way there we run into 5 different people who we stop and talk to because we haven't seen them in a while. Eventually we manage to get the address and get out of sciences-po meanwhile however, the nice lady has gone off duty for lunch and the mean one is back. Dang it. Fortunately we don't have to ask the mean one any questions because the nice one explained it to us- we simply have to hand her the form right?

Nope she demands an explination for why we're paying this much money if it is our rent and it was difficult for Samantha to explain what she was trying to ask about in french so we get frustrated and the lady gets frustrated and gives us that I wish I could kill you now look and she says alright I'm filing this away to be sent out today. Great right? 

Then we decide to head over to Samantha's bank in order to do the same thing with her account but for whatever reason her bank is never open on mondays- go figure.

So later this afternoon I received a phone call and a lady at the bank (I think it was the nice one) said that I needed to come to the bank tomorrow for some reason concerning my account transfer- great. I hope this doesn't turn into another daily visit to the bank thing like getting my debit card was.

a somewhat successful day.

School drools. Especially when they schedule an 8am class. There's reasons why I don't sign up for those!

Saturday- Fanksgiving. Thanksgiving à la France- we're doing it Saturday because we still have to go to class on Thursday : (

Una Ciccolata Calda

Hey! I've been having some trouble updating my blog-not sure what the problem is but my pictures from turin with some captions are what not are posted on picasa here's the link

http:/picasaweb.google.com/slindsey711/Torino#