The joys of the late night Paris metro!

The Paris metro is always fun but especially late saturday nights. To be honest, it has been a while since I took the metro home before it closes but it was definitely interesting this saturday. It was just after midnight and I was heading home. About two stops into my ride home, five 17/18 year old girls got onto the metro. At first, I thought they were just hyper, then one of them actually fell off the seat she was sitting in and onto the floor. The others simply looked at her and laughed, and then continued to discuss the level of their drunkness and how funny it was. The one girl even leaned over and placed her head on the shoulder of the poor man who was sitting beside them. Everyone else in the metro car could hear and see how drunk they were. They started making fun of the others on the metro and started asking everyone where they were from. I have to say it was quite an experience. I know me and friends were pretty crazy when we were younger but taking public transportation completely hammered and making fools of ourselves was never part of it. Gotta love that it's acceptable to be 17 and not care whether everyone knows you are hammered or not! lol Only in Paris!!

Canadian olympics while in France!!

What an experience it has been watching the olympics being hosted in your home country while living abroad. Everyday someone else would ask about it and how Canada was doing, etc. However, the best things was watching the Men's Gold medal hockey game between Canada and the USA. Me and some girlfriends decided to watch the game. We started at a Canadian bar but it got way too crowded and the game was still an hour away. So we headed down the street a bit and ended up at an Irish pub (just around the corner from another Canadian bar). We thought it wouldn't be too busy. Boy were we wrong. However, we were lucky enough to get a table so we could actually sit and enjoy the game. What a game it was too!! Those of you are interested in the actual game probably already know all the details so I am going to discuss the watching of it rather than the amazing-ness of the game itself :) It was actually pretty cool to have a whole bunch of Americans and Canadians (as well as some French who thought they were either Canadian or American) watch the game. What an atmosphere. Everytime someone scored, or almost scored, or there was a great save or a nice check into the boards the whole bar would roar. There was some definite rivalry between our table of Canadian girls and the Americans around us, but we had lots of support from all the Canadians in the bar. It was almost like being home and enjoying the game. I actually enjoy watching North American sporting events out here because of the mixture of cultures that show up just to witness the atmosphere. It is pretty cool and a lot of fun. You meet crazy, random people simply because you are going for the same team or because you aren't. Either way, it was a super event and definitely worth going out on a sunday evening for it. Up next, March madness!!!