Lack of Sleep
How am I still alive? *Dramatic gesture*
Saturday night was the Annual HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales) Gala (HEC being the most elite and best business school in France), and I went along with Frederique, Monalisa, Saskia, Regina and some other girls from the CUPA program. The ball was held at the Hotel Westin, "Absolute luxe" as Monalisa put it. I must admit, although the music was techno and not very good at that, it was worth the 22E just to ogle the conglomeration of the most handsome men under one roof I have every seen in my entire life. Attired in sharp suits, and looking excessively goodlooking. Except...drunk men are the same everywhere, and it was not the exception, even with HEC students. I was accosted by a couple of drunken guys, one of whom attempted to kiss me on the mouth and whom I dodged sucessfully (thank goodness). The other, his friend, came up to me and said "You have the most beautiful eyes" upon which I laughed and rolled my eyes. Please. Don't believe anything a drunken man tells you. And then he proceeded to hit on me with alarming intensity. Drunk men should be only seen and not heard, the terribly stupid things they say! I did have a very good conversation with a master's level student named Nicolas, who studied at UPenn for 1 year as an undergrad, despite having to holler over loud music.
And once again, I managed to get tipsy off of one screwdriver (though the man was quite generous with the vodka)--after polishing off the glass in 1/2 hour, I was bouncing off the walls. Or rather, the dance floor. And the effects lasted for well over 1.5 hours. Oh what a lightweight I am!
The ball concluded at 4am, but there were no taxis to be found so we waited out in the cold until almost 5:30 for the metro. I fell into bed at around 6:30AM and crawled up at 10AM to clean the apartment for the dinner.
Anna and Maylen came over to cook their dishes with me--it was so wonderful to be able to be with friends and just cook...I could do it everyday happily! Although there was a little mishap with the stove for a bit, but my roommate Jen fixed it : )
I cooked two types of dumplings (pork and vegetarian), hot and sour soup, and stir fried lotus root. Regina cooked Korean style spicy tofu, Anna cooked rice pudding, Carly baked an apple crisp, Naomi brought an apple tart, Maylen made black beans and rice, and my roommate Alex made a divine pear, goat cheese, walnut and spinach salad!
Once again, it was all American girls and 2 French guys. Arnaud was there again (poor boy, the things I subject him to....), with Stephane, the French boy of Chinese descent who goes to Polytechnique whom I met awhile back. He and Arnaud went to the same class preparatoire.
It was so much fun! I hope my guests enjoyed the food as much as I enjoyed cooking it, but there wasn't too much left over, so I think so : ) I talked to Stephane for almost the entire time, actually I think I monopolized him : ) In any case, I surpised myself with how much we were able to communicate, despite my still rather small French vocabulary. We listened to music too, and the girls and I danced salsa, merengue and swing and hip hop.
And yes, there are pictures and yes even videos of me out there giving a lap dance to Regina, the beautiful birthday girl!!!!!!!! When we came out with the cake, she didn't even realize it was for her, the sweetheart...we had to point to her to indicate that it was to her we were singing "Happy Birthday"! So then I offered to give her a lap dance, to which she acquiesced...and oh lala, I blush with embarrassment to imagine what I looked like (well you can imagine...a lap dance, except I was actually wearing clothes!). It was all in good fun though and I think she enjoyed it (did you Regina???).
I hope the neighbors aren't too upset because of our lively dancing yesterday....it was incredibly fun, and I realized how much fun it is to have friends over!!!!!
Saturday night was the Annual HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales) Gala (HEC being the most elite and best business school in France), and I went along with Frederique, Monalisa, Saskia, Regina and some other girls from the CUPA program. The ball was held at the Hotel Westin, "Absolute luxe" as Monalisa put it. I must admit, although the music was techno and not very good at that, it was worth the 22E just to ogle the conglomeration of the most handsome men under one roof I have every seen in my entire life. Attired in sharp suits, and looking excessively goodlooking. Except...drunk men are the same everywhere, and it was not the exception, even with HEC students. I was accosted by a couple of drunken guys, one of whom attempted to kiss me on the mouth and whom I dodged sucessfully (thank goodness). The other, his friend, came up to me and said "You have the most beautiful eyes" upon which I laughed and rolled my eyes. Please. Don't believe anything a drunken man tells you. And then he proceeded to hit on me with alarming intensity. Drunk men should be only seen and not heard, the terribly stupid things they say! I did have a very good conversation with a master's level student named Nicolas, who studied at UPenn for 1 year as an undergrad, despite having to holler over loud music.
And once again, I managed to get tipsy off of one screwdriver (though the man was quite generous with the vodka)--after polishing off the glass in 1/2 hour, I was bouncing off the walls. Or rather, the dance floor. And the effects lasted for well over 1.5 hours. Oh what a lightweight I am!
The ball concluded at 4am, but there were no taxis to be found so we waited out in the cold until almost 5:30 for the metro. I fell into bed at around 6:30AM and crawled up at 10AM to clean the apartment for the dinner.
Anna and Maylen came over to cook their dishes with me--it was so wonderful to be able to be with friends and just cook...I could do it everyday happily! Although there was a little mishap with the stove for a bit, but my roommate Jen fixed it : )
I cooked two types of dumplings (pork and vegetarian), hot and sour soup, and stir fried lotus root. Regina cooked Korean style spicy tofu, Anna cooked rice pudding, Carly baked an apple crisp, Naomi brought an apple tart, Maylen made black beans and rice, and my roommate Alex made a divine pear, goat cheese, walnut and spinach salad!
Once again, it was all American girls and 2 French guys. Arnaud was there again (poor boy, the things I subject him to....), with Stephane, the French boy of Chinese descent who goes to Polytechnique whom I met awhile back. He and Arnaud went to the same class preparatoire.
It was so much fun! I hope my guests enjoyed the food as much as I enjoyed cooking it, but there wasn't too much left over, so I think so : ) I talked to Stephane for almost the entire time, actually I think I monopolized him : ) In any case, I surpised myself with how much we were able to communicate, despite my still rather small French vocabulary. We listened to music too, and the girls and I danced salsa, merengue and swing and hip hop.
And yes, there are pictures and yes even videos of me out there giving a lap dance to Regina, the beautiful birthday girl!!!!!!!! When we came out with the cake, she didn't even realize it was for her, the sweetheart...we had to point to her to indicate that it was to her we were singing "Happy Birthday"! So then I offered to give her a lap dance, to which she acquiesced...and oh lala, I blush with embarrassment to imagine what I looked like (well you can imagine...a lap dance, except I was actually wearing clothes!). It was all in good fun though and I think she enjoyed it (did you Regina???).
I hope the neighbors aren't too upset because of our lively dancing yesterday....it was incredibly fun, and I realized how much fun it is to have friends over!!!!!
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