end o' march update.

well what can i say?
it's been a month of celebrations - my birthday was a blast, as i previously mentioned. since most of the assistants are leaving at the end of april, i've been trying to maximize my fun time with them while they're here. although i have now made friends with some urasmus students who will be here until mid-june, but as simo pointed out, i'm still the last one here. oh well. i spent easter with the same crew of people for about three nights straight. friday was a kareoke night, which moved into dancin with the french, italian, and germans that i know here, along with the few americans who were around. saturday night i joined up with thomas, elise, and franck for a delicious dinner chez thomas (elise cooked - quite delicious), party that the italian crew invited us to, back out dancing - piggy back ride from simo, heart to heart with bryan, simo trying to convince american girls he's from san francisco (have i mentioned he's an italian), the bartender who is on the dance floor recognizing me now (i had a chat with him one night about the states, he spent some time in philly) and ignoring other patrons to give me my drinks (i'm such a cutie he can't resist), long walk home with bryan and malek. easter sunday we have dinner at the italians, franck and thomas serenade all of us with songs about each and every one of us, maria's crazy but unbelievably nice and genuine boyfriend federico (he's going to be in a james bond movie - the next 007 keep an eye out for a ginormous italian man) teaching me each accent from each major area of italy, having federico and simone talk to me in italian accents from naples forever, dying of laughter about this, half falling asleep there, dome and pascal drive me home. we dont work monday here in france after easter, and monday is pasquetta in italy (literally meaning little easter) which is spent eating good food and drinking a special italian pasquetta wine with friends (see left), so i did, chez franck with thomas, elise, dome, pascal, barbara, and simo. it was a good day. and it's been a good weekend of celebration.
which leads me to the week - yesterday was teaching which wasn't too bad at all, five classes. last night i couldn't sleep well... but whatever. i updated my myspace page which now looks awesome. today i met with my landlord, he's willing to cut me a deal on the apartment, it's normally 750 a month, alyson and i are getting it for 620, and he's giving it to me by myself for 510. it's only 200 euro more a month than i'm paying now, and for two months - i figure it's worth it to not deal with the hassle of moving and changing address, and i get this big nice space to myself. i will also still get reimbursed from the gov't so that's a good thing. i can transfer savings from my us acct to my french one and be set :)
i re-did my hair - it's more red this time, although there's more color washing out when i wash my hair this time round and it's making me nervous...
it's also my mother's birthday (and my uncle's) so happy birthday to you both.
i got all of my worksheets and plans done for the rest of this week and next week, so i'm looking forward to a weekend of no worries before heading home next friday.