Schools (almost) out for Summer

Who doesn't love the first real day of summer?

The day was filled with little silly things that made me smile. That's the sunshine's effect, you know. Such things were:

- When Y showed me a poster written in Arabic and I could read it. It just said "Drink Coca Cola" but that was written in Arabic, you see.

- When C figured out her mistake during her English test today and she self-corrected.

- Track 8 on "Phrenology." Over and over and over again.

- The three boys at the foot of the stairs in the Sorbonne today, just bluntly checking out each girl's ass as she walked by. They caught me laughing at them and laughed back.

- Working for three hours straight - in the teachers' lounge long after my classes at the high school had ended and before my classes at the Sorbonne would start - without really minding at all.

- The moment on the bus today where I thought, "Huh. I'm way better off today than I was at this point last year."

- Beccarah taught me how to make the red beans and cocunut milk dessert. So, after two days of soaking the beans, I ate it today. Mmmm...

- When our class collectively decided that the longer we sit out in the hallway before going into the lecture hall, the later class would start. We dragged it out for 15 minutes before our professor came out and said, "Um..." We feigned surprise: "Oh! You're here!" He responded, "Last time I checked, I was here, yeah."

- Working at the computer with the window open and the sound of people eating out on the terraces of the restaurants downstairs wafting in.

I love the summer.