homesick.

last night was a lot of fun. i watched nightmare before christmas in french with the twins, and then went out to meet elli and her friends. elli is a friend of one of my friends from usf, and he hooked the two of us up on facebook. she's american but has lived here for quite a while, and along with her i also met bram, lauren, and jaynie, who are studying here for a semester at beaux-arts.


^that's me, jaynie, and bram

we went to a tiny little bar called 'le pantalon' and it was PACKED! we made some french friends, like julien and arnaud and the cryptically-named '05' (seriously, that was his name). it was a great time, but somehow between getting off the metro at ellie's and later getting in a cab to come back home, i lost my wallet. i think i probably left it in the cab- i just got off the phone with the people at wells fargo, cancelling my credit card and one of my debit cards. luckily, i kept one of my debit cards back in my room, so i'm not without money. i did lose my international student identity card (waste of $25) and my ICP identity card, but i think i can get another one pretty easily. it's a learning experience!


this morning i slept in waaaay too late. when i woke up and went downstairs, my host family was having lunch. it was awkward, because the arrangement is that i have breakfast and dinner with them... all i wanted was to grab a piece of bread for breakfast, but i ended up sitting awkwardly with them while their visiting nephew/cousin told stories in rapid french that i'm assuming were hilarious, given the rest of the family's reaction. so i just gunned it back up to my room afterward, and i've been sitting in here all day. i want to go to a patisserie or something but as it's sunday i think everything's closed.

it wasn't really that bad, but the awkwardness about lunch plus the language barrier plus not having close friends here just all added up today...it doesn't help that my internet is acting up and it's just another thing on top of it all. i'm skyping with my mom later tonight, so that should help a little bit :) i'm just really starting to realize how foreign this country is...

also i'm reeeeeally hungry.