bastille

Today Paul took a few of us up to the Bastille which is the fort that overlooks grenoble, the one that the balls go to. Its really cool and a popular place for climbing and running to, like what I did last week.

I think I am going to try to run it once a week....note try. ^_^the group qt one of the outcroppings

our destination.....its a long walk up

ana + brandon

good friends are hard to find but i think i found some

i hope i can keep them

fishbowl

The mountains here do a strange thing.

Sometimes, when things are right, they seem to stretch right into the sky, which makes it hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

It makes me feel like I live in a fishbowl, being surrounded like that, with mountains on everyside.

I kinda like it.

revolution museum

Alors, these photos are from the Revolution Museum in Vizille, which is like an hour south of Grenoble. I didn't take that many pictures but as you can see it is quite pretty and I plan on going again just to admire the grounds some more.

OMG

so today i ran who knows how much to get to the bastille which is a fort on the top of one of our mountains! it was so cool and i got a wonderful view of the city, the pictures do no justiceI know the picture is fuzzy but it was pitch black so just a little bit difficult. The cool thing though is that if you can see the lights that are floating in the air? Well those are the brightest of some of the villages in the mountains in the backgroud. When their are lots of stars it looks like the lights on the mountains are stars as well and the feeling is awsome!

erg...

ok so i went to an internet cafe because i thought i could upload my pictures easier here and also type easier (go english keyboards), mais I cant figure out how to do it! DAM YOU LINUX! erg, so I guess none of you can see the pictures I have so far untill i go home and have my host-sister help me

regardless, things are great, cept I lost a bag at the aeroport, the one with all my pants, so I have been wearing the smae pants for what....4-5 days now, they are starting to stink but im still holding out!

anyway, time for lunch cause im hungry!this is Ana and the best sandwhich ever!!!!
I think its tomatoes, brie, and a basile spread

fancy dinner

so kit had a fancy holiday dinner that a bunch of people went to and it turned out hella fun
i got to help!!!kit got her grove on later that nightok, i know it looks like im molesting her....which of i kinda am, but there was an ice cube and she started itas the drunkness increases the picture quality decreases

Club 5 night doux

clubbing again yay!!!i have more pictures on flicker, check them out cause they are cool

CHRISTMAS

so it is christmas,my Uncle Buddy, Jackie, Adora, Vince, and Stella all came overso of course we opened some presents, stella looks so happymom freaked out about dad being in the kitchen
and then we ate.....i love food ^_^

the capital

dad and i bothering mom at work

i got my visa!

thanks to andrew I got to chicago and got my visa!

isnt it purdy

Club 5

ok so today we had our first excursion to club 5 since ive been back, i went with a bunch of my friends qnd had a great time!!it was alot of fun, i even got to fend off a wild kit

fun with the folks

So Mom, Dad and I tried to go see a play on Willy St. but we were late so we went to a near by.

Anyway, it turned out well. We ended up going to the last show at the old Hilldale Theater. For their ending show they were doing a Sound of Music singalong thingy. I thought it was going to be kinda corny...and it was...but it wasn't that bad, I actually enyojed it. ^_^

They had a costume contest and a little goody bad that had a bunch of little things in it that you used during different point of the movie. Like a little piece of curtain etc. It was cool.

eh...bored

Um....
So I'm home.

I got picked up by an unknown assailant at the airport, dragged to his abode, then was finally released the next morning. I liked it even though it was a tad bit awkward, but being abducted tends to do that.

Afterwards I lost myself downtown with two lovely femmes who showed me the joy of madisonian creme along with a lovely tour of the elevator facilities in the student center.

Other than that I have been hanging with the parentials and making nightly runs to various ladies in the neighborhood because frankly, if I don't have a destination I won't go anywhere.

Lets see....yea, thats my life in short lately, nothing that interesting but that shall soon be remedied once school releases my friends from its evil clutches. Who needs scholin anyway, jesh.

so....

ok, so i was over at Ils saturday to spend the night and well, before we knew it we had a sake bottle in front of us along with a stack of cards. What luck, itadakimasu! Anyway, by the end of a couple games the fighting started to begin and before I knew it I was engaged in a slapping contest of epic proportions! ...yea im a geek

oh and if you didnt notice hella won
go me!

friday night antics

im hella wasted so i dont want to type this out that much ;)

me cooking the usual cause we're hungry :)

Aerica, Lauren and I going to the bar
(after getting the special ingrediants....)


awkward
we done fucked up

But we found these!!
Leightor wins the cutest couple award again!
....dam lesbians.
then guess what happened.....
yea.....Ili got in a fight with the cashier...
dam bitch came back w/o the beer
look at Aerica's face!
so sad...
we thankully got Tobie to go negotiate and get our rightful beer like objects
so we left to go back
aerica was still sad....
dont know why

anyway, we went back to the house to drink and had a blast of a time
the end

to me beloved

Today is wednesday the 6th of December.
And I am in a weird mood.
My camara came today.
Today was the last day of out french classes.
Both of these events have caused me to realize something.
That I am actually going to Grenoble, with a group of people that I love and admire. I never thought that this would actually happen and I am kind of in shock. I figured that I was going to fail out and stay in Seattle and feel like a loser, but I didn't. I actually succeded.
Anyway, I am writing this note in order to thank all of you. From the kids in my class who told me how to pronouce 'eu' and to all my friends who had faith in me.
Thank you.

....uh...yea...

so all i have to say is this...

http://www.globalorgasm.org/

things are getting batter....wait better...

So....like the title says, I think things are starting to look up. No I am not any more less stressed....ok actually I am more stressed because I found out I was enrolled in a class that I didn't do anything for becasue I didn't know I was in it....but that can be talked about later.

you know....I don't even know what I am saying anymore...I am freaking the FUCK out because I am going to FRANCE! (well I assume I am...) I am not prepared! I still have to get my Visa and talk to financial aid and talk to housing and figure out how to graduate and pack.....you can't forget packing. Oh on top of finals and work....

ok....so lots of stress...

but hey I am starting to run again and I have faith

I have faith that I will do what I need to do and things will work out. And as long as I have this faith I will be ok, and keep my sanity....keeping sanity is good

PS: I do also have to admit that going home and seeing a certain someone is also keeping me up right now, but hey, it happens. :)

uck....

So I am annoyed.
Not really at any one thing, more like a combination of things.
The really funny (meaning stupid) thing that sparked this latest bout was that I wanted to go to brunchg with my friends, you know the common sunday brunch where you sit for an hour so and just talk. Well unfortuantly that didn't work out because people had homework to do, which yes I do agree is a good thing but comeon, if you don't take a break and relax your brain is going to go crazy!

Erg....my friends are annoying, I really think I need to make friends with some alcohloics, then at least I will have someone to drink with. ^_^

All this could also stem from the fact that I am not exercising....so maybe I should stop complaining and go for a run.