first free weekend in a while

Well all my various events have finished now and I finaly have a weekend to chill. Not that I mind jaunting off to different places to see new things and have new experiences. Quite the contrary I love it. Two weeks ago I went to a rock fest up in lille called les inrocks. Saw four english bands. It was a blast. The crowd was great, everybody there was really into the music and it was fun to here so many people speaking english. A huge crowd came down from england with the bands I guess. Me and max were standing around talking when we heard a guy say "where the hell are you guys from?" it was the merch vendor. We replied that we were from california. He was like "Well than what the F*** are you guys doing in lille? we told him that we were forign exchange students. He got a kick out of that, but unfortunatly didnt give us any deals on stuff. The Kaiser Chiefs were great. They really put on a great live show. The futureheads and maximo park were also really good. Hard fi was average. Then I went back to school for almost a week and headed into paris. Versailles is absoultly incredible. It has a grandure that is indescribible, it is just amazing. We visited that and Les Invalides, then The towers of notre dame de paris. We stayed with my host uncle who is a wine and beer connaisseur. So I now have a modest knowledge of french wines and belgian beer, not to worry, its a very small knowledge. But both are very very good. Paris really is an beautiful city, it just has an atmosphere that I really dig, ill think ill have to go back. Well thats all from here in france. Ben Bloomfield