May 28, 2012
I've gotten really bad at blogging lately because I am on course overload until September. I have made a realistic goal of blogging once a month.
This weekend we went to Carros- in the hills of Nice- to visit our new Belgian friends, Patrick and Hetty. These are the best friends of Bieke, the woman you've probably heard me refer to as my Healdsburg mom on multiple occasions. They are the coolest 60 years olds you will ever meet. They are so hip, stylish, and have great taste in music. Had some great food, but spent most of the weekend doing homework. At least I got to sit by the pool for a little while. They also have some cool kids. Jesse is their son and he has this adorable girlfriend, Celeste- also Belgian- and we were having fun learning naughty phrases in Belgian. We are meeting them this Thursday to go to the Crossover Festival and see Metronomy and Charlotte Gainsbourg.
I also just bought us tickets to see NZCA/Lines and Cassius at the Rock Island Festival in Marseille. It's going to be so much fun. That's the great thing about living in Europe...access to really good shows.
Everyone is saying that there has never been a spring like this in Nice before. It was raining all last week and it looks like it will be the same this week. The days start out with sunny beach weather and it completely changes by late afternoon. Of course the French Riviera decides to be non-French Riviera when we are living here. You can pretty much go lay by the beach in the morning and into early afternoon, but the clouds start rolling around by 5.
I got into the graduate program that I applied for, so it looks like we will be here until late June 2013. Then, we might head to San Francisco to work for a few years. Colorado is also an option, which would be amazing.
