Irresponsible but fun

Stereotypical study abroad thing number 235: stay out in a bar dancing until 1:00 am with a bunch of people you met a week ago without having done any homework beforehand.

Okay: I am a boring nerd, I always do my homework way in advance, the idea of dancing in front of people would normally make me panic, I consider myself an introvert, and bars have never been something I considered fun. I have no idea what's happening to me. (Ewelina... stop shaking your head).

It's 2:00 am, please don't expect this to be coherent, pictures to come (still need to study).

I wasn't going to go at first. We had been leaving a festival in Montpellier, it's a wine-tasting slash everything festival that was just awesome. There were some people singing and a dance group (and some guy singing what sounded like native American chants).

At one point the dancers saw the other study abroad student I was standing with (a Chinese girl). One of the dancers was also Chinese, and they kept toeing the racist line with him (in good fun, he didn't mind, it was part of their act). When they saw her they yelled "Tu a de la famille la!" (you have some family here), and he walked over and started bowing, old-fashioned Chinese greeting style, at her. Can you imagine what would happen if that happened in Seattle? Rude I suppose...still funny though.

Anyhow, we had heard about some Australian bar/club thing and a lot of the group wanted to go. I generally don't like alcohol or dancing. Yes, I have homework and if I don't sleep a full night sometime soon I'm going to faint in class or die or something, and of course I have piles and piles of paperwork to do before next week.

So yeah, I'll come. I've started saying yes to everything, except for getting drunk (stereotype confirmed: Americans go nuts when abroad), which may or may not be a good idea.

But we went out, found the bar, half the group left and I was on my way out to leave with them because....man, I need some sleep. But somehow I ended up staying, and we danced for a while, left at one, and took the tram home.

In any case, time to "do homework" and then go to sleep. Or just go to sleep. Well...at least I used to be responsible.