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yesterday was a fun day. i had gone to bed around 3 am wednesday night so i attempted to sleep in yesterday. i woke up to Mme Balletti yelling "Jennifer!!!" so i ignored her and rolled over. then i woke up and went to her and she just wanted to know if i was there... yes i am....SLEEPING! oh well. i got up and played some freecell. haha then i slowely got ready to go to R squared's apartment. but as i was leaving, mme balletti asked if i would help her pick out some gifts for her grandsons.... so i went with her to the store.. 1 store, 3 sweaters, how bad can it be...well let me tell you.

we go to the store. keep in mind mme balletti is 80 years old. we quickly find the gifts, and we head to the cashier to pay. this is where the fun starts. mme balletti decides to ask all the random questions in the world. but she doesnt speak french that clearly. she speaks her language of french italian which i know understand for the most part. so the cashier blankly looks at her and tells her she doesnt understand. so there i translate. then mme balletti wants the gifts wrapped. the store does gift wrapping, but right now there is no tape (remember this is france, so even if there is a store 2 feet away that sells tape, they arent going to go buy tape) But mme balletti wont take no for an answer. she searches the store for the person who wraps the gifts, finally finding someone... and they wrap her gifts... STAPLING the wrapping paper. then she forgot which gifts were which. ....then we head out and we are walking away when i check her receipt... they over charged her. so i tell her this and she doesnt understand.. so we go back into the store that we left 5 min ago leaving everyone in an uproar (my explaining doesnt do justice to the real events) i go back in and tell mme balletti that ill handle it. so i do but then after the problem is fixed, mme balletti wants to talk to everyone in the store.. "this is the girl that lives with me." "Shes american" "know what her name is? the same name as a famous french singer... Jennifer." so they play along and talk to me. somewhat embarassing, but mme balletti is so cute and grandma like. ive never been around 80 year olds before. in the US we just shove them in nursing homes.

so i leave her a few hours later and head to r squared's apartment. then we hang out for awhile and then we meet some friends and go to see chronicles of narnia. it was asuper movie and i recocmmend it a lot. it was the best book to movie movie ive ever seen. so go see it. read the books too. man o man. and the people in the movie were exactly what i imagined in my head. it was great.

today i have lots of stuff to do... have to plan the christmas eve get together for some of the chinese... hopefully they come. and i have to clean, and i have to do misc things around town... then i will spend the night at Ruth lise's place. Sunday i am going to Olivier's family's house with david and ruth lise. should be fun, if his family is funny like him, im sure a great time will be had by all!

So untill after christmas. Merry Christmas! Have fun! I miss you my friends.