STRASBOURG and Paris loveliness

Salut!
Just finished up a busy weekend, and am settling back into work mode for the week, ick. I've been up to a lot, so here we go! Thursday night was great, I went to the Frightened Rabbit/Department of Eagles concert. Xavier was really late, since he was held up at work, but luckily for himn Frightened Rabbit was really late and he ended up getting there right on time. It was such a great concert-for Frightened Rabbit we stood right by the stage-soooo great. While I was waiting for Xavier I even saw the band come in, and they walked right by me!!! haha, but anyways, they were great, as always, and then Department of Eagles was really chill-really amazing, beautiful music, with just these two brothers doing it all. We had a great time at the concert, and Xavier really liked it-yay! I had been a bit worried it wouldn't be his thing. Anyways, afterwards we were both hungry, and once Xavier heard I still hadn't had escargots in France he was determined to find me some. We ended up at this really great restaurant not too far from where the concert was. It was so nice, Xavier got us some wine, and I got to try escargots for the first time-which was delicious! The dinner was amazing, and it was really nice to hang out with Xavier. Unfortunately, I had to get up at 4:45 Friday morning to head to the train station for Strasbourg, ick, and almost did make my train because I had problems printing my tickets. In any case, Kristin and I made it to Strasbourg,getting in at around 8:30am! It was a fun trip, we basically just wandered around looking at the many christmas markets, and enjoying the various treats they had to offer. We even went ice skating on a little rink, which was nice-we will have to go ice skating at home-I miss it! So yes, I nice little trip, not a whole lot to do in Strasbourg, which was actually kind of nice as we were both looking for a bit of a getaway from work. We got back Saturday at around 6:30, and I headed home to unpack and get some dinner. Xavier had called me earlier and we were planning to go out, but unfortunately he had to cancel as one of his friends needed help (apparently his friend was moving), so instead I stayed in and finally got some work done, and finally had a chill night (all my friends were either traveling or working anyway, so I didn't even feel like a loser :). Sunday, Xavier called, and I ended up going to this Airplane place south of Paris. He took me on his motorcycle, and one of his friends came along too. His friend was really nice, although talked really quietly which made understanding him a bit challenging, haha. We went over on motorcycles, which was really cool, I love riding on the motorcycle! Unfortunately, because of the foggy weather it turns out the planes weren't flying, but there was a cool museum we checked out. Basically it consisted of a bunch of old planes in this big warehouse, and one of the workers there came over and gave us a tour. It was really cool to see all these old, awesome planes, and since Xavier and his friend are both really into motorcycles they found all the mechanics particularly interesting. It was dark by the time we left, and Xavier took me home so I could get my stuff and head over to the Dandy Warhols concert. I was late, but managed to find my friend Jen in the crowd; it was a really awesome concert!!! Actually, it was pretty crazy-we were right by the front, standing,and the fans were getting really into it-it practically became a mosh pit, ack. So yeah, that was a bit intense, and since it was so crazy and crowded it was getting rediucluously hot. Two or three people actually passed out and had to be carried out! After that they handed out some water bottles and such, but I left the concert feeling pretty exhausted and dehydrated. It was all good though, the Dandy Warhols were so great live, so much energy. So yes, that was my weekend. I did manage to get some work done Saturday and Sunday, so should be okay in terms of school work, although i'm running out of time! Today I had my cinema class, and the professor got really mad as only three of us (myself included) had watched the movie we were supposed to discuss. He basically gave a long, frustrated speech, and then put on the movie for the rest of the class to see, telling the three of us who had seen it to come with him to a cafe. I went, with two other guys from the class, and we got drinks at a cafe by the school. It was actually pretty nice, the professor's German, a really nice guy, and it turns out one of the boys was American-studying abroad from Middlebury! So yeah, it was nice, and we headed back before class ended and he gave us our midterms-I got an A!!! yayyy. Good day for Brittany, now I just have to really get some work done...wish me luck, much love,
Brittany