Katimaparty

This was a great week to be house manager and I know it. It was the first week so naturally failure would be tolerated.  It was also a great chance to get caught up with sleep, this being the sleep I was robbed of on the flight here. The all over best part was Thursday, for sure. We had a double birthday, it was Kyle's 19th and Andree-Ann's 22nd. What fun that was. Francois and I experience our first real busy day, which was honestly really fun. Usually we take a two hour break between everything we do, but Thursday, wow. We start out doing the decorations, happy birthday, bonne fete banners, streamers everywhere, and balloons all over the living room. 

 The dinner we'd planned for that night was pho soup, but we figured it's a party. I made some potato trips, and chicken wings. We also baked up some rainbow bread. With our birthday surprise, Andree-Ann had her own surprise for us, sadly not in a good way. She announced she'd be leaving the program as of Saturday (but now it looks like Friday). She's leaving for her own reasons and I don't want to pry, so we made the most of the night we had. So obviously had a cake, and we had asked Etienne to go out to get cake mix on Wednesday. The picture below is our Katimacake. The orange circle is chocolate with almond icing, the green rectangle is chocolate. Yum! The candles say 19 and 22, not 1922, because no one here was born 1922.

 Here's the birthday crew cutting the cake. That cake went pretty fast actually, and for all the right reasons.

After cake we danced to stupid music for awhile. Then everyone one of us packed up to go downtown. The beauty of this being that were all very different, and the fact that we can all go out is pretty special. The downside is that we could really find a place we all wanted to go. In fact the journey took about 2 hours, and during this journey two people were so sick, and fed up that they actually took the metro home.

Eventually we found an Irish pub with pool tables. Here I had my first beer, and in the words of Andrew (who was also having his first beer) "You people drink this? It tastes like horse piss!"

Everyone made it home before curfew and we talked long into the night as everyone slowly left for bed. We had so much fun.