The Last Party... and a bit o' Korf

At one of the last Berlioz parties, chatting with William from Senegal.


With my usual friends and... Canadian Marc; we met on the trip to southern France and usually talked a couple times a week while passing on campus.


Saying goodbye to Colombian Maria.


On the tram to downtown... Tarek displaying his usual cool reserve and Maria marveling at a Wint-o-green mint. (The best way to win friends and influence people, of course, is through American candy.)


Eli was the only other guy from ASU and we hung out often. Unfortunately, he discovered a required class back at ASU for his major, so his year in Grenoble... became a semester. Though we have dramatically different personalities, we got along well and enjoyed complaining about Grenoble's tragic lack of adequate NBA/NFL coverage.


Lina tried to spike my hair like hers, but failed, so we crooned in Swedish instead.


After the party at Berlioz was shut down at 11pm by the night "guardian," we headed to Couchetard until 2am, then went to the Vieux Manoir nightclub. That's a pace that one can maintain for only so long before trying to take a nap in the coatcheck line.


My second wind arrived, however, after I realized it was the last real festive night in Grenoble with many of my friends. So, with renewed energy Brandi and I stayed at Vieux Manoir until 5am, talked until the first tram of the morning arrived at 6:30am, then at 7am had the most unhealthy breakfast of my life...


...particularly unhealthy was the main course, a pre-packaged Texas Pork dish a few days past its expiration date and several miles beyond the threshold of human consumability. "Texas Pork" in France is definitely not from Texas and definitely not pork.


This, by the way, is my All-Star korfball team. We're going to win the World Cup. Of korfball. Front row, L-R: Loic "Nice", Unknown, Brigitte, Clementine, Emilie; Back row: Isabelle, moi, Tony, Jaws (he's Italian, we don't know how to pronounce his real name... Giousevie), Christophe, Laura and Amanda (English and Scottish, respectively; even though we're the native Anglophones we try to stick to French for the rest of the team).