Today was a day of celebration! Happy unbirthday to us all!! Today also tells the story of how I finally got a wine glass =)
I started my day off going to the bakery and getting a briochette. It's a big, giant ball of delicious, fluffy bread with chocolate chips on top. It was amazing!! And then I promptly went back to bed for a little while, only to get bored and wander over to the internet room and become slightly productive applying for summer internships. Which is where I discovered, I might not come ho me until Thanksgiving. So that will be interesting. But that's all up in the air for now, because I actually have to get one of these internships for that to happen. Anyways, I digress…back to the story! I finally make it back to my room to eat lunch and nothing super eventful happened until we three Americans decided to get "une galette de roi" and have a little unbirthday celebration =) Une galette de roi is, translated literally, king cake. However it's nothing like those American multi-colored sugar fests that the grocery stores sell at home. It's a big, circular pie-looking cake with a delicious filling of something wonderful that, whatever it is, tastes amazing. And somewhere inside is a baby (or some other mysterious object - we haven't found it yet haha). When we bought the king cake, they gave us a scratch off card to see if we could win another. AND WE DID!!! We won another free king cake!!! So guess what we'll be doing this weekend?? More unbirthday celebrations!!!
Yes, this is a story about how I got a wine glass…it's just a long story. So after our amazing good fortune, we decided to go out tonight and party with the students studying English. I had already finished the last drop of wine I had left (there really wasn't much wine left in the bottle - hardly half a glass - I didn't polish off an entire bottle of wine in one sitting) with the king cake, so I was pretty sure I wouldn't drink at all since I'm the tiniest person ever and therefore probably get drunk super easily. Side note: I definitely drank my "glass" of wine out of a washed-out Nutella jar. So obviously I was in desperate need of a wine glass. Anyways, at the bar I ordered a pina colada, and since I know better than to mix my liquor, I ordered no alcohol =) However, after that was gone, and we stayed at the bar for a while, and after I had a sip of my friend's wine, I decided it was absolutely delicious and could order just one glass. After all, there was talk of going to a club after the bar, and I was going to need a bit more alcohol in order to be talked into going clubbing. Especially since I've never been clubbing before, neither in the US nor here. So I ordered a glass of Bordeaux clairet (highly recommended to anyone who likes mild red wines by the way) and sipped it slowly while talking to some of the other exchange students who came to the party. However, it was not enough alcohol to get me to go clubbing, so I decided that as soon as I finished my glass I would walk back to the dorms with a couple other girls who were also going back. Not wanting to guzzle my wine and thus need to be carried back home, I just grabbed my drink and walked out the door, glass of wine in hand =) And that is why it's better to pay 3.20 for a wine glass than it is to pay 0.90: the 3.20 wine glass comes filled with deliciousness =)
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