Must be something in the water..

Two things that are notable about today, we will start with the more pleasant, and maybe less amusing of them.
One: UCO (universite catholique de l'ouest) kids were out and about today raising awareness for Aids (le SIDA) complete with pamphlets, magnets, people getting up in yo face, baked goods? preservatifs (haha condoms..im mature) and last but certainly the most entertaining; dancing to american music?!? C'est quoi ca? They were playing old american music and I witnessed it during lunchtime, and also during a particularly long break between classes. What songs were they playing you ask? well, the most popular (and the most choreographed) was Hey baby, but with a few french twists, and was absolutely adorable and made me feel more at home in this place. Other popular songs played and danced to were hit the road jack, and the hustle.(apparently there is one line dance that is universal) They did this all day and I have to say it made my day better, even if it did get songs stuck in my head rather badly.
Hey Baby(version they were listening to) -Hey baby-DJ otzi

Two: soooooooooo I have to tell it as a story for you to get the full nastyness. ;)
I was attempting to nap/sleep but the neighbors are partying it up so i was laying on my bed in the dark wen Liana comes in and DOESNT scare me for once. haha anyway. She goes "amy..u need to come see this"
"uhm...see what?"-me
"Idk. It might be fuzz, but it moved when I walked by...I think it's a spider"-Liana
"omg no"-me (as i get up and follow her)
"OMG nooooo.ew ew ew ew ew ew EEEeeeeWWWwwwwwEW"-me
No words can properly describe how horribly petrified I am of spiders, and how much I would have rather it had been a people eating dragon than a spider. Anyway. There must be something funny in the water because this thing was HUGE, and when I say huge at home I'm usually talking the ones that are the size of a quarter. This spider would have eaten those ones for a snack.
So after I get over my initial shock, I back away and stand where I can't see it anymore while Liana and I discuss wut to do (neither of us want to kill it, or even go near it) When I hear the front door open, and the familiar whistle of Dominique. So I walk to the top of the stairs and literally almost yell.
"DOMINIQUEEEEE" (picture my most shrill/freaked out voice) -me
"oui? ca va?"-him
"euhhh il est une araignee"-me
"quoi?"-him as he heads up to me anyway
"une araignee...uhm...spider?!"-me
"ohhh he he he une araignee"-him (isn't that what I said?!? lol)
then he proceeds to go to said spider and I refused to follow him fully ready to book it downstairs if this thing moves.(or eat dominique) and from what Liana tells me he poked it with a screwdriver, and at that point our near flat, huge disgusting NOT friend, got all big and leggy and alert. This is when I could hear Dominique laughing and repeating "pauvre araignee, ahha pauvre spider" (franglais?) and he killed it, carried it down the hall and flushed it. RIP disgusting beast spider.
After this I said "merci" very sheepishly feeling foolish, and still scared. and he just simply laughed and told us to have a good night.
Don't think I'm justified on my freakout? disgusting. Liana googled French house spiders (apparently what our beast was) and they are on AVERAGE 3 inches in legspan, but can get 4 inches or bigger.
So now all I'm thinking is that this sucker had little babies, and you know spiders, they have hundreds of them at a time. and each of these beasts will be 2 inches in legspan as babies, and will only grow bigger. Baby french spiders could eat our large spiders for lunch and still have room for more( a short american girl for instance.)
I will now spend more time than I will admit staring at every surface I pass and being paranoid that a creepy disgusting creature will come out and crawl on me.