Que veut dire [insert man's name]?

On Thursday I had class again.

In Epistemology (which is the study of knowledge btw) there are only six of us, so it's my favorite class.  People ask a lot of questions, and I get a chance to ask the professor vocab questions.

However, this is also embarrassing.  Not just because I don't know simple words, but because sometimes I think things are vocab words when they are NOT.

The prof kept saying this thing that sounded like "les vitroses" and I was like what is that?? and so whenever he says something over and over again I like to ask about it.  Maybe three times total in that lecture.

So I ask about "les vitroses" and he writes it on the board.  It is a man's name.  Levy-Strauss.

This is two-fold embarrassing:
1.  I cannot tell a name from a word
2.  I listened to a lecture about Levy-Strauss on Tuesday

After he wrote it down, though, I made that really loud OHHHHHHHHH sound and I think that endeared me to the class.

After Epistemology I have Anthropology of Parenting which is with this really young professor who I suspect is maybe a grad student?  But the room is really awful because it sits right off the street.

Everyone was being super loud for a while and it was hard to hear, but he was fun to listen to.

I think next week I might understand what's actually going on.

This guy sits behind us and wanted to know where we're from.  So I told him the United States, and then I told him Iowa, and then he told me "Des Moines?" and I was like "nearby-ish" and he was like "no, is that the capital?" and I was like "oh, yeah it is." and he was so excited because he is a Geography major.

I didn't know you could major in Geography and/or what the purpose is, but Luisa told me that nowadays they also study immigration and population dynamics and stuff so that's interesting.

Because I had to sit through four hours of lecture, I voted that I deserved a chich taouk.  hahaha no I just always deserve one.  So I went to the Lebanese place and asked the man for one.  I feel like he recognizes me and that makes me a little uncomfortable.

I came back then and drank the rest of the Schweppe's Agrum' that I bought the other day.

Agrum' is the flavor and it says at the bottom "with the flavor of four agrumes".  I don't know what an agrume is, but it tastes kind of like grapefruit and it's my favorite.

I asked Ludovica about it, and she thinks it maybe just means citrus.

Then Thursday night, there was a big Erasmus party downtown, so I met up with Luisa and Olivia and Julien and all of them at this place called "Bollywood" in Victoire.  This was around 20h30ish.  We stayed there until probably 23h and then we headed off to where the Erasmus party was supposed to be.

There was this enormous line, like you know, 5-10 people wide and stretching out maybe 30 feet from the door.  When we showed up, we were standing on the tram tracks because we wouldn't fit on the sidewalk.  I have decided that this is why the tram doesn't run as much at night.  Not because less people ride it, but because it's so hard to get people off the tram tracks every 8 minutes at midnight.  There was a group of people near us that had no idea that tram was coming their way and the driver had to slow the tram down and wait for them to get off.

Anyways, this place also had a 6 euro cover, and so me and Alex and Julien and some of their different German friends were like "let's go somewhere else" so we were going to go to the Frog where everyone else would meet up with us later.  But even though it was like maybe a block away, it took us forever to get there because people were always stopping to talk to someone else on the way.  AND THEN when we got there, the Germans were like "we want to dance now" and so then we all just walked back to where the original party was.  But my new friend Sophie and one other girl whose name starts with an "m" were like "we're going to go home" because now it was almost after midnight and I wouldn't have stayed very long so the cover wouldn't have been worth it.

On the way home, I saw a girl literally slip and slide through a big pile of dog poop.  It was disgusting.  But now I understand why it's always smeared all over the sidewalk.  It's these night-people slipping in it.  UGH so gross.

I did count three people peeing on the sidewalk, which also accounts for why it always smells like pee in the morning.