The Whole Kit and Kaboodle

Well, if you have ever wondered what a piano bar owned by a stripper looks like, we found it. The Kit and Kaboodle is a lounge-like bar fully equipped with leopard print couches, red velvet walls, frilly pillows, a gold hand shaped chair and of course, a zebra print piano. We went there Wednesday night with Felix, Clement (our new French friend), Jenn ( a new English friend who is AWESOME), Steve, Scotland Dan, Roommate Danny and Kate. We all hung around then Felix, Katie, Clement and I stayed and danced. When "Soldier Boy" came on Katie and I proceeded to, again, clear the dance floor with our choreographed American "Soldier Boy" routine. Boy did we "crank that". Everyone was so confused and had no idea why we knew the dance to such an absurd song. We went back to the hostel at about 2am and I sat on the couch with a new English guy named Mike who is an "arborist" if anyone was highly concerned about that. He asked me if I had any gum, I said the only piece left is in my mouth, he asked if it still had flavor, I nodded and took it out of my mouth...and yes, yes he did chew it. In Australia everyone is big on recycling....Shortly there after I went to bed and Katie was up for like another thousand hours talking to Clement about ponies and fuzzy ducks or something. Katie said they were actually talking about the differences in American and French culture...hm

Then yesterday morning we took Darby Dan to breakfast because he was leaving to go to Newcastle for a job. After that Katie and I went through a mighty fiasco trying to print off our resumes. After about an hour we went to a print shop thing and got that taken care of. Then we were off to find jobs...wooooo (blah). That took about five hours of walking around handing out resumes to some kinda general places. On the walk home we stopped at an apartment that was having an open house. I pushed the intercom button and the voice told me to "push". I responded "Sir, I am pushing". He kept saying, "No, no, PUSH"... after about two minutes of this insanity Katie reached over and pushed open the door to the building that I of course had been pulling...oh good. When we finally made it to the 12th floor we realized that the apartment was for sale...not rent. Then it was off to the LIQUOR STORE!

When we got back to the hostel everyone was sitting out back playing some drinking games. IF you would like to try them.. the first is 21.

21: Everyone sits in a circle and says a number 1-21 in consecutive order. When the person who is 21 says "21" they take a drink and choose which number they would like it change to a word. EX "4 is now armpit" this happens continually until it sounds something like 1-2-3-armpit-5-6-Jacque-fell- down- and -it-wasnt-surprising-14-15 etc. all the way to 21.

Frog: In this game there is a phrase, "one frog- jumps-into-the pond- plop!" each person in the circle says a part of the phrase. Once the phrase is finished it changed to "two frogs- two frogs- jumps- jumps-into-into..." etc and this happens up to "five frogs" x5. We never made it that far.

After this Jenn and I went to the liquor store. I was in such a delightful and cheery mood that I asked the creepy liquor store guys if they are hiring.They arent Way to go Michigan education.

That night we went to the World Bar and just kind of hung out and talked. I left early and went back to the hostel and played some cards. Katie stayed at the World Bar and talked to Jeff about chivalry. While here we noticed that the French guys are all SO polite. They are very accommodating and will always open the door for you, stand when you stand, pay for drinks etc. As Katie says, "Chivalry is not dead, you just have to go to France to find it".


Today we woke up to, Steve saying, "YOURE FAVORITE ROOM CLEANER IS HERE! GET UP!" We werent even mad because his British accent is so endearing. He always says darling, sweetheart and princess (if youre lucky) when he talks to us and we LOVE it. As Steve says, he would "clean up" in America. Hence why the wake up call this morning wasnt too terrible.

We then got dressed and went around some more places to give out resumes. We actually applied to Italia Motori, which is a Ferrari and Maserati dealership...holllller. They are actually hiring as well. Cross your fingers. Then we came to our coffee shop and have sent some more resumes out. Later tonight we will be learning how to Irish Jig (hopefully, as the Irish said, we wont look like "protestants" when we do it. Oy). IF youre lucky and I learn how to work the camera there may be a video for your viewing pleasure.

Anyway, if there is anything you want to hear more about, or less about please let us know! Or if you need a list of characters or maybe some things you want to know that we can find out from some of the people we live with!

xoxo,
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