First rainfall since I've been here. I wouldn't exactly call it a downpoor but a good shower - enough to get me nice and soaked on my walk to the bus station after the gym. I've been SPOILED here, I forget what cloudiness and precipitations feel like. Honestly, it's ALWAYS nice here, the Sun is always shining and it's never too hot or too cold. Nobody suffers from SADDs here that's for sure. I always want to be outside and so I keep putting off important stuff so that I can be outside. That's why I don't get to bed before 1 am everyday. Time stands still here and yet there are still never enough hours in a day. I took the opportunity today to have a power nap in between class and the Picasso museum. Yup Antibes is fully equipped with it's own Picasso museum - apparently he lived and painted here for roughly 4 months in 1946. Interesting stuff. Good thing I like museums because they seem to be a daily staple.
My friends and I hit up the movie theatre (Casino) here in Antibes yesterday. We went to see Robin de Bois! Yes a Russell Crowe movie, I know... but this isn't Silver City, the options are limited. It's not bad, takes a little while to get used to the speach patterns and learning to ignore that the mouth doesn't move with the words but definitely a MUST-TRY when studying French in a foreign country. Next time a REAL French movie.
My evenings are typical AMY ROUTINE - yes, I'm living it up in the French Riviera and I still have my ROUTINE! Keeps me sane (or as sane as I ever am at any given point in time...don't shake your head at me, at least I admit I'm batshit crazy! I should get a bumper sticker!) So I catch the 17h40 100 express bus to Gare Routiere Sophia Antipolis (if I don't move to Cannes, I will move to Sophia...it KICKS ASS up in the mountains :D Loads of trails and parks to explore...no time unfortunately). Class starts at 18h30 and I do a double. PUMP/RPM on Monday, RPM/PUMP on Tuesday and PUMP/ATTACK on Wednesday. I shower and rush to catch the 21h05 (or 21h10... I don't really know what time it comes at...I make sure I'm there before 21h00 regardless...) it's the LAST bus back home. If I don't catch it, I'm sleeping at the gym cause it's one long ass haul back to the seafront. At least it's downhill. I get the same bus driver and regulars that all catch the same bus. I feel like such a LOCAL with my routine and new gym and bus friends. Every day distances me from my real HOME and I forget what Sudbury is like. It's so hard to explain - this seems more REAL than my life back home. It's like I've been here FOREVER and everyone and everything back home is just a dream (and a very distant one at that). If it wasn't for the fact that I miss everyone, I would probably not come home.
People warned me this would happen. I have fallen in love with the beauty, charm and pace of this wonderland. The smell is an acquired taste, but you get used to it.
I will be on the ATTACK stage demain and hopefully the PUMP stage too :) I'm sooooo excited. YES I will try and get someone to take a few pictures. Wish me luck!
Salut la visite!
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