A quick recap.

This last weekend was my first weekend staying in Angers all month; I feel like this accurately explains the level of madness that has been rampant in my life over the last few weeks, haha. It was really good to just stay home for the most part and relax, recooperate, regroup and reorganize my life. Which I DESPERATELY needed to do.

Friday I said good bye to Andrea and her mom, which was really quite sad; they were A TON of fun in Angers, plus it's always nice to see a familar face. I didn't really realize how much I missed all of the people at home until they both were here and then had to leave. So that was sort of emotionally difficult, but bearable, because I mean, I'm in France - my life is made of awesome right now - I eat pastries on a daily basis. So I suppose I can miss you all for a little bit longer without going completely mental. Later Friday night I just lounged around at home, drank some wine and caught up on life until Betsy got home and then we watched part of Lars and the Real Girl. I say part because I ended up passing out because as many of you know, I sleep when I drink; and had drank just about a bottle of wine at that point.

Saturday was another great day, I woke up fairly late and made a real breakfast before heading out to the Marche at the Jardain du Mail for some window/stall? shopping. After that we grabbed some lunch and I went home to do some for real grocery shopping, which hadn't been done in AGES. Later I went out with some friends to Soft ( a bar in Angers) which was really really great. There were about 10+ of us in the backroom at the bar and nearly everyone was from the states, which was kind of bizarre but also pretty hilarious/great. It was like our tiny corner of America hidden inside of France. I a fantastic sangria, and also a shot that not only tasted like bubblegum and vodka, but came WITH bubblegum! (I'm fairly convinced that it was the best thing ever.) Betsy and I got home pretty late and then ate some snacks and chatted before we went to sleep.

Sunday all of my motivation went flying face first out of the window and it rained most of the day, which didn't help. However, I did get a basic spring break plan nailed down with a mode of transportation, so that was a definite plus. But other than that I really didn't accomplish much; other than drinking an obscene amount of coffee, watching BBC's Japan Report all day and then not sleeping for most the night. BUT I did pick all my classes for next semester already, and got a summer-job interview set up for later in the week, so I'm not going to say that Sunday was a complete waste. It was just not very productive for France. However, I made up for that today by going on an hour long walk around Angers inbetween my classes, AND doing laundry WHILE studying for my exam.

Trying to be artsy

Some photos from my walk today

Whoa can anyone else feel that insane productivity?

To finish, it's nighttime here. I got about 4 hours of sleep last night and am now going to pass out.
I miss you all mucho. Je vous aimez!