Part 6/10. A week in Lille

The last couple of weeks in France were more of 'working weeks', and just everyday life. Albane and I managed to have a lot of fun, and do a lot of travelling... But the truth is that reality was about to hit, and she had a lot of school work to do, and I needed to start putting my act together and get prepared a heck of a lot of stuff for my return to Canada.

This days we just hanged out in Lille, woke up early and tried to go to bed not as late... I spent a lot of time in the computer lab doing my thing, and Albane would show up every time she had a break, for a kiss or coffee if she had the time. The laptop room became kind of my place, and the spot where we would meet and she knew she could find me.

Our activities included, of course, having nice meals together, and going for a couple of beers. I LOVED eating Kebab, and there was a fun cheeses and wine night with her cousins. We had talked about organizing it the night before, and what I thought was going to be a night out with 4 people, became a small party filled with her family. It was fun!, the guys were very kind and again, I got to see I could communicate fairly well in French... Heh. At this point I was much more confident of it and, while I knew I made mistakes while I spoke, I knew I was getting my ideas across and I was getting what they were saying... Good enough for me!. He he he.

Wine was good, and some of the cheeses were good too... I understand more this French thing, heh... Its nice!. And the mix of cheese and wine in your mouth is pretty darn good, they go well together. Some cheeses though, were too much for me, too damn strong and smelly. Heh... Like 2 or 3 of them I had to pass on to Albane... He he he. She just laughed of course. We had a good night, and I believe she was very happy this time I didn't get drunk. O.o

Another of these nights, when Albane had a lot of work, I went out with the girlfriend of Benoit and some of her friends (which are Benoit's friends too). Benoit is currently in Edmonton studying as an exchange student, so he gave me a present to give his girl... Awwww. He he he. It was a fun night out with this people, a couple of beers, and we agreed to meet again before I returned to Canada. (A big motivation was that Amelie had forgotten what she wanted to send to Benoit!... he he he).

And so the days kept going... Feeling every day life, knowing more the little corners of the city... And living with Albane in a more day-to-day plan... It felt good. :-)

I have been mostly talking about facts, things we did, where and with whom... Yet, all this while, a lot of stuff was going on in my mind... sigh ... I may talk about this on the next post.