We woke up and left for the market around ten. We met Helene there. We bought all the food and stuff to make the cupcakes, quiches, and brownies. I bought some chocolate to try so I know what I want to bring back with me. After we left the market, we came home and started baking the sweets and made the quiche and then we had lunch with a few other friends that came to help get ready for the party. At about 2:45 I decided it was time to go get a pain au chocolat. When I got the the bakery it was CLOSED! They decided to close up 15 minutes early. I guess because it was friday, but still! Not cool. At all. I really wanted to get a pain au chocolat!
When I got back from the bakery fail, Maxime, Marion, Marine and Helene went back to the grocery store to get the rest of the stuff for the party. I decided to stay home and read a book and watch a movie on my laptop.
Around 6:30 we got dressed and ready for the guests to start arriving. By 7 most of the people were here. It was really nice to meet some new people and talk to them about how my trip is going or about Texas. I find it very hilarious that the first thing people ask me after I tell them that I am from Texas besides if I own a horse is whether or not we have guns. I, as well as the rest of my family, are members of the NRA... They also think it's very interesting that I attended Christian school because when people thing of Texas they automatically assume we are all cowboys that carry guns and regularly attend the local Baptist church. In some parts of Texas this is not just a steriotype, but in The Woodlands, it isn't the case at all. They also find it very interesting that I don't drink at all. When I tell them that the drinking age is 21 most people are shocked. This is another very huge cultural difference.
Later on in the evening, things got very interesting... There was a quiche fight in the kitchen that I just happened to walk in on right at Guillaume threw quiche and hit me in the head. That was just splendid. I also met some very nice guys that were very curious about American culture and shocked by my fear of horses. I ended up staying up until almost 6 a.m. because I couldn't go to sleep with all the super loudness going on in the entire house. I don't feel like telling all the stories of what happened so I will just give a few bullet points:
- They don't have rainbow fluffy socks here because I got like 10 compliments on them and someone even wanted a picture, which I thought was really creepy...
- Mama, one of Maxime's good friends apparently loves Bohemian Rhapsody and thinks it's the best song ever.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallow's part two comes out here three days before it releases in the U.S. This is just wrong.
- Maxime has a friend that I think looks exactly like a blond version of Rupert Grint.
-Guillaume kept telling me that he was going to pour water on me while I was asleep and that it was going to be "so fun"... This afternoon, I learned that he actually attempted it, but Jessica and Mathilde, who were staying in my room, stopped him and now he gets to live another day.
- I met Marion and Maxime's cousin, Julie and she is very nice and I enjoyed talking to her.
- The kids that come to these parties are pretty much all going to be either engineers or doctors...
Ok that's enough for now. I am going to go read Harry Potter.
Love,
Sara
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