Relaxation is Good

This weekend is one of my last that I will spend fully in Montpellier. With fall break starting on Wednesday and then many trips planned for November it was nice to just hang out for a weekend and not be stressing about trips or homework and planning. On Thursday we had a little birthday celebration at our program office for all the October birthdays which was a blast. Then I cam back to my apartment and just hung out watched tv, ate a fair amount of nutella and went to bed early which is a rarity in my time here. I don't think I've slept past 10am the entire semester. Friday, I did some food shopping, and a few other errands, then I worked with my friend on our project that is due on Tuesday. For dinner my friends Sam and Alberto decided to make an impromptu Mexican feast with rice and beans and chorizo and we made tacos it was delicious. I know the second I get back I am driving straight to chipotle. My friend Alaynah slept over Friday night since both my roommates are out of town this weekend and then on Saturday morning we made a delicious American breakfast with the Aunt Jemima pancake mix that my mom sent me for my birthday. They don't have maple syrup in France but they were just as good if not better with nutella! Saturday was another lazy day with a bunch of netflix watching. Sunday got a little more exciting! My friends Gabby, Hannah and I woke up early to go to a bar to watch France take on New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup. All the bars were packed with people carrying huge french flags, and faces painted and trumpets. It was a great experience to hear all the French cheers and all the excitement but unfortunately France lost to New Zealand 7-8 in a close game. My friends and I were so impressed with how classy the French fans were though after the game they just clapped and went on their way home it was not rowdy at all. Here are some pictures from our program's October birthday celebration:

The candles that my mom sent me! Not exactly a baskin robbins ice cream cake, but I'll take a birthday tarte aux pommes.

Edward, Audrey and I blowing out the candles

Story: This is a chocolate pear cake and I told my friend Mary that and she was like oh yea chocolat poivre cake, but in fact poivre doesn't mean pear it means pepper, pear is poire in French so for the whole night we just made fun of her about how excited she was for the chocolate pepper cake.

Trips to come, in case you are wondering where I will be at in the next month...
10/27-11/1 Fall Break 5 days in Rome with my mom! and then a day in Marseille on the way back
11/4-11/5 Nice, France
11/11-11/13 in Montpellier for now but I will probably go on a day trip to Grenoble or Bordeaux
11/18-11/20- Barcelona!
11/24-11/27- Prague with Alexi New!
12/2-12/4- in Montpellier
12/9-12/11 day trip to Avignon
12/17 @1:15pm Washington D.C.
12/18 VILLANOVA

Time is flying by so fast, there are so many more places I wish I could go, I guess I will just have to come back to Europe again!