Wow! I've just talked on skype so much and it was beautiful!!!

I was planning tonight to write on this thing but than i got on skype to talk to Stephanie in Spain. Her phone was off so I called Hector and talked for ages...wonderful! Then Steph of course (and we set dates for me to come there!!! so excited!), then Sarah Lake was on Skype and man, so great to here from some of my best best friends, what's up with their lives and just hear their voices!!!

I'll update my blog soon. I went to Nimes last weekend to a spanish festival, hitchike and met some french rappers;) so cool!!! We hanged out with them all night, danced in the street, drank sangria, and then partied at the youth hostel...the next day we did some sightseeing, a picnic with a background of mexican mariachi, and then the corrida in the arena!
then on sunday I went to the dance defile in Lyon which was beautiful and very very artistic!!! After that followed a brazilian night at La Marquise, a club which is a boat on the Rhone, one of the rivers in Lyon. And as I was dancing Samba in a boat in France I felt real happiness again...I really like being here! I've already met some people that I really like, and of course living with my dad and stepmom is great, they treat me like a princess and I feel so spoiled! It's nice after a while living on your own, and especially all this comfort after India! Yesterday I went to the movie theatre to see a film with my dad (the wind that shakes the Barley, winner at Cannes festival), and on the way back we saw a homeless guy sleeping on the sidewalk. And I just realized that about a month ago I was living in India, and at night there were rivers of people sleeping on the sidewalk and it somehow felt normal...how strange! How this world can be contradictory...

But anywyas, so much to say!!! I finally set my class schedule: French as a Foreign Language, International Marketing, Corporate Finance, Survey methods and practices, Negotiation technics, Sales prevision and commercial costs management, and Marketing and Commercial Planning. We'll see how it goes! I have fridays free which is megatop (french slang;), but for example tomorrow (which is my first day) i have class from 8 am until 7 pm with no breaks!!! not even for lunch!!!
Oh well...I'm excited about next weekend. My friend Eszter (from Hungary...by the way, cool to talk with an hungarian during all the caos that is happening over there right now!) and I met some people from the BDE (bureau des étudiants), kind of like the student government, the equivalent of MSA at Mizzou. They are organizing a trip to Montpellier (south of France) this weekend and we're going!!! Finally all french people and only 3 foreigners!!! I'm very excited and I know we'll have a blust.

I'll put up some pictures soon. Yesterday I put some of my pictures from India on my desk and I miss those people so much! I can't wait to meet everybody again!!!

Until then, I'll just enjoy life here, it's beautiful and I really feel lucky and loved...à bientot!