A Whole New World: And a Joyeux Anniversaire it was...

It is always a tad triste when I can't be with my family on my birthday, but this year I was able to celebrate it in an interesting way.

On the big day, I woke up and rushed to Place de l'Europe to get a ride to Nimes. Why you ask? Well, because Nimes was the site of my first frisbee tournament in France! That's right folks, on my birthday I played indoor ultimate all day long. We didn't win many games, but I scored the game-winning point in the first game, so that kind of made up for it.

After the tournament, I hurried home to host a birthday gathering for all of my friends! It was quite international, as there were people from about 9 countries in attendance (France (obvi), America, Spain, UK - England and Scotland, Germany, Morocco, Poland, Italy, Argentina?). I invited my American assistant friends, my french friends, my frisbee teammates, the other language assistants at my school, and my roommates of course. French was the dominant language, but there were also smatterings of English and Spanish. I had a wonderful time, and even got to play a little beer-pong. It is important to share American culture inside and outside of the classroom.

People stayed long into the night, and I didn't go to bed until 4am. It was still my birthday in America when I went to bed! I like going out, but it was nice that I was able to see so many people, without having to take a step out the door.