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Yesterday was a long day...on the weekends instead of breakfast we have brunch as a family. We weren't told what time it would be at so Hallie and I woke up earlier than the others just in case. We were both up and ready by 11 but then we were told that brunch wasn't until 12:30pm. We thought that was late but oh well. For brunch we had "croque-monsieurs" which is kind of like a grilled sandwich but better. It had toasted bread, ham, cheese inside of the sandwich and then pineapple and more cheese covering it. It was really good except I had to eat the pineapple on the side because I don't like warm pineapple let alone with ham. My momma knows this :D. We also had a little bit of salad with it. The food here is delicious, I like it all.

After brunch we all went out to Rue Nationale to try and get cell phones so that we can contact each other somehow while we are here, and of course be able to contact our friends when we make some. It was way too crowded and everyone decided to just wait until Monday when it wouldn't be so crowded. We went to Monoprix, kind of like a more expensive/higher quality Super Target and bought some things. I bought a cute new purse, Mamie bought a super cute sweater and some orange juice and cookies for the both of us, Hallie bought some orange juice and things to snack on, I'm not sure what the others bought. After that we headed back home and took naps. Surprise, surprise. I'm not sure if I have written this but we have a bell that they ring for dinner time. Well Fabiola rang the bell when dinner was ready last night. It took me a while to hear it since I had been sleeping but I got up and started waking everyone else up even though I was still half asleep. Everyone was starting to get up and go downstairs but since we weren't quick enough Fabiola started ringing the bell again but this time she didn't stop until we were all the way at the bottom of the stairs. I could have honestly choked her out. If you know me and know me well, you know that Valeria doesn't like to be woken up, let alone be woken up by LOUD noises. My poor little ears. Just kidding. Anyway, I was so angry that she rang the bell non-stop for what seemed to be 10 minutes. That of course just made me angry during dinner.

Everyone was really quite and not talkative at all during dinner because we had all just woken up. Jacqueline and Xavier kept asking us what we had done the night before but we just kept saying we went out dancing cuz we weren't sure if they would get mad that we went out to the bars. Apparently, they don't care. Dinner was long and awkward but then we all headed right back upstairs...I am sick of writing that phrase.

Anyway, we were all trying to figure out what our plans were for the night and decided that we would probably go to a club at 2am because they don't open until then anyway. Grant decided to sleep until then and the rest of us were just hanging out and chatting. It was getting super late and then we all decided that we were too tired to go out and about. But apparently to some people here it means getting drunk in the house. Some people stayed up late drinking and waking the others up in the house. I stayed up until 4:30am but I was online in my room minding my own business talking with Grant and Hallie. Mamie had gone to bed because she was super tired but Sierra and Aaron were in Sierra's room and then moved to Aaron's room because Mamie wanted to sleep. Joel eventually went over to Aaron's room where they proceeded to take shots of vodka. At around 4am Aaron went outside to have a cigarette and locked himself out. He then had no choice but to ring the doorbell so that someone could let him in, except he rang the doorbell frantically and woke pretty much everyone in the house up. Joel had to let him in and then they both came back upstairs stomping their feet the whole way.

This house is very old, it's from the 19th century so it's all made of wood and the walls are paper thin. You can hear everything that is going on. No matter how hard you try to be quiet, you will still make some noise. Some people don't care though, they just walk around like they're the only one's here or as if they own the house. It is really starting to frustrate me because I don't want them to think that we are just a bunch of rude little kids that think they can do whatever they want. So anyway, after Aaron and Joel came back they went into Aaron's room and were talking quite loudly. We could hear the whole conversation in our room. Our rooms are right next to each other but if you talk normally, you can't hear anything. Meaning that they were being super loud and obnoxious. There are some other things that have been bothering me but my blog is supposed to be positive so I will stop where I am at. I've already said enough. I am so frustrated with everything that happened last night.... peace out.

ilya