There is no future, there is no past, I live each moment as my last.

This is gonna be a long post: fair warning.
Friday after langue, Liana and I went into town to browse and shop. I got a cute dress, a tiny black skirt &some pink/nude flowery tights from H&M, and then we went to Kara(a shoe place) to look around, both of us left with new shoes, and I've already worn mine a few different times since then.
Okay. So Chantal and Dominique are in Paris for the weekend, and specifically told us to have people over n have some fun (just not all of catho!-Chantal =D ). So friday night, we had Leah, Gabby, and Nikki over. Liana made mac and cheese out of english cheddar (can't find american) and gouda, we also had salad, and for dessert we had crepes with nutella. We also managed to finish off a bottle of rose, a red wine, and a bottle of cidre.
After our delish dinner, we spent a lot of time swapping stories, and just girl-chatting. We ended the night by watching Eurotrip. We all crowded around Lianas laptop (american dvd wouldnt play in chantals dvd player), and although I thoroughly love that movie, I got the feeling my new friends don't have the same vulgar humor that I inherit. Gabby and Nikki went home soon after the movie, but Leah stayed the night due to the early morning Chateaux trip/her long walk home.
I went to bed after 2am, and my alarm went off at a bright and early 5:30. (ugh) I managed to slowly gather myself together and look presentable to leave. We packed food, and realized that we were running late for the trip. We ended up making it in time, but didn't get on M. Melin's bus(=/) or Gabby's (double =/) but it was overall okay. We did three Chateaux; starting with Azay-le-Rideau, then onto Chenonceau, and ending with Chambord.
The weather was of course bi-polar, and changed from cold and rainy, to windy n overcast, to blue skies beautiful, warm, and sunny....and back to raining and gross...all in a span of 8 hours.(pretty much how it is here)

Azay-le-Rideau was probably the smallest of the 3 and was very cute. It had a nice charming feel to it, and was set next to a huge pond with a walk around it. The whole thing was very picturesque, and I took over 130 pictures here, just snapping them at random, and letting creativity take over.
Chenonceau was next, and honestly I'm in love. It's built over a river, and is simply amazing. We had lunch sitting on a fountain, and soon we all were off to explore. Now this time, we got split up, and I explored the castle with Gabby, we finished the inside fairly quickly (compared to the others) and then took to taking picture after picture outside. We ended up (finally) getting some sun, and chilling out in front of the castle/river. This one made me miss home a lot. I grew up living not far from TONS of various locations with water, including my cute little boardwalk/saint clair river. Now, this is NOT one of the things I thought I would miss, but it really is. Being near water calms me and helps me feel less homesick, and for some reason I have had a brief moment of bliss on both excursions so far, and both happened while I was near water. I know that Angers has a river running through it, and all, but we rarely walk down by it, I plan to spend more time near it once the weather gets nicer.
After this, we had another fairly long bus ride to Chambord, and I had literally just fallen asleep when I heard our tourguide say "reveillez-vous".ugh. So I descended the bus feeling tired n sort of cranky. This chateau is huge, and let's just say the guy who built it must have been confiscating for something. ;) Okay, in all seriousness, this castle was the biggest, and had the most grandeur, it was where French Royalty lived and all that fun stuff, before Versailles. I also heard a rumor that it's the "beauty and the beast castle", which I believe, because it does have that feel to it. Hard to explain.
Chenonceau is privately ran, and was my favorite, It seemed the best kept up, and prettiest, and of course has the river appeal. I kept joking with the girls that I am going to get rich and buy it someday.(I wish.)
After we got back, we went to Mcdoner for some cheap quick food, and both the guys who work there know us and were joking with us. I'm starting to really like them, lol. We then went home and changed, drank a bottle of rose, and went to the bar 'Soft' on Bressigny, we got some beers, some sangria, and had a very nice time.
Today was low-key and chill, we spent the day being lazy, and eventually went to Leah's for Pizza and planning for spring break/ Paris(Versailles). Overall this weekend was pretty amazing. I got very little sleep, but I had a lot of fun which was much needed.


bad things:
-Bus rides are terrible, and it's almost impossible to sleep.
-There are students from a certain school that I won't name for offense reasons, but there's like 20+ of them, they flock together, are loud, only speak english, and treat everyone else like they are better than them (even tho they are not) Okay. so for some reason, they decided to sit on our bus and talk about stupid crap the whole time, and one of them said her bucket list isn't "anything stupid like skydiving, guys that's like totally lame, but I wanna like be like taken. like kidnapped, except I wanna like escape. how cool would that like be?" someone needs to teach these kids that "like" doesn't need to be in your vocabulary that much.
-my pink tights I just bought....are ripped at the heels already, which is dumb, I can still wear them with my boots but yeah. oh well. I want some black ones anyway.
-I still want queso/taco-bell.

good things:
-I might be seeing Versailles not this weekend,but next.
-Same with Paris.
-I'm less homesick than I've ever been.
-I love my new shoes, and walked thru rain puddles and they didn't get soaked.
-Andrea Gibson. shes a slam poet, and I am slowly becoming more and more obsessed with her. Here is a link to one of her more powerful things:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cEc3aQOP-o

Also, I've been trying to put photos on Photobucket, but it takes a LONG time to load, they will slowly, and eventually be on there, so those of you without facebook must be patient to view the rest of my amazing photos. =)  heres the link to that.  http://s1186.photobucket.com/albums/z375/amyallemon/

 Bonsoir a tous