spring is here!

spring is officially here. and this week was nothing short of amazing. the sun was shining and i was in a perpetual good mood. nothing could get me down. jeans were put away and shorts were brought out (ok, over tights, but still). i carried my coat rather than wearing it, and i was still hot. and of course, sunglasses suddenly had a purpose again.

my week started out with ikea and volleyball. chloe and i realized that each of us ordering our own plate of fries wasn't the brightest idea we had ever come up with, but hey, we can't get everything right. in volleyball i got to touch the ball more, was actually a little better, and our team won almost every game!

classes on tuesday were fine. theme was theme, not all that exciting. but in creative writing my teacher even liked my sentence on the first try! and that doesn't usually happen.
then after class chloe and i went to the park because the sun was shining, and we had some time to kill before meeting up others and to see a french movie for only 3.50! after a little nap in the grass though, we decided to use our last bit of extra time to get pastries. mmm millefueille aux pommes!

wednesday. psych got out an hour early, and i finally remembered to ask the teacher how the heck i can get the powerpoints offline since it hasn't been working for me. i still don't have access to the bureau virtuel, but at least the profs emailed me most of the powerpoints in pdf form.
then i had lunch with patrick who i hadn't seen in a couple weeks. we got our usual baguette and brie and ate by the river because it was gorgeous out! i also learned that he didn't know what a millefueille was, and since i hadn't gotten exactly what i wanted the day before, and we still had some time before he had to get to class, i insisted we head to vieux lyon and get the best millefueilles i have tried thus far. he was not disappointed.

yummyyyyyy :)

thursday involved salsa dancing, so obviously it was a good day. but before that i had version during which we received the results to our midterm. i didn't do amazing, but i think i did just fine. plus i was then joking with the two english kids in my classes about some of the dumb mistakes we had all made. like saying 'sur le train' instead of 'dans le train'.
salsa dancing was fun as usual, though for reasons unknown a lot of people were missing. and because of the positions of the windows and the sun, at points it was hard to see anything! and at the end some girl came in and danced with our teacher, making us all look terrible of course.

friday i hung out wtih samina and we sent out couch requests for next weekend before getting some food and hanging out by the river. i headed home when she had other plans and was home less than 5 minutes when i realized that wasn't going to work for me anymore. i made plans with the aforementioned english kids in my theme/version classes who i have recently started talking with more, and spent the afternoon wandering around town with them and their friend. he's brazilian and was telling us how he was now having more trouble with english because he had been taught american english and was getting thrown off by the british english phrases they used all the time around him. i thought it was funny.
i got halfway home after hanging out with them when i turned around to meet up with chloe. we wandered around trying to figure out what to do with our evening. we realized that if we were going to go salsa dancing we were going to need to bring more people with us. this will happen eventually! we also realized it was too early to head to any bars/dance clubs and went back to her place to drop our stuff and waste some time.
i was in such a fantastic mood from the entire week and having been outside and in the sun almost the entire day.
when chloe and i got back to the apartment zoe even asked if we were drunk or something since we were acting so happy and ridiculous, but nope! not. at. all. loooove it :)

eventually we went to our favorite bar to dance in, barbarousse. but for some reason the back room was closed off and no one was dancing, so we left. we went to ayers rock, which is usually just our fallback. and had a good enough time, but once we had heard our song, waka waka of course, we decided we felt like we were ready to head back to her place using the metro instead of staying out so long that we would have to walk up the hill all the way home.
then we finished the night with an episode of friends of course!

saturday we got up and had a lovely breakfast of potatoes and french toast (which by the way, is not french) since zoe happened to have all the ingredients!
i went home in time for lunch, which really just meant that i crossed paths with my host mom for about 20 min before she headed out, and i actually ate by myself.
but that afternoon we all met up at the park again and were joined by chloe's friend yanisse who provided us with a soccer ball! so we spent the whole afternoon at the park enjoying the sunshine, working up the sweat, and enjoying the first weekend of spring.

after heading home for a shower and some dinner, i went back to chloe and zoe's to make cookies! oh how i have missed chocolate chip cookies :)

i even brought a couple home for my host parents, and my host dad especially loved them. claiming the last one for himself.

i'm pretty sure i spent more time outside this week than i spent inside. and after the coldest winter i have ever experienced, i am more than ready for spring to be here. plus with parc de la tete d'or and the rivers, lyon has a lot to offer as far as just wandering around goes :)