This Crazy Fun Weekend

On Saturday, I met up with my friends from California, D and H. Here's a little background on them, I met them last year at the Bals des Pompiers in Paris. We had some fun and exchanged information. After Bals des Pompiers we tried to hang out again, but never did because I was busy with school or traveling to other countries on weekend. Anyway, we stayed in touch via Facebook and Instagram. They came back to Paris for the summer and well I'm here now. Unfortunately, they leave in a few days and well I just got here so we've made some effort to meet up now. Considering we only hung out one time before, I think we get along great! There's no animosity between east coast and west coast (haha!)

So I hung out with them on Thursday last week. We had breakfast together and walked around Paris. They showed a nice free view at L'Institut du monde arabe and then this crazy and insane maze at le Jardin des Plantes. 

Place du Commerce

Anyway, on Saturday there would be a crazy metro party so we decided to go together. We met up in the afternoon at a free music concert at Place du Commerce in the 15th arrondissement. There was some good music, and D wanted to watch a band she was familiar with Erevan Tusk. They were really good, so was the guy group before them but I didn't get their name.

Erevan Tusk

At this music event, I couldn't help but notice the cute and adorable kids. I still don't want kids, but seriously all these little European kids are freaking adorable! lol Is there no such thing as an ugly kid in France? I have yet to see one. Not kidding, even H and D agreed with me. There were two little girls who looked between the ages 6-9, one with a Dior bag and the other with a Louis Vuitton purse. Those girls have no idea how lucky there were.


Fast forwarding to the evening, at D & H's apartment an old friend of theirs from their French program last year met up with us. He just recently arrived in France. He'll be studying in France for 3 years. He's a little homesick, but I told him he needs to suck it up! We're in Paris!!! No time to be sad. Seize the day!!!

We were all hungry so we went in search for something to eat. We found a little food place near the metro stop where everyone would be meeting up for the metro party. D and I shared a delicious cheese pizza. We both agreed that it's great to live in a country where they have great cheese because this pizza's cheese was the bomb-fucking-diggity. After eating, I realized I was sober, and thought "holy shit, we need to buy alcohol for the party". 

France is a beautiful place, but another beautiful thing about this place is that there are no laws against open containers. So we bought two wine bottles. At the metro meet-spot we met up with D & H's friends. We also met some new people, cool and weird. lol

Around 9:30pm we all start to descend to the metro platform. We were a pretty big crowd. Really big! This party would take place on line 2, starting at Avron.

Here's a picture of the crowd waiting for the metro

At this point everyone is very tipsy, socializing and having fun. Waiting for the metro to get there. At this party I met H and D's good friend Pablo. He's French and a real cool guy. He hates talking English, but he does nonetheless, but he also speaks Spanish which he prefers to speak over English. 

The guy who organizes the music brings speakers onto the metro so there is music playing. We were all dancing and singing. We ride one whole metro line which last about an hour to an hour in a half. Every time the metro would stop we would stick our heads out and yell at people to join the party. Some people would run out and get on another part of the train to meet new people.  

For this ride of the trip, we were in the back of the train and it was soo funny to see people reacting to what was going on. No one said anything. Some just looked at us as if we were crazy and others just laughed.  I don't know where we got off, but it was near the Arc de Triomphe. We hung outside and more socializing went on, a few of us had to pee so we peed somewhere between trees and bushes.

I think cops did arrive at some point, but they didn't do anything, they basically say "Hey! go away. Go somewhere else." So, of course we got back on the metro and took another line to another place.

Drinking wise, I had cut myself off earlier, because for those who know me, know very well that I'm a light-weight. But in the metro everyone is drinking and passing bottles so I might have forgotten that I had cut myself off... Whoops! Anyway, California girls were absolutely amazing and helped me out! I don't know how, but I came around from my weak and stupid stage and came back in time to party on the bridge Passerelle Simone-de-Beauvoir. 

Once on the bridge, there was more music and we all danced. Dancing was fun. There was old school hip-hop. There was some reggaeton, and just a lot of variety. I remember dancing with a couple guys and it was just fun. The guys I danced with were really cool, it was literally just dancing. No creepy and grinding shit that Miami guys try to pull. I hate dancing with guys at a club in Miami, because they basically grab you and expect you to rub your ass on their dicks. Excuse me! No! I just want to actually dance! So I danced with these two guys and it was just innocent dancing and they actually really knew how to dance. 

I danced a lot with D mostly, because that's what we girls do. At some point D and I were just laughing and dancing when some guy dressed like... like... I have no fucking clue what he was dressed as but he looked like a mad scientist. He kind of looked like "Doc" from Back to the Future with really bad teeth. Anyway D and I are dancing and he starts talking to us and at some point he goes "Yeah girls! Shake your ass, I'm a pervert!" D and I were like "Wtf?!" No that shit does not work with us and D tells him to go away. He tries to play it off and say that he was only joking but in between English and French I tell him it's too late and that he needs to go away. Lucky for him, he obeyed. 

So there were people breaking dancing. I remember a little mini, very mini mosh pit broke out. Haha! Some adorable guy tried hitting on me. Obviously it didn't work out for him, and he had no chance, but I was very flattered.

Things started dying out and well we also started getting hungry. We went in search for food, but stopped by H and D's apartment... I don't know what happened but we ended up not getting food and just falling asleep. 

D gave me a comforter and with that I made myself a bed on the floor. 

Our beautiful sleeping arrangement

 We woke up in the afternoon the next day and made some delicious crepes, très délicieux!