La Vie Niçoise

Alors, en fait, je crois que j'arrive à commencer à penser en francais. Sinon, j'ai remarqué que je peux parler plus vite! Whaou! Aujourd'hui, je sais pas pourquoi, mais je suis tellement, tellement contente.

Je viens d'arriver du cinema, ou mes collocs et moi ont regardé un film qui s'appelle... je ne sais plus, mais c'était beau! Je te jure! Il me rappelle d'Amelie ou bien Garden State. Je souriais pendant tout les deux heures.

Hahaha sorry, I just feel so pumped. This weekend has been fan-duper-tastic. Seriously, I've forgotten all about whatever-those-worries-were from last week.

Friday, I stayed in and watched 2 hours of Star Ac', where Celine Dion was guest starring. My favourite, Ely, la quebecoise avec un super voix, won the top spot (woo!) I had these great intentions to practice some Scheme, but ... *rougis*

Saturday was just a day in heaven. There's just something about cruising down the voie rapide with the windows down and the music cranked up. I sat with my arm propped on the sill watching the palm trees go by, sunning my face as the wind kissed my cheeks, not knowing it also was turning my hair into a veritable birdsnest of auburn and noir. But I didn't care.

"This is the life", I thought, as we passed mini villages of whitewashed stucco and deep red clay rooftops. And for the first time, I actually toyed with the idea... What if I stayed here? What if I stayed in Nice indefinitely? And then I went back to rocking out with the poprock blaring out of Bro. Alphie's rearseat stereo speakers. Maybe I'll come back to that idea later.

We arrived for lunch at a villa out near St. Paul de Vence. Now, St. Paul de Vence is actually a walled city perched atop a hill. One of those artsy towns I need to visit at some point. Anyway, we weren't at St. Paul de Vence.

Man, it was like we'd followed the yellow-brick-road, emerged from the forest and behold! A clearing with the most beautiful sight ever. A quaint yet luxurious villa carefully constructed of rounded stones, covered in emerald leaves and vines. A bridge arching over a gurgling brook out back. Ponds with white and orange carp. Tall birch trees providing cool shade from the sun...

Oh, and lots and lots of Filipino food.

So yeah, I swam, I bathed in the sun, I ate like a pig. It's ok, I'd been eating like a student for the last week anyway. I'll leave it at that, as the pics speak for themselves.

When I got back that evening, Kati and Sabrina, two of my German roommates, invited me to watch the Emperor's New Groove. So we lounged with blankets on my leather canapé and I popped Kati's movie into my laptop. I felt so deficient... they have all these cool movies on their computers. And I, the supposed technofreak, has... rien. N'importe quoi. Went to see another movie tonight at the cinéma, and honestly, I don't even know what the movie was called. But it was really good!! (If you know what the follow-up movie to L'Auberge Espagnole is, please let me know.)

So yeah! Once again, it's La Vie Nicoise. The Nice life. Parfait.